Author: Nicholas Kula

In today’s ever-changing musical landscape, it’s not too often that a band can make a name for itself before releasing an album without churning out cookie-cutter garbage.

Norway is often described as the epicenter of all things metal. And why shouldn’t it be? Norweigan metal band Burzum had a member that was arrested for killing a rival band’s singer and burning down churches in Norway.

Ah, graduation—the culmination of all your hard work. You’ve busted your ass throughout your years, you’ve made ends meet, you’ve had to either work jobs you probably hated or have been living (relatively) cushy off student loans and grants.

As a college student, you’ve heard the frightening news: college enrollment is up all over the country.

The world of music is ruled by tastemakers, and only the tastemakers know it. When a member of the group Odd Future (OF) called “Tyler, the Creator” released “Bastard” in 2009, some of them took notice.

We here at the Vanguard would like to remind you that, although you may have heard Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All elsewhere, we reported on them back in February in an article that continues to get plenty of hits on our website.

The royal wedding makes 90 percent of Americans look stupid: Last Friday, Kate Middleton and Prince William finally exchanged vows in one of the most tear-jerking media subterfuges in recent memory.

If you’ve ever wanted to meet Portland’s fire marshal, you might as well see a rad show while you’re at it.

Amazon shows pirates the welcome mat, shows Apple the finger: This past week, Amazon came completely out of left field and left both Apple and Google in the dust by offering cloud-computing servers on its webspace for paltry amounts of money (unless you buy an entire terabyte).

You’ll be hard-pressed to find a better synthesis of dancing, good drinks and good music in the city than at Holocene.

You’ve no doubt heard of this place from your more unsavory friends—the kind you casually know from work or some other area where you’re forced to hang out