http://www.reportermag.com/ http://www.reportermag.com/http://www.reportermag.com/images/logo_small.jpg Tag: Music from Reporter Online. en-us http://www.reportermag.com/article/461 I saw him coming from a few feet away. His scraggly long hair bounced as he bobbed his head to the underlying beat of the rhythm I was playing. Soon enough, he was accompanying me with his little bongo drum. Unsure of what to do, I just let him continue. The new depth he added to my music brought a sudden shower of coins into my guitar case. Afterwards, I tried to politely give him a small cut of our earnings in an attempt to make him walk away. He replied with, "I don't want your... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/461 http://www.reportermag.com/article/433 Artists Jeremiah "JC" Mothersell, a fourth year Advertising and Public Relations major on vocals, harmonica, guitar and occasionally piano. Ben Sharon, a fourth year Electrical Engineering major on bass. Tim George, a 2008 Information Technology alumnus on tenor sax. Chris Daniels, a fifth year Software Engineering major on drums. Tom Ward, a first year Mathematics major on trumpet. Darryle Brown, a fourth year Business Management major on alto sax. This band's sophisticated... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/433 http://www.reportermag.com/article/427 The city of Rochester is home to a staggering number of music venues spread out in terms of both their locations and the variety of music they showcase. In any case, they're sure to keep your feet tapping. Below is a list of the top five most dependable places in the Rochester area to see live music, from hard rock to blues, jazz, and even contemporary blends. All locations feature a rich history of delivering awesome music at a decent price, with a variety of new and emerging... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/427 http://www.reportermag.com/article/312 On September 20, RIT hosted the Crocs Next Step Campus Tour as part of CABs Major Concert Series. The show featured Cartel (a pop-punk emo band), Yung Joc (a rapper), and MC Lars (who seems to fall somewhere in between both genres). With a line-up bridging two very different music genres and enough free stuff to cover more than the cost of your ticket, how could you go wrong? The night began with MC Lars and his band taking the stage. This California natives style is unique and can... Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/312 http://www.reportermag.com/article/167 My journey towards a refreshing and rewarding concert experience after a very long, stressful week started at approximately 2:57 p.m. in the afternoon when I sat down to wait in line for Jimmy Eat World and Paramore, the College Activities Board's major spring concert. In the three hours it took for the doors to open, I witnessed the assassination of a bug named Herbert, the delivery of a total of four pizzas, a long detailed conversation on how RIT's Gordon Field House bathrooms... Fri, 02 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/167 http://www.reportermag.com/article/499 XO Publicity put together a compilation package of the artists they represent for the holiday season. The idea is a clever move from the public relations firm to get their artists' names out, but not every song will get you into the holiday spirit. The album features songs that would be played in either Java Wally's or as background music for MTV's The Real World with their original sound. Some of the album's highlights include "That's How We Do Christmas" by the... Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/499 http://www.reportermag.com/article/500 Common (formerly known as Common Sense), one of the most poetic and real lyricists, released his long-awaited project for fans. Hip-hop and music enthusiasts welcomed the release based on promises to "take you to the tip-top, baby." The album features songs like "Announcement" and "Gladiator" (both featuring Pharrell) that stay true to his headnodding flow, but listeners will find more upbeat tracks on the album with songs like "Universal Mind Control" and "What a World." The... Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/468 808s and Heartbreak Kanye West Cost: 14 After trumping multi-platinum-selling rap mogul 50 Cent last September in an album showdown, it is fair to say that Kanye West has graduated to the level of an esoteric class of hip-hop artists. There, he is a classmate to artists such as Pharrell and Lupe Fiasco, whose music is so eclectic that people get confused about what genre it is. 808s and Heartbreak was an emotional album for West. It was a product of the emotions in West after the loss... Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/468 http://www.reportermag.com/article/471 It's a drama. A musical. A changing of times. It's sex, drugs and blues. And it's a piece of history. Well, sort of. Following the trend of recent films that relive musical history, Cadillac Records walks the line between fact and dramatized fiction, though, at times, is seemingly content to keep one foot just inside the realm of untruth. Cadillac Records glosses over many key elements in history and rearranges reality to better suit its needs. Historical fiction may be the genre to which... Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/471 http://www.reportermag.com/article/445 Fear Before You might know Fear Before by their previous (and much longer) name, Fear Before the March of Flames. The band ditched the last four words before putting out their new self-titled album, Fear Before. This name change wasn't so far-fetched, as the band appears to re-invent itself on every album it releases. With past releases ranging from the quasi-metalcore of Odd How People Shake to the jagged and aggressive Art Damage to 2006's industrial-tinged The Always Open Mouth, Fear... