With its tendency to act like multimedia wallpaper, a lot of times drone music goes under-appreciated. On the surface, Baltimore duo Beach House does not seem to do much to dispel this reputation.
The songs are all sleepy and fairly unenthusiastic, and Victoria Legrand’s voice is a winding display of robust femininity that hardly even attempts (more)

Electronic music can trace its root back to the ‘20s. Kraftwerk popularized the more specific genre, electronic dance music, in the early ‘70s. Since that time, the genre has evolved into a strikingly vast pool of subgenres, many with characteristics so subtly different that distinguishing between them may seem petty.

Last semester, the Touhill Performing Arts Center hosted perhaps the only living jazz great when 78-year-old Sonny Rollins took the stage with his saxophone and claimed the night for Jazzistan. On Friday the same stage was home to another jazz group and any idea of a generational gap was shattered as 18-year-old Justin Faulkner eased into the drummer’s chair and watched his band leader, Branford Marsalis, for the cue to begin.

Badfish is a tribute band, which is a band that performs to pay homage to a particular artist or group. The most famous examples of tribute usage are Elvis impersonators. Badfish is a Sublime impersonator and tribute duties are fulfilled by playing Sublime songs with a rigorous attention to their nuances. Badfish played for an hour and a half at Pop’s in Sauget, Ill. on Feb. 19.

The McGee Band and Professor David Wilson entertained an audience with tales and music with an Irish flair in the Lee Theater of the Touhill Performing Arts Center on February 13. This entertainment consisted of a variety of Irish, Scottish and Quebecois music. Professor David Wilson, sometimes accompanying the band on a flute, told stories of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, for whom the band is named.