Chozen Few Band Opens Wade Oval Wednesday Festivities
Anne Nickoloff, Music Reporter
June 16, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Music, This Week
Sprinkling rain came and went in Cleveland this past Wednesday, ready at any moment to break out into the storm that kept many Ohioans from leaving the comforts the indoors. But Chozen Few Band wasn’t discouraged; they blew through the first Wade Oval Wednesday (WOW) of the summer, and left those... Read more »
Conserve the Rock… and Roll
Anne Nickoloff, Music Reporter
May 24, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Music
It is no secret that land conservationists know their rocks. However, on June 7, those who also rock out will take the stage at the Beachland Ballroom, located at 15711 Waterloo Road, for the annual Conservation Rocks! concert. This year is the fourth year since the concert's formation, and the event... Read more »
Best albums to date and to come
Jason Walsh, Music Critic
April 26, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Music
In alphabetical order, here are some of the best and biggest albums of the year. With school ending and summer coming up, when are you going to get a better chance to explore new music? The Year to Come There’s a lot of 2013 left, and here are some of the biggest, most anticipated albums... Read more »
Observer’s playlist of the week: April 26, 2013
Jason Walsh, Music Critic
April 26, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Music
Azealia Banks - “Yung Rapunxel” If you somehow haven’t heard Azealia Banks’s “212” by now, you should get on board. It was one of the best songs of last year, and “Yung Rapunxel” is her latest effort, which comes with a super-trippy video. Hopefully hip-hop can get over its only-one-female-MC-at-a-time... Read more »
Holi brings color to CWRU
Anne Nickoloff, Music Reporter
April 19, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Music
What could possibly be better than getting a handful of chalk thrown at you? On any other day, it might not be so appreciated, but for Holi, it is just what people expect. Tomorrow, Case Western Reserve University’s undergraduate Indian Students Association (uISA) is hosting an event that uISA... Read more »
Autre Ne Veut by Anxiety
Jason Walsh, Music Critic
April 19, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Music
Autre Ne Veut, a.k.a. Arthur Ashin, is part of a current wave of musicians clearly influenced by pop and R&B and who want to make music that sounds like pop and R&B without quite being pop and R&B. His closest contemporary (and sometimes collaborator) is How To Dress Well, but projects like... Read more »
Cyclops Reap by White Fence
Jason Walsh, Music Critic
April 12, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Music
White Fence, the one-man band project of Tim Presley, is part of a wave of 1960s and 1970s revivalists. Fellow San Franciscan and sometimes collaborator Ty Segall has probably become the biggest export of this scene, but bands like White Fence and Thee Oh Sees have been cranking out just as much good... Read more »
Diverse lineup at Beachland Ballroom
Anne Nickoloff, Music Reporter
April 12, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Music
On Tuesday, April 16, the Beachland Ballroom will welcome The Black Angels, Elephant Stone, and Allah-Las for an evening of psychedelic tunes. These three bands present music that breaks genre barriers with smooth, faraway, and culture-influenced music. To point out how cohesive the three groups are... Read more »
Dhamakapella hosts spring invitational
Annie Nickoloff, Music Reporter
April 5, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Music
Case Western Reserve University’s South Asian a capella group, Dhamakapella, will be hosting their first ever Spring Invitational tomorrow, Apr. 6. The concert is historic for the group. “It’s the biggest event I think Dhamakapella’s ever had,” said freshman member Andrew Santin. Held... Read more »
Music for Insomniacs
Annie Nickoloff, Music Reporter
March 29, 2013
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Music
The campus is dead at 3:45 a.m., Sunday morning. Only an occasional rustle or distant bus screech breaks the eerie, frigid silence. Walking across campus is not only unnatural, but also frightening. Inside the WRUW-FM 91.1 Cleveland studios, however, the hosts of Calculated Chaos are bustling through... Read more »