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Britney countdown starts now

Board up the windows, hide the silver and tie down the cat. The new Britney Spears album comes out in three weeks.  

Berlin Project still underway

Junior Senior gets down to 'the Beat'

Midseason Awards

Because I'm both hungover and lazy, here are my College Football midseason awards. Enjoy: 

Five ways music pulls through

Let's not kid ourselves; the world is a bad, bad place. A bad, bad place with some rocking music! For your assistance, I present five worrisome problems and five musical antidotes to get you through.  

Wookiefoot steps 'Out of the Jar'

Saves the Day raises bar for emo

Get some Honey and Rhine tonight

Although the Seattle grunge scene has passed with the arrival of boy bands and solo stars, something new is springing up in the music world. Rock 'n' roll bands are making their way back onto the charts. It appears that females are being excluded from the tight club but a Seattle independent rock band, Honey Tongue, is fronted with a female lead singer. Jen Ayers sings with an unusual range and style; she has a throaty voice like Cher with a hard-core edge.  

Frank Black takes on divorce

Frank Black would like to tell you about his divorce. 

The Treats make sweet rock 'n' roll music

The Treats, a Madison trio, was formed in 1999 when bass player Tom Payne joined with guitarist and lead vocalist Andrew and drummer Don Isham. The brothers Andrew and Don welcomed Payne and the three have been cranking out their tunes since. All three are engineering majors who hold degrees from the UW but are more comfortable with their blend of power pop and rock than with TI-86s. The Daily Cardinal recently interviewed Don Isham and heard about the band's beginnings, their current difficulties and why they enjoy playing in Madison. 

ZZ Top drowns with 'Mescalero'

ZZ Top has put out some enjoyable music since forming in Houston in 1969. Playing Texas-style blues boogie, the three original members have had their fair share of hits. 

Country music loses its last real cowboy and bard

No music is as sincerely American as country music. The Brits whitewashed rock 'n' roll and then painted it again, jazz moved to Europe and then to South America and emcees are as much a Caribbean creation as our own. But country music is ours and only ours. We lay claim to its blue-collar authenticity, to songwriters whose voices scrape rust off with each verse, to the sound of whiskey and dirt. This is our sound. These are our chords. This is our music.  

Music of Madison rocks New Yorkers

Every school year, thousands of students emigrate from New York. You may be one of them. You say you are from the city, that your apartment has a bird's eye view of real life, city life. You say your bars are better, your clubs are chicer, your local rock scene louder. You trump us with your East Coast rappers, your CBGB, your Strokes and your urbane sense of style. 

Want to be indie rock? Follow these 3 steps

Let's face it. You are a corporate music fan, born from corporate radio, culled from corporate playlists, clothed by Abercrombie and Fitch. Your punk is Good Charlotte, your sensitivity is Ben Harper and your haircut is frat-boy. You, whose headphones blare nothing more creative than Dave Mathews Band, sip Starbucks coffee (and you know how much their bean pickers earn). You are a mass-commercialized ideal. Your free will in music selection is but an illusion. You are everything that is wrong with music. 

Recent downtown violence speeds up State Street's perpetual decay

Not to frighten anyone, but the State Street area is becoming a more dangerous place to be at night. 

Scraping the bottom of the barrel

Every school year brings a lot of joy into our lives here at Cardinal Arts page. But we're cynical bastards, so we prefer to focus on the worst things to happen and we aren't talking about genuinely tragic events like the fatal Great White concert or Joe Strummer's passing. Here are 15 ways in which the arts hit rock bottom this school year. 

Safety tips for a rocking summer break

As the academic year winds down and summer stretches before us, as a public service, I present you with a few seasonal safety tips: 

James Madison ready to rock

With only two weeks of classes left before it's time to start cracking down on the books, students looking for something to do this weekend will want to check out Party in the Park, hosted by WSUM.  

Trends in influence

Occasionally, a completely original band will come around and instantly change the face of the music world. This is the exception to the norm, however, as most changes in music trends are gradual, logical extensions of the foundation set by preexisting bands. The rock revival that culminated last year, for instance, was foreshadowed by a renewed interest in the late '60s garage bands like the Stooges or the MC5, bands that rock revival acts cited as particularly influential. It's worthwhile, then, to examine several other bands that have become regarded recently as increasingly influential as they can help give us a decent indication of where rock music is headed. 

AFI offers mediocre work, but not worth the 'Sorrow'

AFI