Pushing back with the blues
UI professor connects blues with the failure of U.S. legal institutions

Among the bustle of students during the University of Idaho Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival Friday, classrooms in the Teaching and Learning Center were home to a variety of important workshops, […]

No rest for Jazz Fest
Jazz musicians prepare for Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival

The opportunity for immersion in both the jazz community and the comforting sounds that play alongside the genre’s nuances will return starting Thursday. Jazz musicians and performers have been coming […]

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A music, movie movement
A recent run of strong movie soundtracks signals a changing trend in how we consume film

  Movie soundtracks are an interesting subset of today’s music. With the slow death of CDs and physical records, there will probably never be another soundtrack that sells 17 million […]

The best of the best
A weekly album review segment

   2016 brought hip-hop an experimental blessing in disguise. Danny Brown’s “Atrocity Exhibition” was a chaotic representation of a man attempting to break the antiquated chains of the genre. In […]