“Congratulations” opens with surf guitar and rolling drums, the sound of which is, quite frankly, a little annoying.
Author Archives: Alex Goodman
Engineers showcase talents in competition
There are people, undoubtedly, who believe that engineering and belly-dancing are mutually exclusive. But these are people who have never sat in the audience at the Engineering Society’s E-Week Idol, the talent competition that occurs tonight on the first night of Engineering Week.
Alumna’s album revamps cartoon tunes
The tune “Hello Ma Baby” was written around the turn of the 20th century, but it was immortalized in 1955 by a frog ““ Michigan J. Frog, actually, the vaudevillian Warner Bros. character, who sang it with a top hat and a cane in a cartoon called “One Froggy Evening.”
Screen Scene: “The Last Song”
Miley Cyrus is a thought-provoking actress, in the sense that she provokes such thoughts as: Can a person be called an actress simply by virtue of being in a movie?
Lost Moon Radio plays with pace and rhythm through songs and sketches from Jovian moon
Last Thursday evening, in a second-floor apartment in West Hollywood, the cast and crew of the sketch comedy and musical group Lost Moon Radio met for the first official read-through of their new show.
Soundbite: Broken Bells
A new band calling itself Broken Bells, with a debut album of the same name, might attract associations with Christmas carols turned violent or the aftermath of a sleigh-riding accident.
Weekend review: Joni Mitchell’s “The Fiddle and the Drum”
Remove from James Cameron’s epic “Avatar” all the explosions, cornball dialogue and the massive-scale technology, leaving only the central premise that humankind is destroying nature through war and environmental neglect.