Tag: Music
Bon Iver Isn’t Going to Sing You to Sleep
BY JESSICA ROWE I honestly didn’t know what to expect when I went to see Bon Iver at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco last Thursday Night. Their popularity has increased dramatically over the past few years with a “Best New Artist” win at the 2012 Grammy’s (despite having just released their sophomore album), a collaboration with Kayne West, and even a Justin Timberlake SNL parody. Like many, I’d […]
Diversify Your Buzz Portfolio: The Hipster Stock Exchange
BY JENNIFER FARMAN Hipsters, bloggers, and other participants in the buzz/hype discourse all pride themselves on discovering obscure artists destined to be the “next big thing.” With a new app called TastemakerX, music nerds can participate in virtual stock market of bands and artists, turning claims that “these guys are going to be huge” into quantifiable gains or losses. The app, recently released in a beta version, allows you to […]
Jack White vs. Teenagers in “Sixteen Saltines”
BY JENNIFER FARMAN Teenagers will be teenagers, even during the apocalypse. This is the most apparent lesson of Jack White’s new music video for the single “Sixteen Saltines,” which presents a sinister vision of teenage freedom. The theme of adolescence in a dystopian suburbia has appeared in other music video iterations before. Last year Arcade Fire conveyed a sense of banal terror quite beautifully in their video for “The Suburbs.” […]
NO-CHELLA: 20+ Reasons to Stay in the Bay Area this April
BY JENNIFER FARMAN Those of us not heading down to Coachella this April shouldn’t have to spend our weekends in a jealous rage. There are plenty of amazing concerts happening around the Bay Area this April, ranging from A$AP Rocky to Bon Iver. I’ve complied all the upcoming concert mayhem into a calendar filled with enough awesome shows to keep you busy all the way to midterms. […]
Life-Changing: My Lofty Expectations for the Shins “Port of Morrow”
BY JENNIFER FARMAN In one of the most memorable moments from the film Garden State, Natalie Portman hands a pair of headphones to Zach Braff and tells him to listen to the Shins. “They’ll change your life, I swear,” she says, and for many of us she may have been right. Garden State’s reference to the Shins’ song “New Slang,” and its inclusion on the movie’s soundtrack was for […]
Wu-Tang Clan at the Regency Ballroom
BY RODRIGO GALLEGOS The Wu-Tang Clan brings the ruckus. What’s proper etiquette at a hip-hop show? When the Wu-Tang Clan comes to town, one would expect a raucous celebration filled with blunts, bitches, and malt liquor flowing like the rivers of ancient Babylon. The Regency Ballroom had a slightly different take on the matter. Past a small pond of invigorated concertgoers with waving hands was a larger pool of […]
Travels in Chile: A Trip to El Teatro Municipal
By RANDI ELLEN RUDOLPH I consider myself a serious musician, yet I count the number of times I have been to an opera on one hand. It’s an interesting fact to which many of my musician friends can relate. However, while I was studying abroad in Chile, my fellow students and I were lucky enough to have a group outing to El Teatro Municipal, Santiago’s largest stage, theater, and opera […]
Mother Hipster
By OLLIE KHAKWANI ⚫ This isn’t really the first post from Ollie’s weekly summer column. The column, on life in Shanghai’s emerging art scene, will start for real when he actually gets to Shanghai next week. ⚫ When my mum was growing up, music was illegal. Well, the kind of music she was interested in listening to. By which I mean, anything whose lyrics didn’t involve encouraging factory labourers to be […]
When You Wish Upon A Star
By BINA ⚫ Review of the music recording artist Wish ⚫ Almost two years ago, one of my closest friends exposed me to one of the best new singers/artists out there today: Wish. A Baltimore native, Wish released her first promotional album, “Skool Gurl Diaries,” back in 2009 and was finally signed to Jive Records last November. Now, she seems to be slowly making a real name for herself in the […]
Weekly Playlist: “I Laughed and Said, Life is Easy” (05/04)
A new weekly feature on SAR – we’ll be creating playlists of new tracks, re-discovered favorites, and other great songs that the editors and writers have been listening to this week. To suggest tracks for next week’s playlist, email our Music Editor, Jennifer Farman at jfarman@stanford.edu and let us know what songs have been stuck in your head. The “I Laughed and Said, Life is Easy” Playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/j.farman/playlist/4wMVffFT2OzVq0zTFDfHLs Tracklist: […]