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Miguel might be the headliner at this year’s Spring Fling on Saturday, April 13, but it’s J.I.D., the show's special guest, who deserves the spotlight as an East Atlanta rapper who has been rising up in the music scene for the last two years. Street takes a look into what J.I.D. brings to the table and why we should be excited for his performance at Spring Fling.
Five months ago, Street wrote that Billie Eilish "belongs to teenage girls," citing her young fanbase and her seemingly boundless energy as evidence that, while talented, Eilish certainly belongs to a distinct generation. Fast forward nearly half a year later, and Eilish drops a time bomb of a debut album filled with enough angst, existentialism, and self–doubt to transport even the most hardened of us back to tenth grade.
Harley Streten, otherwise known as Flume, has never shied away from an ambitious sound. Leaping onto the scene in 2013, Flume immediately captured hearts with his unique remix of Disclosure’s “You & Me,” and has never played it safe since. His new mixtape, Hi, This is Flume, marks another step in the DJ’s path of experimentation and bold production, filled with creative musical atmospheres and mesmerizing beats front–to–back.
In 2009, indie rock band The Antlers released Hospice, a concept album using the love story of a hospice worker and a patient with terminal bone cancer as a metaphor for one of frontman Peter Silberman's old relationships. "To an extent it's autobiographical," Silberman said in an interview with The Village Voice, "but I guess the best way to say it is that there's a few ways to lose someone. It's not always through death, even if it resembles death." The message resonated with fans and critics alike: Pitchfork awarded the album with a "Best New Music" stamp upon its release before ranking it #37 of the best 50 albums of 2009, while Beats Per Minute crowned Hospice the best album of the year.
Sitcoms are a dime a dozen—major entertainment networks such as NBC, CBS, and FOX cycle through them at a rapid pace, each with their own premise and title theme songs. Speaking of the latter, a number of shows last long enough that their signature song becomes instantly recognizable. However, a few of these themes become something more—a celebrated track forever enshrined in the minds of viewers across the world, symbolizing good memories of the times spent watching and laughing at the trials of their favorite comedic characters. Why not rank the best ones?
Bon Iver’s March 27 performance at The Met Philadelphia epitomized the perfect 21st century concert. The perfect 21st century concert is sophisticated, self–aware, experimental, and fluid. It is polished, but not perfect; that is to say, the audience does not forget that a human is performing live and on–stage. The perfect 21st century concert utilizes modern technology to enhance the performance but not distract from its message. Flowing effortlessly from traditional rock and roll to airy, acoustic melodies to electrifyingly dissonant chords, Bon Iver delivered a profound performance that fully captured their artistic evolution. In one fell swoop, Bon Iver embodied what it means to be an artist in the 21st century—satiating the audience’s distinctly modern craving for human connection through music and exiting—smugly, almost—as the theatre gasped for more.
For their last show of the school year, SPEC Jazz & Grooves will bring Choker to campus with opening acts Orion Sun and Bathe on Friday, April 5, at the TEP Chapter House located at 3805 Walnut Street. These acts will finish off a string of up–and–coming artists that included headliners Tierra Whack and Omar Apollo from previous concerts this year.
Even if you haven’t seen Bradley Cooper’s Oscar nominated directorial debut A Star is Born, there’s no way the buzz has escaped you. The movie soundtrack’s biggest hit, “Shallow,” has swept the radio airwaves, and Cooper and Lady Gaga’s passionate performance at the Oscars stole the show.
One day, like most days, my mother made an offhand comment: "I don't know why male musicians dress so boring. If I were a rock star, I'd dress like ZZ Ward every day." When I saw her at the Theatre of Living Arts last February, Ward wore a sequined black tank top, black and white leather pants, and her signature black hat—not necessarily an outfit you would want to picture your mother wearing. In an effort to banish that thought from my mind, I started mulling over the statement, wondering how I would dress in the parallel universe where I become a famous musician, and soon it worked its way into conversation—an icebreaker I never expected.
