The Student Association has announced that this year's Fall Fest will be held on Saturday Sept. 12 and that the organization will announce the lineup throughout the day.
Who pays for the concerts? What kinds of artists is UB able to bring in? And most importantly, who is going to perform this year?
And Weird Al, a pure entertainer, pulled all the stops for his Buffalo show Wednesday night at UB’s Center for the Arts.
This summer has already seen some anticipated hip-hop albums released, but there's still some upcoming albums - with release dates set and some just rumored - to look forward to.
UB's Jamie Catania has been producing music for almost a decade, storing hundreds of beats in his “vault” and putting a select few on his SoundCloud under the stage name ‘jacebeats.’
Album: Surf Artist: Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment Release Date: May 28 Grade: A+ Social media erupted the night of May 28, harkening the release of Chance the Rapper’s album, Surf. There was only one problem: it wasn’t his album. Technically, Surf is an album from Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment, a Chicago-based band that produces a unique blend of live instrumentation. The quartet is made up of Chance the Rapper, Peter Cottontale, Nate Fox and Donnie Trumpet.
Summer is the season known for beaches, barbecues and blockbusters. Summertime blockbusters coming to a theater near you give the chance to get out of the sun and into some air conditioning while keeping up with the hottest new releases in cinema. So get into your car and drive your way to the nearest theater to catch a few of this summer’s most anticipated movies.
Awful Records is a collective of beat makers, rappers and singers who all write and produce their own music. From graphic design to directing, to mixing and mastering their own tracks, Awful Records maintains a do-it-yourself mentality that is seen in their approach to music and heard in the songs they make. Slug Christ is one of the more unconventional members of the collective and his music combines the playful spirituality of Lil B with the dark undertones of Tyler, the Creator and Three 6 Mafia.
Now, when visitors and students walk through the hallways of the CFA, they come face to face with multiple iridescent murals, painted larger than life, adorning the previously all-white walls. Students are painting the building as their final project for ART 307 Lab: Thematic Drawing.
Spring Fest 2015, hosted by the undergraduate Student Association, featured Young the Giant, Banks, Bear Hands, In the Valley Below and The Royal Tongues. The event was open to the public but free to UB undergraduates who pay the $94.75 semesterly mandatory student activity fee.
Passion Pit has risen from the ashes. The group’s new music has traded sadness for optimism, showing strength and hope through happier lyrical themes such as friends, family, love and good times.
Blur’s first album in 12 years, The Magic Whip, shows the band taking a more sparse and minimalist direction than its late ’90s work. Blur is known for its role in the Britpop scene in the early ’90s alongside bands like Oasis, Placebo and The Spice Girls.
Akram Shibly, a senior media studies major, received an honorable mention at SUNYWide Student Film Festival for his film Heal the World.
Young Thug's album Barter 6 was released on April 16 after months of controversy from the album’s original title, which was Carter 6. Young Thug, instead of focusing on lyricism, makes the melodies the focal point of his music.
Unfriended, according to our assistant arts editor, can be summed up in her following tweet: “I REALLY ENJOYED THE HEAVILY-ADVERTISED, GOOGLE/APPLE/FACEBOOK/SKYPE-SPONSORED PSA/CYBERBULLY REMAKE I JUST PAID $11 TO SEE.”
The final Fireside Chat of the semester occurred Wednesday featuring English professor Judith Goldman and her presentation on how hip-hop and pop music can be used in the classroom.
Victor E. Reichert, a rabbi from Cincinnati, befriended Robert Frost after meeting him at one of the poet’s readings.
Studying and choreographing at UB has allowed Thompson to experience the dancing world and given her access to prestigious intensive programs in New York City and across the United States.
Spring has arrived in the Queen City, which means Buffalo has traded snow banks for mud pits. Whether you enjoy the rainy season or not, there’s one place you always want water to fall – your bathroom. May flowers aren’t here yet, but at least you can smell like one by jamming out in an April shower (baths are cool, too).
The UB Department of Theatre and Dance will host the controversial Broadway hit Spring Awakening for its spring show. While other college casts may try to work around or censor parts of the performance, UB’s audience will be shaking their heads along to unedited versions of the show’s most popular songs like “Totally F*cked” and “The B*tch of Living.”
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