Self-titled albums are the traditional way for a musical act to introduce themselves. Here I am, they say — here’s where it starts. So what are we to make of Bleachers’ new album, their fourth and self-titled?
It signals that “Bleachers” is a rebirth of sorts. Singer-songwriter Jack Antonoff — the accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Grammy-winning super-producer and New Jersey cool kid — offers a mature, kaleidoscopic 14 tracks, with turns into softer directions and styles.
If Bleachers in the past was all angsty attitude, barreling down the Garden State Parkway with a middle finger through the sunroof, this time Bleachers is…
MACOMB (WGEM) – Tuesday afternoon some Western Illinois University students had the opportunity to perform newly composed music in front of an audience.
WIU School of Music held a student concert for friends, family, and the public.
What made this concert really unique was the music being performed was composed by students, giving them some real world experience into music composition.
Some of the students hope the experience they get here will help them later in their careers.
“Grabbing at every opportunity you can to compose is really going to be beneficial. Because the more experience you get with this…
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Vaporwave has always been primarily a sampler’s genre. There is, however, a sliver of practitioners who do it with the craft of traditional composers, and prolific Orlando artist Breadbarn is one of the newest worth noting.
Just like accomplished fellow local artist Dan Mason, Breadbarn specializes in a sample-free brand of electronic pop that weaves the vaporwave nostalgia all by hand, rather than the plunderphonic approach that’s endemic to the microgenre.
Brent Barnhart — the mind behind Breadbarn — is precise, even academic, in his pursuit of the vaporwave aesthetic. “I want people to think that what…
