After much anticipation, singer-songwriter Jack Johnson released his new album, “All the Light Above It Too,” last Friday, Sept. 8, his first album since 2013.
Neil Young is no stranger to unreleased albums, with apocryphal knowledge of would-have-been classics like “Homegrown” and “Chrome Dreams” lurking in the back of fans’ minds and scores of demos and recordings languishing in Young’s archives.
You’ve got to hand it to Mutemath; they stick to their guns. The New Orleans alternative rock band has maintained a strong but niche fanbase for over ten years, and yet they have never once made an attempt to be anything other than themselves.
Stacks of 16mm film canisters—each painstakingly labeled with duct tape and Sharpie—tower over a pair of enormous iMac monitors and a man who seems acutely aware of the comical contrast in technologies.
Before Thelonious Monk revolutionized American music alongside players with names like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, before he raised eyebrows, and lit up souls, by playing in the cracks and experimenting with dissonance, he was just a kid from Rocky Mount, N.C.
In 2012, the film “Beasts of the Southern Wild” earned recognition at the infamous Sundance and Cannes film festivals in addition to garnering four Oscar nominations, bestowing “universal acclaim” upon director Behn Zeitlin from viewers and critics alike— the oft-overlooked score that smoothly transitions the audience from feelings of tears to triumph was co-produced by Zeitlin himself.
A young woman wreathed in a laurel crown gazes at you from across the room. She is framed in golden opulence and surrounded by an expanse of blue. Her name is Poesia.
The Theater Studies department is hard at work on their production of “Vinegar Tom,” a 1976 play by feminist playwright Caryl Churchill, which will open at Sheafer Lab Theater Thursday, Nov. 9, and run through Sunday, Nov. 19.
“It’s an honest story about a relationship, and I think of it as a sociological study… It really is about the influence of culture,” author Nancy Poling said of her newest book, “Before It Was Legal: A Black-White Marriage (1945-1987).”
Barely two weeks after LCD Soundsystem released their first song in more than five years, “Christmas Will Break Your Heart,” David Bowie, the idol of LCD mastermind and sole consistent member James Murphy, died.
The St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig has been performing for 805 years. Originally part of St. Thomas Monastery, the Choir grew from a musical school that trained boys for religious singing at church services to an internationally famous musical group.
The Retro Film Series continues at the Carolina Theatre in downtown Durham from July to December. The series will celebrate its 20th birthday next year and includes RetroFantasma, RetroClassics, RetroTreasures and RetroAmore—four sections in which anyone in their mid-30s to early-40s will find the fancy of his or her youth.
This fall the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh will feature five new free exhibitions, two of which have already opened.
I believe it was the late, great William Shakespeare who once said, “For never was a story of more woe than that of the subpar college dancer.” Between Shooters, a canceled Lil Jon concert and a cappella shows, somehow the situation always arises where college students have to dance.
With syllabus week long gone, the real first week of school is now half-way over. The part of me that dreads actually putting effort into classes has taken over and paralyzed my brain—a sensation best described as that spinning, rainbow wheel that shows up when a Mac momentarily freezes, buffering right inside my head.
Three-fourths of the way into “The Prince of Los Cocuyos,” I put it down, feeling like it wasn’t leading anywhere. The memoir, chosen as the recommended reading for the Class of 2021 Common Experience, follows the childhood of poet and author Richard Blanco as he navigates his place in his household and city.
Along with “The Great Gatsby,” “Hamlet” and “Fahrenheit 451,” Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” is a nearly inescapable element of most high school English curricula. The play, originally produced in 1944, centers around the story of Laura, a sickly and shy daughter obsessed with her collection of glass animals, whose mother Amanda seeks to find her a “gentleman caller” with the help of Tom, Laura’s brother.
When the Duke University Union announced last week that this year’s Heatwave concert will be headlined by rapper Sage the Gemini, I was miffed.
Several artists throughout history have pushed to the frontier of musical innovation by inventing new genres, inspiring scores of musicians to emulate their sounds. Philadelphia alternative rock band The War on Drugs is not one of those artists, and not only do they know it, but they embrace it.
This summer brought a number of big album releases that Recess didn't get to cover, with new albums from Lana Del Rey and Arcade Fire, among others. In particular, the last month brought in a flurry of records from established acts and up-and-comers alike. Here's a sampling of what came out in August.
