Being In The Strokes

The Album starts off with a song of the same name, “What’s Going On”, the most popular

With My Turn (2009) being the last commercial release, the promise of new music and fans curiosity of what a new album would bring, Tucker mentioned where she is at in the process of recording a new album. “Right now I am recording; we have about 10 songs complete. Finding out which direction I want to take new music, who I want to release the music with, and finalizing the process. Being on the road, it kind of takes a back seat. It is

The results of using the constructs of authenticity to evaluate music are therefore shown to be superfluous due to its foundations built upon opinions. Authenticity does not allow for a overall sound level of analysis as it relies upon a preconceived notion of what is authentic. These preconceived notions were more than likely criticised within their begins, thus leading to an endless evolution of authenticity. The quest for a composition to be utter authentic is an ongoing, impossible feat which will not be accomplished if the authenticity of music is based upon opinions. Therefore, Little Mix's cover of the Cameo song, Word Up demonstrates that ramifications that criticisms of authenticity. This is more clearly evident through analysing the

There's enough of anger, threats, and hate to be spread around to all. There's even some decent wordplay scattered about. Nearing the end, track #11 "Ignant" is worthy of comparison to some of Eminem's early work with equal levels of aggression, sexual innuendos, and most importantly the onomatopoeia's. Followed by track "Represent", this is the only track to have other artists featured; these artists include Jae Harmony, Nobe, and Crowda. It surely wouldn't have hurt to have a small handful of other artists on other songs to bring more to the table either. At least with varying producers, and diversified samples, there's enough variation to never become too monotonous at any point.

The dynamics of the album helped to popularize it and establish Parton’s musical abilities. The album includes 14 different tracks spanning within less then 30 minutes. The album contains a variety of

Piano trills are just a small part of the great work developed by Chadsey, who cleverly infuses a sort of spirituality in the harmonic sequences in order to exalt and stun. Vocals take over the second section, uttering Bly’s words - ‘I would rather go in dead and successful than alive and behind time’. This melody is intermittently repeated by the organist behind Fleenor’s passionate solo. For the triumphant finale, the first section is retrieved and intensified by fluttering horn stamps and decisive percussion maneuvers.

Using expansion/contraction techniques, they played tunes from their debut album, released this year on Clean Feed Records, including Swell’s “Composite #10” and Ullmann’s “Variations on a Master Plan”, parts 2 and 3.

Theirs consists of ten visionary renditions of non-originals, including standards (“East of the Sun”, “The Peacocks”), post-bop sensations (Wayne Shorter’s “Dance Cadaverous”, Herbie Nichols’s “House Party Starting”, Stanley Cowell’s “Effi”), hard-bop classics (Benny Golson’s “Stablemates”), avant-garde numbers (Misha Mengelberg’s “Weer is een dag voorbij”), and even Brazilian (Jacob do Bandolim’s “Benzinho”) and Argentinean (Julio De Caro’s “Buen Amigo”) pieces.

As the 80 bus lurches forward marking the 40-minute journey to school I plug-in my headphones and Frank Ocean’s “Pilot Jones” floods into my brain. I wonder if Frank Ocean will ever release a second album.

As a reviewer it’s becoming increasingly difficult to review albums within the realm of emo or indie punk or whatever you want to call the genre. In fact, every time I review a band that I feel like deserves some attention within the muddied genre, it’s hard as hell to actually say what sets them apart from everyone else. Because of this, I constantly feel like I am repeating myself, falling into an endless cycle of saying the album “jams” or how it “makes you feel”. Unfortunately, with Remo Drive’s [i]Greatest Hits[/i] many of the same things can be applied to the three piece’s first full length effort. However, there is something there that truly makes these guys special, and I guess I’ll attempt to articulate why.

For as long as anyone can remember music has always been a personal outlet for people to express their emotions. Music has provided a source of entertainment for people. Music also has had a powerful effect on the emotional, social, intellectual, and physical aspects of a person. Music in the early 2000’s has several powerful effects linked to it; Music in the early 2000’s has allowed emotions of happiness, empowerment and sadness to arise. In the early 2000’s, music such as Californication, Jesus Walks, and Independent Woman is very important to this decade.

The song went live on New Order’s YouTube Channel earlier this week, with the video boasting nothing more than modern, minimalist, album art – which we can now assume will be a staple of the new album. Despite their ten year hiatus, “Restless” proves that New Order is ready to come back onto the stage.

Most people have felt that feeling they just do not belong where they are, or are not good enough for something. These are the feelings that went through Tom Yorke, the singer and songwriter of British band Radiohead, while writing one of the bands biggest hits, “Creep”. These feeling and emotions are recreated and brought to a new level when covered by Postmodern Jukebox ft. Haley Reinhart. Postmodern Jukebox is a popular YouTube channel that rose to fame by taking popular songs and putting their own vintage twist to them. To change Radiohead's “Creep”, they replaced all the instruments with a jazz selection, relaxed the groove to calm the song, and gave the vocalist part to a guest singer capable of pulling off a vintage sound. New aspects

The album opens with Exordium, the first of five spoken word tracks on the disc. This track has Andy’s deep, raspy voice speaking about ‘the kingdom of God’ and how it can be found everywhere. Although this first track is 25 seconds of too much religion for me it flows

The drastic difference between the three sections feels rushed and incomplete - certainly something that Guided by Voices is familiar with, but the strength of their greatest albums allows these incomplete tracks to hide behind the bigger songs. The stretch of songs between "A Good Flying Bird" and "Closer You Are" on Alien Lanes, their greatest album, showcases their abilities to sequence their throwaway tracks in a manner that enhances the songs as much as