Music

Glasgow's post-rock powerhouse Mogwai loves you and is going to blow up your school. They had nothing to prove with this release - 2006's Mr. Beast showed that they were pretty great, even when on autopilot.
September 25, 2008 at 12:00 am

In my ninth grade English class, we spent an entire week examining what ingredients made text "rich." Dense pages, meticulous diction, vivid description, a healthy sprinkling of rhetorical devices and unapologetically engaging arguments were the watchwords of the day.
September 25, 2008 at 12:00 am

Amidst the sometimes sweeping ambitions of the indie-dance scene, Fujiya & Miyagi seem content sticking with what they do best: creating extremely cool, understated electro-pop unabashedly influenced by a wide range of styles, from the Krautrock of Neu!
September 18, 2008 at 12:00 am

The other day, I was sitting in my freshman seminar on the origins of music. I listened in awe as my professor explained the incredible complexity of the human brain's ability to process sound, the sensitivity of the tiny hairs within our ears and the countless combinations of neuron connections that take place and cause us to perceive waves of compressed air as sound.
September 18, 2008 at 12:00 am

Neil Young On The Beach 1974 After the critical and commercial successes of After The Gold Rush and Harvest, Young released a tense series of albums now referred to as the "Ditch Trilogy." On The Beach was the first of these albums and Rolling Stone branded it "despairing." The album was rawer than anything Young had released in the '70s.
September 18, 2008 at 12:00 am

The "smallest letter in the Hebrew alphabet" is coming to one of the biggest venues on Penn's campus.
September 18, 2008 at 12:00 am

First Unitarian Church 2125 Chestnut St., All ages In between songs this summer, a sweaty and shirtless Justin Vernon (of Bon Iver) kept asking the crowd if they were okay.
September 11, 2008 at 11:12 pm

The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band 1973 In 1973, Bruce Springsteen released The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle, which shook up the "New Dylan" moniker that haunted his debut.
September 11, 2008 at 12:00 am

Tonight: GZA Trocadero, All ages 9:00 p.m. Legendary Wu-Tang wordsmith GZA continues the nostalgia-inspired tour that finds him performing his 1995 seminal classic Liquid Swords in full.
September 11, 2008 at 12:00 am

Whether a quest for complete dominance of your parents' attention or an attempt to prove which child is the better of the offspring, sibling rivalry isn't new.
September 11, 2008 at 12:00 am

Johnny Brenda's 1201 Frankford Avenue, 21+ Brought to you by the owners of Standard Tap, Johnny Brenda's is a classic Philadelphia gastropub and music venue located in Fishtown.
September 11, 2008 at 12:00 am

It's almost impossible to analyze the Will Sheff-led Okkervil River's fifth LP without remembering their fourth.
September 11, 2008 at 12:00 am

Barry Manilow Greatest Hits 1978 I first met Barry when I was a mere child of five. And by met, I mean I ogled the cover of his 1978 Greatest Hits album, dreaming that one day, I would get to speak to this flamboyantly coiffed and spritely little songster.
April 24, 2008 at 12:00 am

Tapes 'n Tapes - Minneapolis's rags-to-riches rock boys - return to their comfort zone of clanging riffs and Jim James echo-y vocals on their second album, Walk It Off.
April 24, 2008 at 12:00 am

Need some fun to spice up your summer? Check out one of these summer festivals-the perfect excuse to road trip, get wasted and listen to music with thousands of your closest friends.
April 24, 2008 at 12:00 am

Tonight: I'm From Barcelona The First Unitarian Church, All Ages If it's true that there is power in numbers, then this Swedish pop ensemble could move mountains.
April 24, 2008 at 12:00 am

Indie darlings Tokyo Police Club continue the long-standing tradition of putting out blisteringly fast rock songs on Elephant Shell, a quasi-debut glistening in the wake of their 2007 EP A Lesson in Crime.
April 17, 2008 at 12:00 am

4/18: Kate Nash World Cafe Live, All Ages Kate Nash is only 20 years old, but the British songstress is well on her way to a successful career.
April 17, 2008 at 12:00 am

Big Star Radio City 1974 As I watched OK Go perform this past weekend, I couldn't help but think they owed an awful lot to every power pop band that's ever come before them.
April 17, 2008 at 12:00 am

For years people have been wondering what effect technology will have on the music industry. But it still seems like little has changed.
April 17, 2008 at 12:00 am