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(10/27/11 11:00am)
Every Sunday, just before 4 p.m., about seven guys get ready to compete. During the week, they spend hours training, strategizing and watching film, all in preparation for the ensuing action. Each has his own pre–game routine. For Anders Miltner, Engineering junior, the moments before four o’clock mean sitting down cross–legged on the floor in the middle of his room, computer and mouse balancing precariously on two chairs, with a perfect view of the flat–screen TV that serves as his computer display.
(10/13/11 10:10am)
If you're looking for something to do tomorrow night, SPEC will be hosting their annual fall concert in Harrison Auditorium, featuring the bands Deer Tick and fun. Street has the basic info you need to know so you're ready to sing along.
(09/29/11 10:18am)
Best for Hipster Sex: The xx
The xx are the band that's launched a (hundred) thousand make–out seshes. Their music is simple, sexy and stripped down — just like you'll be when you put it on.
Worst for Hipster Sex: Neutral Milk Hotel
(09/22/11 10:53am)
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(09/22/11 10:22am)
Much has been said about Das Racist — those joke/shock/insert–your–own–qualifier rap provocateurs from Brooklyn — as the music world attempted to make sense of their first two mixtapes, Sit Down, Man and Shut Up, Dude. Not much progress has been made, considering the trio’s status as one of the most polarizing acts in music today. Their newest release, Relax, is certain to renew the debate.
(09/15/11 8:32am)
College brings students together from all types of backgrounds and geographical areas, and with them, their music collections. It is a place where musical tastes are recognized and developed, as students are exposed to all kinds of new music through their peers. To help you find the music you’ll enjoy listening to for the rest of your life (or at least for the semester), we compiled a guide with some of the best music applications for enhancing the spread of music on campus. Pass it on.
(09/15/11 8:24am)
When the Red Hot Chili Peppers write a song, chances are it’ll be about one of a few things: sex, California or, in the case of the infamous/awesome track “Sir Psycho Sexy,” satanic boners. Okay, so maybe the jury’s still out on their songwriting, but I don’t believe there are many artists who capture California as effortlessly and as beautifully as the Chili Peppers do.
I still remember the first time I put on “Under the Bridge” — off their terrific album Blood Sugar Sex Magik — as a 13–year–old, just as I was beginning to get in touch with my hometown of Los Angeles. On that generally funk–tastic album, “Bridge” is a wrenching ode to life, love and death in L.A. Its gentle chords and moving narrative provided the ideal musical context for me to begin my teenage life in that wonderfully complicated city.
It can still transport me from the urban jungle of Philly to the hills and palm trees of L.A., and still manages to hit me hard (especially if I’ve had a drink or two). Say what you will about the Peppers’ latest efforts, but I — and many others — will cherish this music for a long, long time.
(07/06/11 3:16pm)
As the weather (finally) heats up here in Southern California, city dwellers here for the summer begin to collectively fixate on one thing: the beach. Los Angeles is famous for its numerous beaches, and each one has something different to offer – if you’re a surfer, swimmer, athlete or just plain lounger, there’s a perfect stretch of shimmering sand for you. Here’s a roundup of the best of L.A.’s beaches:
(04/07/11 7:23am)
It can be heard blasting at frat parties, blaring at bars and pumping from dorm room windows. By now, you’d have to be living under a soundproof rock to not be able to complete this ubiquitous line: “I see you drivin’ round town with the girl I love, and I’m like…Forget You!”
Sound a little different than how you remembered it? After a summer of basking in the bright lights of viral video fame, Cee–Lo Green’s infectiously popular single “Fuck You!” became a little less recognizable to America’s listeners once it cracked the Top 40.
Upon clearing that final hurdle, the sassy single was sanitized by the powers that be; the empowered “Fuck You!” that we’d grown to love had devolved into a passive, wimpy “Forget You.” When I first turned on the radio and heard it I was pissed, along with everyone else. Had swag been sacrificed for sales?
The story of “Fuck You!” represents yet another chapter in the long history of musical censorship, which continues to be a consistent barometer for American social sensibilities. In 1967, when The Rolling Stones were set to play “Let’s Spend the Night Together” on the Ed Sullivan Show, Sullivan famously demanded that Mick Jagger change the lyrics to “Let’s Spend Some Time Together."
Clearly, America seems to have loosened her famously stringent cultural mores a bit since then. If history is any indication, 50 years from now, we might be having an entirely different debate — maybe cursing will be commonplace and we’ll be debating whether hard–core porn is acceptable in a mainstream music video. For now though, we can rest assured knowing that no power can take away our right to smirk, scoff or just roll our eyes when “Forget You” plays — or from singing that original lyric instead.
(03/31/11 5:00am)
In an era when far more people download music than buy physical albums, when tracks are leaked via the internet instead of being played for the first time on the radio, one has to ask: has the musical event become extinct? Everyone’s got a story from parents about when a Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd album came out: they went out and bought it, returned home, probably shared a joint and then listened to the whole album. Now, such a thing is practically unheard of, a relic of a simpler time.
(03/24/11 7:16am)
Short films by musicians, whether you think they’re brilliant or stupid, have now become medium–bending art events frequently analyzed for profound artistic messages. “Umshini Wam,” the latest bizarre creation from the self–styled “ninja rap” group Die Antwoord, is sure to inspire the same sort of search inspired by Kanye West’s similarly bizarre short “Runaway” last year.
(02/03/11 8:04am)
Cold War Kids is a band that’s always been known for their jagged intensity, harsh melodies and gritty narrative lyrics; they’re a happy, if not imperfect, confluence of the white boy blues and soul of The White Stripes, Spoon and the Black Keys. Buoyed by the distinctly exceptional vocal chords of Nathan Willett, Cold War Kids have managed to amass an impressive, dedicated following in the alt–rock world.