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From _Coming on Strong_ through _The Warning_ and now on to _Made in the Dark_, London's Hot Chip have made a rather quick shift from mellow, occasionally dreary R&B-inspired electronica to catchy dance music that deftly re-engineers funk and disco.
A good rule of thumb is that the original version is usually best. The book is better than the movie, the painting is better than the print and the original version of a song is better than a cover.
1) Dr. Dog - o We All Belong
On Losing My Edge from LCD Soundsystem's eponymous release, James Murphy tries to reaffirm his street cred in the face of hipster encroachment from a younger generation. Among other things, he claims that he was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band, that he woke up naked on a beach in Ibiza in 1988 and that he was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids.
With Wisconsin football and basketball schedules at hand, it's fairly easy - think Duke offense slicing through Badger defense kind of easy - to say this will be one of the more forgettable sports weekends in Madison.
The Minneapolis based underground rap contingent Atmosphere brought their electrifying Everybody Loves a Clown"" tour to a sold out audience at the Barrymore theatre Tuesday night.
The Wisconsin women's soccer team won its first Big Ten match of the season against Ohio State 1-0 Sunday, breaking a four-game, scoreless funk.
In terms of sheer musical spectacle, you can scarcely do better than Béla Fleck and the Flecktones tonight. Fronted by the best and most innovative banjo player in the world and flanked by the likes of Victor Wooten, whose bottomless bag of slap-happy licks on the bass guitar has marked him the premiere player of his own instrument, the Flecktones are in many ways the musical equivalent of the Cirque du Soleil.
à ¥With a somewhat successful non-conference campaign behind it, the No. 9 UW volleyball team (9-1) starts the Big Ten season tonight with a match against Illinois (8-2) in Champaign. Compared to nearly every other conference in the country, the Big Ten is arguably the most difficult league, with five teams currently sitting in the AVCA Top 25 standings and a slew of players who rank among the best in the country in every statistical category. The Badgers were picked in the preseason as the runner-up in the Big Ten come year's end, but with the senior experience they have on their roster, they stand a good chance of challenging No. 3 Penn State for the conference title.
It's rare when an album legitimately stuns you with something so good that years from now, people will look back and say, God, they just don't make music like that anymore.""
M.I.A.: M.I.A. comes forth with an array of sounds on Kala, which mesh together to bring out the funk for which she is known.
The pervasion of synth-pop is not a new phenomenon as bands like Duran Duran, Tears for Fears and Depeche Mode popularized the use of electronic sounds in the 1980s and early '90s. The synthesizer characterized the new wave era and is still prevalent in modern bands such as the Killers, Kaiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand. But lately, the synthesizer has found a new home in urban pop, melding the upbeat funk with the in-your-face pounding of hip-hop.
It's rare when an album legitimately stuns you with something so good that years from now, people will look back and say, God, they just don't make music like that anymore.""
Being a college student is great. Who else spend most of their formative years drinking beer and doing as many drugs as the average touring funk band, fumbling through oral presentations and, let's not forget the sweetest plum, working only seven months a year? Hint: Get your answer at the end of this article.
The players, coaches, and fans of the UW men's basketball team received quite the blow Sunday afternoon.
The UW men's basketball team lost their first conference game at Indiana last week, but rebounded to top Northwestern at home Saturday. Wisconsin remains tied for first place in the Big Ten with seven games remaining. Here is The Daily Cardinal's weekly report on the No. 4 Badgers:
Kevin Barnes bares his emotions like never before on Of Montreal's latest, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Written during a year in which Barnes separated from and then reconciled with his wife, Hissing Fauna reveals Barnes without his signature fanciful characters and his ""variety of whimsical verse,"" as one of the band's earlier albums was subtitled.
Towards the end of any regular season in college athletics, teams battle for position going into their conference tournament or postseason game. Each game down the stretch is considered a must win, and anything less can permanently damage a team's momentum.
Even Simon Cowell could not have predicted that Taylor Hicks would be the next American Idol when he voted to keep the gray-haired 29-year-old out of Hollywood back in the beginning of the show's fifth season. However, the charismatic singer soon shook, twisted and sang his way into the hearts of millions of viewers, inspiring a fanatically devoted fan base named the Soul Patrol"" and beating out Katharine McPhee in the final to become America's newest ""idol"".
So disco is dead, huh? Well according to Jamiroquai, disco never died—it just moved to England. For over a decade, frontman Jay Kay has been a mainstay for the early '90s acid jazz that found its chief popularity in roller-rinks and sock-hops. While known primarily for his European playboy status and his titillating headdresses, Kay also has quite the temper, and recently gave a ""funk you"" to Sony Records when they demanded an eighth album from the band—forcing Kay out of retirement due to contract obligations.
Solutions by The State News
