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If someone steals our laptop, makes a ridiculous comment in class or spills our coffee on the C-1, we generally tell everyone about it. Countless Facebook statuses and “likes!” later, we’ve successfully let the world know about our experience, and we’ve received outside validation that the situation we just encountered was “so awful!”
It’s Drew Barrymore and Justin Long. It’s a romantic comedy. It’s about long-distance relationships. Unsurprisingly, Going the Distance is just as predictable as these three facts and loses little from the simplifications.
At one point during the neon, candy-coated video for single “California Gurls,” Katy Perry is shooting icing straight at the audience while wearing a rehearsed, cheeky grin. Welcome to Teenage Dream. This is the perfect visual metaphor for her entire new release: an automated provocateur recklessly spraying too much sugar on her listeners.
Bionic: utilizing electronic devices and mechanical parts to assist humans in performing difficult, dangerous or intricate tasks. Long-established pop star Christina Aguilera seems to have forgotten the “human” part of that definition.
Frustrating rides, tight spaces and awkward jarring are probably the most interesting things associated with Duke buses, but Professor of English Deborah Pope and Arts Outreach and Commmunications Assistant Beverly Meek are trying to change that. When you ride a Duke bus, they want you to have an experience with poetry.
When listening to The Wild Hunt by the Tallest Man on Earth, it becomes apparent that Swedish folk artist Kristian Matsson has created a work of aural folk art. The lyrics are pure poetry, animated by Matsson’s gravelly voice and accompanied with cheery guitar, and every track strikes the perfect folksy note.
Emotionally cloying, hilarious, heavily messaged and beautifully written, Rent is perhaps the most iconic representation of the 1990s there is. When trying to recreate something so distinct, failures are easy.
Like a divine goddess of disco, Alison Goldfrapp descends on her cloud of airy synths to a crowd of adoring fans. She and Will Gregory—known as Goldfrapp—are back from a sojourn into a folksy sound, and they have jubilantly reentered the world of super-polished pop with Head First.
It isn’t often that one sees a high-concept, virtual pop band that can make the Top 40, but that seems to be the niche Gorillaz have created for themselves since their emergence onto the music scene in 2001. Their latest release, Plastic Beach, is simultaneously their poppiest work and yet their most inaccessible.
Barbie just got another little sister. Europop Vicky is one sassy chick that knows how to sing.
The Indo-Pak Coalition, and band leader Rudresh Mahanthappa, will be making their North Carolina debut this Saturday at Duke Performances’s WAIL! jazz saxophone festival. Synthesizing jazz with South-Asian sounds, the Coalition’s music defies the preconceptions many people have concerning Indo-jazz fusion.
Some things are inextricably tied to Durham. Certainly Duke, maybe baseball and of course tobacco. Modern jazz and live music aren’t generally on the list of things quintessentially Durham, but Eric Hirsh and recently opened bar The Republic are trying to change that.
The ’80s-tinted, harp-heavy, poetic, engaging folk/electronic/blues/soul/dance/pop/rock of Florence and the Machine’s debut release Lungs is one of the greatest musical achievements of this year.
Angsty pre-teens rejoice: John Mayer has finally made an album just for you.
Buzz has been building for almost a year for the arrival of D.C. rapper Wale’s full-length debut, Attention Deficit. Hip-hop is all about posturing, and Wale delivers a bold, fresh pose to his audience. His assured swagger, however, often devolves into a self-congratulatory ramble that wears on the listener.
Tegan and Sara aren’t for everyone. Some acquire a taste for the shrill-voiced duo, while others can never get past the piercing, idiosyncratic vocals. If one can accept their singing though, it’s love. As artists, they constantly explore and push the frontiers of music while still remaining pop-friendly.
The (in)famous Twilight saga now has its fangs stuck in the bloodstream of American pop culture. With four best-selling novels and one high-grossing movie, the film adaptation of second book New Moon is sure to create a sanguinary sensation.
The premise of Whip It will seem familiar to many fans of modern coming-of-age tales: socially awkward character finds something to be passionate about that changes his/her life, while struggling against overbearing parents and finding love. Despite this conventional format, the film never feels stereotypical and generates a unique tone.
A swarm of authors and illustrators is getting ready to descend upon Chapel Hill for a four-day discussion of books, stories and art.
