Despite its location on one of Dartmouth’s busiest corners, Rollins Chapel maintains a quiet presence: beautiful and stately, yet closed-off, like an animal curled up to hibernate for the winter. This Sunday, Rollins will come alive as the Sospiri Trio brings a vibrant program of chamber music classics, old and new, to the chapel.
Finals season is upon us, ladies and gentlemen. For me, finals always bring an interesting feeling to campus.
As I sat in a meeting at my fraternity the other night, slowly sinking into the leather couch, the house’s president posed a question that, simple and obvious though it might seem, really made me think. “Why did you join a fraternity?”
Most of the time, I find reviewing albums to be a fun, invigorating experience. I get to dive inside a record and engage with it, figure out what makes it tick.
The way I see it, there are singles bands and there are album bands. A singles band has a few great songs, and may even put out solid albums, but there are always two or three songs that clearly stand above the rest.One wonders, record label pressures and fan expectations aside, if they would even bother putting out albums at all.
Courtesy of Columbia Records When it comes to music, I like to think I'm on the cutting edge.
Listening to rap records can be exhausting. On the one hand, I often find myself scrambling to keep up, trying in vain to catch every profound line and lyrical allusion before it slips away.
Before I start this review, let me make a confession that will surely destroy any shred of hipster credibility I may have ever possessed: I really like Jack Johnson. The evolution of my music tastes has been a long process, starting with my first album purchase ('NSync's "Tearin' Up My Heart," on cassette tape, from JC Penney) and marked by a series of milestones.
In the music world, "change" can be a dirty word.
Wow. Four years of high school English, three terms writing for The Dartmouth, and that's the only word I can think of to describe "Random Access Memories," the newest album from French dance floor legends Daft Punk.