I ran into this issue a lot when putting together the second issue of No Fidelity, this April: There is no good way to say anything about anything right now. Everything seems trite, nothing seems to do anything justice, all sense seems lost in this sort of primordial soup into which everything seems to have […]
Word Count: 3,124 (buckle up) Background Here you go: Here is Nicole’s first (and perhaps last) bona fide, full-effort Goodreads review [this, for context, is linked to from a Goodreads review]. As just a quick note, I think David Foster Wallace was a talented writer and is an undeniably space-occupying cultural figure. I’m not sure
In light of the chaotic and seemingly impossible upcoming room draw process, The Bucket is republishing Nicole Collins’s May 2019 “Top Ten Room Draw Numbers” article from The Carletonian. Given she wrote it (and that it was clandestinely also published in The Carl the same week), we presume it is not necessarily unethical that we’ve
Alex Brown occupies a unique and wide-reaching place on social media, in music criticism, and among meme culture writ large. A former college radio show host, Brown also wrote lots for Tiny Mix Tapes before its hiatus. He also runs an (I think hilarious, innovative, post-Boomer) Instagram meme account and plays saxophone for the Asheville,
Calling for Breonna Taylor 7.17.2020 (12-1pm CST) Breonna Taylor, 26, was shot in her home in Louisville, Kentucky on March 13th when three plainclothes police executed a no-knock search warrant while she was sleeping. Her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, has been arrested after he fired on one of the officers in self-defense. Here’s a quote from
We at The Bucket have decided to start a weekly list-of-new-music series titled “The Bucket List.” We’ve attempted to compile relatively- and less-well-known releases by important and impressive artists. This is going to be a weekly thing but the format might change a bit in the meantime (may shorten it, may just list individual songs
Xan Deacon · Wish Book Vol. 2 Item #2 (08-10-19): Free Willie v.2 (REUPLOAD)
Greetings! In case you haven’t heard… KRLX is doing a summer program! (Join our FB page.) Due to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting summer plans pretty much universally this summer, we at KRLX have decided to create a summer content creation program in order to give students something to do these next few months—all the while
Hello hello! Issue II of No Fidelity is out now, at the link below. We’ve decided to ditch Issuu for now because it’s annoying. Don’t tell them we said that… Click here for the NF003 PDF!
Check out the first official release from No Fidelity‘s Music Imprint: March 2020 Split (NF002) by DJ 144.9 and 800 Meter Spring, both performed live in the Record Libe last month. Bandcamp link: http://nofidel.bandcamp.com/album/march-2020-split
Greetings! Like KRLX? Like music journals? Then you’ll love Carleton’s newest music publication, No Fidelity! You can find the Issuu version linked below and the print version scarcely around campus. This has been a long time in the making and I’m really excited to have finally gotten this off the ground! No Fidelity Issue 1 (NF001)
Prolific music writer Matt Diehl ’90 and I talk shop about Zoom mics, bands at Carleton, Public Enemy (and much more) for approx. one hour and thirty-five minutes. Hands-down one of the best conversations of my life. It was really, really neat to get the opportunity to have an in-depth conversation with fellow music nut
Had tons of fun interviewing Emanuel Ayvas, frontman of the endlessly imaginative and eclectic Brooklyn indie rockers Emanuel and the Fear. They’ve got a new album coming out soon –– keep an eye out!!! Here’s the interview: And heeeeere’s the song previewed in the clip: Emanuel and the Fear by Emanuel and the Fear –
(Apologies for the tardiness in uploading reviews. Have been going through medical, name-change, and redesign complications but should be returning to a relatively consistent upload schedule soon.) It seems the case that with every Head & the Heart release I’ve got to defend more and more liking them. It seems that, for me, my fondness
I’ll admit it: I’ve got a soft spot for Serengeti’s “new” EP. Released on Spotify just in the last few weeks, Dust, the collection of six songs was recorded in the early-mid 2000s with producer DJ Crucial in St. Louis. Serengeti—real name David Cohn—is a Chicago-based hip hop artist who grew up somehow not in
In defense of Pink Floyd’s most hated album: Forget the live album. Sure, it’s an amazing few tracks, but that’s not what earns the double album Ummagumma its reputation as one of the worst albums of all time. Released in October 1969, Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma is a double LP (meaning two records included, instead of
For better or worse, Dave Portner (stage name Avey Tare), one of the vocalists of experimental pop quartet Animal Collective, has become, in his own roundabout, eclectic way, a pop star—the kind a crowd of strangers could find themselves head-bobbing to in concert. Relying much more on rhythm and melody than his previous albums (2010’s
Experimental pop guru and critic favorite Noah Lennox—better known as Panda Bear—released his sixth studio album last Friday to hungry fans and non-fans alike. Lennox has explored a plethora of styles throughout his solo musical career, which often served as a foil for his main act—the experimental pop outfit Animal Collective—and their releases over the
A super daring, out-of-pocket move for the band, yet still charming, with great results. With some of Alex Turner’s most inspired songwriting, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino veers from croons to falsetto cries as he ties together an interpretive, loose narrative. Retro-futurist production lies atop hyperrealist satire, escapism, and warm melancholy, creating the equivalent of
