Matt and Kim bring “Grand” back to Cleveland: a conversation with Matt Johnson
Henry Bendon, Staff Reporter
September 27, 2019
In 2009, the Brooklyn-based indie-dance duo Matt and Kim exploded into the musical mainstream with their album “Grand.” The album is the band’s second record, and while they had previously experienced underground success based on the intensity of their live shows, the album’s performance—i...
My The Alchemy Tour experience
Claudia Jazowski, Staff Reporter
September 27, 2019
Cleveland doesn’t have too big of an electronic dance music (EDM) scene, but when quality artists come here to perform, the experience is incredible. On Sep. 15, The Alchemy Tour came to Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica and left Cleveland in awe. Surrounded by the people I love, listening to the music I love, ...
Kendrick Lamar has a Pulitzer and you don’t Ben Shapiro
Jackson Rudoff, Director of Web and Multimedia
September 27, 2019
Let me begin by saying I generally try my best to avoid Ben Shapiro on all social media. For years, I followed him on Twitter to just to get a sense of what was going on in right-wing intellectualism, but the casual implied racism and mountain of conservative apologism eventually drove me to muting h...
COIN comes to CWRU
Ryan Yoo, Director of Design
September 27, 2019
The indie pop band COIN will be performing this Saturday, Sep. 28 in the Tinkham Veale University Center ballroom, as part of the University Programming Board (UPB)’s UPBeats concert series. The indie pop band is composed of Chase Lawrence on lead vocals and synthesizer, Ryan Winnen on drums an...
Ric Ocasek, lead singer-songwriter in New Wave band The Cars dies
Matt Hooke, Executive Editor
September 20, 2019
Ric Ocasek, the frontman of The Cars, died at the age of 75 on Sept. 15. The Cars was a pioneering band that proved integral in pushing new wave into the mainstream. Ocasek moved to Cleveland at the age of 16 and graduated from Maple Heights High School in 1963. Ocasek met The Car’s co-founder b...
I think I like the Lumineers again
Ern Tan, Contributing Reporter
September 20, 2019
The Lumineers’ first album in 2012 was the album I never knew I needed. “Ho Hey,” the song that made them big, had the perfect amount of pleasing melodies, interesting lyrics and a belt-your-lungs-out chorus that compelled everyone on my middle school bus to sing along. Each song on “The Lumi...
Owl Fest 2019
Lewis Nelken, Contributing Reporter
September 20, 2019
Monitors sat like gargoyles, obliterating the airwaves on both sides of the raised stage, throne to the curators of the colossal sound. A flurry of chromatic lights speckled the walls like comets, creating a cosmic atmosphere that blasted off the stellar performances. The vibrations at Owl Fest on Sept. 14 were ...
After 37 years, Night of the Living Dread goes off the air
Matt Hooke, Executive Editor
September 13, 2019
For 37 years, 31 of them on WRUW, Rich Lowe has been playing obscure 45 records and gushing about reggae artists who often never left the island nation that birthed the genre. On Friday, Sept. 6, Lowe signed on for the last time at 7 p.m. for a special two-hour broadcast of “Night of the Living Dread...
Sudol suddenly surfaces
Yvonne Pan, A&E Editor
September 13, 2019
After a six-year hiatus, Alison Sudol (former stage name: A Fine Frenzy) returned onto the music scene with “Moon” on Nov. 2 of last year, under her own name. She finished out the Midwestern part of her tour at A&R Music Bar in Columbus on Monday, Sep. 9. However, it wasn’t as if she had gone off ...
Studio-A-Rama excites University Circle for the 37th time
Matt Hooke, Executive Editor
September 13, 2019
For 10 hours on Saturday, Sept. 7, the outside of Mather Memorial Building transformed from a staid lawn for study sessions into an all-day music festival as WRUW launched its annual Studio-A-Rama. If the Hessler Street Fair, with its tie-dye shirts and Grateful Dead cover bands, is as a reflection o...
