Fun. guitarist’s project puts out first LP, exceeds expectations
By Cody Smith | July 23, 2014The indie-pop band Fun. set the charts ablaze with its hit singles “We Are Young” and “Some Nights.”
The indie-pop band Fun. set the charts ablaze with its hit singles “We Are Young” and “Some Nights.”
Bruce Yang and his friends woke up the morning after his bachelor party and checked their phones to make sure they hadn’t posted anything embarrassing on social media. That’s when Yang decided to create the app, Sobrr.
Former (for now) Dashboard Confessional frontman Chris Carrabba is appearing at 1982 Bar on July 24 with his latest project, a seven-person folk-rock outfit called Twin Forks. Just like Dashboard Confessional, you’ll want to belt their songs as you drive with the windows down — but for different reasons. Where Dashboard songs spoke of vulnerability edged with mid-2000s emo self-consciousness, Twin Forks sheds those feelings in favor of folksy, uptempo good times. And yes, there’s even some whistling.
You may not know the band Woman’s Hour, but you will soon. Its debut LP, “Conversations,” teases the early makings of a beloved indie-pop band.
The CNTRL-SPACE exhibit by Patrick Pagano, assistant in Digital Arts and Science and UF alumnus, is a new exhibit at the University Galleries that is a part of UF’s Creative B summer activities.
When indie-rock giant Built to Spill decided to perform in Gainesville last October, it wanted an intimate, scaled-back show. So Pat Lavery, owner of local booking company Glory Days Presents, booked them at High Dive.
Among apps that allow you to rate friends and strangers, there is now one that enables coworkers to rate their fellow colleagues.
The title of a recipe gives the first impression of the dish and the author. Recipe titles are printed in special, large type, memorable as the official label. The title can be simply a word, “Oatmeal,” a more elaborate phrase, “Bountiful Blueberry Pie with Spiced Whipped Cream,” or almost a paragraph, a format more typical of earlier recipe titles. One from 1608: “To Make a Walnut, That When you Cracke It, You Shall Find Biskets, and Carrawayes in It, Or a Prettie Posey Written.”
What is the American dream? Does it matter how we achieve it? How far can one go before they are unredeemable? These are all questions James Gray’s The Immigrant expects the audience to grapple with. Whether you find answers is not the film’s problem. The director James Gray is content to let the viewer come to their own decisions, which is both a weakness and strength for the film.
The 2013 Polish black-and-white film, “Ida”, which will end its two-week run at the Hippodrome State Theatre this Sunday, is both a nuanced study of 1960s Eastern Europe and a coming-of-age film that feels familiar and strange at the same time.
After Keenan “Ginger Chestnut” Bailey won The Swamp Restaurant’s first hot dog eating contest Friday by scarfing down nine hot dogs in 10 minutes to take home the grand prize of $100, a $50 certificate to the restaurant and a silver plate with his name engraved, he said he felt just fine.
Reading hundreds of cookbooks and recipes has convinced us that these books form a distinct genre, a storytelling genre, governed by conventions and codes.
The Swamp Dance Fest wants to get dancers moving – for a whole month.
This year’s Creative Summer B will take students to a GPS scavenger hunt, a digital image projection show and a 24-hour filmmaking competition.
Bedroom producing has become all the rage these days. The rapid advancement of music production technology allows musicians access to less expensive programs and tools, sparking a Renaissance of sorts.
After successes of festivals like Big Guava Festival and Sunset Music Festival, Central Florida has rapidly become a formidable market. Luckily for live music lovers, Live Nation Florida announced the lineup to a new festival called Coral Skies Music Festival on Tuesday.
For those seeking fun other than fireworks this Fourth of July, you can check out The High Dive: The local music venue will host a celebration with food and musical performances.
After much album-date release confusion and pandering to white girls on Twitter to revamp excitement, Houston-based rapper RiFF RAFF finally released “Neon Icon” on June 24.
On Monday evening, lo-fi Motown-soul duo III BONES held one of its final rehearsals in Ocala on American Eagle Farm. Light from the setting sun streamed in through the farmhouse’s floor-to-ceiling living-room windows as guitarist/singer Victoria de Benedicty, guitarist/singer Dalton Jacob and fill-in drummer Jared Reddick practiced for III Bones’ farewell show at High Dive on Saturday night.
Recipes are, on one hand, an instruction manual with directions or instructions on how to make something and also a narrative with engaging prose or a story that elevates the procedure into something else entirely.