Music
Elliot Alpern: Why do we segregate music?
BY ELLIOT ALPERN
And yet, strangely, I seem to have found a gap, a rather blatant form of segregation that seems not only obvious, but accepted as a standard of the community: The popular musical genres are segregated.
Single Review: Back to Blake's roots with 'Retrograde'
- R&S
BY THOMAS KLEPACZ
Blake’s new single, “Retrograde,” is tinged with novel R&B croon and 808 bass, sounds Blake was only barely comfortable with years ago.
Yo La Tengo to return to A2 with a Michigan Theatre performance
- Matador
BY MAX RADWIN
Yo La Tengo returns to Ann Arbor Friday for a one-night performance at The Michigan Theatre before continuing their tour onto Toronto. The Ark is putting on the show.
Viral Video Review: Beyoncé rules the Super Bowl with pitch-perfect halftime performance
- Columbia
BY KAYLA UPADHYAYA
For 13 minutes, Beyoncé interrupted an evening dedicated to violent and macho-centric world of professional football. For 13 minutes, women — and mostly women of color — had control of the Superdome.
Notebook: Lil B is the real badass
- Amalgam
BY THOMAS KLEPACZ
Joey Bada$$ can scoff at Lil B’s skills, YouTube commenters can lament over his influence on hip hop, and the Grammys can mysteriously remove him from a performance competition, but The BasedGod’s material stands for itself.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra darkens its lo-fi groove on 'II'
- Jagjaguwar
BY KATIE STEEN
It’s clear that Unknown Mortal Orchestra hasn’t lost any of the lo-fi groove that it introduced in 2010, but this time around, the band has opted to explore the shadows of loneliness rather than profess its love for bikes and Jello.
Scotland's Frightened Rabbits scribe a dark, clever 'Pedestrian Verse'
- Atlantic
BY JACKSON HOWARD
Pedestrian Verse is full of Frightened Rabbit’s trademark Scottish folk music, and Lead vocalist Scott Hutchison sounds as confident and depressed as ever.
The B-side
Herb David: Crafting Ann Arbor's musical legacy
He's made guitars for Eric Clapton, Sonic Youth, the Byrds and Jerry Garcia, hung out with Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix and lived near the center of Ann Arbor's once-blossoming countercultural music scene. He's also one of the country's best instrument maker and he lives right around the corner.
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