Reviews of new music from Melissa Auf der Mar to Five for Fighting to Punk-O-Rama 9.
This summer has seen the reunification of several bands that used to be seminal rock bands, but have since become the nostalgic listenings of music fans. Braid - a so-called emo band that is considered a forefather of the contemporary emo genre - has reunited for a U.S. tour in support of a new DVD that details the last days of their existence.
Legendary industrial trio Skinny Puppy returned to D.C. to perform for the first time in nearly a decade. Their new record, "The Greater Right of Wrong," is their first release in eight years.
Vulgar, unoriginal and at times even creepy, "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" is everything it's expected to be. It is writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber's first feature film and, fortunately, just as much fun as the trailer would suggest.
Leave it to Morrissey to make a questionable pairing work, teaming up with producer Jerry Finn who was responsible for - to quote Spinal Tap - "shit sandwiches" such as 1999's "Enema of the State," among other pop-punk gems. But remarkably, neither Moz nor Finn screw this one up.
Reviews of recently released metal, punk and industrial CDs.
CD reviews of the latest releases from newcomer Erin Bode, mellow indie rockers the Delays, and "refreshing" trip-hop artists Bumblebeez 81, posted June 25.
Theater usually gets a bad rap from college students. More interested in drinking or nights out on the town, students frequently ignore perfectly good plays that are actually not that dorky or just for the artsy intellectuals. Why bother with $5 pints, when the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va. offers a play with full frontal nudity and is solely about the pre- and post-coital interactions between 10 couples.
D.C. is not just the capital of politics and international relations, it also has a surprisingly thriving music scene. The District offers a multitude of smaller nightclubs and stadium-sized amphitheaters. Here is a selection of some of the best places to see live music.
A tribute to the late Ray Charles, who did more than contribute to a shared music legacy - he defined the rules of it.
The Eagle's Music section reviews three new CD's for the first week of summer.
To celebrate its 10th Anniversary, the Kreeger Museum on Foxhall Road is opening its newest exhibit, "The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain." It features art from the di Rosi Preserve: Art & Nature, located in Napa, Calif. The exhibit showcases art from and around San Francisco made in the 1960s.
The anime craze has hit America hard in recent years with hit action shows like "Dragon Ball Z," "Gundam Wing" and "Cowboy Bebop." "Texhnolyze" is a dark anime series based around a futuristic underground city where each person fights, takes other peoples' limbs and gets robotic limbs to replace them.
Concerts like Vans Warped Tour, Ozzfest and Projekt Revolution will make their way to the D.C. area.
Well, this is it. The day that this last column is published, I will have exactly two weeks and four days left in Rome.
Singer-guitarist Brody Dalle (former spouse to Rancid front man Tim Armstrong) has been in nearly every music magazine in the United States and Europe, either smooching her new beau (Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age) or being at the receiving end of vicious verbal claims from the Rancid camp that she is a traitor, backstabber and heart-breaker.
"Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles" represents change for the "Final Fantasy" series. Besides the obvious fact that the game is on GameCube and not PlayStation or PC, there are other elements of the game that set it apart from its brothers.
The Eagle Music section reviews three new CD's as May comes to a close.
With summer on our doorstep, it's pretty safe to say that you'll be hearing a lot of stereos blasting the soundtrack of the season for the next few months. Well, you're in luck. The Eagle is here to give you advice on some of the best summer songs to make your time away from AU a little bit more rewarding.
Many athletes, singers, dancers, musicians and performers only seek the thrill of the extracurricular activity and not the glory that comes with the major or minor. However, Nina Mahi Zadrozny-Pereira, a senior majoring in psychology and minoring in math and theatre, has turned her pasttime into what she hopes is a full-time future in fashion design.
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