Students have always appreciated vintage music. Paige Reeves '12 brings this appreciation to the next level on her WSPN radio show. Reeves has been a force for vintage music since her freshman year. By working with Nikki Beuscher '12 on the "PeachCola" show, she looks to keep the records spinning.
This Halloween some students literally found themselves going to the Underworld through Skidmore's production of "Eurydice," written by Sarah Ruhl. During its run, "Eurydice" created a positive buzz around campus and became the perfect complement to this spooky time of year.
Sloth, gluttony and pride will be among the main themes addressed in the upcoming performance of Cabaret Troupe's musical revue, "The Seven Deadly Sins." Through songs, dance and color, Cabaret Troupe provides its own interpretation of "The Seven Deadly Sins.
With high-quality soundboard recordings of concerts floating around the internet, it is difficult to justify plunking down cash for "official concert releases," especially for a band as high-profile as R.E.M. The only band that gave Massachusetts new wavers Michael Stipe, Peter Puck, Mike Mills and Bill Berry real competition in their '80s heyday in terms of commercial success was U2.
Steven Spielberg? Marty Scorsese? Francis Ford Coppola? Ha! Robert Altman was better then all of them. The overbearing drunkard from mid-western America was a force of a director during the '70s: "MASH" (1970), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" ('71), "The Long Goodbye" ('73), "Thieves Like Us" ('74) and "Nashville" ('75).
One of the music industry's most celebrated jam bands, moe., performed an extraordinary Halloween concert at the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany last Saturday night. moe. played two sets and a lengthy encore packed with funny, spooky and classic songs, as demanded by the fans.
Nostalgia was on the minds of most of the students who attended the Lively Lucy's '90s concert on Oct. 22. The Falstaff's show showcased the talent of student band The Flaming Flannels, whose members gave some of the best renditions of songs familiar to and beloved by a crowd that grew up loving Chumbawamba and Third Eye Blind.
I have come to expect great things of films belonging to the sub-genre of 1980s sci-fi/action/horror. Films like "Terminator," or "The Road Warrior" display a no-holds-barred cinematic approach, in which the motif of imminent doom completely justifies excessive violence and bloodshed.
When speaking of legendary hip-hop breeding grounds, Queensbridge Housing Projects in New York City springs to mind. Over the past 10 years, it has launched careers of artists like the Juice Crew, Mobb Deep, Nas and Cormega. Often going unnoticed by the public, Cormega has become over the years an influential independent rapper renowned on the underground New York hip-hop scene for his vivid street lyricism.
As the Oct. 22 performance began, juniors Daniel Chenoweth, Rebecca Greenbaum, Tess Wendel and Emily Craver sat in a line, as if in a waiting room: reading magazines, looking periodically at the clock and never speaking. They seemed to be impassive and isolated.