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Down and out in CoMo: A guide to living cheap
Life for an MU student can be tough. Most of us are living on a budget. What many students don’t do, however, is take full advantage of what their tuition is paying for. Here’s a slacker’s guide to...
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Album Review: Shaking The Habitual
Photo courtesy of The Knife Shaking The Habitual is at once an electronic beat enthusiast’s and sociology major’s dream come true. The Knife’s first full-length album since 2006’s Silent Shout is,...
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Jukebox the Ghost will rock Mojo’s
Photo courtesy of Partisan PR Brooklyn trio Jukebox the Ghost is playing Mojo’s Wednesday April 17. The pop-rockers are touring following the release of Safe Travels, released in August. If you haven’t...
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Album review: The Terror
Photo Courtesy of Warner Brother Records Flaming Lips are constantly evolving within its own niche of psychedelic rock. From its early, noisy releases such as Oh My Gawd!!!…The Flaming Lips to...
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Album review: Bankrupt!
Photo courtesy of Phoenix French indie band Phoenix has come to define the sound of generic indie pop rock. Its last album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix had hits like “Lisztomania” and “1901” that sifted...
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Album review: Ready to Die
Courtesy of Iggy and the Stooges Oh, another album by an aging rock star. Some musicians mature with time, and their twilight works are some of the best in their canons. Tom Waits and David Bowie are...
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Breakdown gears up for summer
Photo courtesy of Breakdown Breakdown isn’t the typical Columbia band. The members aren’t punks who frequented Hair Hole or hip-hop kids from the now defunct No Coast scene. It started as a frat band,...
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The Schwag say farewell for now
Jimmy Tebeau (far left) started The Schwag in 1991 and has played more than 3,000 professional shows since. Photo courtesy of The Schwag Since 1991, The Schwag has been Missouri’s very own version of...
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Album review: Limits Of Desire
Photo courtesy of Jagjaguwar Brooklyn-based band Small Black is on the opposite end of the indie rock spectrum as the band it cops its name from —Steve Albini‘s ’80s hardcore Big Black. Instead of...
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Elusive Parallelograms: bad name, great music
Elusive Parallelograms Where: Mojo’s When: May 17, 8:30 p.m Cost: $5 Elusive Parallelograms are, frankly, elusive. The Milwaukee-based experimental rock group’s website looks like a gaudy GeoCities...
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Q&A With True/False Musicmaster Amanda Rainey
Photo by Jiaxi Lu True/False isn’t just about the movies. There’s a plethora of events for music fans, too. With more than 25 bands playing at various locations and genres ranging from world music to...
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This week in music: Jan. 24-31
Art Courtesy of Other Music Recording Co. Album of the week: True Hallucinations by Ex Cops. Brooklyn duo Ex Cops power through a haze of vintage sound with catchy pop song after song. Throughout its...
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This week in music Feb. 1 – Feb. 8
Courtesy of My Bloody Valentine Album of the week: mbv by My Bloody Valentine. On Saturday Feb. 2 , after 22 years of waiting, My Bloody Valentine got what they were waiting for – the follow-up to...
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Top five rock documentaries
True/False is only a week away, and everybody is catching the fever. In anticipation of a documentary filled weekend that will premier two music documentaries to Columbia, Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer...
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Concert recap: Mojo’s A-Go-Go
Photo by Jonas Weir. The True/False Mojo’s A-Go-Go showcase started out with sparse crowd of around 30 people, but it grew exponentially as the night went on. Photo by Jonas Weir. The first act was...
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Album Review: Shaking The Habitual
Photo courtesy of The Knife Shaking The Habitual is at once an electronic beat enthusiast’s and sociology major’s dream come true. The Knife’s first full-length album since 2006’s Silent Shout is,...
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Jukebox the Ghost will rock Mojo’s
Photo courtesy of Partisan PR Brooklyn trio Jukebox the Ghost is playing Mojo’s Wednesday April 17. The pop-rockers are touring following the release of Safe Travels, released in August. If you haven’t...
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Album review: Bankrupt!
Photo courtesy of Phoenix French indie band Phoenix has come to define the sound of generic indie pop rock. Its last album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix had hits like “Lisztomania” and “1901” that sifted...
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