Culture

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

Matt McGorry sits down with the CT to talk about #OscarsSoWhite, feminism and “Orange is the New Black". Read More

There’s no feeling quite like hearing an audience roar with applause after a woman onstage describes the “crumbling remains of the patriarchy.” Read More

“madcatlady's” videos are insanely creepy. The characters and music in her videos are the stuff of nightmares. Read More

“Pinpoints of Perception: Portraits of 1000 Native Bees” is an installation that showcases the diversity of bees beyond our general conception of the honey-producing variety. 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

“All in the Timing,” the latest production by student theatre group The Opposite of People (TOOP), is a series of short plays that opens with three chimpanzees tasked with typing up “Hamlet,” written by David Ives. 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