Max Hill
Album reviews: Justin Timberlake, Islands, and a throwback to Radiohead
September 30, 2013Justin Timberlake – The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2 Reviewed by Max Hill The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2, Justin Timberlake’s follow-up to his triumphant comeback album earlier this year, begins in media res. In contrast to part one, which slowly sunk its teeth in with the groovy opener “Pusher Love Girl,” Timberlake’s new LP doesn’t mince words — from the animalistic autotune of “Gimme What I Don’t Know (I Want)” to the eight bit afrobeat of “True Blood,” 2 of 2 wastes no time immersing its audience. The albums are undeniably similar, and a little repetition is to be…
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Hot Off the Presses
September 30, 2013"The Peak: a university newspaper with a hard-hitting mix of inflammatory editorials, hastily thrown-together comics and reviews, and a news section run the only way self-taught student journalists know how — sloppily." So begins the tagline for Michael Hingston’s debut novel…
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Close to the Edge: Part Two
September 30, 2013Beyond Worlds The year was 1980. Fred Brathwaite, an art student at New York’s Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, had just returned to the borough from an art showcase at the Medusa gallery in Rome. Brathwaite — better known as…
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Album Reviews: Drake, MGMT, and a throwback to Nirvana
September 23, 2013Drake - Nothing Was the Same From its impressive 13 track runtime to its album cover — which calls to mind such hip-hop classics as Nas’ Illmatic and The Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready to Die — it’s clear that Canadian-born emcee Drake…
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Close to the Edge: Part One
September 23, 2013The revolution will be no re-run, brothers. The revolution will be live.” – Gil Scott-Heron The Master Builder Moses led the Israelites across the Red Sea, parting the waters so that they could traverse the dry ground and escape the…
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Dusting for Prints
September 23, 2013In our Orwellian modern era of NSA surveillance and spyware, it’s hard to blame tech users for worrying about their online privacy. In an effort to dissuade fears of hacking, Google recently released a list of common — and therefore…
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A passion for punctuation
September 16, 2013In the seventh grade, I argued with a teacher for 20 minutes over the correct definition of “irony.” In kindergarten, I prided myself on my ability to differentiate “they’re,” “there” and “their.” I distinctly remember losing a friend at a…
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Left of the Dial
September 16, 2013The CJSF offices seem out of time. Amid shag carpeting, countless stickers and posters, and a couple of well lived-in couches, one has to imagine that the space hasn’t changed much since the radio station was first established. If I…
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Album Reviews: Elvis Costello and The Roots, Neko Case, and a throwback to Brian Eno
September 16, 2013Elvis Costello and The Roots - Wise Up Ghost It shouldn’t work. Elvis Costello, the angry young man turned cantankerous cynic behind some of the best cerebral rock ever written (see My Aim is True, This Year’s Model and Imperial Bedroom),…
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Album Reviews: Janelle Monae, The Pixies, and a throwback to Elliot Smith
September 9, 2013Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady The Electric Lady continues Janelle Monáe’s ambitious seven-part concept series, loosely based on Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, in which she stars as a time-traveling android named Cindi Mayweather, sent back in time to free her…
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