Whitney Gulden
Reporter
Until December 3rd, when you thought of Jersey Shore you would think of the actual place, but now the term Jersey Shore alludes to MTV’s reality TV show of the same name.
Filmed in August, 2009, Jersey Shore follows eight housemates living together in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, working at a boardwalk T-shirt shop, partying all hours, and getting into trouble. The show’s finale on January 21st broke ratings records for MTV with an estimated 4.8 million viewers…
Whitney Gulden
Courant Blogger
Meet Split Second. A four guy musical group who has self produced their own album on DatPiff.com called Up Past Lights. Although I don’t know much about them, as they are a freelance and self-made group, they seem like sweet guys with major talent at producing music. On the album they go by the names Xcel, Jaxx, and Dougie P.
Whitney Gulden
Today in honor of midterms and my minor concussion that turned me against louder music, I’m going to give you a few songs from my iPod that are more low key and relaxing.
Anyone remember a song called New Soul that was crazy overplayed in early 2008? After being used in a Mac ad it became a top ten hit, but almost no one listened to other songs by Yael Naim. This singer/songwriter/goddess is Franco-Israeli and has the most enchanting voice. Here is a live version of the recorded song Far Far that you can check out…
Whitney Gulden
Since the first blog post of Replay was an album review for a wildly popular new album, (which in 48 hours has 6 out of 14 songs in the iTunes top 100) I’m going to throw some singles at you.
Ultraviolet by The Stiff Dylans isn’t going to technically be released in the USA until July 21st, but thanks to youtube you can take a listen, so click it and keep reading…
Kelly Saiz
Reporter
You’re tired and your math teacher is clearly incapable of sustaining your attention. You have a history test next period that you didn’t study for because your basketball team didn’t get back from Staples until late last night. Do you stay in school and miserably contemplate destroying your calculator or do you go home “sick” and get some rest before your practice later?
Three years ago, it wasn’t so easy for a student to get around the system in order to make allowance for their extracurricular activities…
