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Osprey Radio’s Top 20 Albums of the Year

Mason McGough | Dec 14, 2012

Written by Mason McGough, featuring Trevor Johnson where marked. 2012, along with 2000 and technically every other year ever, will henceforth be known as the year the world didn’t end. Probably....

Album Review: Centipede Hz by Animal Collective

Mason McGough | Aug 28, 2012

For a group with a track record as long as Animal Collective’s, it’s astounding how little Centipede Hz sounds like their past work. If anything, it most closely approximates the underworld sounds of Avey Tare’s solo album Down There. Animal Collective is not the band people think it is, simply because it’s never been.

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Album Review: America by Dan Deacon

Mason McGough | Aug 28, 2012

America scarcely relents in its charge, building steadily upon psychedelic jams that culminate in explosive symphonies of sound. I can’t help but be reminded of a similar classic called Vision Creation Newsun by the Japanese avant-rock band Boredoms. The tone of the record is always an impenetrable elation, much like the Boredoms album.

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Album Review: NO by Old Man Gloom

Mason McGough | Aug 28, 2012

“YES” seems a more appropriate name for this album, at least cosmetically. No cavern is left untrodden, no matter how dark or foreboding. And the earth-shattering metal that intersperses them is the best part.

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New UPS store opens on campus

Olivia Osland | Aug 1, 2012

A full-service UPS store opened in Building 8, near Sbarro and Auxiliary services. The new store offers printing services, individual mailboxes, a student storage program and a move in/move out program.

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Album Review: channel ORANGE by Frank Ocean

Michael Radcliffe | Jul 23, 2012

Frank Ocean’s debut LP, channel ORANGE, is an album of undirected life and young love. These concepts have been seen before, but it’s the angle in which Ocean sees them that makes them fresh.

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Album Review: Swing Lo Magellan by Dirty Projectors

Mason McGough | Jul 13, 2012

“There’s an answer/ I haven’t found it/ But I will keep dancing ‘til I do,” sings Dave Longstreth on Dirty Projectors' single “Dance for You.” It’s clear from Swing Lo Magellan and...

Album Review: The Nature of Things by The Daredevil Christopher Wright

Mason McGough | Jul 6, 2012

Similar in cosmetics to the also fancifully named Father John Misty, The Daredevil Christopher Wright returns with a sophomore LP that pairs baroque arrangements with dire sentiment.

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Police Beat

Spinnaker | Sep 11, 2011

Police Beat By Kathleen Godfrey Aug. 25 - Intoxicated Person (outside Coxwell Amphitheater) UPD responded at 8:45 p.m. to a drunken and uncooperative person attempting to access the stage area. Contracted...

Album Review: Justin Bieber revolutionizes pop music with jaw-dropping beats, vocal prowess

Spinnaker | Mar 30, 2010

Don't think twice about adding Justin Bieber to your music library!

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