After a summer-long feud with Canadian rap and pop artist Drake, Kendrick Lamar hasn’t stopped his momentum, releasing his sixth studio album, “GNX,” without warning on Nov. 25. Though there was no official winner in the feud, many listeners felt Lamar had won in a landslide, and from this album, it sounds like he agrees….
Ryan Pelillo Arts & Entertainment Editor Christopher Nolan is a better director than Quentin Tarantino. Nolan has had a much broader reach in terms of the general public, more clever narratives and isn’t as “film bro-ish.” Some of Nolan’s most notable works include “Interstellar” and “Inception.” These are both films that are artistically sound and…
This summer, hit bands Oasis and Linkin Park both ended their extended hiatuses, yet neither return was without controversy. Founded in 1991 in Manchester, England, Oasis rose to fame after releasing their debut album, “Definitely Maybe” in 1994 to critical acclaim. It received five stars from New Musical Express, went platinum once in the United…
MGMT released their fifth studio album, “Loss of Life,” in late February, taking their sound in a few distinct, new directions. A Middledown, Connecticut based indie duo, MGMT has been making indie and psychedelic rock with electronic elements since the early 2000s. They earned radio airplay almost immediately from their first singles, “Time to Pretend,”…
The University of Rhode Island Innovation Labs began its “Launch Lab Workshops” series Wednesday, Feb. 7, with a student-led panel discussion about photography, where students detail their own experiences and work. The three student photographers running the panel, Christian Dior, Ebenezer Falaye and Nate Huncho, began by discussing their distinct paths to becoming photographers. Dior…
Love and music are in the air this month! People have been writing songs about love for as long as people have written music. As such, there’s basically a love song about everything and for every possible vibe. Even though narrowing down every love song into an objective list of the 10 greatest is impossible,…
At the end of November, Netflix released the long awaited “Scott Pilgrim Takes Off,” an eight-episode anime-inspired series set in Scott Pilgrim’s Toronto. It’s actually quite surprising how long it took for an anime-inspired series to come from Scott Pilgrim. Bryan Lee O’Malley first wrote Scott Pilgrim as a series of graphic novels, beginning in…
Casey Chan-Smutko: Halloween News Editor Just because “The Nightmare Before Christmas” has the word Christmas in it does not make it a Christmas movie. I’ve watched this movie a thousand times exclusively on Halloween because it is a Halloween movie. You could argue that Jack Skellington goes to Christmas Land to become Santa Claus, but…
On Nov. 17, the University of Rhode Island Musician’s Guild held their fourth annual Rock & Swap concert in the Ram’s Den. This unique battle of the bands has individual musicians sign up, rather than bands. Two weeks before the show, bands are assigned randomly, giving them a limited amount of time to learn and…
Last Thursday, the 193 Coffeehouse hosted Pond View, Little Young Bug and Moss Boy & the Critters for their biweekly concert. Pond View, a Connecticut-based alt-rock band, opened the concert, followed by Little Young Bug, an indie band composed of many of the same members. The final band to perform was Moss Boy & the…