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Play Ball!
The Daily Cardinal takes a look at the upcoming seasons of UW-Madison’s favorite baseball teams

Top 15 Albums of the Year 2007
The Daily Cardinal Arts staff critiques the top 15 albums of the year.

Civil rights groups kick off 86 days of protest
Muslim Students Association of UW-Madison and In Your Hands led the demonstration at Library Mall Wednesday.

‘None Shall Pass’ makes the grade
On the newest album, Aesop Rock shines in all except one track.

SAC dazzle ‘Everybody’ with homage to ’90s alt-rock
The year 1994 was about more than just pogs and ex-football player’s accused of killing their wives: It was a revolutionary time in all pop music. Think about it—in the years following Kurt Cobain’s death, and the subsequent death of g

Arcade Fire’s ‘neon’ burns out
While it worked wonders for Sonny and Cher, the marriage seems to be an untapped mechanism in popular music, which may be a good thing in all likelihood. Considering most pop songs deal with the topics of heartbreak and lust, an album full of “What&

Take a bite out of Dr. Dog’s new album
"Considering My Morning Jacket concert ticket prices start at about 100 bones for scaffold seats and the brightness of their pretentious light shows are on par with that of Lasik surgery, it is easy to forget you’re at a concert and not a test site

Local boys rise up from the Aviary
In a city where the water quality rivals that of steel mill runoff, and a mayoral candidate frenetically asserts he coined the term “fish and wildlife”: Madison’s place on the “classy totem pole” is that haggard frog shaped c

No sign of ‘Writer’s Block’ for PB and J
"So Sweden is where all of that fantastic hot chocolate comes from, right? No, that’s Switzerland," writes Andrew Dambeck.

Bloc Party’s ‘Weekend’ gets busted
Considering the fact that Bloc Party had undergone five name changes in a span of only three years, being indecisive musicians has been their key success. After listening to Bloc Party’s newest album, A Weekend in the City, however, the listener qui

Fans ‘wince’ at Shins release
"While “Garden State” remains steadfast as the self-awareness film of 2004, its staunch success with the “myspace” demographic propelled a particular band into immediate stardom—that band being, of course, the Shins," writes

Get ‘High’ with Jamiroquai’s greatest hits
"So disco is dead, huh? Well according to Jamiroquai, disco never died—it just moved to England," writes Andrew Dambeck.

Waits gets to the root of his weirdness
Tom Waits' "Orphans" is "like an abstract painting—a bunch of shit on a poster board, but it looks pretty cool anyway," writes Andrew Dambeck.

Hearts return, explosively
"The Exploding Hearts' Shattered signifies the closure of a band that was undeniably on the cusp of becoming a genuine force in pop music if not for their tragedy," writes Andrew Dambeck.

No Yoko, no problem for The Walkmen
"The essence of Pussy Cats is what has made The Walkmen who they are—it’s only fitting they make it back in return." writes Andrew Dambeck.

Pinback sinks on b-side comp
In a world of hit or miss b-side collection albums, Pinback’s Nautical Antiques is a long fly ball out—having decent moments but hardly having enough under it to get out of the park. Pinback may not lose any of its fans with the release of Nau

Leathernecks bring win streak to Madison
The red hot men's soccer team takes on Western Illinois Wednesday night.

Grizzly Bear matures with polished album
Grizzly Bear’s new album, Yellow House, proves to the masses that this band can not only shed the trend of “who can put the weirdest noises into their albums,” but can also build upon their past experiences and emerge with a very pleasan

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