Bright Eyes Sees Hit 2005 Album Go Gold
The RIAA has announce that Bright Eyes’ 2005 I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning has gone gold. Selling 500,000 units, the classic album is the first gold album for Saddle Creek Records. Robb Nansel of Saddle Creek explained their humble thoughts in a statement on their site, much of it trying to find the overall meaning [...]
Concert Watch: December 6th-December 9th
Happy false spring, concert-goers! This week’s proving to be the calm before what’s sure to be a rough winter, so why not get out and see all the music you can before you shut yourself in for the season? This week’s lineup will make it well worth it. Thursday, December 6 – Conor Oberst @ [...]
New Music From Conor Oberst’s Band Desaparecidos
Conor Oberst must have a hard time keeping track of all the projects he’s involved in, but after ten years of silence from Desaparecidos, he started paying attention to them again. Desaparecidos takes Oberst’s music in a much different direction than his other projects. The songs are driven much more by anger than thoughtfulness (and [...]
Newport Folk Festival: Conor Oberst
My expectation for Conor Oberst’s set on Sunday was that the entire audience would be bawling their eyes out to every song as they sung along. But as I glanced around the crowd at the Fort stage, I was surprised to see that everybody appeared dry-eyed and content– no emotional breakdowns here. Known as being [...]
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Serenata de Amor Brings Cape Verde to Emerson
Serenata de Amor, a musical theater project spearheaded by visual media arts associate professor Claire Andrade-Watkins, was brought to Emerson this past year. The project is a tribute to the morna of Cape Verde and Brava set in the 1940s. Andrade-Watkins worked with a team of faculty and staff members from Emerson to bring Serenata [...]
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