A summer of love for indie rock stars
Although tours and festivals tend to dominate summer music news, this summer also brought several great albums, specifically in the indie genre.
Leah Igdalsky
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Beam releases sweet sounds
"Beard-folk." Silly as it sounds, this style of music is growing into its own subgenre of indie-pop.
Decemberists are 'Kings' of indie-pop
For most bands, the average song runs for about four minutes-beginning, building and climaxing before coming back down for a neat conclusion-while the lyrics usually deal with love or relationships.
Indie bands will release new albums in 2011
Last year was certainly a great year for music. Spin.com featured lists of the best of the past year's albums, songs, videos and concerts.
From Teaching to Tanzania
From the labs and classrooms of Brandeis to the small, rural villages in the Zanzibar region of Tanzania, Prof.
Cohen Center launches the JData project for Jewish education
On Oct. 8, the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies announced the official national launch of its JData.com project from the Brandeis House in New York, which is intended to strengthen "the Jewish education system with high-quality, publicly-available, user-driven data," according to it's website.
Students for a Just and Stable Future organizes sleep out to promote clean electricity
Last Thursday, approximately 70 students joined the members of Students for Environmental Action for its first "sleep out" event of the year, spending the night in tents on the Great Lawn in an effort to promote the Act to Create a Repower Massachusetts Emergency Task Force, a proposed legislative act that would create a task force to make Massachusetts run on 100- percent clean electricity by 2020.
Vampire Weekend plays to a crowd of college kids in Boston
Vampire Weekend's popularity in the Boston area makes sense. As the metropolitan area with the highest percentage of college students in the country, the New York-based indie-pop quartet strikes a particularly strong chord here with songs like "Campus" and "Oxford Comma," lamenting the importance of grammatical techniques in essay writing.
Indie rock highlights Fall Concert Preview
The air is beginning to chill, finally losing that feeling of the surface of the sun or the underside of hell.
Boston’s West End: The spirit of a neighborhood destroyed
Jewish students are not a monolith. Brandeis must stop treating us like one.
Doxxing has no place at Brandeis
A local Waltham organization works to uphold democracy
Paige Bueckers: A Special Talent