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:26:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/445 http://www.reportermag.com/article/432 Artists Genevieve Williams, a third year Advertising Photography major on ukulele and lead vocals, and Brittany "B" McEntee, a third year Professional and Technical Communications major on ukulele and backing vocals. They aren't your typical guitar-slinging, pop-song-composing female singer songwriters of this age. They don't want you to "stay" and they don't sing about the ironies of life. They've substituted the guitar, a "singersongwriter's best friend," with its younger... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/432 http://www.reportermag.com/article/436 Artists Andrew Lipovsky, a fourth year Visual Media major on lead vocals. Chad "Cokie" Lipovsky on drums. Casy Diaz on bass. Cory Diaz on rhythm guitar. Kyle Grimm on lead guitar. "The streets will fill With the blood of the non-believers So on your knees, bitch!" These were some of the lyrics that may have graced your eardrums from the song "Death Threats," at an Another One Down (AOD) concert recently. One of Rochester's metalcore bands, their recent breakup has been... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/436 http://www.reportermag.com/article/434 Artist Ed Santiago, a third year Business Management major and DJ. If you attend the Glow-in-the-Dark Dance Party this Friday, November 7, you will likely see him. Ed Santiago could very well be the party, responsible for the beats that get you pumped to dance the night away. For all you frequent clubbers out there, you may even be seeing him "raising the roof" of the next club you crash. The music Santiago mixes, produces, and plays straight off of his MacBook Pro is entrancing... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/434 http://www.reportermag.com/article/428 Artists Ryan Rovito, a third year Packaging Science major on vocals, bouzouki, rhythm guitar and harmonica. Abe Ruper, a third year Mechanical Engineering major on lead guitar and vocals. Marissa Chamberlain, a fifth year ASL-English Interpretation major on fiddle and vocals. Chris Potter, a third year Film and Animation major on bass guitar and vocals. Ed Lennon, a third year Software Engineering major on drums and vocals. Heather Newton, a third year Environmental Management and... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/428 http://www.reportermag.com/article/437 Artist Sheraan Mohsin, an acoustic guitar singersongwriter and second year Computer Science major. With a tranquil tone and demeanor to match, Sheraan Mohsin is a man who belongs with a guitar. A solo artist and regular at lovin' cup's Open Mic Night, Mohsin describes his music as having "a coffee house acoustic kind of vibe: Could be upbeat, could be sentimental." His music career has a humble start, as his first guitar was a "Yamaha from Costco." Playing since the seventh... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/437 http://www.reportermag.com/article/435 Artists Dana Castronova, a third year Industrial Design major, and Chris Baldauf, a third year Applied Networking and Systems Administration major. Castronova and Baldauf clearly remember the first song they ever played together: "Sink, Florida, Sink" by Against Me!. With that in mind came the memory of how they chose the name Before, During, and After. "It was our first open mic night and we had no idea what we were going to be called. But everybody else had a cool name, so we... Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/435 http://www.reportermag.com/article/421 Graveyard headstones lined the stage in the Ingle Auditorium the day after Halloween, where the second annual Acappellaween played out for an audience made up of students and parents. Some came to dress up in a costume, others to enjoy the costumes, but everyone who did come, left pleased by the performances. Hosted (and headlined) by RIT's own Eight Beat Measure, the other groups who performed were SUNY Albany's Serendipity, and Cornell University's The Touchtones. Eight Beat Measure opened... Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:50:44 -0500 http://www.reportermag.com/article/421 http://www.reportermag.com/article/404 It seems that with each passing Of Montreal album, two things are inevitable: Frontman Kevin Barnes' fashion sense will evolve even more bizarrely, and the band will become even more experimental. Skeletal Lamping, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2007 release (Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Ed: See our review of that album on magazine page 13 of the 01.19.2007 PDF.) continues this tradition, being one of the stranger albums of the year. It's not that... Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/404 http://www.reportermag.com/article/362 M(US)IC Have you ever been listening to a band, banging your head while tapping your foot along with the rhythm, when out of nowhere the time signature changes and you feel like a fool because what once was in rhythm now looks like a ridiculous twitch? If you have had that feeling (and pardon the run-on sentence) and did not care for it much, Damiera is not a band for you. Damiera plays a very technical brand of upbeat post-hardcore with more time changes than a Swiss clock factory... Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/362 http://www.reportermag.com/article/347 Acid Tongue After the release of Rabbit Fur Coat with the Watson Twins, Jenny Lewis has produced this sophomore solo album, complete with adjustments from previous criticism and a more balanced twist on the old flavor. Even Lewis admits that this album definitely rocks a little harder. Coming off of her work with Rilo Kiley on Under The Blacklight, it is no surprise that this album has that little-bit-extra balance that Fur Coat was missing. Despite the course correction, Acid... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.reportermag.com/article/347