Flea, the founding and long-lasting member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, just released his first solo album ‘Honora’. Andrea Miloshevska PO’ 28 discusses the unexpected and refined jazz soundscapes, the bassist’s rediscovery of his childhood love for be-bop and the trumpet, and the heartfelt meaning of self-knowledge and discovery, at the heart of the record.
Tag: Music
Keith LaMar performs poetry from death row at Freedom First concert
On April 17 and 18, the 5C Prison Abolition Collective hosted an abolitionist poetry reading and concert featuring the work of Keith LaMar, an incarcerated man on death row who called in to the concert to perform his spoken-word poetry.
Nochella and Kohoutek shake up the music scene at the 5Cs
As artists entered the main stage at Coachella in Indio, California, students at the 5Cs were celebrating music festivals of their own. Pomona’s Nochella and Pitzer’s Kohoutek made their annual return on April 12 and 19, respectively.
OPINION: Pomona should reconsider its approach to its troubled musical legacy
Pomona College quietly retired two of most popular songs — “Hail, Pomona, Hail!” in 2008 and “Torchbearers” in 2015 — due to their roots in Blackface minstrelsy and cultural appropriation. While Pomona’s website acknowledges these histories, Zena Ameida-Warwin PO ’28 critiques the College’s choice to remove the songs without engaging the community in any meaningful public dialogue.
Reverb: Playboi Carti — guest of his own ‘MUSIC’?
Atlanta’s rapper Playboi Carti released his third album, “Music,” on March 15. For Tomy Helman PO ’28, the new album was Carti’s attempt to prove he could take the stage on his own. But did he succeed? Is Carti doomed to remain a featured artist?
Claremont Mosaic: Monique Saigal-Escudero: How her grandmother’s courageous act saved her from the Nazis
Born in Paris, France in 1938, Monique Saigal-Escudero is an Emerita Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Pomona College. At just three years old, during the peak of Hitler’s reign in Europe, her grandmother threw her on a train headed for a small city in Southwestern France: an act that ultimately saved her life. Her passion for storytelling would soon bring her back to this history, and once again place her grandmother’s courageousness front and center in her life.
Reverb: Lady Gaga’s ‘Mayhem’ and its shallow chaos
Music columnist Tomy Helman PO ‘28 poses the question: can a pop icon rise again after a Razzie’s “Worst Actress” nomination and an unsuccessful soundtrack album? This was the challenge Lady Gaga faced, and “Mayhem” was her answer.
Music, nature and collaboration at MuCo’s spring concert
Nate Mercereau performed at Walker Beach on March 8 for a 5C Musician’s Coalition concert. Mercereau, alongside saxophonist Aaron Shaw and percussionist Carlos Niño, created an experimental and immersive experience that took sounds from the surrounding natural landscape.
Tune in: KSPC hosts its semi-annual Music and Art Mart
KSPC 88.7 FM hosted this semester’s Music and Art Mart, a market and fundraiser for the station, on March 2 in Edmunds Ballroom. From student performers to local vendors, the event brought together artists and music lovers alike in support of the student-run radio station.
(Dis)Connection in Music: Simon Reynolds on the history and anthropology of music festivals
On March 6, music critic and historian Simon Reynolds spoke about the intricacies of connection at music festivals and raves for the latest lecture in the Connections series, organized by the Humanities Studio.