Welcome back to The Roundup’s podcast “The Music Sounds Better.”
This edition we’ll be covering avant-garde rockers Dirty Projectors, Brophy’s own Rollerskaters and the neo-shoegaze duo Beach House.
So getting started, Dirty Projectors is one of those bands for all the music freaks out there.
As of May 7, the summer movie season has officially begun, and Tony Stark is the first one out the gate.
Early in ‘Iron Man 2’ there is a scene where Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) drops into his own Stark Expo and declares “It’s good to be back!”
This scene eerily imitates reality; anticipation has been building for this movie ever since the original came out in 2008.
Matt Holmes ’10, Nick Weiss ’10, Matthew Xuereb ’10 and Parker Jones ’12 get together at Brophy events to rock students for the night in their band, Nate’s Fingers.
Holmes described the music as alternative rock with a punk attitude. Weiss called their music “loud and fast,” words that fit a punk bill.
They play at most Brophy functions that call for a live band: Friday night lights, Thursday night lights, Battle of the Bands and the Fine Arts Extravaganza. They have also begun branching out.
What is your favorite thing to do on the weekends?
I spend a lot of time with my cat, because she’s friendly and a good listener.
Really now? What’s your cat’s name?
Frodo.
Are you one of the millions of people who buys things online and agrees to terms and conditions with just a click of a button?
If so, you may have just sold your soul.
More than 7,500 people did just that on April 1 when they bought games from British videogame retailer Gamestation. They included a clause in their terms and conditions that said that if you buy a game from them, they owned your soul.
As the sun went down over Tempe town lake people drizzled into the concert for the indie-rock bands.
They came by foot, car and light rail, getting there hours before the first band even got on stage.
Paired up with Sleepy Sun, the Arctic Monkeys left a rocking impression on the Marquee crowd April 15.
Anticipation can be a tricky thing.
It’s very hard to control but anticipate too much and the let-down can be tremendous.
Just look at the movies coming out this summer: Sure, there are some you should avoid like the plague (please don’t see “Twilight: Eclipse”) but it’s hard not to expect the best from some of the bigger blockbusters.
No travel plans, summer school or video games?
Want to avoid the heat wave?
No sweat. The Roundup columnists and staff have come up with a list of activities to keep you cool and entertained this summer.
So here I am again with another exciting issue of The Roundup’s premier music podcast, “The Music Sounds Better.”
This time around I’ll be covering the minimalist disco-rock of Germany’s The Whitest Boy Alive, Kanye West’s pick of favorite chill-gazer, Toro Y Moi and the renowned animated stars Gorrilaz.
The Whitest Boy Alive (led by Erlend Øye of Kings of Convenience) have been around for a few years starting as a project that was intended to be a computer-based electronic band.
While it seems nearly everyone was excited for March Madness, others were looking forward to the FIFA tournament.
The FIFA club, located in Mr. Mike Nelson’s ’96 room, hosted a campus-wide tournament that started March 15 and was set to continue until there was only one team left.
FIFA is a videogame based on the Fèdèration Inernationale de Football Association soccer league. It is essentially the Madden of the soccer world.