Earwormz: The New Abnormal

We’re out! Read about The Strokes’ latest album for the last edition of this music column

Quarantunes

A gentle reminder to viewers to support homegrown artists, especially in these trying times.

Earwormz: Quarantine Tunes

An introduction to some short and crisp, genre-bending productions.

Remembering Andrew Weatherall

Andrew Weatherall: Creating an oasis of slowness in a world of increasing velocity.

Underground Experimental: Loud and Lost

To silence or to tolerate? What can the experimental sounds of Saadiyat tell us about our pockets of underground culture?

Earwormz: Politics of Sound

From Plato to Bernie, music has always been political.

Food for Thought

Hear thoughts, opinions, and concerns from the current graduating class on one of NYUAD’s most contested topics: Campus Dining.

Earwormz: Barzakh

Refinding the Arts Center through Barzakh Music Festival

Earwormz: The Legacy of House

This week Earwormz examines the survival of disco music, in the face of racist and homophobic attacks, and how it gave birth to a new genre altogether: house music.

Earwormz: Yesterday

Music, coupled with context and memory, can provide an immense nostalgia that connects with one’s yesterday. Aravind and Reema use tracks from their past to offer us a retrospective experience of music.

Earwormz: Dubai’s New Groove

Earwormz this week finds themselves at the Dubai festival Grooves on the Grass. With both acts on at the same time and on different stages, they split up and experienced two musical journeys still being developed by the Arab world.

Kanye West’s Jesus is King: A Batch of Half-Baked Croissants

West’s new album is 27 minutes of empty innovation, A-B rhyme schemes and what we like to call “all filler no killer.”

Earwormz: Tension

This week we decided to explore how artists use various forms of tension to elicit a physical response to their musical performance.

Earwormz: Trip Chunes

This edition we write about the tunes we traveled to as we physically moved across the globe for fall break. From the wet sounds of goa-psy to the sandy drums of Egyptian heritage, we try to narrate a score to our trips.

Students Should Have More Say in Conduct Policies: Dean Martinez

A profile of Dean Michael Martinez: his background, college experience, work at Haverford College and future plans at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Earwormz: Pulse

Aravind and Reema takes the reader through a cross-genre listening session with a specific focus on pulse as both the rhythm we inhabit and the musical core of a song.

Feeling RHCP: Space

In the thick of clueless UFC fans and rock junkies alike, this unexpected experience drove us into Red Hot Chili Pepper deep listening session to try and figure out why this feely was so prevalent in our experience.