The warm weather, flip-flops and sun of an East Lansing summer have remaining MSU students shaking off the previous months’ cold and taking to the outdoors, whether they’re enrolled in classes, working or laying out in their front yards.
On Thursday, Mary Alice Stollak, founding artistic and musical director of the MSU Children’s Choir, directed her choir of 54 children for the last time. The choir members, ranging from 4th grade to high school-aged, wore brightly colored vests, white shirts and blouses and sang to an audience that almost filled the entire first level of Wharton Center.
Flatfoot, a band formed in East Lansing in fall 2000, with roots in Lansing, Detroit and “Ann Arbor-ish” will releases its album “Wild Was Our Mercy” at 8 p.m. Saturday at Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
MSU students are exploring what goes on behind the hottest tracks in the entertainment world.
The MSU Campus Bands, a program of the College of Music, will hold a concert at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Auditorium. Tickets are $9 for the public, $7 for senior citizens and free for students and those under 18. The Campus Bands will be split into two different bands that will perform different pieces during the concert. Music education senior Sarah Aungst, a band member, said while the band is affiliated with the College of Music, members aren’t all music students. “All kinds of students are in it and want to do it,” she said.
Ruckus.com — once dubbed by MSU “the premiere digital entertainment network designed specifically for college students” — quietly and abruptly shut down during the weekend
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, one way to get the attention of that special someone is with a mix of sexy songs to let them know how you feel. Just be sure to avoid the term “superman” and leave Pretty Ricky at home.
More than a dozen MSU students will be showcasing their musical talent this weekend. But rather than perform at an auditorium on campus, they’ll be heading to Lansing to an unlikely venue: the Michigan Historical Museum.
Legendary local pianist Ralph Votapek will join the MSU Symphony Orchestra Saturday to commemorate his decades of performance and teaching at MSU.
Music is not just for musicians. It can be a great tool to express your mind, body and soul. There are many ways music can be beneficial to a listener. Specifically, music can help with studying, working out and personal therapy. Communication junior Cliff Walker, who formerly studied jazz at MSU, knows from experience that music can have immense power on a person.
The Great Lakes Myth Society, an indie folk rock band, will headline a show at 9 p.m. Friday at Mac’s Bar, 2700 E. Michigan Ave., in Lansing.
Yuri Gandelsman’s decision to become a musician came long before he gained international fame.
Common, a Grammy Award-winning hip-hop artist, will perform April 10 at the Auditorium, the Residence Halls Association announced Wednesday.
Music is Anthony Carlo’s passion. But as the director of special events for MSU Residence Halls Association, or RHA, it’s Carlo’s job to find out what students are passionate about — and find ways to bring those acts to campus.
I remember in fall of my junior year of high school, in October 2003, a girl came in to my newspaper class and said she wanted to write about Elliott Smith, a 34-year-old musician who allegedly had committed suicide.
I listen to old music and enjoy watching old movies. I was brought up that way and haven’t seen much of a reason to change. I’m a classic rocker and a ’70s film watcher.
I come to my best realizations and creative breakthroughs in the shower. Leads, story ideas, new directions for scholastic papers — all are better revealed when the air is thick with steam and the scent of shampoo. It was in the shower that I first heard singer/songwriter Regina Spektor's "Fidelity" on the radio.
World-renowned chamber musicians The Verdehr Trio will perform at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Wharton Center. The Verdehr Trio is composed of MSU School of Music faculty members Walter Verdehr and Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr on violin and clarinet, respectively, and Western Michigan University professor Silvia Roederer on piano.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers is the last universal band. Your mother likes them, your brother likes them, and the hermit you shared your freshman dorm room with owns several of the group's albums. The band can excite the better part of a generation by simply returning.
"Gnarls Barkley is crazy." Those four words have been plastered across the Internet for months.