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(10/09/06 9:00am)
Earlier this year, Cash released "Black Cadillac" to critical acclaim. The album is an outpouring of emotion and confession revolving around the deaths of Johnny, his first wife and her mother Vivian Liberto Cash Distin, and her stepmother June Carter in the short span of two years, from 2003 to 2005. The genres jump around, but the themes of love, family, death and memory stay constant and on the surface. As tragic as its backstory is, the album remains as strong as Cash, never succumbing to the maudlin or morbid. Her concert reflected this combination of heartbreak and survival, mixing upbeat classics with these most recent releases.
(10/05/06 9:00am)
For fans of the Killers that may be reading this with dismay and harboring some skepticism about my musical taste: know that I like "Mr. Brightside," "Smile Like You Mean It," "Somebody Told Me," et al. as much as the next person. I wish there was a song that approached any of the singles from "Hot Fuss" in terms of style, content or even just in likeability. The closest that "Sam's Town" gets to that level is in that already-released single, "When You Were Young." With so many bands vying for airspace, the Killers are not established or unique enough to rest on the laurels of one album and coast with the next. "Sam's Town" will not satisfy listeners or remain relevant for long, and it does not deserve to.
(09/27/06 9:00am)
No matter the price of fuel or the level of terror, designers and tastemakers are eternally jetsetting off to the next catwalk, eternally irrelevant in their own stylish way. From Sept. 18 to 22, Fashion Week moved to London where over 50 designers sent models traipsing through tents at the National History Museum. Maybe the British Fashion Council, which owns and organizes the event, felt this added some semblance of gravitas to weigh down artistic flourishes in silk and gauze. With this, my second article focusing on the spring 2007 ready-to-wear collections this month, I feel a little more frivolous than usual. Hence the slight cynicism and my recent penchant to tote around thick, pretentiously-titled tomes. But back to fashion.
(09/20/06 9:00am)
For the Spring 2007 Olympus Fashion Week, both the glitterati and the paparazzi descended onto Manhattan from September 8 to 15, as designers sent models down the runway in a variety of looks that ranged from beautifully wearable to painfully out-there. Thanks to magazines, the internet, and "Project Runway," fashion is ostensibly more accessible to the public outside the Bryant Park Tents. Here are some highlights.
(05/22/06 9:00am)
Of course, as we are living in the Internet age, the album was actually leaked some time before that. Thanks to MP3s, some have begun to bemoan the death of the album as we know it, just as they did with the advent of CDs decades ago. And if "Stadium Arcadium" is any indication of where today's musicians are headed, mourners might be more justified in their lamentations.
(05/09/06 9:00am)
As Spring term winds down, the arts community at Dartmouth is only starting up, with a host of performances scheduled for the remaining weeks. The musical options are varied, but consistently of high quality, offering students a break from tired frat basement playlists and top-40 radio hits.
(05/08/06 9:00am)
In a series of articles over the past few weeks, The Dartmouth has shown how demanding senior theses in the arts can be. For majors doing theses in the visual arts, the Hop and Clement become the South campus version of Baker-Berry Library, as these students can be found toiling in these studios at any given hour, day or night. Five senior studio art majors are putting the finishing touches on their theses this term: Hannah Beliakov '06, Jennifer French '06, Kiku Langford '06, Lauren Ruth '06 and Michael Salter '06.
(05/03/06 9:00am)
So I spoke with singer and guitarist Adam Gardner about the first annual Campus Consciousness tour -- what it is about, why it is so important, and what you can do to help. The Campus Consciousness tour teams Guster with the non-profit organization Reverb to not only draw attention to environmental issues and community service but to make active contributions to those causes.
(04/25/06 9:00am)
Editor's note: This article is the second of a four-part series examining senior theses and culminating experiences in the arts.
(04/17/06 9:00am)
The newly released "Ringleader of the Tormentors" is even better.
(04/03/06 9:00am)
Rock bands navigating the dangerous sea of fickle critics and fans are most vulnerable, it seems, in the follow-up albums, where they now have to make good on early promise and signs of potential.
