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Daily Discovery: AlunaGeorge – Body Music

Zach Sweat | Sep 3, 2013

On Body Music, each track is just as catchy as the last, and every expression of love just as cathartic.

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Daily Discovery: Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe

Andrea Aribe | Aug 30, 2013

Airy, majestic, ethereal... simple adjectives are perhaps the fairest way to characterize Julianna Barwick's newest album. It's a work of simplicity, but Nepenthe is hauntingly alluring.

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Daily Discovery: Moonstone Continuum – Salon Edition

Mason McGough | Aug 29, 2013

Salon Edition pushes the boundary from pastiche to satire in a way that's somewhere between guilty pleasure and downright hilarious. And it does it well.

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Daily Discovery: Volcano Choir – Repave

Mason McGough | Aug 28, 2013

Volcano Choir make only the grandest of gestures. Their new album Repave is a tumultuous experience that remains adherent to a natural order.

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Daily Discovery: Dent May – Warm Blanket

Mason McGough | Aug 27, 2013

Warm Blanket has enough pervasive earworms to make for a charming post-summer listen. The skeletal sound of Dent May's new record instantly recalls Brian Wilson's writing.

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Daily Discovery: Julia Holter – Loud City Song

Mason McGough | Aug 26, 2013

Loud City Song crafts an entire environment around a meager supply of instruments and lyrics. Julia Holter accomplishes this with aplomb, but your enjoyment of this record will ultimately stem from your willingness to step into Holter's eerie world.

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Daily Discovery: Moderat – II

Mason McGough | Aug 1, 2013

The complaint you will always hear from haters of electronic music is that they would prefer something with more of a human element. It's not totally unfounded; most EDM we've come to know is emotionally dead, despite its appeal to the carnal urge for dance.

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Daily Discovery: Pure Bathing Culture – Moon Tides

Mason McGough | Jul 31, 2013

Often likened to Beach House, Pure Bathing Culture struggle to reconnect the listener with the forces of nature that strike us with awe.

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Smoking ban forum held on campus

Gordon Rhyne | Mar 27, 2013

On the first day back from spring break, March 25, UNF held an open forum for students, faculty, and staff to voice their opinions on the recently proposed campus tobacco ban. One student was in attendance. Stephanie...

Coming up short in the call of duty: Black Ops 2 leaves much to be desired

Daniel Woodhouse | Nov 28, 2012

Another edition of Black Ops has been released, adding to an exhaustive list of games in the Call of Duty series. Contributing columnist Daniel Woodhouse plays his way into a critique of the game.

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Movie Review: ‘Pitch Perfect’ hits all the right notes

Katie Gile | Oct 16, 2012

Welcoming the fall season with open arms is the auto-tuned, hilarious love letter to collegiate a capella, Pitch Perfect. In essence, imagine Glee without the hallway drama, with an added a...

Movie Review: Premium Rush pedals a “greener” kind of action flick

Katie Gile | Sep 4, 2012

In this action-thriller, Bike messengers own the streets alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I have a feeling local bike stores are about to get a whole lot more business.

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