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Recess Interviews: Jordan Lee
By Lauren Feilich | January 30, 2014"Maybe she’ll be our undoing."
"Maybe she’ll be our undoing."
Listening to “Trouble” reminded me of watching “Girls.”
While many of the band’s key elements are still present from early recordings, the album seems obsessed with style when it should have focused more on substance.
Everything slows down, leaving the first half’s anthemic tone and punching beats behind in favor of gentler melodies and pensive lyrics.
This weekend, Duke Performances will present “Love’s Infrastucture,” a show that combines local indie pop music, intense puppet work and dynamic live video feeds to create an innovative and unique...
The record draws upon influences like Phil Spector and classic Motown to create a pleasing throwback to the 1960s.
What a wonderful album to release during these frigid depths of winter.
The score is sometimes uncertain, sometimes frenzied, sometimes spine-chilling and sometimes glorious.
“Britney Jean” isn't particularly innovative, but it shouldn’t have to be.
"The Emerson String Quartet is probably the most important American string quartet of the last quarter century."
"Divas! Queens! We don't need no man! Salute!"
"There is something in the music that reaches somebody’s soul or some part of somebody’s soul."
It’s deliberately fashioned to keep us on edge, and once again, Bird pulls at us, affecting a plaintive beauty as he pulls his bow.
"Surrender to the Fantasy" showcases Magik Markers’s trip into psychedelia.
Lady Gaga should have stopped making music after "The Fame Monster.'
The concert aims to reflect the station’s combined community and student presence.
The concert aims to reflect the station’s combined community and student presence.
M.I.A. dodges the trope of slapping mellow rap beats onto sad memories by making this cut about owning—as opposed to disavowing—her rise to success.
I would sit for hours, deep into my Greek literature, conspicuously bobbing my chin to the bass of 'Sweet Jane.'
"You kind of lose the magic when you have to constantly translate your ideas with collaborations."