Subgenre of the Week: “Disney Shit”
This week’s subby is a quicky but goodie. Surely, by now, you’ve seen Rebecca Black’s YouTube gem “Friday” and its subsequent parodies (if not, I would highly recommend watching before continuing reading). It’s terrible, and we all know it. And yet, I really don’t understand what the fuss is all about. Yes, “Friday” is the [...]
Read MoreSubgenre of the Week: Plunderphonics (feat. Kanye West)
We live in an age where our post-modern sensibilities have translated into flourishing musical creativity. This, paired with the death of radio, has led to the creation of nearly every subgenre imaginable. But how do you keep track of them all? Each week, we here at the Quest do our best to help you make [...]
Read MoreSubgenre of the Week: Nu-disco
We live in an age where our postmodern sensibilities have translated into flourishing musical creativity. This, paired with the death of radio, has led to the creation of nearly every subgenre imaginable. But how do you keep track of them all? Each week, we here at the Quest do our best to help you make [...]
Read MoreSubgenre(s) of the Week: Nintendocore (feat. Holiday Pop)
As the holidays are fast approaching and light radio stations spin seasonal tunes 24/7, it was tempting to go easy with this week’s subgenre installment and discuss my mother’s favorite artist: Josh Groban, that pop-era star so fiendishly notorious for his overwhelmingly sentimental rendition of Christmas songs (especially among the middle-age mom set). But I [...]
Read MoreSubgenre of the Week: Electrofunk
We live in an age where our postmodern sensibilities have translated into flourishing musical creativity. This, paired with the death of radio, has led to the creation of nearly every subgenre imaginable. But how do you keep track of them all? Each week (well, most weeks) we here at the Quest do our best to [...]
Read MoreSubgenre of the Week: Post-rock
As lighting rent the sky, the five members of Giants rushed into the boathouse bearing lamps and guitars. In a tiny building more often used for auctions and American Legion dances, this band, illuminated only by the soft glow of a few old lamps, let loose soaring chord structures that rivaled the storm’s blast; to [...]
Read MoreSubgenre of the Week: Crunkcore
We live in an age where our postmodern sensibilities have translated into flourishing musical creativity. This, paired with the death of radio, has lead to the creation of nearly every subgenre imaginable. But how do you keep track of them all? Each week, we here at the Quest do our best to help you make [...]
Read MoreSubgenre of the Week: Chillwave
We live in an age where our postmodern sensibilities have translated into flourishing musical creativity. This, paired with the death of radio, has lead to the creation of nearly every subgenre imaginable. But how do you keep track of them all? Each week, we here at the Quest do our best to help you make [...]
Read MoreKRRC FALL 2010
SUNDAY 1pm – Brent Bailey and Mike Kalange – “The Kerr 2 Conundum” 4pm – Reed Arroyo – “Heavy, Fast, and Slow” 5pm – Jensen Maloy – “Punk as Fuck” 6pm – Alden Jones and Cora Walters – “It Was a Good Day” 7pm – Evan Owens-Stively and Creighton Wiedner – “Black Elf Speaks” 8pm [...]
Read More5 Songs for the Dirtiest Hipster Prom
Remember high school? You know, back when you weren’t a hipster? You may not have been preaching the gospel of that obscure freak-folk collective, but nevertheless, the music they played at your senior prom most likely wasn’t tailored to your “alternative” musical proclivities. Instead, you probably had some lame DJ with iTunes crossfader encouraging you [...]
Read MoreThe Five Songs You Need to Survive Being Sexiled
At some point in your college career, you’re sure to get sexiled. Instead of taking it lying down (I’m sure there’s a lame pun in there somewhere, forgive me for not taking the time to find it), you should definitely use this playlist to turn what could be a miserable experience into a wonderful opportunity [...]
Read MoreEvents Calendar: Week of September 15th
Greek Theatre Performance
September 16, 12:00pm
September 17-19, 7:00pm
Ampitheatre
5 Songs to Bone To
After a certain Queditor had an unfortunate experience involving copulation to the tunes of Animal Collective (seriously?!), one of our rank decided to rectify the situation with by compiling a short playlist of songs more appropriate for everyone’s favorite extracurricular activity…besides having pretentious conversations about your favorite Lethem book during your downtime – goddamn hipsters. [...]
Read More5 Songs to Get You Through Your Hum Paper
In an effort to match up the readings with the paper topics, the new syllabus has bumped up the deadline for the first Hum paper to this Saturday. If you’re anything like I was as a freshman, you have sixteen million ideas swirling around in your head and nothing on paper. Or maybe you have [...]
Read MoreMusicfestNW comes to Portland
Andrew Choi and En-Szu Hu-Van Wright If you’re new around here, you’ll quickly find out that Portland is a great place for music. The fact that we’re sandwiched between LA and Seattle means that all the good bands end up coming through here. MusicfestNW (abbreviated as MFNW) is unquestionably Portland’s largest alternative music event. It’s [...]
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