Archives - Jeffrey Howard

‘Rambler Channel’: reinventing nostalgia

[caption id="attachment_105802" align="alignleft" width="200"] Alyssa Arre / Senior Staff[/caption]   Like a talking naked mole rat, Disney's tween culture is…

CT Recommends: Ibibio Sound Machine – “Ibibio Sound Machine”

Ibibio Sound Machine, a 2014 afrobeat dance collective fronted by Nigerian singer Eno Williams, knows its stuff, but not necessarily…

Jesse Denaro: embracing real struggles, finding real answers

[caption id="attachment_104062" align="alignleft" width="300"] Tiffany White / Illustrator[/caption]   Vulnerable, urgent, tender and raucous, Jesse Denaro's "Dear, Love" LP is…

‘Undergraduate Musicians Council’ broadens presence

[caption id="attachment_104022" align="alignleft" width="300"] Courtesy of Steph Hao[/caption] On Friday, April 11, UR's Undergraduate Musicians Council hosted its first annual …

Turkuaz: dancing the distractions away

[caption id="attachment_103152" align="alignleft" width="287"] Tiffany White / Illustrator[/caption] They say today’s music looks to the past to move forward, but…

Stadium-sized ambition, small town soul

On Tuesday, April 8 the X Ambassadors, a Brooklyn-based alt-pop quartet, played Rochester's Bugjar.   I  interviewed the band's  frontman,…

Student buys Starbucks’ Ham and Cheese Square for some incomprehensible reason

On Monday morning, UR freshman Chandler Ross ordered a Ham and Cheese Square from the on-campus Starbucks just before running…

‘Go Yellowjackets!’ post reveals incoming freshman knows nothing about UR

Incoming freshman Chad Hunter could hardly contain his enthusiasm when he posted “Go Yellowjackets!” on UR’s “Class of 2018” Facebook…

D’Angelo’s live reissue and why it could change everything

Is there a “jazz is dead” movement? I guess not — it’d have made its voice amply loud on social…

X Ambassadors: taking from the past, looking to the future

Jeff Howard interviews X-Ambassador front man Sam Harris.