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Music Review: TV en Français
By Eliza Strong | March 6, 2014In many ways, “TV en Français” is textbook alt-rock, which is probably also why it’s so easy to get into.
In many ways, “TV en Français” is textbook alt-rock, which is probably also why it’s so easy to get into.
The most exciting award show of the year is this Sunday, February 27. Five Recess staff members weigh in with their predictions on how the night will go down.
The Planetary Picks.
"When you enter the theater, you’re traveling at one second per second. In other words, it doesn’t cost any money."
With its string of sluggish and loosely assembled country ballads, this record ushers Beck’s steady track of strong releases to a screeching halt.
“St. Vincent” is a stone-cold masterpiece and the best album of the year thus far.
The Raleigh-Durham area is home to more than a dozen small-press fiction magazines. We dug into three of them.
Only a small minority of Duke students will graduate to pursue art as their primary vocation. David Mayer is one of them.
While it is not progressive in any way, the album's trip to the disco is an exciting new direction for the band.
It’s obvious his music gives him peace from past troubles, and he just wants to share that with others.
“The King’s Singers are entertaining, and they straddle that world between contemporary a cappella music and classical music."
“The King’s Singers are entertaining, and they straddle that world between contemporary a cappella music and classical music."
Angel Olsen is at once fiery and delicate, gentle and unapologetic.
While it is not progressive in any way, the album's trip to the disco is an exciting new direction for the band.
It’s obvious his music gives him peace from past troubles, and he just wants to share that with others.
It’s obvious his music gives him peace from past troubles, and he just wants to share that with others.
The broadening spectrum of guy-girl electronic duos has infiltrated every trip hop-friendly sound studio from Los Angeles to New York.
It turns out I had chosen the best place to be trapped in during a tornado: a beautiful used bookstore. With a basement.
For all who mastered their fates and captained their souls to Shooters: may that spirit never die.
The Ice-Picks.