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The People's Keys - Bright Eyes
By Kevin Lincoln | February 17, 2011Conor Oberst has fallen victim to expectations.
Conor Oberst has fallen victim to expectations.
Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America soars under the able direction of Brendon Fox.
If I could just somehow transcribe, convey in words, the guitar riffs and solo from “Ball and Biscuit,” then I would.
I’m 21 years old, a senior with nothing to do, so I go to bars.
When dance instructor Andrea Woods Valdes moved from New York City to Durham, and took on the role of a professor at Duke in addition to her art, she knew it would take some adjusting.
London producer James Blake’s self-titled debut album has relegated everything else in my music library to second-class status for the past month, but for an album I’ve listened to 60 times it...
A snapshot of a pastor holding his Bible in front of a Baptist church, a close-up of a medicine man from the Lakota tribe and a formal portrait of Dolly Parton—Sparkle & Twang: An American Musical...
Perhaps all Will Weisenfeld needed was a new moniker.
Cut Copy’s dazzling sophomore LP, In Ghost Colours, performed an impressive tightrope act—capturing all the euphoria and all the irresistible kinetic energy of new-wave dance rock without any of...
Swag is a delicate thing. In hip-hop, rappers cultivate it with care and persistence, as though they were selling a product—shill enough, and somebody will buy in.
Duke basketball in Cameron Indoor: It’s what every sports-conscious Duke student loves.
Rush can be a stressful time. No one wants to end up like that kid who didn’t get a bid to Slytherin and ended up going Ravenclaw, then couldn’t kick his nasty smokeless tobacco-and-black tar...
I frequently win “Never Have I Ever.” Or lose, depending on one’s interpretation of the game’s point.
In the battle of Deerhoof vs. Evil, their 11th studio album, the art-rock quartet again challenges pop conventions with convincing results. Wrought with signature dark tones, layered guitars and...
