Archives - Jeffrey Howard

kenvinnewsman56 highlights an exciting new frontier for the Internet, in which a YouTube personality simply acts as himself within the matrix of mundane day-to-day life. Read More

The entertainingly bizarre YouTube channel ReportOfTheWeek centers around reviews of the mundane. Read More

The irrepressible YouTube star offers viewers a glimpse into his world through crazy antics and a unsettling dynamic with his cameraman. Read More

Aurek Ransom: What do you think is important for us to know about what you did before [coming to] Eastman? Keith Elder: Prior to Eastman, I worked 18 years in the Boston Symphony and the Boston Pops. While working there, I got a degree in law, so I’m a lawyer as well. While working, I […]

Skylar Spence was once a vaporwave producer known as Saint Pepsi. Under his previous handle he was a big fish in a very small pond – the small pond being Reddit’s vaporwave subreddit. Now, Saint Pepsi has got a new name and is a medium-sized fish in a much bigger pond. On his new release […]

Is autumn the new summer? Starbucks would like you to think so. The Pumpkin Spice Latte (#PSL), is a seasonal icon inseparably associated with autumn. I propose that the #PSL highlights a paradigm shift in which fall is replacing summer as the new “Utopia Season”­­–a reaction to today’s culture of information and expression, a culture […]

Maybe I am just out of touch with what’s popular, but it felt like this summer was lacking a song to call its own. In May Adam Levine released “This Summer’s Gonna Hurt...,” a slick dance-pop tune with modern-feeling production and a chorus that was super catchy. Shortly after Carly Rae Jepsen released a string […]

“Patched,” a web series made by UR students and local actors, follows six fictional UR students trying to bring their band off the ground as they struggle through their individual differences and the conflicts in their lives. The show stars senior Lilly Camp and senior Kathryn Loveless, junior Daniel Mensel, KEY student Kedar Shashidhar, in […]

On Tuesday, April 28, I took a trip to Smugtown Mushrooms, a local Rochester mushroom factory and music venue, after I heard that the UR/Eastman band Homeless would be hosting an open jam at the venue. I didn’t know exactly what I would be getting into with Homeless or Smugtown Mushrooms–my expectations were fuzzy as […]

On Wednesday, April  22, pop songwriter and former “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi visited Eastman School of Music to offer constructive feedback to aspiring singer songwriters. DioGuardi has co-written songs with Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera and Hilary Duff, among other artists. In the seminar, six participants performed their original music for DioGuardi. Participants included Take […]