Music

By
  • Tatum Fjerstad
Dec. 01, 2005
Eight musicians, aged 18 to 54, sit in a semicircle playing leather-cased bamboo flutes called atenteben. The sound of the atenteben resonates deep in the eardrums, creating eerie echoes in a variety of harmonies. The ensemble members also play xylophones, called gyil, ranging in size and hailing from northwest Ghana.
By
  • Keri Carlson
Dec. 01, 2005
With dark eyes, black hair slicked back like James Dean's and arms covered with sleeves of tattoos, he looks like a bad-boy punk rocker. But with an acoustic guitar and lyrics such as "This is where I say I've had enough / and no one should ever feel the way that I feel now / a walking open wound / a trophy display of bruises," he's too honest and emotional to be a true rebel.
By
  • Katrina Wilber
Nov. 23, 2005
The theater is silent. Then we hear a piano " the introduction to "Seasons of Love" " an anthem both on and off Broadway. But this is not a staged production of the beloved musical that shook up Broadway in the mid-1990s.
By
  • Jenna Ross
Nov. 17, 2005
The documentary begins with Hanson as we remember them " on the cover of Seventeen magazine, glowing in "Got Milk?" ads, sitting atop the Billboard charts. "MMMBop" does not play, but our brain conjures the tune anyway.
By
  • Don M. Burrows
Nov. 17, 2005
The more saturated and mass-produced our culture becomes, the more people yearn for the authentic. One remedy is coming to the Northrop Auditorium on Sunday, as the Spanish Harlem Orchestra continues to bring genuine hard-driving salsa to the world.
By
  • Katrina Wilber
Nov. 17, 2005
The last home football game was Saturday, but the season isn't over for the University Marching Band. Another week of high-stepping, keeping in time and staying in tune " all at the same time " doesn't bother the Marching Band's more than 300 members.
By
  • Frederic Hanson
Nov. 03, 2005
Dentists tell their patients that sugar may be fun, but to avoid it and stick with the nutritious stuff. Dentists might show patients small charts portraying sugar molecules as cavity-gun toting monsters.
By
  • Frederic Hanson
Oct. 27, 2005
We Are Wolves will chew on you and eventually eat you whole. A pack of snarling electronic post-punks, the Montreal trio is as menacing as its name suggests.
By
  • Keri Carlson
Oct. 27, 2005
As the number of its band members increases, Broken Social Scene's intensity decreases. For the Canadian band's third album, the group adds six members, bringing the total to 17.
By
  • Keri Carlson
Oct. 27, 2005
The premise is a good one. Take unused Wu-Tang Clan beats and pair them with some of the best rappers in underground hip-hop.
By
  • Frederic Hanson
Oct. 27, 2005
Retro is very now-tro. People, especially musicians, appropriate cultural decades left and right. Old-time folk, 1980s new wave, '60s garage stomp: In the past five years, music has rehashed the past 30.
By
  • Keri Carlson
Oct. 20, 2005
The hype man might be the most overlooked musician. That's because he is not even considered a musician, simply a sidekick designed to get the crowd pumped.
By
  • Keri Carlson
Oct. 13, 2005
On an overwhelming animal like an elephant, no one notices the small details. No one notices the eyelashes. No one except Yoni Wolf.
By
  • Frederic Hanson
Oct. 13, 2005
Those who are fans of the metric system will be fans of Metric, the Los Angeles via Brooklyn via London via Montreal quartet from Toronto. The band definitely sounds European.
By
  • Frederic Hanson
Oct. 13, 2005
If you have ever wanted to gut a live sheep and chew on its entrails, Spaghetti Western String Co.'s music might not be for you. However you slice it, the Minneapolis string quartet always falls just short of being full-blown satanists.
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