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Recess interviews: Benjamin Francis Leftwich
By Sid Gopinath | November 12, 2016Singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich released his album “After the Rain” in Aug. 2016.
Singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich released his album “After the Rain” in Aug. 2016.
At universities like Duke, where STEM fields are encouraged and a liberal arts education is viewed in terms of “T-reqs” rather than as a part of being a well-rounded individual, it seems like art is looked down upon as being “lesser” or “easier.”
When filmmakers François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the French cinematic scene in the 1950s, they brought more than the French New Wave with them; they gave birth to a theory known as auteurism.
After graduating from Duke in 1992, JJ Ramberg moved to New York City in search of a job—a familiar yet precarious position for any young graduate.
Folk band "The Head and the Heart" released their third album, “Signs of Light,” in early September.
Under the name NxWorries, producer Knxwledge and the ascendant Anderson .Paak have teamed up to deliver an album that somehow falls short of the sum of its parts. “Yes Lawd!,” the debut album from the collaboration, follows the duo’s “Link Up and Suede” EP, released in Dec.
I have deep thoughts sometimes. We live in a world of wonder, and there are so many things out there that provoke the senses and stimulate the mind.
Technology is ubiquitous. It extends its tendrils into every corner of the world. It seems to make our lives better and easier, but complications inevitably arise.
When Bob Dylan takes the stage for his performance at the Durham Performing Arts Center Friday, it will be in the midst of a protracted Nobel Prize victory that has at times played out like a soap opera. The sold-out concert, which is Dylan’s second trip to Durham in two years, comes at a time in which the folk rocker, ever the provocateur, has found a way to smash even the highest echelon of convention.
Fans of the hit Canadian comedy “Trailer Park Boys” will be thrilled to learn that the three main characters from the show—Ricky (Robb Wells), Julian (John Paul Tremblay) and Bubbles (Mike Smith)—just began a new international tour, the “Still Drunk, High & Unemployed Tour.” Everyone else will be confused. The atmosphere at the trio’s show at the Durham Performing Arts Center on Friday, October 21 was certainly one of confusion.
Riley Mangan works at the Human Vaccine Institute on mother-to-child transmissions of HIV. Modestly dressed in a plain sweater and jeans, he speaks with a smart earnestness; the phrase “boyish charm” was invented for guys like him.
It’s been quite a year for folky soft-rock revivalism, with artists like Whitney and Cass McCombs aping the mellower, but not completely psychedelic, sounds of the early 70’s with strong results. But none of them manage to match what singer/songwriter and producer Natalie Mering—who performs under the name Weyes Blood—has created with her fourth album, “Front Row Seat to Earth.” Mering’s delicate arrangements move the album’s chamber pop closer to the sounds of a bygone era than most other releases manage to do, and authenticity and sincerity come from her gracefully elegiac voice. Nowhere is this more apparent than in lead single “Seven Words,” which begins with Mering almost whispering over organ and bass.
For fall break this year, I hit up the most popular place for Duke students to get away, excepting D.C.: Asheville, N.C.
Our society, despite its general refusal to talk candidly about death, romanticizes the dying artist. To see this trend in action, look no further than earlier this year, when David Bowie released his final album “Blackstar”—and promptly died two days later.
Costumes that won’t get you called basic, maybe For you:
Lady Gaga’s “Joanne” is just as new as her new look, and is less unconventional and futuristic than her earlier work.
Shelter, a music video, animation piece and original song, is a collaboration between American music artists Porter Robinson and French songwriter Madeon and the Japanese animation studio A-1 pictures.
"Video Games" by Lana Del Rey All Lana Del Rey songs are creepy.
In the Juanita Kreps and Lyndhurst Galleries at the Center for Documentary Studies, large black and white photos are suspended from the ceilings.