By: Tommy Walzer Over the past several years, Death Grips haven’t failed to awe me with their music. Now, before reading this review I ask you to excuse the super fan in me, as I feel I’m channeling my inner Fantano with my take on their latest work, the double album The Powers That B. […]
By: Tommy Walzer The 2015 True/False Film Festival brought masses of moviegoers to the streets of Columbia during a beautiful weekend. Walking the streets Saturday night, everyone’s spirits were high. This was especially true at Eastside Tavern, where Columbia natives Rae Fitzgerald took to the small corner stage with big hearts. The band takes its name […]
We all have one — an album that sparked a change in the way we listen to music and what we choose to listen to. Some of our music staff looked back into their history of music-listening and wrote about that one defining album that changed their perspective. Read about their experiences below: Lauren: Paper Route, Absence (2009) […]
By: Tommy Walzer The latter half of adolescence is short, sweet, bitter, and undeniably awkward. Quarterbacks take all those memories and craft them into super brisk sugar rushes of twee. There’s absolutely no holding back on their new self-titled album. There’s no time to sit and dwell on lost lovers while soft guitar plucks slowly […]
By: Tommy Walzer Deep, tender lyrics coupled with a gritty sound perfectly reflect the nominal connotation of Portland’s Muscle and Marrow. The gloomy duo of Kira Clark (guitar, vocals) and Keith McGraw (drums, samples) strip doom metal down to a strikingly beautiful but aptly morose state. Their debut album, The Human Cry, was released last August. The […]
By: Tommy Walzer Here’s our wall of vinyl at the KCOU station. Each week, one of our music staffers will listen to a random album off this wall and tell us a little about it. The band’s name was enough for me to want to know what this album was all about. That coupled with […]
By: Tommy Walzer I often find myself getting lost in the ocean of “wave” suffixes attributed to EDM these days. While today’s youth will try to ride a new wave off of anything slightly incomparable, Clark’s self-titled eighth album is stamped with a mark that is uniquely Clark. Subtly drawing from many areas of electronic […]
By: Tommy Walzer If I had to pin the main influence that their sound draws from, I’d say the operatic breakdown in “Bohemian Rhapsody,” but with ADHD. Math rock tempos, happy-go-lucky harmonies, and tender lyrics are all elements that Johnny Foreigner incorporate into their music. The foreigners from Birmingham, UK, have put out five albums […]
By: Tommy Walzer Before Mark Hoppus sang about going away to college, Milo left for college and never looked back. With that, he and the Descendents took punk rock by storm, and became iconic purveyors of the genre with their 1982 debut Milo Goes to College. The album is as angsty and cheeky as it is agressive; […]
By: Tommy Walzer “Clipping” is typically what happens when an audio amplifier is turned up to its limit. Perhaps not so ironically, that’s almost identical to the sound that characterizes Los Angeles experimental hip-hop trio clipping. Consisting of producers William Huston and Jonathan Snipes, and MC Daveed Diggs, the group blends physically harsh instrumentals with […]