A Plastic Review

By Thomas Panaccione, Cartoonist
Plastic Beach, the new Gorillaz album that launches Tuesday, March 9th, is a collaboration of many artists with Damon Albarn over a course of seventeen tracks. The theme is a light environmental message, the location is a small island paradise made up of clustered plastic and junk, and the music is [...]

Awake in a dream (with Au Revoir Simone)

By Monica Nguyen, Staff Writer
Au Revoir Simone (oh ruh- vwahr see-moan) consists of a trio set of girls Erika Forster, Annie Hart, and Heather D’Angelo. The ladies say they came up with their name from a line in Tim Burton’s film “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” when Pee Wee Herman says “Au Revoir Simone” to the [...]

The Best of 2009: A Year In Review

By Monica Nguyen, Staff Writer
As the new year comes around , we all look back to what happened the previous year, to what stood out most. In this top ten list, you will learn what was voted as the “best” in 2009 based on a variety of sources.
Best New Artist: Known as “The new Madonna” [...]

Past, Present, and Future – Muse: The Resistance

By Jazmin Temores, Staff Writer
It seems like the world’s greatest scientists have been beaten to discovering how to travel through time not by extraterrestrials but by a band. With their fifth-highly anticipated album released on September 14th, “The Resistance”, Muse has created a wormhole to an alternate universe where the listener can travel through a [...]

Back in a Heartbeat

By Peter Tran, Guest Writer
Sondre Lerche is known for genre-jumping.  His style varies between folk, alternative, Indie-pop, and even jazz. And it’s not a bad thing. After releasing his freshman album, “Faces Down”, in 2002, the Bergen native’s musical status has risen to much deserved esteem, winning the top slots for “Album of the Year” [...]

Bourgeois Shangri-La – Miss Li

By Alex Chiang, Freelance Writer
Yeah. It’s that song from that iPod Nano commercial. It’s a nice quirky tune with fun vocals and whimsical lyrics. However, the instrumentation is my favorite part. Check it out guys!! And buy Apple.
Listen to the song here!
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Delicate – Damian Rice

By Alex Chiang, Freelance Writer
Time for another vocal driven, heart wrenching, acoustic piece. Delicate is a powerfully raw, painfully desolate, dynamically diverse ballad. Though it seems small and quiet, I’d take care when turning your volume up all the way. Rice doesn’t hesitate to shout out his desperate and depressed lyrics as the music comes [...]

Dumpster Diving – Castledoor

By Mukta Mohan, Staff Writer
Castledoor is a six-piece indie pop ensemble that delivers catchy songs filled with emotion and depth. The band not only looks incredibly stylish, but also puts on a great show. Lead singer, Nate Cole, puts all his energy into singing soulful lyrics and making erratic movements that engage the audience. They [...]

Again – Flyleaf

By Alex Chiang, Freelance Writer
Again is the first single from Flyleaf’s upcoming sophomore album Memento Mori, a latin phrase meaning “remember you will die.”
Again is thick and layered with heavy guitars and crashing drums.
Lead singer Lacey Mosley’s lyrics nicely compliment her desperate and emotional vocals.
Check it out here!
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When She’s Near – Family Fiction

By Alex Chiang, Freelance Writer

In all regards, this should be a bad love song. It contains no eloquent lyrics for girls to swoon over.
It boasts a modest, not even remotely catchy, melody. The singer’s voice is neither smooth nor flattering.
Yet, When She’s Near is an enjoyable and memorable experience.
It’s an uncommon ode that describes a [...]

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