This week, I’m looking back at a double feature concert from April 1965 (actually 1966, but we’ll get to that momentarily): legendary bluesmen Mississippi John…
The album sounds like it was put together with the utmost care, as if the musicians knew the great emotional weight this album carries.
Each week, members of the group venture into Oberlin’s neighborhoods, arms laden with recording equipment in their distinctive yellow buckets, to observe how eastern gray…
If there’s one facet that binds their discography together, it’s the undeniable, feel-good danceability of their music—a quality they’ve been dedicated to since their debut…
“Some star-crazed freaks are planning to throw their joints up on stage when Garcia makes his grand entrance tomorrow.”
From Cinema Studies majors to Creative Writing majors to anyone in between, Oberlin is filled with students interested in pursuing an entertainment industry career. Whether…
Carter wielded his passion for music as a political tool, a means for communicating and crafting ideas, and most importantly, as a way to connect…
The perception that all jazz musicians were tragic figures who poured nothing but suffering into their art and then died young isn’t just patently false…