(03/06/06 11:00am)
If you thought you would never see Lone Pine Tavern listed as a hot venue on mtv.com, find a new benchmark of impossibility. Tonight, Friday Night Rock will temporarily become Monday Night Rock in order to introduce the Dartmouth campus to the neo-psychedelic indie pop group Of Montreal, a band that has generated so much buzz over the years that admission to the show might get more competitive than admission to college. Doors open at 9 p.m., and the FNR staff stresses Lone Pine's limited capacity and its "first come, first served" policy. Translation: start lining up early to see the best live musical performance of the term.
(02/20/06 11:00am)
Glaswegian septet Belle & Sebastian brings spring a little early to listening ears at Dartmouth (and a little more permanently than those apocalyptically warm days last week). The band, which is usually considered precious and bookish, flexes its muscles with its newest release, "The Life Pursuit," out on Matador Records this month. Beat-oriented and focused, the sound is more "pop" than "twee" -- the label applied, often pejoratively, to the band -- and for those clinging to the hope that here lies our generation's version of The Smiths, this album will be slightly disappointing. But for those looking for an album whose tracks glimmer with energy and wit as well as musical sophistication, "The Life Pursuit" will be on repeat for a long, long time.
(02/14/06 11:00am)
On the evening of Nov. 14, 1959, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock murdered four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kan. What followed was a massive investigation, a long and drawn-out trial, two executions and six years of research by a successful fiction author who wanted to create a new style of writing. From these events, "In Cold Blood" -- Capote's incarnation of the nonfiction crime thriller -- was born. Bennett Miller's first feature film, "Capote," follows the production of the book, and the character-driven classic Faustian case of destructive genius behind it.
(02/02/06 11:00am)
Andrew Sandoval, the general manager of FNR, categorizes Calla as "ghost rock...very much a warm sound, breathy vocals, hard rocking, with lots of ambient noise and reverb." Others have compared them to bands like Interpol (for whom they have opened), The Walkmen, Low and Explosions in the Sky.
(01/18/06 11:00am)
From the beginning, "Munich" made me more than a little uncomfortable, but, for the sake of professionalism and my editors, I decided to stay. Good thing, too, because in doing so I got to see Steven Spielberg at the height of his abilities as a director, an obscure and seemingly random cast that performs beautifully and a film that is provoking without completely crushing you in too much self-righteous rhetoric.
(01/11/06 11:00am)
So far, two shows are planned for next month, and a final performance is in the works for March. On Feb. 3, the New York-based band Calla will brave Hanover's frigid temperatures to perform in Fuel Rocket Club. Later in the month, on Feb. 25, The Juan Maclean will take over the same venue. Indie group Of Montreal is tentatively scheduled to make its Dartmouth debut on March 6 with opening band The Ms. This eclectic mix of bands will make FNR's showcase this winter "very different from last term which seemed to have a singer-songwriter theme," according to general manager Andrew Sandoval '06.
(11/22/05 11:00am)
Up-and-coming musicians, unimaginable successes and catastrophic falls, critically lauded biopics which chronicle these successes and falls -- all are a dime a dozen in the entertainment world. Early on in the new film about Johnny Cash, "Walk the Line," Sam Phillips (Dallas Roberts), founder of Sun Records, interrupts Cash's audition when Cash begins to play a tired gospel song that was airing on the radio in 1955. After Phillips' interjection, Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) breaks into his signature sound, in the same manner as every other musician finding his or her own unique sound in every other movie of this sort.
(10/20/05 9:00am)
Have you ever found yourself quickly switching radio channels or clicking through a playlist, barely hearing one song before tiring of it and switching to another? Well, if that's the equivalent of "song ADD," then Franz Ferdinand's second album, "You Could Have It So Much Better" is the closest thing to aural Ritalin that you can find.
(10/12/05 9:00am)
The newest members of the Dartmouth women's tennis team made a strong showing at the third annual College Women's Tennis Invitational at the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y,, this weekend. In singles, freshmen twins Danielle and Jen Murray reached C flight quarterfinals and D flight semifinals, respectively.