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Charlie Topel and Jay Zhang host an early morning radio show on WRUW called Calculated Chaos.

Music for Insomniacs

Anne Nickoloff, Music Reporter March 29, 2013

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...

Super Serious: Metal Machine Music

Jason Walsh, Music Critic March 29, 2013

Dusting Off a Classic Lou Reed and Metal Machine Music are a man and an album that need no introduction. Lou Reed was born in 1942 and rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s as chief songwriter for...

Observer’s Playlist of the Week: 2/29

Jason Walsh, Music Critic March 29, 2013

The Bullitts – “They Die by Dawn (ft. Yasiin Bey, Jay Electronica, and Lucy Liu)” I’ve never heard of the Bullitts, but apparently one of their members recently directed a spaghetti western short...

Local rock band Newshoes will be headlinig a show at The Foundry tonight.

New tunes with Newshoes

Anne Nickoloff, Music Reporter March 22, 2013

Tonight, local rock band Newshoes will be headlining at the Foundry at 8:00 p.m. Although Newshoes is a “rock band,” it cannot be adequately defined by just one genre. Band member Matt Deulley’s...

Reverse Shark Attack by Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin

Jason Walsh, Music Critic March 22, 2013

Given that he released three excellent albums in 2012, it’s understandable that Ty Segall’s first album of 2013 is a re-release. Originally released only on vinyl in 2009, Reverse Shark Attack finds...

Observer Playlist of the Week: 3/22

March 22, 2013

Beyonce - “Bow Down / I Been On” OH DAMN A NEW BEYONCE SONG. It’s basically a victory lap. Beyonce repeats “Bow down, bitches” a couple times and transitions to chopped and screwed vocal samples...

The Observer’s Weekly Playlist: 2/21/2013

Jason Walsh, Music Critic February 22, 2013

The Strokes - “All The Time” “All The Time” is the second single from the upcoming Strokes album Comedown Machine, set to come out Mar. 26. “All The Time” has a lot less synths and is a...

The CWRU Orchestra practices before their performance at the Church of the Covenant on Monday.

CWRU Orchestra’s spring symphonies

Anne Nickoloff, Music Reporter February 22, 2013

You may not have even known that Case Western Reserve University has a student orchestra, much less that they had a concert coming up. Symphony Orchestra director Kathleen Horvath knows this is a common...

Bigg Inner by Matthew E. White

Jason Walsh, Music Critic February 22, 2013

Album: Big Inner Artist: Matthew E. White Rating: 4 / 5 Two of my favorite experiences as a music listener are having a new album from a band I love be better than my expectations, and having an album...

The Observer’s Weekly Playlist: 2/15/13

Jason Walsh, Music Critic February 15, 2013

Justin Timberlake - “Mirrors” The newest single from Justin Timberlake's upcoming album The 20/20 Experience. An eight-minute epic of classic Justin Timberlake.   Kurt Vile – “Wakin'...

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