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(10/30/14 4:15am)
I’ve recently started binge watching “The Good Wife,” one of CBS’ hour-long prime-time dramas. While I’d heard of the show before, it wasn’t until I saw Julianna Margulies’ speech after winning her second Emmy Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series that I thought I should give the show a try.
(10/20/14 3:48am)
Walking into the packed main room of The Comedy Club on State Street for the first time could intimidate some comics. For Margaret Cho, though, intimidation isn’t a part of her act. She walked through the crowed with determined confidence before heading on stage.
(10/16/14 4:56am)
If I see another article in a publication oriented towards gay men proclaiming how hot Nick Jonas is, I might scream. I get it, he’s packed on some muscle mass since the last time he was relevant—and it’s always nice to have eye candy—but his recent appearances at gay clubs in New York seem a little disingenuous.
(10/13/14 3:28am)
Margaret Cho isn’t one to shy away from topics that some comedians wouldn’t touch with a long pole. The Korean-American comedienne has made a name for herself covering topics from George W. and Laura Bush to queer politics and imitating her mother onstage for laughs.
(10/02/14 2:08am)
I didn’t watch much of MTV’s Video Music Awards this year, but the one clip I did see was 15 seconds of Laverne Cox dancing and singing along to Beyoncé’s performance. Most of the crowd around her looked disinterested in the whole affair, but Cox was turning it out in the aisle. After watching, and re-watching the clip, my reaction was the same: I just kept shouting “YAAAAS” at my computer, if you’ll forgive my stanning.
(09/24/14 2:17am)
There’s an ethereal beauty to an album focused on suffering. While certain efforts might not work, Mike Hadreas, under the stage name Perfume Genius, has crafted a darkly magnificent opus that allows him to paint a canvas of his internal and external suffering.
(09/18/14 3:23am)
Few things are harder in adolescence than peers perceiving you as “different.” Whether it was the choice in clothing, music taste or after school activities, if you didn’t fit into the normal parameters, which popular kids and jocks dictated, labels started flying from those groups to describe yourself.
(04/22/14 6:02am)
Perched in sunburst chairs at the Memorial Union Terrace, visitors admire the view of Lake Mendota and its expansive shoreline. The surface is smooth as glass on a calm day, but beneath, an invasive species runs rampant.
(04/17/14 3:59am)
Brooklyn-based Woods create an intimate feel on their newest studio album, With Light and With Love. Blending ’60s country slide guitar, folk and lo-fi, the four-piece ensemble has developed a strong fan base since their start in the mid-’00s. Woods have created their own label, on which With Light and With Love was released, and started an annual music festival in Big Sur, Calif.
(04/11/14 3:44am)
Hailing from South Dakota, Erika M. Anderson, performing as EMA, arrives back in the world of noise rock with the release of her third studio album, The Future’s Void. As a singer known for her folk drone style of singing, Anderson has worked with various noise rock and experimental groups over the last eight years throughout the western United States.
(04/02/14 1:33am)
Electronic artists have a hard time staying relevant in a genre that seems to shift its focus every few years. For acts that have been in the game for over a decade, like Thievery Corporation, the difficulty to retain relevance can result in a lack of focus on the aesthetics and sound that brought them initial notoriety.
(03/26/14 4:15am)
If Nine Inch Nails and Animal Collective got together, had a weird music baby and then decided to raise this newly formed music child in an underground rave for 18 years, that child would sound like something along the lines of Liars’ new album, Mess.
(03/12/14 4:30am)
Vancouver-based band Bend Sinister is a four-man quartet, and over the last 13 years, the group has honed in a refreshingly progressive rock sound unheard in current rock music. Blending equal parts prog, blues and hard rock, the group has made a name for themselves in Canada, and their third full-length album, Animals, will hopefully bring them the recognition they deserve.
(03/06/14 4:29am)
Rick Ross’ most recent addition to his canon, Mastermind, is a continuation of his 2009 release, Deeper Than Rap. Here, however, instead of retreading former grounds, Ross expands his expertise in the hip-hop world.
(02/25/14 6:00am)
Three years since her last release, St. Vincent (moniker of Annie Clark) storms back onto the alternative music scene Tuesday with the release of her fourth album, a self-titled LP of biting commentary on the digital age and cult leaders. Clark, the Texas native whose first album Marry Me debuted seven years ago, has continually reshaped her sound with every album and collaboration.
(02/24/14 9:17am)
While college students need a diverse selection of faculty members to provide multiple perspectives and viewpoints in the educational environment, a recent survey from the Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute shows minority faculty members feel less satisfied with their departmental workplace environment, according to the Study on Faculty Worklife.
(02/22/14 8:01pm)
After their 2010 debut Eyelid Movies, the Greenwich, N.Y.-based duo Phantogram has seen their popularity spike as countless TV shows and movies feature their music. After releasing two EPs since that 2010 album, Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter have teamed up with M.I.A.’s producer John Hill to create a stronger follow-up, Voices.
(02/11/14 4:46am)
Meaning “crazy food” in Italian, Cibo Matto has a second definition to members of New York’s music scene. Japanese-born Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori disbanded their indie rock group Cibo Matto 12 years ago, citing, “it was time.” Now, the duo has teamed up with drummer Yuko Araki to revive the group and release their first album in 15 years.
(12/05/13 5:52am)
While the entertainment hype of autumn and early winter is usually reserved for movies laden with Oscar buzz, this year has seen multiple “Queens” of pop releasing new studio albums. From Lady Gaga to the up-and-coming Lorde, this season has seen a surge of female pop singers release albums. Some albums are finding chart success, and others are stumbling out as awkward flops. It is the latter category into which Britney Spears falls.
(11/22/13 4:14am)
Dev Hynes, a British transplant in New York, has said that his second release under the moniker Blood Orange is about “moving from a stable position to an unstable position.” After living in Brooklyn, Hynes moved to Manhattan and this inspired the understated symphonic movements of Cupid Deluxe.