If you’ve been anywhere around the Cornell campus in the past couple weeks, it’s pretty much a guarantee that you have heard or heard about “The Graduation Song” by two Cornellians, Jeremy “Kinetics” Dussolliet (‘09) and Tim “One Love” Sommers (‘10). The song is riddled with all sorts of Cornell and Ithaca references, from talk of [...]

A warm spring evening is one of the best times to go to a concert. The Ithaca weather gods were kind enough to grant us one of those evenings last Monday, April 19th, and it coincided, almost uncannily, with a great line-up at the quaint and intimate coffee house/musical venue of The Shop. Family Portraits, [...]

April 25, 2010
Buffalo, New York is often renowned for its proximity to Niagara Falls, Buffalo Wings, it’s heavy Canadian influence and as the epicenter of people who use of the word ’pop’ within NewYork. However, a relatively unknown fact is that Passion Pit’s lead singer Michael Angelakos is a Buffalo native; as such, one can [...]

Electric Tickle Machine is darn New York—super skinny black clad and a shirtless drummer and long hair for everyone. Music: electro rock pop is the easy way out; otherwise check their myspace for something way too cool (in a good way). Some punk vibe, rock’n’roll, and a bit of surf kept everyone a-jivin’ with the [...]

Friday night @ Watermargin:
In leather jackets, The Plurals played about an hour of punkish rock, covering Black Sabbath to Husker Du to the Smashing Pumpkins. But they also melted faces with tunes of their own doing, a certain “post-rock punk-pop (AKA “post-fun”).” It was generally moshable, loud and fun, though it lacked a particular rawness [...]

By Samuel Sveen
Dan Deacon is super fun and great. He brushed past me in a poncho once before the show while a magician was performing, who was a little boring but did manage to conjure up a real rabbit. I missed the local opening act, GlitterMonks, an IC DJ duo, sandwiched between the magician’s acts, [...]

With more than 13,000 undergraduates at Cornell, there are bound to be a few young rock stars on the path to fame and fortune. Five of them have teamed up to form Weggalo Star, a band comprised of Jordan Bernstein on lead guitars, Dave Vieira on vocals, guitar, and keyboard, Ricardo Villareal on drums, Ariyan [...]

Melissa Major, from Slope Radio’s “Patron on Ice”, sits for a chit-chat with Luda.  Blueberry yum-yum included:
Melissa: Is there anything else you can’t do?
Ludacris: What can’t I do? I can’t cook very well, so I’m learning how to cook.  Even though I have my own restaurant, doesn’t mean I’m in the kitchen.  That’s something that [...]

Artist: Lily Allen
Album: It’s Not Me It’s You
Capitol Records
Tabloid queen and infamous internet blogger Lily Allen has much to say about celebrity culture and life’s rollercoaster of ups and downs. The British songstress from “Alright, Still” fame is back with her sophomore album “It’s Not Me, It’s You.” The album title plays a clever twist [...]

Artist: Ryan Leslie
Album: Ryan Leslie
Casablanca
Ryan Leslie’  first album is
worth taking a few minutes out of your day to listen to in entirety beyond his most notable
track “Addiction”  ft. Cassie and Fabolous. Songs like “I-R-I-N-A” written during a photo shoot with Russian
fashion model Irina Sheik attract listeners for his unique inspiration for
writing and his authentic delivery. [...]