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(03/18/12 1:30pm)
In the nearly-85-degree heat of the day, we decided it was only fair to dance to some astro-pop beach rock music under some trees in a backyard at the Brooklyn Vegan showcase. Enter, Django Django, a Jestons-meets-Beach-Boys threesome that is perfect for summer jamming. Afterwards we caught Tennis, a band whose frontwoman gives female rockers a good name. Her simultaneously strong and soothing vocals are the perfect compliment to the danceable rock group at her back.
(03/15/12 1:59am)
The first thing you should know about The Decemberists is that they’re a little conceited. Their conceit, a not wholly unfavorable one, is one of refinement and bookish intelligence. Lead singer Colin Meloy sings songs with big, gilded words; the band plays respectively big, gilded songs rife with accordions, violins, horns and keyboards, anchored by traditional rock instruments (guitar, bass, drum). They named an album Picaresque (2005). And though they’ve been moving away from this literary conceit, even their most recent studio album (2011’s country-ish, R.E.M.-ish The King is Dead and its little sibling, the Long Live The King EP) does not lose the conceit fully.
(02/21/12 5:02am)
Bitching about the current state of the music industry has been
cool ever since punk-rock broke through in the mid-1970s, probably
even before then, but it hit the mainstream with CBGB's and the
Ramones. I even used to be one of those people, and I guess I still
am a little, but when really looking at it, the music industry is
almost in better shape now than it has been in the last ten
years.
(02/08/12 5:09am)
Local rocker Tommy Shears took some time out of his T.S. Eliot
reading to tell me about his latest project, The Living Statues,
which has been a band years in the making. They are playing this
Thursday, Feb. 9, at the Frequency with other local boys
Baristacide and Fight Nice of Chicago.
(01/25/12 3:28am)
Taking a break from wrapping up the final track of his forthcoming EP—and whilst gathering sustenance at a Whole Foods in Indiana—long-time music producer Alex Botwin expressed his excitement for Paper Diamond's Madison debut this Thursday.
(12/02/11 5:21am)
The largest inter-fraternity battle in UW-Madison’s history
broke out Thursday after a Sigma Phi Epsilon member claimed he
experienced “an unforgivable and devastating act of social
dejection” from a Delta Upsilon member.
(11/01/11 2:00pm)
In case your Halloween weekend was not enough fun for you, grab
a ticket for Young Man and Cold War Kids' show at the Majestic Nov.
1.
(10/23/11 6:00am)
After a break from making new music and two years on the road,
Phantogram comes back with what should have been their
debut album, Nightlife.
(10/16/11 6:00am)
All right, time for some real talk—Colin Stetson is perhaps the
most wonderful musician currently active. It doesn't matter if you
don't know him or even if you don't like him (it's barely even
expected, honestly—his is a niche within a niche within a niche),
the man is doing things beyond groundbreaking and he deserves
nothing less than to have the very ground he walks upon kissed in
adoration by the awestruck masses.
(10/10/11 6:00am)
In a world of increasingly pedestrian and piddling hip-hop,
Dessa of Doomtree stands as a true
visionary, crafting baroque and intricate songs about life and loss
and everything in between.
(10/05/11 6:00am)
Never Trust a Happy Song, but trust Grouplove to bring the
live music magic to the Frequency Thursday night.
(10/03/11 6:00am)
sig ep: After their past fraternity house burned down in 2008,
Sigma Phi Epsilon celebrated the grand opening of their recently
constructed 12,500-square-foot house Friday.
(10/03/11 6:00am)
Alumni and current members of Sigma Phi Epsilon held a ceremony to
celebrate the grand opening of their newly built house Friday
night.
(09/30/11 6:00am)
Girls are coming to the Majestic Theatre tonight. So
is the band.
(07/14/11 6:00am)
(04/22/11 6:00am)
You all heard Nas: Hip hop is dead. Back in 2006, Nas pushed the
thesis that record execs stole the keys from the MC's and drove the
genre off the highway of creative progress and into the ditch of
commercial appeal. And it's true—nobody on major labels spits hard
anymore.
(04/12/11 6:00am)
When walking through the doors of the Alliant Energy Center Friday
night, I couldn't help but pause and say, ""holy shit."" Many
others likely had the same reaction as they were greeted by the
pulsating, sweaty mob of bodies occupying the center of the room at
Bassnectar's sold out show, a thick cloud of smoke hovering above
them. Even from the back of the huge warehouse venue, I could feel
the strong bass and yells of the fans in the soles of my feet. Two
days later and my ears are still ringing.
(04/11/11 6:00am)
Sean Daley, better known as Slug, is a storyteller. He and his
producer Ant, make up the hip-hop duo Atmosphere. On their 2010
double-EP To All My Friends, Blood Makes The Blade Holy,
Slug doesn't rap to encourage a behavior change or impart a good
moral, but rather talks about what he knows. Every track on this EP
was simple; Atmosphere created a glimmer of hope for its fans
looking to innovative future albums.
(03/21/11 6:00am)
Today's world isn't always friendly to Renaissance men. It seems
triple threats like Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra are fewer and far
between. But every once in a while, somebody like Donald Glover
comes along to remind us just how talented people can be.
(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.