When artificial intelligence comes to mind, we imagine an emotionally barren apocalypse: we're falling in love with lines of code that can't love us back, interacting with robots who speak and move in mechanical beats, and waiting for the day our computers decide to kill us. Humanity is gone, and perfection—in the form of machinery and numeric binaries—has arrived at the expense of human bonds. But for many in the music industry, AI offers an expansive playground to grow sound and listening experiences. It’s the new frontier, only instead of conquering humanity, musical AI serves to help it.
On March 18, it was announced that Miguel, along with J.I.D, will be performing at this year’s Spring Fling on Saturday, April 13. In preparation for Miguel’s performance, Street takes look into the musical evolution of Miguel and what we should expect from this prolific R&B artist at his Fling concert.
On Childish Gambino’s Wikipedia page, he is listed as an actor, comedian, writer, producer, director, rapper, singer, songwriter, and DJ. Kanye West’s Wikipedia states his occupation as a rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, fashion designer, and entrepreneur. Rihanna is not only the seventh best–selling music artist worldwide, but also the owner of Fenty Beauty, a powerhouse makeup brand.
To cap off the spring semester, Street decided to compile a list of “10 Songs Instrumental to Our Experiences,” featuring ten songs with personal stories chosen by different members of 34th Street’s music staff and our editors. Music is a big part of all of our lives, and we all have those songs that remind us of home, got us through a tough time, or otherwise defined our adolescence. So here is a small piece of our story, featuring songs that—for different reasons—have contributed to who we are.
Audiotree describes their Far Out series as a, "series where we step outside our studio to record artists in unusual environments." Far Out serves as their artsier outlet, where bands perform in unique locations around Chicago (where Audiotree is based), shot in rich colors and in one continuous shot, taking full advantage of the space. With one band performing two songs, it's a great way to get introduced to new music or to see your favorite band in a whole new light. Listed below are a few of my favorites, which is by no means exhaustive, and I would encourage anyone to check out the series to find their own favorites.
Fresh off their 2018 album For Ever, British modern soul/funk band Jungle stopped off in Philadelphia on March 20 as part of their world tour from Kiev to Sydney. Jungle first came on stage to “Smile,” the opening track off For Ever, to much applause from the crowd. “Smile” is an uplifting, energetic hit, and Jungle certainly made a point to set off their performance on a high note.
After several days of speculation about the end of Philadelphia’s Trocadero Theatre, owner Joanna Pang confirmed that the music venue would be closing in late May. Established in Chinatown in 1870, the Trocadero Theatre originally showed musical comedies under the name Arch Street Opera House. Throughout the years, it has served as a stage for vaudeville and burlesque shows, an art house cinema and fine arts theater, a dance club, and finally its current use as a concert hall and live music venue. Listed on the U.S. Register of Historic Places, the Trocadero has served as a center of Philadelphia’s culture throughout history.
As all former emo middle schoolers know, the territory came with a set of mostly embarrassing rites of passage: having a tantrum in your local Hot Topic when parents wouldn’t buy yet another Avenged Sevenfold t-shirt, cutting lopsided bangs, crying in the middle school cafeteria when My Chemical Romance broke up. However, a true mark of the emo experience was Vans Warped Tour, a traveling summer music festival that birthed rock and punk legends like Paramore, Dropkick Murphys, Blink–182, and oddly enough, Katy Perry.
On Monday, March 18, Khalid’s team brought his Free Spirit College Experience Tour to Drexel University’s campus to promote his new album and its accompanying short film. Drexel and Penn students alike lined up beside the Drexel Dragon and a replica van from the film to get free merchandise, photo opportunities, and pizza. The merchandise ran out in just 10 minutes.
For decades now, it’s been cool for rock bands to sound bad. With the mechanization of pop–rock came a fleet of disenchanted indie rockers pushing back against the norm with gritty records full of fuzz.
From the moment PennSori, Penn's pop/K–pop a capella group, began its Spring concert with a medley of songs from internationally renowned Korean band BTS, an immediate infectious energy filled the Houston Hall Class of ’49 Auditorium. People didn’t need to understand all of the words to enjoy the sheer passion in the performance.
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