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(04/20/11 6:00am)
The much-maligned ""sophomore slump"" some artists supposedly
experience on their second album is more than a cliché at this
point; it is a foregone conclusion. And there was cause for concern
that the tUnE-yArDs' sophomore album would not be able to live up
to their scintillatingly raw debut, BiRd-BrAiNs. Merrill
Garbus, who fronts the group, recorded her first album entirely on
voice recorder out of necessity—she didn't have a band to play
with. Despite her Spartan setup, Garbus was able to draw out the
expansive sound of The Dirty Projectors, a group Garbus has toured
Europe with and who she has referred to as a personal ""hero
band.""
(04/07/11 6:00am)
My friend Anthony said he thought Interpol was the best until he
heard Joy Division, which is a pretty succinct example of how the
further we stretch history, the more backwards we make it. It's
fair to say that Interpol never would have happened without Joy
Division's influence, and thus listening to Interpol without
knowing about Joy Division comes off as something like a
superficial appreciation of dark, gloomy post-punk. Know your
roots, as they say.
(04/06/11 6:00am)
(03/31/11 6:00am)
Street musicians, for many, are cheap outdoor entertainment, or an
easy act of charity. Either way, they are characters that come in
and out of people's lives as quickly as it takes to walk past them
and throw a quarter in their violin case. This is not the case for
Chad Stokes, who made a life-changing decision by stopping to talk
to the man playing buckets outside Boston's Fenway Park.
(03/30/11 6:00am)
Fishbone: 80's punk band Fishbone broke musical and racial
boundaries, all while gathering a cult following through goofy
style, social commentary and damn good shows.
(03/30/11 6:00am)
When people think of music documentaries, many unfortunately think
of VH1's ""Behind the Music,"" with its backstage infighting,
manufactured drama and clichés of self-destructive artists. It's
enough to turn people off of the genre entirely, something the
directors of the film ""Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone,""
Chris Metzler and Lev Anderson realize all too well.
(03/28/11 6:00am)
Having been a diehard fan of Green Day since the '90s, the new
album has not failed to impress me. Green Day's latest live album
Awesome as Fuck is the first live release since the
explosively popular Bullet in a Bible in 2005. Although
the new album is reminiscent of the original live punk-pop energy,
it generates its own edge that will continue to draw in listeners,
new and old.
(03/21/11 6:00am)
AUSTIN, TX - With the year's biggest celebration of indie culture
wrapped up, all the music acts, film nerds and social media techies
have left the Texas capital and fled back to their (often chillier)
homes. However, the memories still remain. Correspondent Emma
Roller recaps some of the most memorable music acts from the 2011
South by Southwest festival, taking a look back at what is
increasingly becoming one of America's preeminent cultural
gatherings.
(03/12/11 6:00am)
Minneapolis-based Sleeping in the Aviary are no strangers to
Madison. After all, the band originally formed in the city and
operated here for several years. Add in the fact that Sleeping in
the Aviary still enjoys a strong local following, and they make
sure the isthmus never goes long without being treated to their
pop-punk/folk-punk/whatever the hell they feel that night sound, as
well as their noteworthy on stage antics. With the band returning
to their previous stomping grounds for a March 13 show at the
Frequency, The Daily Cardinal spoke with singer/guitarist Elliott
Kozel to find out what is in store of their Madison fans.
(03/09/11 6:00am)
Avril Lavigne: Sugary sweet pop-disguised-as-punk chick Avril
Lavigne return with her fourth album after getting divorced and
growing up a little.
(03/09/11 6:00am)
When her first album, Let Go, hit shelves in 2002, Avril
Lavigne became a household name. Her pop-disguised-as-punk style
was a much-needed relief from the Britney phase of pop music, but
was still delivered in a clean-cut, teen-friendly package, and I
will admit, as a 15-year-old girl, I loved it. It was perfect
anthem music for teens who didn't know why they needed an anthem,
just that they did. Now, nine years later, Avril Lavigne brings us
her fourth album, Goodbye Lullaby, a title that can be
viewed as just that: a goodbye to the sugary, teenage pop-punk of
her first few albums and an introduction to an Avril that has been
married, divorced and significantly tattooed since we first heard
Let Go.
