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(11/19/13 6:23am)
Let’s play a game. Imagine I walk up to you, a typical 20-year-old college student, and introduce myself. Moving past the niceties of introductions you inquire what my interests are. “I’m a gamer,” I reply casually. How do you respond? Do you think of me as childish? The word “gamer” has acquired a vile connotation in most people’s vernacular nowadays. I hate being embarrassed to associate myself with my passion.
(11/19/13 6:11am)
One month is up, and Communion is back for its second installment in Madison. With it comes Tennis, the nostalgic, pop-rock duo from Colorado. Although their home is in the mountains, the married couple’s first album was conceived on a trip that helped give the band national attention: an eight-month sailing trip down the eastern seaboard. I spoke with lead singer Alaina Moore about the trip, as well as their newest release, Small Sound.
(10/21/13 3:58am)
DJ Rashad has been on the forefront of Chicago’s footwork scene since the beginning of the new millennium. “Footwork” is a dance movement characterized by quick steps and ghetto house music, also known as juke music. The tracks off DJ Rashad’s latest album, Double Cup, are considered to be juke trax, a term used to describe songs that are categorized under this distinct style. Double Cup interweaves heavy percussion through 808 and 909 drum kits with explicit and lewd language in order to meet the demands of the Chicago footwork scene.
(10/17/13 5:39am)
When NYC indie-pop band Cults released their self-titled EP in 2010, America was revitalized by their ’60s-style bubblegum tunes about love and happiness. However, with the split of the band’s two core members, Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion, their recently released album Static creates a mood of confusion and disillusionment.
(10/15/13 6:11am)
Fall Out Boy has been in the media quite often within the past year after a four-year hiatus and surprise return with Save Rock and Roll. Their fans expressed mixed feelings about the comeback album; some people regarded it as not being punk enough and others loved the change in pace. Their newest EP Pax-Am Days is almost the complete opposite of the epic, star-studded Save Rock and Roll. It was produced by Ryan Adams at PAX-AM Studios within a two-day span, and Adams’ minimalistic editing makes for an excellent, rugged punk sound. The guitars are heavily distorted, the drumming is fast and aggressive and Patrick Stump’s lead vocals stand out among the insane instrumentals.
(10/15/13 5:52am)
As if we needed another reason to love the Madison music scene, Ben Lovett (Mumford & Sons), Kevin Jones (Bear’s Den) and producer Ian Grimble are bringing their brainchild, Communion, to Madison’s The Frequency for a monthly stop. Communion was formed in London in 2006 as a way for new bands to get out of the garage and onto a stage.
(09/27/13 10:07pm)
It’s no surprise that singer Justin Young was quick to identify the spirit animal for The Vaccines as a dog or wolf. For a group with a song entirely named after the animals (“Run with the wolves / Calling all the wolf pack / When did you go and when did you get back?”), it makes perfect sense that he likens the four-piece band to these creatures.
(07/27/13 6:41am)
We entered Saturday with renewed spirits. We’d dried off and so had the world; nothing but blue skies and slightly less health-endangering heats awaited us. The plan was to get to Pitchfork at around 1 p.m. and catch White Lung and Pissed Jeans for a notably punk afternoon, but underestimating both Chicago traffic and the lunch rush threw us off and we arrived too late to do either. Instead we headed over towards the blue stage, our consistently shady bastion, to see Julia Holter.
(04/05/13 4:05am)
Saying that a band has a “unique” sound is one of the most arbitrary musical descriptions possible. Not much music sounds particularly unique when the Internet exposes us to massive amounts of accessible music each day. With that said, Merchandise is one of the most unique bands making music today.
(03/07/13 6:06am)
There are an insane number of musical genres. Like, there are way too many for anyone to even try to keep track of. And I’m not just talking about big genres—rock, rap, country (and western), jazz—the ones where you can just lump any group or artist that sounds a certain way. Each of these broad categories has an absurd multitude of offshoots (post-punk, west coast gypsy jazz, anyone?).
(02/26/13 6:23am)
The Daily Cardinal recently spoke with Ra Ra Riot bassist Mathieu Santos, as he waited in line at Coop’s Place in New Orleans for some jambalaya.
(02/22/13 6:54am)
Passion Pit has had, by all measures, a stellar few years. Their first EP, Chunk of Change, was a love letter to a doomed romance, given as a gift by singer Michael Angelakos in 2008 and never meant to be heard by the general public. Since then they’ve released two albums of stadium-crushing pop, both topping their predecessors’ ever growing repute: 2009’s hit debut LP Manners and 2012’s darkly triumphant Gossamer. Their latest album’s success eschews the traditional pitfall of the sophomore slump, eclipsing the already impressive accomplishments of Manners.
(01/29/13 5:28am)
The Daily Cardinal recently spoke with Yonder Mountain String Band’s guitarist and vocalist, Adam Aijala, amid the band’s 2013 winter tour.
(01/25/13 3:54am)
On Jan. 22, my world moved a little bit. The shift was caused by two people who I never (EVER!) would have expected to affect me: SNL’s Fred Armisen and TV personality Rachael Ray. Yes, you’re reading that right.
(01/22/13 9:05am)
Foxygen is the seven-year-old project of 22-year-olds Sam France (vocals) and Jonathan Rado (guitar/keys). Though the duo already has a back catalog eleven releases deep, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic is Foxygen’s big budget debut LP on the JAGJAGUWAR label. Last year JAGJAGUWAR released Foxygen’s excellent Take the Kids off Broadway EP to widespread acclaim, earning the band their fair share of buzz and a slot on tour with Of Montreal. Where Take the Kids was a Lo-fi collage of ‘60s/’70s glam, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic is a Hi-fi collage of ‘60s/’70s glam. The album is so in debt to its influences that it effectively transcends the label “throwback record,” instead becoming a collage of the band’s role models. The title, as long-winded as it is, says it all.
(11/19/12 4:26am)
If you’ve never been to The Delaware House before, there’s a good reason: It’s a random house on Doty Street. But last Saturday night it also served as a venue for Soul Low, The Delphines, Alta and Young Holidays, all bands from Milwaukee, and Brighter Arrows, from Chicago.
(11/16/12 7:15am)
If you could assign a sound to sloppy, starry midnights in the big city with all your best friends (omitting all the cheesy bar-rock and the club bangers), it would probably sound something a little like Birmingham-based Johnny Foreigner. What that actually means, however, is a bit difficult to pin down.
(10/31/12 6:03am)
Right before Conspirator’s tour kickoff in Madison, bassist Marc “Brownie” Brownstein took a few minutes to chat with The Daily Cardinal between games of “Madden” with his son as they watched Hurricane Sandy blow through their neighborhood.
(10/04/12 6:23am)
Dreads and a faded baseball T-shirt for the bass player, a long board to match the drummer's long hair, a stoic female vocalist and a slightly jaded but mostly optimistic guitarist. This is the Madison staple band Colorphase. A fusion of just about every musical style from the late ’60s to the early ’00s, this band looks to win people over with its diverse sound.
(09/12/12 4:49am)
Ed Sheeran has only been in the U.S. on his current tour for three days, but his journey to this point has been a lengthy one. A hefty handful of EPs between 2005 and 2010, dropping out of school to pursue music and playing any possible gig led to Sheeran signing with Asylum Records under Atlantic Records, and the British singer/songwriter is now a household name.
