Music
Mo' Money, Mo' Musyck
Winston Ojeda Jr. has plans for “total world domination.” The president of Musyck.com, a new website promoting itself as the “Fan-Powered Musyck Revolution,” has big hopes for his patent-pending brainchild.
Both Of Them
Actors-turned-musicians tend to take on this hyphenation as another outlet for publicity and building a name.
Defibrillator
One of the major turning points in my life was when I stopped listening to my dad’s music. At the age of seven, with two older brothers shoveling grunge, metal and punk into my eardrums, my music tastes switched drastically.
Be Consumed
Following 2008’s New Amerykah Part One (4th World War), Erykah Badu’s latest album takes on a completely different tone.
We Know What You’re Doing This Summer
Bonnaroo Located on a 700-acre farm in Manchester, TN, the annual Bonnaroo festival brings together some of the most talented acts across genres for a four-day bacchanalia of live music, arts and crafts, dance tents and booze.
Month in Music
April 6 David Byrne & Fatboy Slim, Here Lies Love Slash, Slash Dr. Dog, Shame, Shame Peter Wolf, Midnight Souvenirs Bobby McFerrin, VOCabuLarieS April 13 Coheed and Cambria, Year of the Black Rainbow Jeff Beck, Emotion & Commotion The Tallest Man On Earth, Wild Hunt MGMT, Congratulations April 20 Circa Survive, Blue Sky Noise Willie Nelson, Country Music Caribou, Swim Cypress Hill, Rise Up Rufus Wainwright, All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu April 27 B.o.B, B.o.B Presents: The Adventures Of Bobby Ray Gogol Bordello, Trans-Continental Hustle Bullet for my Valentine, Fever Hole, Nobody’s Daughter My Education, Sunrise
Congratulating Innovation
The first time you hear Congratulations, you won’t like it. There’s no “Electric Feel,” no “Kids,” and you won’t hear this at a frat party.
Civil Disobedience
On Titus Andronicus’ 2008 debut, the band begins the first song, the pummeling “Fear and Loathing in Mahwah, NJ” with a washed-out, barely audible verse.
Defibrillator: Bob Dylan, "It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleeding" (1972)
The first time I heard “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” was admittedly a bit unorthodox for a Dylan epic — it played during the final episode of the Sopranos. Adolescent Anthony was coming of age and finally beginning to mature, and the track played as he and his love interest were in his car.
Hall Pass
According to Naledge, Land of Make Believe has two sides to it. The first is an exploration of the illusions that come with the music industry; the second is celebration.
All Grown Up
About 10 years ago, Michael Aguilar was a Penn student who managed to drive a rental car across Locust Walk.
Lost at Sea
When the Gorillaz project came into existence, the purpose was clear: Blur’s Damon Albarn was not initiating a bland side project.
Month In Music
March 2 Groove Armada, Black Light Jamie Foxx, Body Little Boots, Hands These New Puritans, Hidden Rogue Wave, Permalight March 9 Gorillaz, Plastic Beach Monica, Still Standing The Morning Benders, Big Echo New Young Pony Club, The Optimist Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Brutalist Bricks March 16 Ludacris, Battle of the Sexes Nas and Damien Marley, Distant Relatives The White Stripes, Under Great White Northern Lights March 23 Justin Bieber, My World Part 2 Cam’ron presents The U.N., Gunz n Butta Goldfrapp, Head First Redman, Reggie The Dillinger Escape Plan, Option Paralysis March 30 Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Part 2: Return of The Ankh Drake, Thank Me Later
Ring A Ding Ding
Broken Bells, the side project of The Shins’ team captain James Mercer and masterful producer Danger Mouse may have been doomed from the beginning: it seems impossible that the project would live up to the sheer awesomeness of its component parts.
Ring A Ding Ding
Broken Bells, the side project of The Shins’ team captain James Mercer and masterful producer Danger Mouse may have been doomed from the beginning: it seems impossible that the project would live up to the sheer awesomeness of its component parts.
Work It
Not to sound like your mom or anything, but summer is fast approaching. And, if you’re anything like us, you’ve decided to forgo the OCR path in hopes of something better.
Defibrillator: The Smashing Pumpkins, "Siamese Dream" (1993)
When I was in ninth grade, one of my friends told me that she heard Billy Corgan was an asshole. I responded angrily and cued up “Rocket” on my clunky iPod.
A Paranormal Experience
It’s about time we all started believing in ghosts. In the posthumous release of Valleys of Neptune, the phantom of Jimi Hendrix has entered the airwaves to show that forty years on, he still deserves one of the highest thrones in the pantheon of rock deities.
It's A Small World After All
It’s easy to forget that there is a whole musical world out there full of artists who are taking their own traditional styles and fashioning them into contemporary masterpieces that challenge our preconceptions of what music is, has been and will be.
