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Review: Cat Power liberates sound, self, in new album
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Burn It Down: Taylor Swift, and that Abomination You Call a Hit Song
by Jenni Zellner September 5, 2012See, in the little time that I have lived, I’ve learned a few things. One of the more important ones is the notion that if you act like a preteen, you will be treated like one.
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The music industry is changing drastically every day but Julia Nunes has found the key to success despite it all with her fourth album Settle Down.
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After a five-year break and a bandmate shuffle, The Shins sound recharged and revitalized on their newest release Port of Morrow. The band has rediscovered its playful side with a fresh batch of songs that resemble their first two full-lengths, Oh, Inverted World and Chutes Too Narrow, but offer a new spin with a slower, more methodical approach.
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In its annual collaboration with the Ithaca College School of Music, Ithaca College Theater hosted Mozart’s The Magic Flute, a whimsical opera following two friends on their quest for love.
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20-SomethingsMinistry of Cool
Raw from the Saw: Ceremonials by Florence + the Machine
by Carolyn Hartley December 7, 2011Florence + the Machine’s music is known for knockout vocals and powerful drumbeats that transcends to any audience. Their latest album Ceremonials, released on Nov. 1, 2011, although catchy, lacks cohesiveness and at times sounds like a overwhelming mess of ambiguous instruments, underneath Florence Welch’s overpowering howl.
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20-SomethingsMinistry of Cool
Raw from the Saw: Stronger by Kelly Clarkson
by Adam Polaski December 7, 2011When I tell people that one of my favorite singers is Kelly Clarkson, I usually get one of three responses: a) “Oh … Why?” b) “Wait, the girl from American Idol?” or c) “My preteen sister loves her!”
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20-SomethingsMinistry of Cool
Raw From the Saw: Crazy Clown Time by David Lynch
by Zachary Anderson December 7, 2011The title alone should really give the discriminating listener an indication of the kind of warped, surreal sensibility one can expect from the director of Mulholland Drive in his first full-length album. Of course, David Lynch’s body of work is characterized by its evocative musical soundscapes, much of it provided by composer extraordinaire, Angelo Badalamenti, that work to heighten the pervasive mood of confusion and underlying darkness that Lynch is best known for. It makes sense that the American auteur would extend his interests to music, for much of Crazy Clown Time evokes the same visceral fragmentation of the (post)modern world that permeate his visual output.
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Buzz BlogThe Cool
Concert Review: Starslinger feat. Shlohmo and Shigeto
by Zachary Anderson November 14, 2011This past Halloween weekend’s Electronic Dance Party concert, held at Ithaca College’s Emerson Suites, was the perfect avenue to introduce me to the radical, shape-shifting sounds of three of electronic music’s current practitioners: Manchester producer/DJ Starslinger, and opening acts Shlohmo and Shigeto.