Everyone has their subtle addictions: Cookie Monster has cookies, Dexter has his lab and murdering people — depending on which Dexter you prefer — Tiger Woods has women who are not his wife and Scarf Boy had choral music. And scarves, obviously, but choral music was his passion, his career, his destiny. He loved it…
Students, faculty & alum prepare for momentous season Concordia students and faculty have played important roles in the Fargo-Moorhead Opera for years, and this one is no exception, with the opera gearing up for a momentous season. Cobbers are involved in the opera on nearly every level, from performing to directing to working the box…
Roberts hopes to increase focus on international and interdisciplinary options In the intense debate that will likely crop up over which of Concordia’s two coffee shops is best, John Roberts, the new chair of the college’s music department, might side with the newly opened, Starbucks-serving The BREW in the Offutt School of Business: he has…
More than 70 Concordia band students missed classes last week to share their music with local schools, churches, and communities around Minnesota. “Tour is always fun because you spend a lot of time with friends,” said senior Rachel Miller, who plays French horn. “A lot of my really close friends are in band.” Tour is…
I was going to write a review about the Super Bowl but I would only regurgitate the same old topics: Beyonce, Destiny’s Child, over-serious truck commercials, Bane and the blackout, spazzy brothers, awful no-calls by the refs, more Beyonce, and an overdramatic underperformance by Ray Lewis. So now that it’s February and I have had…
This week, songwriter Natasha Khan (better known by her stage name Bat for Lashes) released her first studio album since the critically acclaimed 2009 album Two Suns. Natasha had already begun making a name for herself in 2008 when she opened for Radiohead, but it is Two Suns’ hit single Daniel that marked her entrance…
Female musicians are as prevalent today as they have ever been. Today’s radio charts are littered with female vocals of all kinds — singer/songwriters, pop stars, country sweethearts. But female pop stars found on today’s top charts have in some way all molded themselves after the same icon, whether they know it or not: the…
The music community has always offered a unique setting for artists and listeners alike to find their own type of niche. Different music scenes throughout the world embody listeners of all ages and types. Music has always acted as an outlet for struggles found throughout the world, unifying groups of people acting toward a greater…
As you settle into your homework routine this fall season, crack your window so everything smells like a mixture of leaves and freshly mulched grass, watch the leaves trickle down and cover the ground, and look for that perfect music to capture the emotion of the fall season, turn your attention to Radical Face’s, The…
Although Austin-based singer-songwriter David Ramirez has released several recordings over the past few years, it’s clear from the first track that there is something uniquely intimate about Apologies. It’s recently become the trend for singer-songwriters to pare down their music, becoming more acoustic and writing lyrics that are more real and emotional. Ramirez takes this…