Music

You’ve been at Penn for a few weeks now, and you're finally back in the school-time groove. Unfortunately, you’re most likely grooving to the same old songs.
September 17, 2009 at 12:43 am

As part of a never-ending quest to deliver new music into the waiting hands of our readers, Street followed the noise all the way to Chicago last weekend for the first two days of the Pitchfork Music Festival.
July 22, 2009 at 10:44 pm

The Mars Volta Octahedron Released June 23 After releasing last year’s thrashing, Ouija-inspired The Bedlam in Goliath, singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala vowed The Mars Volta’s next album would be its long-awaited acoustic record.
July 15, 2009 at 7:26 pm

It’s been a tough road for this year’s Popped! Festival, which brought big names like Vampire Weekend and The Ting Tings to Drexel last June.
June 17, 2009 at 7:44 pm

Here’s everything you need to know about May music (but were afraid to ask while we were on hiatus this month): By the time the incoming freshmen graduate, Green Day’s Billy Joe Armstrong will be 40.
May 28, 2009 at 1:17 am

In first grade my favorite song was “Buddy Holly.” I memorized the lyrics proudly, ready to show them off to the only willing audience I had: my older, cooler siblings.
April 23, 2009 at 1:51 am

Which concert attendee are you? Let’s face it, working the drive-thru window at Taco Bell this summer is going to leave you with more dollar bills than you know what to do with.
April 23, 2009 at 1:34 am

Despite stadium-ready hooks, polished vocals and slick guitars, Fantasies isn’t a selling out moment for Metric so much as the next step in a logical progression.
April 23, 2009 at 1:31 am

With lead vocals (Eddie Argos) reminiscent of Bobby “BORIS” Pickett’s hit tune “Monster Mash,” and Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, rhymes like “satisfaction” and “can’t stop scratchin’” and subject matter ranging from using a cell phone as an alarm clock while riding public transportation to looking for missing socks, it might be hard to for anyone to believe that Frank Black produced Art Brut vs.
April 23, 2009 at 1:25 am

Neil Young has always done whatever he wants, and with Fork in the Road, he’s created an album entirely about electric cars.
April 15, 2009 at 10:55 pm

Save for the occasional overly-contrived pop star, it wasn’t too long ago when cool chicks had a hard time asserting their dominance in a sea of musical testosterone.
April 15, 2009 at 10:51 pm

Now We Can See, The Thermals’ long-anticipated follow-up to their 2006 album, The Body, The Blood, The Machine, delivers contemplative and often somber lyrics packaged sweetly in methodically structured pop-punk sing-a-longs.
April 15, 2009 at 10:47 pm

As the old saying goes, there are four things that every true musician needs: a former member of 98 Degrees as a brother-in-law, lip service from Ryan Cabrera, a very, very loving father and a reality show.
April 15, 2009 at 10:43 pm

Street: What brings you to Philadelphia? Had you known anything about Penn? Nappy Roots: I don’t know the college.
April 15, 2009 at 9:27 pm

“Only 16?” As if, Gwen. I was only eight when I first tuned into MTV’s Top 10 Countdown to watch the “Just a Girl” video, pulling the bottom of my t-shirt through the neck hole and sporting a hand-drawn dot in the center of my forehead. Sure, she was just a girl.
April 9, 2009 at 12:34 am

It’s Blitz!, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ first full-length album in three years, delivers listeners the band’s brand new sound — one that trades meaty guitar riffs and guttural yelps for a synthesizer and disco backbeats.
April 9, 2009 at 12:32 am

Flo Rida’s latest release, R.O.O.T.S, rides the popular flow of his debut album, 2008's Mail on Sunday, by essentially remaking it and streamlining his schema for success.
April 9, 2009 at 12:29 am

With Seaside Rock (2008), Peter Bjorn and John seemed to experience the writer’s block that inspired the title of their much-loved first album.
April 9, 2009 at 12:27 am

Smaller than a stick of gum and serving the dual function of tie-clip and 4GB mp3 player, Apple’s new talking iPod Shuffle ($79) is both elegant and understated.
April 9, 2009 at 12:24 am

Last Sunday at the Rotunda, the ghosts were out — and they were playing with distortion pedals and tape machines.
April 8, 2009 at 11:55 pm