Month: November 2014

One of the most overlooked musical genres among students here at Hillsdale is progressive rock. Prog rock is by far the most profound musical genre of the last 50 years. While many more socially conservative people over the past half-century have claimed rock music is merely Satanic and sexualized, in actuality, progressive rock is some...

Two grand pianos sit propped open, ready to be played and take the listener on a journey of sound and image. Debbi Wyse and Kristi Gautsche will perform “Images for Two Pianos” in Markel Auditorium Saturday and Sunday. The concert will include pieces from Bach to Rachmaninoff to Gershwin, all focusing on imagery. “The title...

My bookshelf houses my Bible, Heritage readers, AP stylebook, and many, many notebooks. Some are wrinkled and worn — full of writing, drawings, and pasted-in pictures. Others remain pristine and empty. Both filling these blank pages with my thoughts and knowing they will survive my fleeting existence make me feel human. “I never travel without...

Twenty years since their paradigm-shifting “Blue Album,” Rivers Cuomo and company present us with “Everything Will Be Alright In The End,” their ninth studio album. This retrospective and all-the-while forward-looking record grants both the casual listener and die-hard fan alike a refreshing embodiment of pure Weezer and Rivers Cuomo at his best. Fans and critics...

Despite trading country guitar riffs for electronic beats, Taylor Swift stays true to her contrary, whimsical, sassy, and optimistic self in her fifth and latest album, “1989,” released Monday. Some are unimpressed with the music mogul’s first pure pop album, inspired by the music in the decade in which she was born. But like the...