Music

From Paul Niemisto: Two of Nordic Europe’s great virtuoso fiddlers, Arto and Antti Järvelä, will perform at St. Olaf College September 28. 7:00 PM in Urness Recital Hall.  The cousins belong to an illustrious musical family from Kaustinen, Finland, whose tradition of fiddling at weddings in Finland goes back more than 300 years.  Grounded in the musical

I think I first met Chinedu (Emerald Ahymo) in the summer of ’09. He was practically a statue in Rittenhouse Square. If you were coming through, you couldn’t miss him, and you didn’t want to. Chin would start freestyling out of no where and it felt so crazy that such a talented rapper could be

Fujiya & Miyagi – Artificial Sweetners RIYL Hot Chip, Kraftwerk   {source}  <iframe width=”440″ height=”248″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/h05cqXcWq_o” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> {/source}   Artificial Sweeteners is an experience. It’d best be described as a Trance/Rock, but this description doesn’t do it justice. The album has a wide range of sound. Each song has different movements while staying comfortably

Check out this catchy track from an up and coming pysch-rock group out of Madison. They call themselves D o l o r e s. If you like this one, they even have a couple more tracks up on their soundcloud for your listening enjoyment!

New Music Week 9 Black Lips – Underneath the Rainbow Black Lips are back with the soundtrack to your life as a juvenile delinquent. Same lo-fi garage/punk you love so much. A little bloozier. Super fun and playful. RIYL: Fidlar, Ty Segall, Violent Femmes, together PANGEA Real Estate – Atlas Real Estate’s latest is a

Top adds this week at KRLX!   St. Vincent – S/T Exciting new stuff from the lovely Annie Clark. Daring, BOLD. Catchy with nice melodies and shit. Sounds other-worldly and fun and upbeat and, like, good for you Annie Clark! RIYL: tUnE-yArDs, Micachu and the Shapes, Dirty Projectors   Guided By Voices – Motivational Jumpsuit

DJ duo out of Japan. Kimonos meet Akai Sampler – fusing tradition with technology. Watch it though to the end.

A month into 2014, some of the board members reminisced about their favorite songs and albums from the last year. Here are their picks!  Cole Frank: top 10 tracks of 2013 and associated adjectives/adverbs (in no particular order) So Good at Being in Trouble – Unknown Mortal Orchestracasually morose The Only Shrine I’ve Seen –

  Lamp is an experimental rock group from Chicago that combines electronics with oversized guitar sounds and frenetic vocal work. Music video produced and directed by Joey ’13 Fishman and Matt ’13 Spevack Video Effects by Tim Little