Mads Tolling & The Mads Men: “Playing the 60s” came to the sizable Bing Concert Hall Studio just a few days ago. The jazz band played under the twinkling of colored lights in the... Read More »
Personal, not political apocalypse on Queens of the Stone Age’s ‘Villains’
Most relevant hard rock groups are acts of survival rather than revival. Other than a few groups like UK’s Royal Blood, most currently relevant hard rock acts were born out of 90s scenes like grunge... Read More »
Following David Bowie’s legendary legacy of consistent change
“Il miglior fabbro” is a phrase – meaning “the superior craftsman” – that Dante used to describe an Occitan troubadour of great fame and TS. Eliot later repurposed to describe his friend... Read More »
‘Bodak Yellow’: 2017’s most unlikely pop hit
The pop charts have been boring this year. There’s no way to sugarcoat it, no other adjective to describe a year where “Shape of You” and “Despacito” ruled the top spot on the Billboard Hot... Read More »
Two points of view on Arcade Fire’s ‘Everything Now’
Sometimes, an album comes out and creates so much critical discussion among the members of the Daily’s music beat that we feel that it deserves more than one point of view. Arcade Fire’s... Read More »
Lorde’s ‘Melodrama’ is the most interesting album of the summer
“Melodrama” is not the best album of the summer. The album, Lorde’s long-awaited followup to her 2013 debut “Pure Heroine,” is an often frustrating affair — despite the... Read More »
Rio, Bravo! Anat Cohen & Choro Aventuroso at Stanford Jazz
On Saturday night, July 22, Stanford turned into a microcosm of Rio de Janeiro, as the upbeat Brazilian music of Anat Cohen & Choro Aventuroso filled Dinkelspiel Auditorium. For Brazilian jazz... Read More »
Reflections on funk, and punk
Emblazoned across the wall adjacent to the stage were trippy colors flowing back and forth between audience and performer. On the docket for the night were California-based funk bands Atta Kid and... Read More »