Before the “Twilight” movie sound track collaboration, before being sampled by Kanye West and before appearing on stage with the same rapper at Coachella earlier this year, Bon Iver was just a one-man band that made a single beautiful album alone in an isolated cabin in snowy Wisconsin.
Author Archives: Madeleine Flynn
Fourth-year music media and management student Gabrielle Wortman to pursue music career before applying to law school
Fourth-year music media and management student Gabrielle Wortman hears music in her head all day, even during finals.
Concert review: Peter Bjorn and John put on a high-energy show at the El Rey Theatre
Peter Bjorn and John
_May 14, 8 p.m.
El Rey Theatre_
Pop-rockers Peter Bjorn and John may be most well-known for the whistled hook of their 2006 hit “Young Folks,” but at a sold out show at the El Rey Theater on Saturday night, the Swedish trio showed that it knew how to do much more than make a catchy single; it also knows how to put on a terrific live show.
Sound Bite: "Helplessness Blues"
Forget about sophomore slumps. Fleet Foxes’ second album, “Helplessness Blues,” lives up to the expectations of the band’s critically acclaimed debut album with a collection of gorgeous indie-folk songs that wrestle with heartbreak and existential questions about life and purpose.
That’s not to say the album came easy.
Poised to break out in U.S. and on stage
Armed with a chart-topping debut album in the United Kingdom and a sweep of both the BBC Sounds of 2010 poll and 2010 BRIT Critic’s Choice Award, British electro-folk musician Ellie Goulding is poised to break out on the other side of the Atlantic.
Increasing popularity of music artists, economic upturn and scalpers have concerts selling out at record speeds
Before last month’s Trey Anastasio show at The Music Box, second-year psychology student Dylan Robin walked back to his car feeling dejected.
Romance inspires Bruin musicians’ original, cultural songs for Songwriter Sirens, part of Fowler Out Loud series
Singer-songwriter ““ it’s a term that brings to mind the image of a musician playing his original songs in the darkly lit corner of a coffeehouse.