Hearing the voice of self-proclaimed “un-DJ” Girl Talk (real name: Gregg Gillis) discuss his views on the legitimacy of music sampling as a higher art form by using Ying Yang Twins’ “Wait (The Whisper Song)” overlapped on top of a peppy techno beat may make one skeptical, and even more so when the song segues into the Verve’s “Bittersweet Symphony” seconds later. Read more...

Over winter break, Kyle Ochs completed a marathon. He credits pizza for his success. “I needed food. I was drinking a Red Bull, but it wasn’t working,” said Ochs, a fourth-year electrical engineering student. Read more...

Hello, dear reader, and welcome to A&E’s annual prediction sesh, in which we crack open our fortune cookies and see what’s going to be in and out in 2007. Read more...

Who is Nikki S. Lee? The South Korean-born performance artist and 1999 graduate of New York University has become internationally known for her galleries of photographs which feature her under the guise of a variety of identities. Read more...

Field Music “Tones of Town” Memphis Industries Call it post-post-punk. In the wake of second-generation bands such as Bloc Party and Interpol, there’s been renewed interest in post-punk’s founding fathers: Gang of Four, Mission of Burma and Wire, who have all recently either made comebacks or at least reissued classic albums. Read more...

Musicians and beards ““ they just go together. Not all musicians need beards to be great, but the way I see it, it’s like Cap’n Crunch cereal: If you’re given the choice to have them with or without Crunchberries, why would you choose without? Read more...

The little white boxes popping out of students’ messenger bags and backpacks, keeping them company between classes and at the gym, prove that the iPod has revolutionized music as we know it. Read more...