Call me sexist if you want, but I never could stand girl-rock. Women can make some beautiful music, there’s no questioning that, but with the exception of Janis Joplin, very few girls can actually just “rock out.” All the famous poster-girls for female rock have either gone pop (No Doubt, Amanda Marshall), become utterly self-absorbed… Continue reading Operation Makeout
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Rocking out
If you talk to Ian Blurton, he’ll tell you rock and roll never died. If you listen to his band, Blurtonia, you may just be convinced that it never will. Though they list influences everywhere from Chuck Berry to Television, it’s obvious that the spirit of the music holds more sway than the bands themselves.… Continue reading Rocking out
Brad, Welcome to Discovery Park
If Welcome to Discovery Park had come out in 1975, people today might call it a classic. If it had come out in 1988, it might well have become an underground success, a throwback to the days before the synthetic soul of new wave. In 2002, it just seems like a logical extension of the… Continue reading Brad, Welcome to Discovery Park
Mark Kleiner Power Trio, Love To Night
Sometimes, things aren’t as simple as they seem. Love To Night, the Mark Kleiner Power Trio’s freshman effort, is, and that actually isn’t a bad thing. After all, this is an album where a quarter of the song titles (and the album title itself) have “love” in them. This is an album about the upside… Continue reading Mark Kleiner Power Trio, Love To Night
Ugly Casanova, Sharpen Your Teeth
The best thing about Modest Mouse is that no matter how far out they go, there’s a certain earthiness that pervades the music and ties it down to reality. On Sharpen Your Teeth, Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock’s first “solo” album, this tie is strained if not altogether broken. Abandoning the Pixies influence that made… Continue reading Ugly Casanova, Sharpen Your Teeth
Jesus Jones, Never Enough: The Best of Jesus Jones
It’s ironic that Jesus Jones chose to call their best of record Never Enough, since if anything it is just too much. However, the CD, which clocks in at over 70 minutes even without the additional hour of remixes, is still enjoyable. Most of the tracks are well written and contain infectious energy and a… Continue reading Jesus Jones, Never Enough: The Best of Jesus Jones
The man with the plan
By Chris Tait
University is a place of learning. We continually kid ourselves with this misleading line. The truth is, it’s unavoidable learning things at university, just as it is anywhere else.Fluid dynamics, collision physics, anatomy, chemistry, and medicine. But you don’t have to go to class to get all of these lessons. There are no prerequisite courses,… Continue reading The man with the plan