Has there ever been a musical group more committed to the conceptual panacea known as yacht rock than Pablo Cruise? That hindsight-made genre can be found in the name. You can see it in the Pablo Cruise logo: the cheesiest sunset and palm tree art this side of a “My Parents Went to Florida and […]
Has there ever been a musical group more committed to the conceptual panacea known as yacht rock than Pablo Cruise? That hindsight-made genre can be found in the name. You can see it in the Pablo Cruise logo: the cheesiest sunset and palm tree art this side of a “My Parents Went to Florida and […]
A B3 model Hammond organ from 1962, like the type Sam Fribush sets himself up behind, weighs upwards of 310 pounds—and that’s just the console unit alone. Throw the bench and a Leslie speaker in, and you’re easily crossing the 400-pound threshold. When your instrument of choice rivals the usual transportation concerns drummers contend with—their […]
What is it about music as an art form that pushes some people to demand authenticity from those they listen to? Honesty of vision is often expected of musicians in a way that visual or dramatic artists are generally free to ignore—at the very least, there’s supposedly a virtue in musical earnestness that audiences are […]
For a few years now, the UVA music department has taken to highlighting the works of its most progressive and conceptually minded students at the Digitalis Electronic Music Festival each spring. As a loose genre name, electronic music can be confounding to wrap your head around—the classification is broad, and never really reveals what you’re […]