Music

LADY GAGA IS USHERING IN A NEW, FAR MORE REFRESHING, ERA OF POP I am an outsider to pop.
January 28, 2010 at 2:09 am

With their new single, “Good Morning,” Rogue Wave have taken all of the things they had going for them — beautifully layered guitars, mellifluous vocals, a healthy sense of introspection — and completely obliterated them, opting instead for the same sort of sugary pop their original music seemed to be a reaction against.
January 28, 2010 at 2:08 am

We’ve really tried to understand the acclaim surrounding Motion City Soundtrack’s major-label debut.
January 28, 2010 at 2:06 am

There are a lot of reasons I hate myself for loving Rascal Flatts. It really bothers me that the lead singer, the appropriately named Gary LeVox, is fat, spikes his hair and doesn’t play an instrument.
January 28, 2010 at 2:03 am

In a December 3 review of “Cousins,” the first of two somewhat mediocre singles from Vampire Weekend’s new album, we were not impressed: “It doesn’t sound like Contra will expand [the band’s] preppy East Coast sensibilities too much.” This thinking seemed logical at the time.
January 21, 2010 at 2:24 am

We don’t blame you for not keeping up with music news over break. But now that you’re all caught up on sleep and Jersey Shore episodes, check out some of the info you may have missed.
January 21, 2010 at 2:15 am

There’s a deodorant company that claims that smell is the strongest sense tied to memory. This may be true, but in my mind sound is a close second.
January 21, 2010 at 2:13 am

In her 13 years as a solo artist, Missy Elliott has never before made fans wait this long for an album.
January 21, 2010 at 2:11 am

The xx This indie-pop outfit from across the pond exploded onto the scene in 2009 with their self-titled debut album.
January 21, 2010 at 2:04 am

Dear Britney and Christina, True fact: I have now spent 173 hours learning the choreography to the “(You Drive Me) Crazy” video (speaking of which, Brit, are you really friends with Sabrina the Teenage Witch?). And every night after practicing the part with the chair — which really hurts my ass, by the way — I fall asleep listening to “Reflection.” Mulan is the best!
December 10, 2009 at 1:45 am

As embarrassing as this is to admit, I wasn’t always a seventh grader. The truth is, I used to not even be in middle school.
December 10, 2009 at 1:40 am

Awesomest Concert: The No Strings Attached Tour is showing a lot of promise as a top-rating concert series.
December 10, 2009 at 1:36 am

Math/Science: Trip Hop A number of us at Penn agree: math and science can be scary.
December 3, 2009 at 1:36 am

Musicals are the worst. Nothing makes me want to dish out wedgies like a Broadway showstopper. Road trips are great, though — so great that they can make things like Roy Rogers and show tunes digestible. Every summer, my family drives 10 hours to visit my grandparents in Maine.
December 3, 2009 at 1:34 am

Vampire Weekend, “Cousins” Hear the first several iterations of “hey hey” in the beginning of “Cousins,” the new track from Vampire Weekend's forthcoming Contra, and you may be reminded of something very familiar: the band’s last album.
December 3, 2009 at 1:32 am

At first glance, Lady Gaga’s most recent release, The Fame Monster, looks like a typical moneymaking B-sides release attached at the hip to her debut hit-machine, The Fame. But don’t be fooled.
December 3, 2009 at 1:27 am

Nearly 20 years into his career as a genre-defying, envelope-pushing musician, Omar Rodríguez-López has yet to run out of ideas.
November 18, 2009 at 11:56 pm

The term supergroup has never been more applicable than in the case of Them Crooked Vultures, formed in 2005 by John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin, Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age and Dave Grohl from Foo Fighters and Nirvana.
November 18, 2009 at 11:53 pm

Music fans know that Twitter is for more than just telling your friends where you’re sitting in Van Pelt.
November 18, 2009 at 11:49 pm

Simple, classic and beautiful, this soul song changed my whole relationship with Philadelphia. I visited the city with my parents while I was in middle school, and I knew little about it beyond the existence of the Liberty Bell.
November 18, 2009 at 11:44 pm