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: Dead Sara’s “Pleasure to Meet You”
Fun fact: No one in Dead Sara is named Sara. And no one in Dead Sara is dead. Weird name, right? Inaccurate name aside, I was a huge fan of their 2012 debut album. Dead Sara’s strength lies in their energy and intensity, which their debut had in spades. Fortunately, Pleasure to Meet You does […]
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 […]
Interview with Jeremy Scott of CinemaSins
If you’re like a lot of people in the world, you like movies. And if you like movies, you’ll probably agree that even the best movies have some sort of issue with them. That’s the rationale behind CinemaSins, a YouTube channel dedicated to pointing out “sins” in movies, be they cliches, plot holes, moments of […]
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 […]
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 […]
Review: The Decemberists’ “What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World”
It’s good to have you back, Decemberists. Their last album, 2011’s The King Is Dead, was in many ways very un-Decemberists, but it had its moments. Now, with What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World, The Decemberists have found a way to mesh the folksy narrative elements of their older material while retaining the […]