Russian Recording gives itself a "revival"
Mike Bridavsky said he knew he wanted to spend his life making records when he was 14 years old.
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Mike Bridavsky said he knew he wanted to spend his life making records when he was 14 years old.
It’s not that Allie Wineland couldn’t see the pattern. It was right there, just a few feet away from her, a system of interlocking circles and puckered diamonds crawling over the upholsteries of the chairs in the Learning Commons in the Herman B Wells Library’s West Tower.
Conceptually, music festivals have no set venues. The biggest names — Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo — tend toward wide-open spaces like farms, fields or city parks. However, plenty, like Austin’s South by Southwest and Gainesville, Florida’s, the Fest, take over the cities’ rock clubs, theaters and other dedicated music venues.
A little more than a year ago, Bloomington-based pop-punk band High Dive released its second EP, consisting of five tracks and no real title to speak of.
Mike Jackson’s 5-year-old son loves rock ‘n’ roll shows, but it’s not every day he gets to watch his father play a rock club as the frontman of Unions. Normally, he’d come up about 13 years short of gaining entry to a show at a venue like the Bishop Bar.
Jake Luppen is 20, and at an age when many of his peers are navigating college campuses, he’s touring the country and overseas as the frontman of Hippo Campus.
The experimentally minded DIY venue space Artifex Guild sits among a row of houses and shops on South Walnut Street. It’s an outgrowth of Auris Apothecary, a locally based record label working with experimental music and unconventional physical media.
Four years ago, when director Penelope Spheeris asked her daughter Anna Fox to come work for her, Fox said yes on one condition — their first project would be releasing all three of her “Decline of Western Civilization” documentary films together on DVD for the first time.
At the end of his band’s set Sunday night at the Bishop, Holy Sons frontman Emil Amos made a promise to the audience that had a trace of irony, however unintentional.
These are some of the achievements Darryl McDaniels has racked up as part of legendary rap group Run-D.M.C.: rap’s first platinum-selling album, a slew of hits on the R&B and pop charts of the 1980s, a character in a “Guitar Hero” video game and, as of 2009, a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
The Bishop Bar is no stranger to touring acts. At the moment, the bar-and-music venue’s schedule promises upcoming performances from far-flung and wide-ranging bands — Long Island neo-disco, Pacific Coast drone metal, Madrid indie rock.
Singer-songwriter-comedian Greg Tamblyn has this bit about laughter in solemn situations, and it’s a true story.
On “Deeper than Love,” the fifth track on Colleen Green’s new album “I Want to Grow Up,” the garage rock musician ponders romance in the context of modern technology and growing older.
A year ago, Wheel of the Year frontman Dylan Taylor and percussionist Brett Hoffman were living together at the end of a hall in Collins Living-Learning Center in what they dubbed “The Trip” — because it was a triple dorm, but also because of its surreal interior.
As students streamed through checkpoints and ticket gates at a parking lot on 13th Street and Fee Lane at 6:45 p.m. Saturday, the skies above IU’s second Welcome Week Block Party were holding clear.
Christina Jones waved a hand-held bubble maker in the air.
The IU Art Museum is home to more than 45,000 objects, from ancient Egyptian textiles to 16th century German prints. Across the Fine Arts Plaza, the IU Auditorium hosts an array of high-profile shows, with appearances from entities as diverse as Tony Bennett, Wilco and the TEDx series on its fall schedule.
By Jack Evans
By Jack Evans
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