At the most impressive musical event of 2015, two men in beards and beanie caps bounded about the stage playing all manner of weird instruments, from accordions and hand saws to trumpets and trombones....
Student residents were evacuated from Osprey Fountains on Dec. 1 after a non-drill fire alarm rung at around 12 a.m.
Residents reported that a pot left on a burner caught fire in House 13, causing the...
It’s easy to hear beautiful music around UNF’s Fine Arts Center, but on Nov. 20, that music became much more arresting thanks to the school’s resident string ensemble.
The Lawson Ensemble, led...
Spinnaker Record Club is a weekly selection of music releases designed to introduce students to sounds they may not find elsewhere.
We are all ashamed of the past. Every so often, an embarrassment...
Spinnaker Record Club is a weekly selection of music releases designed to introduce students to sounds they may not find elsewhere.
Let’s just come right out and say it: this is the best footwork...
Spinnaker Record Club is a weekly selection of music releases designed to introduce students to sounds they may not find elsewhere.
When I saw Majical Cloudz open for Grizzly Bear in June of 2013,...
Yards away from the homes where we lay our heads, a war rages. Across a border, a nation boils with the most horrific violence imaginable. Fathers are taken from their families. Families are taken...
Spinnaker Record Club is a weekly selection of music releases designed to introduce students to sounds they may not find elsewhere.
The following is filled with cat puns. Very bad ones. You have...
Where you stand at a Death Grips show is everything. More than any other band, your position in the venue affects your reception of the violent din they create. And the best possible positions are either...
Spinnaker Record Club is a weekly selection of music releases designed to introduce students to sounds they may not find elsewhere.
The last time I tried to listen to Deafheaven’s album Sunbather,...
Spinnaker Record Club is a weekly selection of music releases designed to introduce students to sounds they may not find elsewhere.
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Spinnaker Record Club is a weekly selection of music releases designed to introduce students to sounds they may not find elsewhere.
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Spinnaker Record Club is a weekly selection of music releases designed to introduce students to sounds they may not find elsewhere.
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Welcome to Spinnaker Record Club! Every week, we’ll review a small selection of the latest music from all genres, focusing on artists and releases the average, busy student might not consider. Let’s...
The University of North Florida has been selected as one of the Princeton Review’s “2016 Best Colleges” for the Southeastern region. This is the seventh consecutive year UNF has been selected...
You know a Beach House song when you hear one, for they all sound very similar, nearly to a fault. Their tempos are slow and languorous, and Alex Scally’s guitar slides across keyboard textures,...
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On Aug. 9, HBO finished following up one of its biggest hits with its most high-profile flop. True Detective, which astounded audiences and critics...
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As "Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation" enters theaters, the 20-year-old spy franchise just now seems to be finding its voice. After an...
Punks never really valued excess. That’s what they were all against: those garish corporate rock bands from the '70s – Journey, Boston, Electric Light Orchestra – that Tame Impala is currently...
As one of the most subversive comedians working today, Amy Schumer’s meteoric success is unsurprising. Her hit TV show Inside Amy Schumer fine-tunes her brand of comedy first seen in the fantastic...
When, oh, when will indie music desist from its sickening fetishism of nostalgia?
Although rock specifically has been in a freefall of revivalism since the turn of the millennium, our current plight...
After a 2014 with few triple-A hip-hop releases, it’s clear we are in the midst of a stellar year for the genre. Kendrick Lamar infused an entire African-American experience into To Pimp a Butterfly,...
Think of a memory. An important one, something you couldn’t bear to forget. How does it make you feel? Happy? Sad? Why not both? According to Inside Out, the latest ambitious film from Pixar Animation...
It should be obvious to anyone who watches movies that we are currently in the middle of a franchise blockbuster glut. Some are better than others: Mad Max: Fury Road set a new benchmark for action...
Some weeks ago, a film came out that you were going to see. That film is a product of our moment: a summer stuffed wall-to-wall with CGI-rendered sci-fi adventures, all shambling toward the mass market,...
If reviews are meant to tell people whether or not they should see a movie, then this one is pointless. You’re going to see Age of Ultron. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but eventually, you...
