Music
Powers Stumbles Trying to Break Out of the Bughouse
Youth Lagoon's sophomore album is compromised by over-experimentation. Wondrous Bughouse more readily embraces dissonance and distortion, which make it an album that is not always beholden to the conventions of synth-pop. However, the album does stumble on its more pointed deviations.
HRO Concert
Cellists in the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra intently play in front of the crowd at Sanders Theater. Saturday evening, the classical works of Leonard Bernstein, John Adams, and Johannes Brahms came alive.
A Dark Weekend for the 'Party Shuttle'
This weekend, when students climbed aboard Melvin Washington, Jr.’s evening shuttle bus that travels back and forth between the Yard and the Quad, they were not greeted by the customary strobe lights and thudding music, but rather an entirely party-less shuttle.
Ghungroo 2013
Guy D. Pawson ‘14 (right) and Geraldine M. Jowett ‘14 perform the Bollywood Dance at Agassiz Theater. Ghungroo is an annual celebration of Indian culture featuring songs and dances by student performers.
HRO Concert
The Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by Federico Cortese, plays in Sanders Theater on Saturday evening. The classical works of Leonard Bernstein, John Adams, and Johannes Brahms came alive through the notes!
Poetry Reading Plays Beyond Words
The more the words were repeated and sustained, the faster their meaning slipped away.
Pitchfork President Kaskie Talks About How He Decided to “Zag”
"We’re definitely in the position where we want to innovate online publishing, whereas before we were a website." Chris Kaskie spoke about listening algorithms, Pitchfork's music festival, and why he still buys vinyl.
Soul Fever
By the sound of it, if Queenie caught her man cheating, he’d be lucky if he got a three-second head start.
Old-School K-pop
Just as American blues evolved into modern day mainstream pop, rock, and hip-hop music, “pansori”—or Korean opera sung along to a drum—was the cornerstone for what developed into K-pop.
