By: A.J. Gunning, Steve Coulter

The five contenders for best picture this year mirror the five directors nominated for best director. It is interesting that the field has been extended to 10 films, which has allowed movies like “District 9” and “An Education” to ...

By: Alaina Rook

The name comes from a poem written in 1852 by a poet named Matthew Arnold. It articulated for us, the feeling of being lost, feeling disillusioned with the world, feeling like there’s a lot of crap around and we wanted to get through it. We thought,...

By: Johanna Zeller

Offering a few laughs here and there, the comedy “Cop Out,” director Kevin Smith’s new movie, is a satirical look at those interracial buddy-cop flicks of the 1980’s. After Smith’s previous hits with comedy films “Clerk...

By: Cory Lamz

Spoon is that band all your friends rock out to. Spoon is that band that plays as the soundtrack to every summer party. Spoon is that band on the radio you tap your fingers to as if you were the drummer. And with the release of Transference, Spoon’s...

By: Brooke Way

It has been 10 years since English R&B band Sade has released a new album, yet with the release of lead singer-songwriter Sade Adu’s sixth studio album Soldier of Love, the beautiful and talented artist clearly proves that she is still standing ...

By: Devin Pitts-Rogers and Taylor Cutshall

This past weekend, the Newman Center continued its tradition of offering great music at the Mile High Voltage Festival that showcased performers of vastly different genres. The audience was mostly community members. The student population was underreprese...

By: Cory Lamz

When Corinne Bailey Rae told us to put a record on two years ago, her careless abandon was infectious. Now, four years later, the English soul singer has more than one dimension to share with the world. On her second album, The Sea, Rae continues to sing ...

By: Steve Coulter

In his new movie “Shutter Island,” director Martin Scorsese shifts focus from the psychology of having a loaded gun pointed at your face to the psychology of being trapped in your own mental prison. The outcome is a suspense-thriller-turned-dr...

By: Alex Gunning

Heart-bursting, blood-pumping and pulse-racing, the “Wolfman” provides an adequate thrill ride, but the squeamish should be weary that every curdling worry becomes fully realized in the gory resolutions of the action sequences....

By: Brooke Way

Lil Wayne’s album Rebirth hit the shelves on Feb. 2 and has since received mixed reviews. The album was supposed to be released in 2009, yet was repeatedly pushed back until finally debuting just before Lil Wayne’s year-long jail sentence afte...

By: Deidre Helton

That’s one of the things I enjoy about this band is that we’re able to play with different kinds of musicians and pull it off and appeal to their crowd....

By: Alex Gunning

It was a raucous night at the Marquis theater where as many as 250 people braved the trip to see seven DU bands put on an excellent show....

By: Texas band tells too many jokes, doesn't play enough music

When Bowling for Soup played the Bluebird Theater last week, the performance ran more like a comedy show than a concert. The members of this Texas quartet couldn’t keep their minds—or balls—out of the gutter....

By: Alaina Rook

British electropop band Hot Chip takes listeners on an auditory adventure with all the personality of a schizophrenic on its fourth album, One Life Stand....

By: Taylor Cutshall

“Valentine’s Day” strives to make up for what it is missing in wit, pacing and passion with a star-studded line-up and the classic array of romantic comedy feel-good moments, and it doesn’t fall too short....

By: Cory Lamz

The record is telling the story of a relationship that really could be anybody’s relationship. [The hospice concept] gives it a lot of guilt and selfishness and selflessness. The hospice seemed like an appropriate way to describe that, an appropriat...

By: Taylor Cutshall

Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice, Finnish rock band HIM’s seventh studio album, attempts to be their greatest yet. Unfortunately, it succumbs to a number of awkward pitfalls that leaves fans with mixed feelings....

By: Alex Gunning

In recent years, the Super Bowl has become less concert and more a preview to upcoming cemetery attractions. This year, it was The Who’s turn to do Brett Favre proud and add to their extensive rock legend....

By: Alaina Rook

DU just cannot seem to get enough of Milkman. After the mash-up artist's resounding success with the student body when presented by Sigma Chi at the Gothic Theater last May, Milkman seemed a natural choice for DUPB to recruit to preform at this past weeke...

By: Alaina Rook

The performance given by Behrens and Turner can be summed up in one word: extreme....