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(04/20/15 10:48pm)
If you haven’t heard of Tidal yet, don’t worry; the streaming service backed by various big name artists such as Jay-Z and Kanye will whither away and die before you have a chance to stream one of their lossless quality songs. Two weeks ago, a conference was held in which several millionaire artists advertised the “premium” streaming service that would promise more money for artists on the site. This didn’t go over so well, as it’s hard to convince the common man that a millionaire on stage asking for more money has their best interests at heart.
(04/15/15 4:44am)
As much as I hated to admit it, seeing Rice bloom before me as an apparition (whether from whatever’s beyond this world or from my subconscious) was making me lose my nerve. Maybe he (or I) knew something about this case I didn’t. I took the picture of the bull crane from my pocket and looked it over. Seeing that strange thing again reminded me of the girl in the tartan comforter, who gave me the Regent lead in the first place.
(04/13/15 3:20am)
After José González’s parents fled from Argentina at the beginning of a military junta known as the “Dirty War,” they ended up in Gothenburg, Sweden. This was the birthplace of González as an uplifting songwriter, where he grew up listening to artists like Bob Marley and Michael Jackson. González began his performance career with a hardcore punk band named Back Against The Wall and began performing around the ripe age of 17. After ending his time with this band, González took on a very new sound.
(03/25/15 1:42am)
Death Grips, an experimental hip-hop group from Sacramento, California has received critical acclaim from most sources with the release of their previous three studio albums. Though they have technically been disbanded since last July, that has not stopped them from making music. Jenny Death, the second part of a two-part album called The Powers That B, is now available online and is set for official release March 31.
(03/06/15 7:30pm)
After six years with Israeli garage-rock band Monotonix and a three-year recording hiatus, guitarist Yonatan Gat teamed up with percussionist Gal Lazer and bassist Sergio Sayeg to create an entirely new sound. After their first album Iberian Passage—released in May 2014—comes the LP Director. Director is a musical trip around the world, with song titles describing a journey (“East to West” and “North to South”) and evoking images of specific destinations (“Gibraltar”, “Casino Cafe”, and “L’Atlantis”). Yonatan Gat and company combine a conglomeration of Middle-Eastern folk melodies, psychedelic guitar, and drum beats with punk rock intensity.
(02/18/15 4:33am)
The mics weren’t turning on. Our guitarist called out for the help of one of the owners of the house, who first had to wade through several dozen sweaty bodies before he could assess the situation. I grew more anxious with every unsuccessful utterance of “check” into the microphones. It was our first DIY show in Madison, and a basement filled to the brim with anticipating eyes was watching us struggle to get our equipment working.
(02/16/15 5:56am)
The first day of a new semester always holds so much promise. If I’m going to be honest with myself, I was excited to have a fresh start. First semester was certainly a learning experience, and now, as a second semester freshman, I was sure that I knew everything there was to know about college.
(02/16/15 5:49am)
Last Wednesday, Madison’s reggae fans packed the Majestic for The Expendables’ Winter Blackout tour, featuring Ballyhoo! and Katastro. Braving painfully cold temperatures, the crowd began to fill in early as Katastro played an eclectic set full of reggae-style clean guitars, grungy choruses and soulful vocals—the band’s singer even rapped. One of the more memorable songs, “Alone,” got the crowd moving and ready for a night of fun music and positive energy.
(02/10/15 3:12am)
Congratulations, Madison. We’ve made it to February, which means another daunting winter is well underway, and I like to think that it’ll only be a matter of weeks before the temperatures start to climb above freezing. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves—the sidewalks are still frozen, the temperatures are still brutal and we could all use a little taste of summertime. This Wednesday, The Majestic Theater will be home to the best possible remedy for wintertime blues: the Winter Blackout tour, featuring The Expendables and Ballyhoo!, two of the hottest reggae rock bands on the scene.
