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This is Growing Up
By JEFF STONE | Oct. 2, 2011Album: Neighborhoods Artist: Blink 182 Label: David Geffen Company Release Date: Sept. 27 Grade: B+
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Of Montreal forgot disco is dead
By Anam Ahmed | Sep. 20, 2010Artist: Of Montreal Album: False Priest Label: Polyvinyl Records Release Date: Sept. 14 Grade: C Georgie Fruit is back. Of Montreal's lead man, Kevin Barnes, morphed into his infamous stage persona (a middle-aged transsexual named Georgie Fruit) about halfway through the band's previous album, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? With a lack of coherent and continuous sound in Of Montreal's new release, False Priest, it's indicative that Barnes has yet to change back to his normal self. Thanks to a nauseating mixture of funk, kaleidoscopic pop hooks and, at times, gothic organ music, False Priest sounds more like a cabaret performance by the nightmarish duo of Prince and Brandon Flowers. The album's high point comes with track three, "Coquet Coquette," a catchy, cheerful and bouncy number that will give listeners a desire to dance. However, False Priest soon spirals wildly out of control. The entire album plods along dutifully as Jon Brion's weak splatters of energy via percussion aren't enough to whip the guitars and synth out of their stupor.
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Cuding Edge
By JAMESON BUTLER | Sep. 1, 2010Trash, smoke and rhymes were abundant in the air outside of Alumni Arena as the kid from Cleveland put on one of the best live shows that has come to UB in years. Kid Cudi, born Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, helped the SA get students excited for the upcoming football season at Tuesday night's Backyard Bash.
