If you’re mourning the end of summer and the return of your dependency on Eickhoff meals, an array of activities planned this semester may help the transition. Freshmen: you’ll learn. Be, or pretend to be, social at a number of shows in the Rathskeller, judge your peers’ musical abilities or lack thereof, or become a [...]

He may no longer be a teen heartthrob, but Leonardo DiCaprio still knows how to find his way into audiences’ dreams.
In “Inception,” DiCaprio is Dom Cobb, an international fugitive and master of dream invasion, whose talents are coveted and conversant in the world of corporate espionage. Cobb and his point man, Arthur, played by Joseph [...]

Three student bands played at the Brower Student Center patio Sunday night at the College Union Board’s Cafe Under the Stars. Green Paper (above), Mile 0 and Jade greeted the crowd with a mix of originals and covers.

The “Southern Vampire” book series is the series on which that “True Blood” is based. I know that doesn’t raise the integrity level, but the two are nothing alike. While I am a guilty watcher of the HBO paranormal melodrama, Charlaine Harris’ mystery book series is the real treasure.
Unfortunately, the TV show left out the [...]

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“King Of The Beach”

By Matt Jannetti
WTSR Music Director
Some may have expected this album to be a misstep. The frontman, Nathan Williams, had problems with drugs and alcohol that caused him to attack the now former drummer Ryan Ulsh on stage in Barcelona, which led to the tour’s cancellation. However, this album is the furthest thing [...]

‘Toy Story 3’ captures magic of predecessors
I’m a self-proclaimed Disney fanatic, but that isn’t why I loved “Toy Story 3” – not the whole reason, anyway. The third installment of the classic childhood Pixar series is simply and irrevocably perfect.
The film begins many years after we last left the toys of Andy’s room in “Toy [...]

Last Saturday I occupied a space in the Starland Ballroom as wide as my own body.  I stood ass to ass with some of the grimiest, rancid stinking concert goers I’ve ever had the displeasure of being forced to smell.  Wall to wall with bodies, the club’s thermometer read “molten,” and I drank it in, [...]

Day 4 – June 13
Japandroids Dissapoint…Me At Least
I specifically woke up early this morning to get into Centeroo and attain a good spot for Japandroids, the Canadian garage-rock duo that took the indie music world by storm in 2009 with its debut studio album “Post-Nothing” that SPIN rated as its 16th best album of the [...]

Day 3 – June 12
The Postelles Rock The Sonic Stage
I went into Centeroo early this morning to get a good spot for The Postelles noon-time Sonic Stage set.  Luckily for me this New York quartet’s talent for playing a contemporary fusion of crude and powerful 1970s punk rock and mellifluous 1960s Motown was still somewhat [...]

Day 2 – June 11
That Was Awkward
This is the tale of the most embarrassing question I have ever had to ask…ever. I was up early this morning, running on three and a half hours of sleep.  Not by choice, but once that Tennessee sunshine pops its gaseous, incandescent head above the tree line the [...]

Staff writer Chris Rotolo shares his experience at this generation’s version of Woodstock: Bonnaroo
Day 1 – June 10
Humble Beginnings
This year’s Bonnaroo marked the fifth time, since the festival’s inception nine years ago, that a four-day format was used over the original model: a trio of dates.
In the past, top tier acts like The Allman Brothers, [...]

Signal News Editor Matt Huston went behind the scenes at College Union Board’s “Spring Music Mash-up” concert on April 29 to interview performers Asher Roth and Matt and Kim. Along with reporters from WTSR and Lions Television, he spoke with Roth about music, college, and music about college. Later, the group sat down with Matt [...]

What did College Union Board’s (CUB) Spring Music Mash-up, featuring Girl Talk, Matt and Kim and Asher Roth, have in common with Washington’s crossing of the Delaware? According to Roth, the end-of-the-semester bash made for one of the greatest nights in New Jersey’s history.
The April 29 concert, which introduced a new, non-stop lineup and blended [...]

At “The Heroes of Woodstock” concert on April 25, Signal Arts & Entertainment Editor Matt Huston sat down individually with several of the artists that performed at the now-legendary Woodstock festival in 1969. He learned, amongst other things, that mash-up originated in the 17th century and that “Country” Joe McDonald likes Lady Gaga.
Below are excerpts [...]