Sufjan Stevens at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis
Sufjan Stevens stopped by the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis on Saturday in support of his new album Carrie & Lowell. The tour features mostly music from the new album, as well as some classic tunes, and marks a return to a sound most fans of Stevens are familiar with. Stevens is known for his fanfare during live shows. His […]
Review: “Carrie and Lowell” by Sufjan Stevens
Ah, Sufjan Stevens. Maybe one of these days I’ll figure out the correct pronunciation of your name. On this, Stevens’s seventh studio album, he has produced a deeply melancholic, acoustic-driven collection of songs. Lyrically, Carrie & Lowell is acutely personal, revolving around themes of loss, forgiveness, and regret. The main overarching theme of the album […]
New Season of “Community” Streaming on Yahoo!
Season six of Community, one of the best shows that used to be on TV, premiered on Yahoo! today (March 17th). The fact that this has happened proves two things: 1.) that Yahoo! is amazingly still relevant in this Google-centric society we live in, and 2.) that the Internet is becoming a definite contender with […]
Images from the Setting Stone Winter Coffee House
Emily Kraushar & Liz Miller ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 11 Photo by Brooke Rigot
Review: Big Sean’s “Dark Sky Paradise”
After his second sub par studio album Hall Of Fame, it appeared that we had seen exactly what Big Sean was destined to be: another young artist who feasts off of radio singles and gimicky hooks…it couldn’t be so. Kanye West obviously saw something in his new apprentice. And, after listening to the deluxe version […]
Ian Sayres Revisits his Top 10 Hip-Hop Albums of 2014
2014 seemed like a quiet year in Hip-Hop. A lack of releases by big name artists like Drake, Kanye West, and Kendrick Lamar left the charts open for the lesser known underground artists to make a name for themselves. Promising young emcees walked into the game with numerous major label debuts alongside a few seasoned […]
Review: Imagine Dragons “Smoke + Mirrors”
If you’ve listened to Imagine Dragons, odds are you are in one of two camps: you either enjoy them for their sheer theatrical bombast and radio-friendly hooks, or you dislike them for their genericness and their loose fitting to the term “rock.” On Smoke + Mirrors, their second album, the band seems to be trying […]
The Tesla Model S: Style, Economy, Power
Since 2003, the Tesla Motor Company has been designing and producing purely electric cars. With advances in battery technology and electric motors, the company has been able to flourish the electric car from a tasteless eco-box that could only drive for fifty miles, into a sleek and modern luxury car that is capable of driving […]
Darian Bolin’s Top 10 of 2014: Albums
2014 was an interesting year for music. Weezer and Weird Al made grand comebacks, Taylor Swift became the only platinum-selling album of the year, classic albums like Funeral by Arcade Fire and Weezer’s Blue Album turned ten years old and twenty years old, respectively, and The Wrens announced that they finally finished their 12-years-in-the-making 4th […]
“Birdman”: A Review by Darian Bolin
In Birdman, directed and co-written by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Michael Keaton plays a character who is essentially a sensationalized version of himself, a washed-up actor named Riggan Thomson, famous for playing fictional superhero Birdman in a trilogy of movies over twenty years ago. He is growing worried that he will eventually not matter, that he […]