Nassau Weekly

Music

  • Sounding Off: John Bischoff’s Music is Just Noise

    Sounding Off: John Bischoff’s Music is Just Noise

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    A writer searches for meaning in John Bischoff and James Fei’s recent sound performance.

  • Jackson Browne

    Jackson Browne

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    I first got into Jackson Browne in that awkward phase of adolescence where nothing seems to really make sense and you’re caught between the comforts of youth and promise of adulthood.

  • Quack Music

    Quack Music

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    I, like Kanye West, take great pleasure in talking about Kanye West. The brilliantly talented, ubiquitous egomaniac is a dual force of unbelievable music and even less believable controversy. Ye’s lyrics are witty, provocative, and complex, sometimes even bordering on academic (perhaps appropriate for an artist whose early career was university-themed)—check out this rhyme off…

  • The Radio Star Lives

    The Radio Star Lives

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    It is after six o-clock pm, and the aisles of Shaw’s are bustling with last-minute dinner shoppers. Dodging throngs of gym-clothed soccer moms, I make for the produce section, unsure whether I’ll find “fresh ginger root” in a supermarket stocked with bulk cases of Lays’ chips and soda. I have been here for over an…

  • Women and Music

    Women and Music

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    A call to resurrect feminism.

  • Music for the Internet Age

    Music for the Internet Age

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    How a new generation of musicians is confronting the digital landscape.

  • Scan His Rhymes

    Scan His Rhymes

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    If great hip-hop artists produce minor hip-hop artists, as RZA brought us Method Man and Biggie Diddy, Gucci Mane may achieve greatness on October 5th, when Waka Flocka Flame attempts to achieve with _Flockaveli_ what OJ Da Juiceman sort-of eventually bothered to get around to with _Tha Other Side of the Trap._ Of course this…

  • Dear Joanna Newsom

    Dear Joanna Newsom

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    In a directory on my computer titled “smiles” is a collection of short recordings, musical ideas I wish to return to without going through the trouble of proper notation. The longest and least interesting of them I listen to every few months to ground myself. I’ve renamed it again and again, attempting to remove it…

  • Life Is Not a Dream

    Life Is Not a Dream

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    It is difficult to call the new HBO film “Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream”—which debuted February 15—a documentary.  More than anything, it comes across as self-promotion instead of an objective or illuminating take on its subject’s life.  Beyoncé is not only the star of the production; she also holds the roles of director, producer,…

  • A Community Like My Own

    A Community Like My Own

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    “But I can say this: as I stood on stage on that final sold-out Saturday and belted out the final lyrics to the finale, “We’re home!” for the first time since arriving on Princeton’s campus I felt like I had a place on this campus. I felt at home.”

  • Let’s Be People

    Let’s Be People

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    A Rubblebucket concert review

  • Glory Days

    Glory Days

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    When maintenance came to clean Jadwin Gymnasium on the morning of November 2, 1978, they found litter on the gym floor, broken glass, and gouges in the basketball court a quarter inch deep.