‘Music’ Archives
New Beach House album is rich, complex
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 [...]
Dubstep will conquer the world
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 [...]
Former ‘Tonight Show’ bandleader Marsalis brings jazz quartet to Touhill
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 [...]
Badfish tribute show puts forth no originality
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 [...]
Good music, good stories in McGee Band concert at Touhill
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 [...]