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Sarah Spencer White’s Spill is a meditation on the human role in technological innovation. Spill is intended to, as White writes, bring to mind ideas of “futility, fragility and dysfunction.” Her creations accomplish just that.
As founder and president of School House, an ethical brand of collegiate apparel, Duke alum Rachel Weeks, Trinity ’07, is finally seeing her two passions blend seamlessly.
While most of the American public silently shake heads and wring hands at the economic situation, Talya Lieberman has something to say. Lieberman, Trinity '07, and collaborator Pavle Jefferson have found Internet stardom through their song "Fannie Mae Eat Freddie Mac and Cheese", a sardonic commentary on the financial crisis. The track has been featured on The New York Times' "Freakonomics" blog and was also mentioned in a Wall Street Journal article discussing songwriters and the economic recession.
Carrboro will be rocking this Valentine's Day to Chapel Hill band the Old Ceremony.
Venturing into the world of Man Man is an at-your-own-risk endeavor. Don't believe me? They even have their fans sign waivers before each concert that read, "Soul corruption and face melting both intentional and likely." (This may or may not be true).
Once upon a time there was a chick in this sort-of iconic band that you may have heard of. Fortunately, the story didn't end there for Breeders' frontwoman Kim Deal. During the final years of the Pixies and after their breakup, headstrong Deal has been giving 'em hell on her own accord.
Each individual's experience with a painting, film or novel is unique simply because we each delve into the world of art in different roles and for different reasons. Some are creators, some are spectators, some seek to dive headfirst into the world of their own making and some yearn to lose themselves in the conjured reality of their favorite artist or filmmaker. However, there are those that seek to uphold the notion that art is ultimately a reflection of the world around us-real life.
America's forefathers are commemorated by having their names and faces forever plastered on dollar bills, mountains and of course their rock band, the Presidents of the United States of America. Okay, so maybe we'll never know how good Jefferson is on the bass, but at least some former Presidents are still around. These Are the Good Times People is the band's fifth studio album, and second since fully reuniting after taking a hiatus in the late '90s.
Pavement fans who never really got over the breakup can finally breathe a sigh of collective relief. Stephen Malkmus-the face that launched a thousand collaborations-has finally quieted the clamor of the hipster masses with his new album, Real Emotional Trash. The former Pavement frontman returns to the scene with his (technically) fourth album with the Jicks, and the we've-lost-count-how-many-eth bearing his name.
There is an uncanny similarity between Beach House's Victoria Legrand and the church ladies of old. Yes, the blue-haired biddies hammer away on the organ while their pastor husbands preach the good word (think The Simpsons' Reverend and Mrs. Lovejoy). But while Legrand may occasionally rock the matronly pastel frocks, she's saving the organ from a rather unholy fate and instead injecting it back into the very heart of indie music.
Four-piece Bloomington, Indiana quartet Murder by Death released the three-song digital EP Fuego! last week. Formed in 2000 at Indiana University and discovered by Thursday frontman Geoff Rickley, the band has been labeled everything from Western alt-country to Americana noir. True to their namesake (Neil Simon's 1976 murder-mystery comedy), the band has created concept albums about zombies (Like the Exorcist, But More Breakdancing), the Devil (Who Will Survive, and What Will Be Left of Them?) and Dante's Divine Comedy (In Bocca Al Lupo).
The playbill for each performance of Osvaldo Golijov's Ayre begins with a quote from Edward Said's Reflections on Exile: "Most people are principally aware of one culture, one setting, one home; exiles are aware of at least two and this plurality of vision gives rise to an awareness of simultaneous dimension...."
Post-punk, post-noise, post-whatever-band Xiu Xiu (sort of pronounced "shoe shoe") recently released Women as Lovers, their sixth studio album and first on the Kill Rock Stars label. The band has arguably moved past genre labels and more towards recognition of their distinct combination of diverging music styles and penchant for morose, often disturbing, song topics. In its current incarnation, Xiu Xiu performs under the trio of singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart (the only constant and most emotionally disturbed member), his cousin, Caralee McElroy, and percussionist Ches Smith.
The typical history lesson wouldn't cite Memphis and Muscle Shoals as historical sites, nor Solomon Burke and Maceo Parker as contributing professors. But this isn't just any history lesson-it's the history of soul, and it's coming to the classroom of Durham for a special seven-concert semester. For six weeks Duke will be the host of Soul Power, a festival that combines seven concerts with conversations, talks, a Nasher exhibition and a DJ performance to channel the past traditions and new directions of American soul music.
Chamber music, composed for a small number of performers and a variety of musical instruments, is among the most intimate forms of classical music. Reminiscent of the past, it harkens back to a time when the Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI look-alikes of Paris would crowd into private "chambers" to listen to these groups-and eat cake.
As the temperature drops, and the Gothic Wonderland starts looking more like a "Winter Wonderland," your ears will surely be searching for relief from the droves of overplayed Christmas carols polluting the airways in the coming weeks. Fortunately, Badi Assad makes a stop at Duke this Friday night-part of her Wonderland tour. Her warm-blooded performance is sure to be a welcome diversion from all the holiday hoopla-and give a refreshing look into the soul of a musical chameleon.
The Raveonettes, once-hailed as part of music's "Next Wave," return to the rock & roll scene with Lust, Lust, Lust their fourth full-length release. In addition to gathering attention in the States, the duo has already achieved relative success in their native Denmark. In 2003, guitarist Sune Rose Wagner and bassist Sharin Foo won the Danish Grammy-equivalent of "Best Album of the Year" for their noise-infested first effort, Whip It On. Moreover, Blender Magazine even named Blondie look-alike Wagner one of "Rock's Hottest Women."
Around the time that Ween was formed in 1984, Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo were two nobodies making home recordings about the good word of Boognish in their basements. Nowadays, the duo is known as spiritual brothers Gene and Dean Ween, frontmen of the band Ween. Catapulted to cult-like status by their rabid fan base, the band's work has appeared everywhere from Honda commercials to Beavis and Butthead. Ween's offbeat pop style returns with the release of their ninth full-length album, La Cucaracha.
Nobody needs confirmation that being a college student is a full-time job. While reading this article, 99 percent of you are probably downing your n-th cup of coffee while frantically trying to finish that problem set or paper before your next lecture. Who would imagine there could be time for anything else?
They say only the good die young. From the early '50s until its untimely "death" in the mid-70s, Joe College Day was the highlight of Duke University, bringing only top-name artists for an all-day music festival on campus. Unfortunately, the occasion is but a myth to current Duke University students in 2007, who know only of the Dionysian indulgence of LDOC and Tailgate. All that is going to change on Oct. 20, when the ghost of Joe College Day gets a shot at resurrection.
