When I saw The Faint play the Black Cat in Washington, D.C. two years ago, I think I wet myself. As the opening notes of "The Conductor" pierced through the club from the pitch-black stage, frontman Todd Baechle's lurched frame slowly appeared above his keyboard, pausing for half-a-second.
The Sideman's Solo Project may be one of the more interesting rock and roll phenomena. In distinguishing oneself from a former band, an artist's deviations will often reveal unexpected aspects of personality never allowed to surface previously.
Shortly after her 2001 release of Vespertine, the Icelandic pixie and singer Bjork cryptically said she was still a decade away from creating accurately the music in her head.
The local pop/rock band Sonic 761 played on the Great Lawn Tuesday night, laying down a lengthy set of covers and providing an enjoyable-yet not entirely memorable-background to "Traffic Jams!" a free cookout hosted by the Orientation leaders, and open to all students.
Following the dissolution of this summer's Lollapalooza tour due to poor ticket sales, it seemed that the perceived resurgence in the current underground and 1980s college rock scenes had been a sham.
The Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra played to a packed Springold Theater on Sunday, May 2. They ambitiously and impressively performed Beethoven's Symphony No.
The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance capped off a year of fundraising Thursday with a show at Cholmondeley's featuring artists Kate Schutt and Sylvie Lewis.
"Nine times out of ten our hearts just get dissolved," observes Modest Mouse frontman Isaac Brock in "Bukowski," from their new album, Good News for People who Love Bad News.
John Lennon may have once inadvertently described Dan Bejar's former disposition with surprising accuracy in "Yer Blues," depressingly singing, "But I am of the universe/And you know what it's worth." In the title-track from his own Your Blues, it seems that Bejar is finally feeling more optimistic, repeating, "Lord knows I've been trying..." amid an echoing piano and resonant horns.Perhaps the most exciting and original player in the current Canadian indie rock explosion, Dan Bejar is the frontman and only permanent member of Vancouver, British Columbia's Destroyer, as well as a principal in the popular super-group The New Pornographers (along with Zumpano's Carl Newman and alt-country songstress Neko Case). Often compared to early David Bowie, Destroyer combines imaginative pop/rock and folk songwriting with a literary and often nonsensical lyrical style, best exemplified by 2001's fantastic Streethawk: A Desire.Like 2002's This Night, 2004's Your Blues is a challenging listen.
Songs, poems and tales of revolution characterized Friday evening at Cholmondeley's, when American singer-songwriter David Rovics and British comedic poet and musician Attila the Stockbroker, hosted by the Radical Student Alliance, played for a small, yet energetic crowd.A staple of the English punk rock scene since 1979, Attila the Stockbroker opened the evening with a set of his unique poems, beginning with "My Poetic License." It was an expletive-heavy mission statement outlining his distinctive combination of dizzying raps and punk aesthetics.
Boston’s West End: The spirit of a neighborhood destroyed
Jewish students are not a monolith. Brandeis must stop treating us like one.
A local Waltham organization works to uphold democracy
Paige Bueckers: A Special Talent
Doxxing has no place at Brandeis