Groovy basslines, artful falls, four-to-the-floor beats with cheesy claps, flamboyant synths and sensitive fades: that is the sound of disco, the dance phenomenon that took the world by storm in the ‘70s and ‘80s, sweeping every nightclub with its contagious hooks and catchy beats. East Asia, with the trauma of World War II not too…
EDM is dead. The golden age of electronic music is long gone, now only a distant memory. The biggest culprit of this decline is the dastardly phenomenon known as future bass, characterized by sweeping synths that all sound like the same, strange chipmunked vocals, chants from the latest Cymatics sample pack and a hyper-caffeinated euphoric…
On September 8th, electronic duo ODESZA released their highly anticipated sophomore album, titled “A Moment Apart.” Their first release since their first album “In Return” (2014), “A Moment Apart” debuted at #3 on the Billboard 200 to critical acclaim, instantly making the album one of the hottest electronic music releases of 2017. Combining influences from…
The Stanford Concert Network (SCN) put on yet another successful Frost Music & Arts Festival last Saturday, featuring performers Charles Calvet, Broods and Zedd. Due to renovations, this year’s festival was moved from its namesake, Frost Amphitheater, and was instead held at Stanford Stadium. I’d heard about the magic of Frost Amphitheater: the feeling of…
Brother-sister duo Broods rose to prominence in 2013 with their breakout debut single “Bridges,” an emotive, weighty pop-anthem with powerful, heartrending vocals. Broods proved to be no one-hit wonder, coming out with two more convincing albums titled “Evergreen” (2014) and “Conscious” (2016). Hopefully, there are many more to come. Listening to Broods’ music is…
ODESZA looks to please the EDM scene once again with their upcoming new album. Last week, they dropped two new preview singles, “Line of Sight” and “Late Night.” The Seattle-based production duo hasn’t released anything big since 2014’s “In Return,” which featured the hits “Say My Name” and “All We Need.” ODESZA has long been known…
Writing a song is difficult. Writing a good song is even more so. Songwriting is a labor of love: Though the average song is usually three to five minutes long, it can take hundreds of hours for a song to develop from a small idea into a full track. But somehow, we never run out of…
Music is emotional. We’ve all heard music that makes us feel happy, excited, pensive or melancholy. Music is also a universal activity. The question, “What music do you listen to?” usually returns an eclectic range of responses unique to each person; I’ve yet to hear someone respond to that question with a droll, “Oh, I…