(03/08/11 6:00am)
When I was in middle school I'd watch ""Boy Meets World"" and all
I'd want was to go to John Adams High and eat a cheeseburger at
Chubbie's Famous with Corey, Topanga and Sean. Forget recess and
middle school dances. At the time, those shenanigans seemed boring
compared to cool-high-school-teenager stuff, like going to pep
rallies or driving around with friends with nothing on the agenda
other than getting Frosties at Wendy's.
(02/28/11 6:00am)
East Coast punk rock has not been the same since Dropkick Murphys
began, taking their Irish Boston roots and mixing them with punk
rock. Heavier than the Pogues or Flogging Molly, the band has a lot
of energy while still incorporating a traditional folk sound, and
are back with a new album Going Out In Style. The band has
said that this is a concept album about a character named Cornelius
Larkin, but it doesn't really feel that different from their other
records.
(02/24/11 6:00am)
With all of the reality TV shows on these days, I tend to stick to
one faithful channel—The Food Network. It is the only channel that
never makes me wonder, ""What is happening to American culture?""
and ""When did we all became such mindless simpletons?"" I mean,
honestly, how can anyone seriously feel the need to drop everything
he or she is doing to tune into ""The Real World"" every SINGLE
Monday night at 9 p.m.? I can predict exactly what is going to
happen: Amanda, the house trollop, slept with Terrance and now
there is tension looming throughout the house. Then, the prick
comes home with some floozy he met at the bar that night, and
Amanda spends the night with Molly, the good girl from a farm who
didn't drink until she came on the show, spying on Terrance and his
new tart (of course the camera goes into night vision mode and all
you see are some ruffling sheets and a few lines across the screen
that say something like: ""No one's listening, calm down."") The
next morning, she confronts him, and Sarah, the girl who don't take
shit from no one, backs Amanda up, resulting in Terrance getting
bitch slapped and a proliferation of people dropping f bombs.
Shocking.
(02/11/11 6:00am)
I'm usually a ""glass is half empty"" kind of guy. I don't think
that makes me cynical, just pragmatic in that I like to see
production where others are contented by stagnancy. That's exactly
why I hate watching soccer games— I can't bear to watch anything
that might not have a clear loser (or winner, whatever). They say
ties are like kissing your sister, and though I love my sister
dearly I never kiss her unless my glass of Wild Turkey is well past
the point where it could be construed as half-anything. But still,
in real life, sometimes those polar distinctions are actually one
and the same.
(02/02/11 6:00am)
The thing I love about dubstep is that it's loud as shit. That's
all I knew about it two years ago when I started working at an
Italian deli with my go-to on all things electronic, Alex. It's
loud, angry and transgressive—exactly the things I liked about punk
rock when I wore those Sex Pistols T-shirts at the converted
Alcoholics Anonymous house that hosted all the high school punks'
mosh pit shows. But I don't care as much about the
antiestablishment rhetoric as I used to. In hindsight, lyrics from
bands like Anti-Flag and the Exploited are laughable, and dubstep
fixes that by usually not saying anything.
(01/28/11 6:00am)
The Get Up Kids have been noticeably absent from the music scene
for the last six years. After four studio albums, a live album and
numerous EPs and seven-inch records, the band called it quits in
2005 when mounting tensions made it nearly impossible for them to
play together. After a six-year hiatus, they put out an album that
is completely different from the rest of their catalog, blending
their emo style with a lot of '80s style synth and the dissonance
of modern indie rock.
(12/09/10 6:00am)
(12/07/10 6:00am)
Sleeping In The Aviary have always had a hard time sitting still.
After forming right here in Madison, some seven years ago, the
then-foursome released two albums of hyper-active jangly punk songs
on Science of Sound records before riding over to Minnesota's Twin
Cities and picking up a fifth member. On their first dispatch from
the Land o' Lakes, Great Vacation, Sleeping In The Aviary
ditch their most screeching punk styles for a more flush album that
reins back their wild catharsis with dapper production and tidy pop
numbers.
(12/05/10 6:00am)
Christmas stations are an ‘O Holy Hell'
