Music

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

Look, “theneedledrop,” a.k.a Anthony Fantano, is literally one of the greatest music reviewers of all time. Read More

Although it was their first time appearing together in Starbucks, Rycroft and Palace are no strangers to the Starbucks stage—they’ve been performing together since last year, and have done Friday Night Live shows before. Read More

The Friends of Eastman Opera hosted the fifteenth-annual Voice Competition on Feb. 12 in Kilbourn Hall. Read More

“The Life of Pablo” is not as good as “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” nor does it have the consistency of “Yeezus.” Read More

UR will host one of the ICCA Central quarterfinal rounds of the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) on Saturday, Feb. 27. Read More