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(01/08/14 10:06pm)
Despite its location on one of Dartmouth’s busiest corners, Rollins Chapel maintains a quiet presence: beautiful and stately, yet closed-off, like an animal curled up to hibernate for the winter. This Sunday, Rollins will come alive as the Sospiri Trio brings a vibrant program of chamber music classics, old and new, to the chapel.
(11/17/13 9:24pm)
Finals season is upon us, ladies and gentlemen. For me, finals always bring an interesting feeling to campus. The library grows fuller as the frat basements start to empty. The conversations grow shorter, the under-eye bags grow darker and meals with friends become FoCo takeout eaten hurriedly over a textbook in the 1902 Room. In the fall especially, the weather starts to reflect the general mood of campus, the days growing shorter, darker and colder as the finals grind begins to chip away at our collective sanity. The gray haze that settles over the deserted Green as harried students scuttle from group project meetings to review sessions to office hours casts an unsettling, almost morbid shadow. They may only be tests and papers and presentations, but sometimes it starts to feel like we’re preparing for an apocalypse.
(11/07/13 10:06pm)
As I sat in a meeting at my fraternity the other night, slowly sinking into the leather couch, the house’s president posed a question that, simple and obvious though it might seem, really made me think. “Why did you join a fraternity?”
(10/30/13 11:00am)
Most of the time, I find reviewing albums to be a fun, invigorating experience. I get to dive inside a record and engage with it, figure out what makes it tick. Every song gets run through on repeat while I try to capture my experience of the music and translate it into words, all in an attempt to convince you, the reader, to pick up the album and embark on a similar journey. In the nerdiest of ways, it’s absolutely exhilarating.
(10/14/13 2:00am)
The way I see it, there are singles bands and there are album bands. A singles band has a few great songs, and may even put out solid albums, but there are always two or three songs that clearly stand above the rest.One wonders, record label pressures and fan expectations aside, if they would even bother putting out albums at all. An album band, on the other hand, might make great music, but they're not the first band you go to when you're making that sweet new playlist.
(10/10/13 2:00am)
But when it comes to HAIM, I have to admit that I'm completely behind the times.
(10/01/13 2:00am)
Listening to rap records can be exhausting. On the one hand, I often find myself scrambling to keep up, trying in vain to catch every profound line and lyrical allusion before it slips away. I often listen with a printout of the lyrics in my hand, marveling at the dense Gordian knot of cadences, slang and poetic devices that underpin many great rappers' rhymes. And on the other hand, I often tend to overanalyze, diving deep into thematic concepts, life stories and critical reactions, searching for the genius inside every album, every track and every line. This over-analysis springs from a desire to prove to friends, parents and doubting readers that, beneath a tradition of vapid radio fodder that runs from MC Hammer all the way to Hurricane Chris, rap music is one of the truest, most vital art forms we have left.
(09/25/13 2:00am)
Before I start this review, let me make a confession that will surely destroy any shred of hipster credibility I may have ever possessed: I really like Jack Johnson.
(09/17/13 2:00am)
Obviously, no one gave the Arctic Monkeys this message. With each of their first four albums, they appeared to have thrown out the playbook and tried to fit their talents into a new and interesting mold. They've been snotty teenage punks, world-wise social critics, desert mystics and crooning pop stars. True to form, "AM," released Sept. 6, sees the Monkeys trying on a new hat. Or, more accurately, a new jacket. A black leather one, to be specific.
(05/29/13 2:00am)
Four years of high school English, three terms writing for The Dartmouth, and that's the only word I can think of to describe "Random Access Memories," the newest album from French dance floor legends Daft Punk. Wow.
(05/14/13 2:00am)
The music review business ain't easy, people. Between dodging deadlines, leaning on half-baked literary devices and searching for new ways stretch "This is pretty decent" into an 800-word review, it can be a real grind sometimes. But every so often, an album comes along that blows all of that out of the water. Vampire Weekend's "Modern Vampires of the City" is one of those.
(05/01/13 2:00am)
This past week has been a roller coaster of emotion, folks. Not because of the many-sided agitation that engulfed campus last week, nor because of the profound reflection and social dialogue that followed. No, indeed, I was far too frazzled by "Bankrupt!", the new album from French synth-pop sensations Phoenix, to notice any of that. Over the course of our week together I experienced blinding hate, overwhelming love, crippling ambivalence and four of the five stages of grief, and now I'm here, ready to tell you: this is a pretty solid album. You should check it out.
(04/16/13 2:00am)
Boy hears band. Boy loves band. Boy buys albums. Band breaks up; boy is sad. Band reunites; boy is happy. Band takes left turn. Boy is furious. Boy whines about band's new fascination with '80s new wave. So the story goes.
(03/25/13 3:00am)
What's the first album you ever bought, reader? I'm not talking about the Mozart for Developing Fetuses DVD your parents received as a baby shower present; I mean the first album you picked out yourself and convinced your parents you would literally die if you didn't have it. I still remember it like it was yesterday, sitting there in the JC Penney bag on top of whatever weird matching clothes my parents were still dressing my brother and me in at that point, gleaming in all its cassette tape glory: "*NSYNC."
(03/05/13 4:00am)
As a busy student, it can be hard to keep up with the world outside the Dartmouth bubble. On most days, scanning the front page of The Dartmouth and flipping through the Yahoo News ticker are the closest I come to remaining informed. It would be fair to say that my cultural knowledge is far from up-to-date.
(02/18/13 4:00am)
It's been a quiet winter in the music world. Perhaps the months after Christmas are the music industry's dog days of summer, those brutal days in July and August when all interesting sports have finished their seasons and the only sport on TV is regular season baseball.
(02/04/13 4:00am)
I know you, Dartmouth student. I know you better than you could possibly imagine.
(01/24/13 4:00am)
Tonight, Spaulding Auditorium will come alive with the sounds of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
(01/15/13 4:00am)
The concert, co-sponsored by the Hopkins Center's outreach program, will be held in Sarner Underground. Each group will play a set, and then the performers will take the stage to present a collaborative piece.
(11/06/12 4:00am)
The one-act play was written in 1970 during a dark period in Williams' life, in which his lover had died and his favor with critics had long since evaporated. Williams fell into a pattern of heavy substance abuse that would eventually lead to his death in 1983. "I Never Get Dressed Till After Dark on Sundays," published posthumously and performed for the first time in 2011, is undoubtedly one of Williams' minor works, but a number of factors made it an appealing choice for Rodriguez's directorial debut, he said.