As I prepared to write this column, I took Regina Spektor's jazz roots as a cue to revisit what has been described as the greatest jazz film of all time: "'Round Midnight."
There is nothing better than finding something different. The first time I heard Regina Spektor was on a song titled "Modern Girls & Old Fashioned Men" by the Strokes. In the duet with Julian Casablanca, she sounds like a jazz singer out of the 1930s. I had to know who she was. I found that she is not just a jazz singer - she created a sound through a combination of genres.
Vietnam isn't relevant anymore. However, the film "Sir! No Sir!" will probably go down in history as the Vietnam generation's last grasp of relevance in contemporary America. The film succeeds on several levels, but it fails utterly on the one most important to its creators.
Before I sit down to write a hip-hop review, I make hip-hop beats. Having acquired beat-writing software from a friend who was tragically killed by rebels in a remote Peruvian village, I find it necessary to the writing process that I suffer the endlessly repeating realization that I possess no amount of measurable musical talent. It aids in the bitter metamorphosis required to transform from ordinary human schlub to venom-spitting dynamo.
Do you ever feel like you were born in the wrong era? In the midst of all the emotional and bohemian hipsters struggling for individuality, rockabillies have found a simple style that sets them apart and takes them to a different time, a more simple time - the '50s.
June Higgins couldn't play an instrument in 2002. But what she lacked in talent, she made up for with inspiration.
The Procussions march to the beat of a different drum. But every rapper, producer, DJ - whoever - has echoed this exact sentiment from the beginning of time, no matter how derivative and unoriginal they come across.
Eva Encinias-Sandoval said Festival Flamenco Internacional has come a long way in 20 years.
Magneto really outdid himself this time. Unfortunately, it was entirely a bad thing. In the third cinematic installment of Marvel's much-loved X-Men comic, what little grip on reality the series retained in previous installments has been utterly lost.
by Marcella Ortega Daily Lobo "The Elephant Man" is not about John Merrick. Set in England during the Victorian era, the play confronts the rules of a conservative society. It opens with Dr. Frederick Treves describing his accomplishments and leaves the audience in anticipation as he says, "I have blessings, or so it seems to me.
Last summer, Ehren Natay was getting ready for another semester at UNM and working with his local band, Donnybrooke. Now, less than a year later, the student-turned-drummer is touring in the up-and-coming Forget McCarran, an indie-punk band from Las Vegas, Nev. Last July, the band was looking for a drummer, so Natay flew out to Las Vegas for a tryout.
When I started writing for the Daily Lobo four years ago, I had two goals in mind. The first, and most important, was to interview Natalie Portman, woo her with my witty banter and dashing good looks and thus begin the greatest love affair of all time.
In the next week I will be jettisoned from the mildly informative and somewhat overpriced college teat from which I have been suckling for five or so years. A little weary of the world I am.
Winning the lottery isn't always as nice as it sounds. For instance, you can be stuck with the winning ticket in jail. And your cell mate could be a deranged pedophile named Bilbo Baggins.
Pearl Jam is probably the worst band name in history. Nonetheless, it's a good name for its latest album, Pearl Jam.
I just realized that I like NOFX for the same reason I hate the Rolling Stones. Both bands are old and way past their prime. The members look like they have been to hell and back. Their new music pales in comparison to their older stuff.
I feel so sorry for you, John. You're getting a world-class education for a fair price. You have a forum to voice your opinions, however asinine, through this newspaper. If you somehow graduate, you'll be qualified for numerous high-paying jobs. Boohoo.
The pervert general of hip-hop returns. Kool Keith is arguably the weirdest MC ever to grab a microphone. He changes names more than J-Lo changes husbands. His most popular album didn't even come out under his name.
It is hard to define an album that refuses to be defined. How do you look at a collaboration between two of the most creative minds in music today and not be wowed by the sheer existence of it, let alone the talent on the album St. Elsewhere?
The wait is finally over. 10,000 Days, Tool's sixth release and the first since 2001's Lateralus, is probably this year's most anticipated album. And it comes out today.
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