Music

B.o.B., Asher Roth, & Charles Hamilton, “Change Gon’ Come” Up and coming internet favorites B.o.B, Asher Roth and Charles Hamilton philosophize on the election, the economy and plenty of other well-worn topics for socially conscious rappers.
January 21, 2009 at 8:57 pm

Once you’ve seen Dave Matthews Band play a packed arena 12 times, you really start to think you know everything about them.
December 3, 2008 at 11:53 pm

Street U.: Are you right side up or upside down? Dave Matthews: Ha, I don’t swing that way. It’s cool whatever other people want to do, but I’m very straight.
December 3, 2008 at 11:52 pm

Some days, I’m just too hung over to play video games. On a morning when my eyes are still unable to focus, the flashing lights and seizure-inducing animation can be a little much.
December 3, 2008 at 11:47 pm

Once you’ve seen O.A.R. play a packed arena 12 times, you really start to think you know everything about them.
December 3, 2008 at 11:46 pm

Once you’ve seen Dispatch play a packed arena 12 times, you really start to think you know everything about them.
December 3, 2008 at 11:44 pm

Death from Above 1979 You’re a Woman, I’m a Machine 2004 Winter of 2005. My friends and I were hitting Jupiter Room every Saturday, the indie club that didn’t charge cover.
November 20, 2008 at 3:24 am

Street breaks it down with rapper and finance major Steve "Witz" Markowitz, of Hoodie Allen. Street: As a self-proclaimed Jewish rapper, how much does the Torah influence your work?
November 20, 2008 at 3:22 am

Street: What can we expect from your live show? Ryan Leslie: I’ve been going around the country — touring with really exciting live band arrangements, just going out in different venues to earn respect, earn an audience.
November 20, 2008 at 3:22 am

Hip-hop artist Wale Folarin (pronounced “wall-ay”) fills Street in on rocking with The Roots and mixtapes about Seinfeld.
November 20, 2008 at 3:20 am

This review might be coming a little late for those of you who heard Deerhunter’s Microcastle performed at a secret show in Brooklyn this April or when it was leaked in an excessively dramatic fashion in June.
November 20, 2008 at 3:18 am

1889: The first jukebox debuts at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco. 1969: John Lennon returns his 1965 award of knighthood to Buckingham Palace.
November 20, 2008 at 3:17 am

Butch Walker makes a living making music for other people. He’s written hits for Bowling for Soup (“Girl All the Bad Guys Want”) and Avril Lavigne (“My Happy Ending”), worked with Katy Perry, Pink and Fall Out Boy — all of which culminated in being named Rolling Stone’s Producer of the Year (2005). Tragedy struck last November when his Malibu home burned in the wildfires that spread across California and Mexico.
November 20, 2008 at 3:14 am

Beat Happening Beat Happening 1985 I’ll be the first to admit it — Calvin Johnson and Heather Lewis can’t really sing.
November 13, 2008 at 3:17 am

Oh, Robert Smith. With an ever-expanding bird’s nest of hair resting neatly atop his head and a mouth covered in countless layers of lipstick, there’s nothing more to say about his disheveled appearance than that it perfectly suits his disgruntled vocal style.
November 13, 2008 at 3:14 am

The Whigs have had a busy year. After releasing their major-label debut Mission Control in January, they’ve toured relentlessly, and are planning on some well-deserved rest after a year of talk shows, truckstops and tours.
November 13, 2008 at 3:14 am

November 13 1974: An imposter posing as Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore crashes a borrowed Porsche in Iowa City, after conning fans and receiving celebrity treatment. 1990: Rod Stewart sued by a fan who claimed that a soccer ball kicked into the crowd at a concert damaged a tendon in her middle finger.
November 13, 2008 at 3:13 am

Nirvana Bleach 1989 In sixth grade I developed a massive crush on a boy named Gus. He was the better half of a pair of twins and played the clarinet next to me in jazz band.
November 6, 2008 at 2:02 am

I've got to start off by admitting that I hate Coldplay. I think that the peak of Chris Martin’s creative ability came when he named his first child Apple.
November 6, 2008 at 2:01 am

Kintrell “Krispy Kream” and Alvin “Rah Almillo” Lindsey aren’t rappers. They aren’t hipsters either.
November 6, 2008 at 1:59 am