Music

Tickets go on sale at the Common Market in Wilson Commons next Monday — with a $10-rate for students. Read More

This past Friday’s performance featured Shawn Chen, who sang and played acoustic guitar to the tune of Ed Sheeran and Coldplay, among other popular artists. Read More

To get a feel for UR’s music scene, I spoke with four upperclassmen whose varied involvements include for-credit lessons at Eastman and underground basement shows. Read More

Ten minutes past eight, the After Hours a capella group was on stage, clad in galaxy leggings and look-alike outfits to iconic Star Wars characters as they sang the series’ famed theme song. Read More

Now it is 2016, and I've listened to Britney Spears’ “Femme Fatale” and a little bit of “Blackout” almost every day for the past month. What once repelled me like some sort of insect on a stick is now a divine thing. Read More

VIMTV, or “Velocities in Music,” is a hidden gem of a YouTube channel. The channel features two friends, Jake and Tom, who sit at a table in front of a camera and talk about albums. They haven’t been as active the past few years as they were when I discovered them in 2010. They used to mainly cover popular indie releases from this era—think Black Keys “Brothers,” “ James Blake’s self-titled album. They would review Top 40 pop albums, too, like Britney Spears’ “Femme Fatale” and Justin Bieber’s second album. Read More

“The Hanging Gardens of Beatenberg,” the first proper album from South African pop group Beatenberg, is an album that furthers this idea. Released in 2014, the album is a compilation of stories—of youth, of bittersweet happiness, of nostalgia—and is one of the most innovative pop albums released in recent memory. Read More

As expected for the group that won their quarterfinals just one year ago, they set the bar incredibly high. Read More

All I can tell you for sure is that Béla Fleck is bae and his banjo skills are dope. Read More

A lot of these songs, having been produced in the past five years, have synths and multiple keyboard parts, and NJR did justice to that. Read More