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Conor Oberst is the hottest little indie duckling around. Over the past few years, Oberst’s Bright Eyes project has peddled his singular brand of disingenuous melancholy all the way to the gatekeeper of the musical elite: Maxim’s Blender magazine. His Omaha-based label Saddle Creek have hosted a handful of similarly insipid alt-rockers, many of whom, like The Faint or Rilo Kiley, have recently met Mammon’s warm embrace. Adored by hordes of sobbing alterna-teens, Oberst has generated an elaborate cult of personality that often obscures the mediocrity...
Kirby wrote he would focus future growth of the faculty in the category of non-tenured professors. To encourage the recruitment of young scholars, departments can label associate professorships as tenure-track positions, he wrote...
...decent-sized audience began clapping and snapping their fingers to the ambling, sometimes random beat, getting picked up by a bigger label seemed more than plausible for Grizzly Bear. Still, Droste says Grizzly Bear prefers to do things their own way. He’s hoping to secure a better deal for the band’s next project—right now, he explains, “We don’t really have distribution”—and he wants to get Grizzly Bear more listeners, but Droste isn’t expecting an instant crossover...
...sensibility peeking out from behind their austere sound, as something resembling a more conventional melodic structure rears its head in the middle of some of these new songs. As their eighth album, it represents a major shift for the band: it is their first album for new label Sub-Pop (which, ironically, was Nirvana’s first label, and the current home of Garden State favorites The Shins and the Postal Service), and was co-produced by David Friedman, famous for his work for more exuberant acts like the Flaming Lips. The pretty pop work of Friedman shines through...
...student-run Veritas Records label has also organized performances by Makodo Concern, a student band, and Incadence, a professional cover band...