Tagged: music


The Blair Boogie: Mika will "Make You Happy"

By Grace Hill | Oct. 19, 2012, 9:24 p.m. | In Music »

With his third studio album "The Origin of Love," which was released in the United States on Tuesday, British singer Mika continues to display the theatricality and unconventionality that his international fan base loves.


The Blair Boogie: A revolution of dance and cultural diffusion

By Lily Gates | Sept. 21, 2012, 9:33 p.m. | In Music »

Forget YOLO, it's all about Korean Pop (K-Pop) artist PSY's motto: Dress classy, dance cheesy.


Blair offers new art electives

By Lily Gates | Sept. 14, 2012, 9:25 a.m. | In Local »

Blair introduced Fashion Drawing and Design, Digital Art 2, Digital Photography and World Drumming to the fine arts curriculum this school year in order to give students a diverse introduction to fine arts.


The Blair Boogie: the boys are back

By Mimi Verdonk | Sept. 7, 2012, 9:09 a.m. | In Music »

"Backstreet's back, all right." They said it in 1998 and they're saying it almost a decade and a half later. You heard it folks, the Backstreet Boys are in, fact, back. But wait. Don't cue the teenage, or in this case thirty-something-year-old, obsessed fans quite yet.


A new way for Green Day

By Caroline Gabriel | Sept. 5, 2012, 9:02 p.m. | In Music »

If one tunes to MTV on Sept. 6 at 8 p.m. they will see numerous current artists and bands performing live at this year's Video Music Awards (VMAs). Among them, Green Day will be performing for their fifth time ever at the VMAs.


TechnoLogical: Why you don't own your iTunes music

By Richard Chen | Sept. 4, 2012, 1:08 a.m. | In News Blog »

30 years ago, if we were to buy Michael Jackson's "Thriller," the album was ours, there were no regulations stopping us from sharing it and giving it to someone else. Today, we aren't actually buying a digital copy of music on iTunes, but only a nontransferable license that allows us to listen to it.


The One Direction infection

By Mimi Verdonk | May 24, 2012, 1:14 p.m. | In Lifestyle Blog »

Move over Justin Bieber! Boy bands are the new big thing...again? With the introduction of England's One Direction and The Wanted to the music scene, and along with their American counterparts Mindless Behavior and Big Time Rush, boy bands have not been this big since 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys. But what does this mean for the state of music? Contrary to what the screaming girls at sold out concerts might think, boy bands are nothing but trouble.


Battling stereotypes in surround sound

By Emma Bergman | Dec. 14, 2011, 11:20 a.m. | In Print Features »

The ventures of most third graders end up abandoned with gobs of Elmer's glue and a few bucks to serve as mementos of far flung dreams of greatness. When now freshmen Zeke Wapner, Ben Miller, Michael Untereiner and Ian Askew decided to start a band in the third grade, not much more was expected of them.


Silver Quill adds musical portion

By Srividya Murthy | Oct. 7, 2011, 12:01 a.m. | In Print News »

Silver Quill will integrate a music section with its present art and literature categories to encourage submissions from musically talented Blazers and to expand their readership to a broader subset of the student body.


Blair senior and graduate win NSBA Talent Search

By Stacy Mathew | Aug. 10, 2011, 10:17 a.m. | In Local »

On July 15, Jack Naden, a 2011 Blair graduate, and senior John Rose were named the High School Group winners of the Student Electronic Music Composition Talent Search for their entry, "The Song for Paris."


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