Ithaca Underground provided a platform for artists to share their music and their political messages during this turbulent time.
Arts & Entertainment
Fleet Foxes’ New Album ‘Shore’ Is A Refreshing Quarantine Anthem
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Pecknold has said that he wanted the album to be a point of stability, “to celebrate life in a time of death.”
1980
PONTIN | Video Did More than Kill the Radio Star
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The medium demands multiple senses, our full attention, tearing us away at least for a few minutes from the relentless multi-tasking that has become our society’s default mode.
Arts & Entertainment
PONTIN | Let’s Take Disco Seriously
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Disco thrived on a disruption of the status quo and a total refusal of the value system that prevailed at the time it was created.
Arts & Entertainment
Cornell Concert Commission to Host Indie Rock Band Hippo Campus
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Hippo Campus is also known for their support of the #MeToo movement, having donated to the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota in 2018 via a merchandise drive.
Arts & Entertainment
Marsupial Lion Invigorates the Ithaca Music Scene
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Marsupial Lion fills the gap between overly chill bedroom pop and new age alternative, harnessing a sound that feels as genuine as it is unique.
Arts & Entertainment
‘Do What You Want’: An Interview With Bad Religion Frontman and Evolutionist Greg Graffin Ph.D. ’03
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We wanted to write about things that were puzzles of human existence. In that sense, there’s a lot of overlap between human evolution and our style of punk.
Arts & Entertainment
TEST SPIN | Taylor Swift — ‘folklore’
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While the old Taylor may never be back, she’s older, braver and all the wiser.
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88rising — It’s Time to Rise to the Occasion
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The relationship between Asian Americans and Black Americans is complicated, with anti-Blackness and a lack of support for Black movements historically existing within the Asian American community.
2020
TEST SPIN | HAIM’s ‘Women in Music Pt. III’ and Summer 2020
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It’s refreshing — almost encouraging — to have our challenges be acknowledged and know that our frustrations are not unique.
Arts & Entertainment
We Have a Lot to Learn from Jazz
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If you’re convinced that your only connection to this style is Spotify’s “Jazz for Study” playlist, I challenge you to think again. Jazz is not just your grandparents’ childhood soundtrack, either.