By: Tori Miner Heartbreaking is definitely an apt term to describe “Heartbreaking Bravery” by Moonface. Every song sings pain loud and clear. With dark melodies, darker words, and haunting instrumentals, this is a good album to listen to when you’re in a contemplative mood. You know the mood where you think seriously about your life...
By WIUX Sports Member Sean Nash “The Greatest College Weekend,” is the tagline for Indiana University’s Little 500 festivities. Now some elders have told many of us, most likely a family member, that college is the best time we will experience in our entire lives. Little 500 takes this sentiment and crams it into...
It’s Little 500 weekend, IU! You know what that means? DANCING! So here at WIUXBlog, we decided to help get you started on a great playlist. Here are some of our favorite jams to dance to… Dr. Dog – “Heart It Races” – chosen by Avery Walts Steve Aoki feat Rivers Cuomon –...
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Apr 20, 2012 • By: Will Chukerman Racing in the Little 500 is a daunting task for most — let alone a freshman. This Saturday, Brett Frommer will be racing for AEPi in his first year on campus. Coming into this year, not even Brett could have told you he would be racing in the Little 5 because he...
By: MORGAN TAYLOR As I started this column I was making a ‘to do list.’ If you know me, you would know that this is not out of the ordinary. I would put breathing on a ‘to do list’ if it didn’t come natural because I really depend on lists for my everyday life. The...
I’ve always wondered what makes different genres of music unique. Is it the instruments used, the tempo or the style? Maybe it’s all of these things combined. The more I listen to rock and roll and blues music, the more similarities I see between the two. What makes these two genres so similar, in my...
By: Michael Pasotti The Coachella music festival is making history this year as it is spanning two consecutive weekends featuring the same acts each week. We are currently in between the two weekends and have already seen some great acts, including Snoop Dogg being joined on staged by a beautiful holographic rendering of the legendary...
There are few people who can tie your stomach up in knots quite like Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu. Listening to a Xiu Xiu album is like watching a horror film; there is an almost blissful feeling after the tension is finally relieved. Always is Xiu Xiu’s least dissonant and aggressive album to date, and...
By: Sarah Silcox Earlier this week, I was advised to watch a video called Caine’s Arcade. I was literally blown away after watching the short film for the first time. Caine’s Arcade is a ten minute documentary about a nine-year-old boy from Los Angeles who builds an arcade in his father’s auto parts shop entirely...
By: Alex Peacock Toro y Moi’s newest installment in their discography, June 2009 is just another feature of the variation this band has reached at this point in their career. With a sound all to similar yet ever so different, the band is growing and mastering new facets of music and tones they can use...
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Apr 19, 2012 • By: Stone Irr Chicago Singer-Songwriter Willis Earl Beal displays quite a bit of integrity, warmth and passion. You notice this even before hearing his music. Before moving back to Chicago, Beal would often leave CD-Rs of his intimate, lo-fi recordings on park benches in Albuquerque. This communication through art continued in Chicago. Beal would put...
By: Michael Norman As a conference, the universities in the Big Ten know how to party. You can’t really argue against it if you consider the fact that four of the biggest college party weeks/weekends are held at Big Ten schools. In Wisconsin, there’s the huge block party known as Mifflin and in West Lafayette,...
Alex Cohen, lead broadcaster for the Huntsville Stars, returns to the Evening Schmooze on 4/30/12
May 3, 2012
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