It can look like anyone. It can take the shape of a complete stranger or a close friend when it really wants to mess with you. It can only be seen by you, so good luck convincing anyone it’s real....
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It’s been a bumpy ride to the screen for the latest Fast and Furious movie, but then again, having to contend with the death of a lead cast member,...
It’s been nearly a full year since Death Grips, the most exhilarating band of this era, released the first part of a planned double album, then unceremoniously “broke up.” In the span of the...
Better Call Saul – Mondays @ 10 p.m. on AMC
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As the unneeded spin off to one of TV’s most beloved shows, Better Call Saul has no right to be...
Note: this review was written before Feb. 22. It is not a response to any awards, although Spinnaker did correctly predict the film’s Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography and...
The biggest problem with the Academy Awards, I find, is most of the films it recognizes are quite hard to find. Many are still in the theater, which costs money, even gas. Some are available on DVD, which...
Valentine’s Day can be the definition of misery if you’re single, or it can be the best day ever if you’re in a relationship. Whether you’re sad, heartbroken, in love or anywhere in between,...
From the title, it’s obvious the new album from Noah Lennox, who forms part of Animal Collective, is about death. It’s called Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper - very straightforward. The listener...
Los Angeles, 1970: the Age of Aquarius is slowly being suffocated. The sunny, utopian California dream of the hippies is burning up thanks to encroaching drug addiction, the crushing disgust of the...
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It’s a simple, yet interesting premise: a talk show host and producer get permission to interview Kim Jong-un, dictator of North Korea, and the...
The Ospreys won the River City Rumble 2-0 against their hometown rival, Jacksonville University, this past Saturday, Oct. 4 at Hodges Stadium. North Florida has not beaten the Dolphins since 2009 and...
The Lady Ospreys weren’t able to connect for a goal on any of the 10 shots they took during their home game against Florida Gulf Coast University on Friday night.
The UNF women’s soccer team...
EDM is bad for America. After years of ignoring electronic music, dismissing it as Euro-trash or soulless, repetitive tripe, the Land of the Free has finally embraced it in the worst possible way....
Considering that the most famous bands lumped into the descriptive pool of pop punk are Blink-182 (sellouts) and Green Day (huge f---ing sellouts), pop punk is generally one of those genres that one...
Jacksonville’s local music scene doesn’t exactly have a shining reputation. The most successful artist to come out of the city in the last 20 years is Limp Bizkit, and today we play host to a school...
Usually, Album Spotlight brings you a look at the latest, most exciting indie music. This time around, we’re going to do something a bit different. Two legendary, genre-defining classic albums...
One of the most overlooked records of 2012 was Light Up Gold, the debut album from Brooklyn indie rock band Parquet Courts. Self-released on frontman Andrew Savage’s Dull Tools label in August, it...
Swans are known both for looking supremely graceful and dignified and for being violently territorial, especially when defending their offspring. If you've had a run-in with the Canadian geese – a...
This new collaborative project uniting three seemingly disparate indie voices holds many surprises.
Sufjan Stevens became an immensely important artist in the early 00s with a lilting voice...
Texas native Annie Clark, better known by her stage name St. Vincent, has garnered a reputation as one of the most interesting indie-pop artists of the last decade.
While her sophomore album Actor...
What were once Daily Discovery articles have been renamed as Album Spotlights.
If one thing could be said about Broken Bells, it’s that they crafted a unique, if uninspiring, sound. Broken Bells...
Dum Dum Girls’ excellent 2012 EP End of Daze hit all the right notes thanks to its atmospheric blend of indie-pop and garage-rock. Their newest album, Too True, delves heavily into goth-rock. This...
The late 90s second wave of post-rock is a genre known for lengthy, purely instrumental songs that make extensive use of distorted guitar. The typical post rock piece is a 10 to 20 minute squall of...
Fans of Flying Lotus, Los Angeles’ most celebrated electronic producer, had a very good day Dec. 10th. That afternoon, the man behind Cosmogramma and Until the Quiet Comes reached 300,000 followers...
The end of the year marks the beginning of the annual music journalism tradition: “best of…” lists. Bands with zero resemblance whatsoever are pitted against each other in a musical battle royale....
