Andrew Bird is a one-man show, but Calvin’s stage is littered with instruments — a piano, a drum set, a xylophone and other various odds and ends. Sitting in the back is something that looks like...
Each Mutemath show beings with a ritual: the drummer, Darren King, duct-tapes his headphones to his head, wrapping the tape over his hair and under his chin like a collar he couldn’t get off his...
Mutemath has been performing musical wizardry for about a decade now. Since their first EP, “Reset,” to their most recent album “Odd Soul,” they’ve gone from a spaced-out Indie group with a heavy...
In light of the recent controversy surrounding Fun.’s presence at Calvin, it’s easy to forget that they are first and foremost a group of performers. They aren’t a group of politicians or leftist...
I have a confession to make: somewhere towards the end of “Edwin Drood,” I voted for a brother and sister to fall in love — I didn’t want to, but the mere option of it was so odd that I was left...
Some meals are best eaten with lots of conversation and laughter. Other meals are best eaten in quiet, enjoying each subtle flavor on the plate before you. Such was the case with Regina Spektor, who provided...
“Lady Gaga doesn’t drink water in front of her fans,” Ingrid Michaelson told the audience part-way through the show as she sat down by her piano and drank some water, “did you know that? It makes...
“I feel like I work with a bunch of guys that don’t want to be musicians,” said Michael Weiss, lead guitarist of mewithoutYou, after the show. This is such an odd thing to hear about one of your...