(01/28/15 4:20am)
With little experience in the punk music genre I wasn't sure what to expect from Caféïne's upcoming album, New Love. After listening through the 11-track album I was pleasantly surprised. A playful, energetic and hopeful tone is established during the first track, “New Love,” and the album rarely deviates from this likable formula. Although the melodies are fun and grab your attention, I wish there were more tracks like “Black Swans” to provide something with a different tone from the rest of the album. If the fast-paced “Love is a Riot” ever has a music video it could only be visualized as items being smashed in slow motion. It’s a good time.
(01/27/15 5:46am)
Inspiration is a key component to the development of music. Aspired youngsters have always taken to their instruments and tried replicating the songs of their heroes. A small handful will be successful in recreating that sound and, in some cases, will take the next step of making a sound of their own. Cotillon’s self-titled debut delivers an assortment of tunes and styles, served with modern flavor while simultaneously remaining bound by its musical influences, reflecting the history that gave lead man Jordan Corso his inspiration as a musician.
(12/08/14 5:51am)
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(12/02/14 7:00am)
Flogging Molly are (almost inexplicably) a cornerstone band for me. They were a common bond between many of my friends in high school, central to nearly any playlist we had while driving through Minnetonka, Minnesota. We headbanged to “Requiem for a Dying Song.” We blared “Rebels of the Sacred Heart.” It’s kind of strange, looking back as a college senior, but the memories stick.
(12/02/14 6:37am)
Since the materialization of the punk rock scene in the early 1970s, rebellious rockers have experimented left and right, spawning countless subgenres and genre fusions. Aside from its various stylistic changes over the years, there was always a standard of stripping away the unnecessary clutter created by typical rock ’n’ roll. Two Inch Astronaut holds themselves up to these standards, while simultaneously blending the genre’s different elements that have been made available over time.
(12/02/14 5:42am)
This Los Angeles, California band has been delighting crowds with their powerful mix of punk rock and Irish folk since 1993.
(11/24/14 3:00am)
The thing about Diarrhea Planet is, no matter how good their recordings sound, they will always be a better live band. That is just a fact. And it’s not to take anything away from their studio work or their newest EP, Aliens in the Outfield. Diarrhea Planet are simply a band you need to see live in order to fully appreciate and understand them.
(11/21/14 5:00am)
In the history of most hated genres, while some people hate hip-hop and others hate country music, there is one genre that stands above them all as a genre nearly universally hated: disco. I’m here to tell you why disco doesn’t suck and is actually in everything you listen to today.
(11/20/14 4:47am)
Nick Cave has never really been himself. In all his oeuvre, he’s always played the role of observational poet; his work, while sometimes intensely personal, is always marked by the unmistakable sense of voyeurism, of looking in at another’s life. From The Bad Seeds’ first venomous 1983 recording of Leonard Cohen’s “Avalanche” to the metatextual eeriness of 2013’s “Finishing Jubilee Street,” he has lived the necessary lie of the poet. Even his frequent artistic self-presentation, a product of English post-punk aesthetics and Southern gothic hellfire, contradicts the reality of his Melbourne upbringing.
(11/17/14 5:16am)
Parquet Courts took the punk scene by storm last year with Light Up Gold, an album that nailed the fundamentals of garage-rock. What separated Parquet Courts from the myriad of other punk bands was the subtle whiff of avant-garde noise that wafted from their headbob-inducing riffs.
(11/14/14 3:31am)
Just a little over nine months ago, AJ Davila of Puerto Rican garage rock band Davila 666 released his first solo piece, Terror/Amor, via Nacional Records. Davila has released his sophomore album Beibi alongside a new Davila 666 album, on top of touring the U.S. with both projects. For Beibi, Davila moved over to Burger Records, a DIY-based independent label that promotes its music organically through vinyl, cassettes and insane tour caravans of outrageous garage/punk rock bands throughout the country. Burger’s focus on the audacious purity of rock ’n’ roll parallels immaculately with Davila’s Beibi, one of the best “sugary, flower-punk” garage albums of the year (since Terror/Amor, of course).
