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Matt Hunziker


In teacher review, disregard 'XXXtra Credit'
By Matt Hunziker
Please rate the teacher to the best of your abilities.

Matt takes life—and column—unscripted
By Matt Hunziker
The "Sixty-Two Thousand Dollar Man," coming soon to a theatre near you!

Matt fights off sleep, bees, cerebral control
By Matt Hunziker
Why won't you just drink some coffee, Matt?

Matt leaves meat, journals about breakup
By Matt Hunziker
After a long-term affair with meat-filled cuisine, Matt breaks the ties and tries tofu.

Matt matures, voices concern over changes
By Matt Hunziker
The change in Matt's vocal chords inspires him to change his dialect.

Art budget cut, elephant painting thrives
By Matt Hunziker
Matt muses about the artistic abilities of the Thai Elephant

Apply now for one Hell of a summer job
By Matt Hunziker
Willing to commit your soul in the ninth circle? Apply within.

Matt joins Tony Fly at Stargate Nightclub
By Matt Hunziker
Matt learns that nightclubs aren't quite what Tony Fly promised they would be.

Matt swears to tell the whole, naked truth
By Matt Hunziker
Matt's new job is both prestigious and exotic.

Matt takes historical trip to flavor country
By Matt Hunziker
When did smoking start? And why does everyone want to stop it? And what would America be without cigarettes? Matt explains.

Show your true love with a Lurker Letter
By Matt Hunziker
Matt gives tips and suggestions on how anyone can become one of his many secret admirers.

Cardinal Mixtape
By /author/show/340, Eunice Abraham, Brad Boron, Caissa Casarez, Megan Corbett, Megan Dwyer, Matt Hunziker, Jill Klosterman, Kate Marcus, Josh Monifi, Frances Provine, Mario Puig, Mark Riechers, Shawn Small, Kyle Sparks, Justin Stephani, Anna Williams, and Dan Wohl
Already found your special someone's special something? Need some music to set the perfect mood? From Marvin Gaye to Daft Punk, our Arts staff gives its suggestions.

Interview tests moral, intellectual skills
By Matt Hunziker
Matt goes for an interview and discovers that a job will test his moral and ethic conscience.

Hot Chip trade r&b for witty dance-pop on ‘Made in the Dark’
By Matt Hunziker
Cheeky Brits, Hot Chip, produce an catchy, but uneven, album.

Mammoth manatees more to love, adopt
By Matt Hunziker
Matt discusses all of the wonderful incentives for adopting a manatee of your very own.

After France trip, Matt still dislikes swiss
By Matt Hunziker
No matter what form it comes in, Matt cannot bring himself to eat Wisconsin's favorite food

Top 15 Albums of the Year 2007
By Eunice Abraham, Anthony Cefali, Kristin Czubkowski, Andrew Dambeck, Ryan Hebel, Matt Hunziker, Grady Hunziker, Ben Peterson, Mario Puig, and Justin Stephani
The Daily Cardinal Arts staff critiques the top 15 albums of the year.

Cat gains humanity, still licks own butt
By Matt Hunziker
Matt wishes he had fur—and a deep understanding of life.

Matt takes trip, plans to see you next fall
By Matt Hunziker
This week's snow brings out the worst in the university's walkways

Rock band instrumental to post-college plans
By Matt Hunziker
Matt brainstorms an answer for his relatives' "What are you doing after college?" questions in time for the holidays

Giving up is key to...
By Matt Hunziker


Bad tastes all a part of coming of age
By Matt Hunziker
Matt experiences the vulnerability of a coming-of-age ritual without having to battle a giant scorpion

When an ill-mannered gentleman attacks
By Matt Hunziker
A late-night confrontation leaves Matt with several questions for his anonymous attacker

Offensive speech the key to democracy
By Matt Hunziker
Matt argues the fine points of the First Amendment, siding in favor of protecting offensive - but not annoying - speech

Google doppleganger fails to urn reputation
By Matt Hunziker


Running, in all its intoxicating Splenda
By Matt Hunziker
Matt goes over the wonderfully colored world that exsists when someone excercises.

Firing up for cold weather, cautiously
By Matt Hunziker
Matt contemplates uses for his maybe working, fireplace.

A written expression of a vertical desire
By Matt Hunziker


Arctic Monkeys worth another look
By Matt Hunziker
When the Arctic Monkeys debuted with Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, the music press in their native United Kingdom left them little room to improve, championing the band as the best of the decade and instantaneously placing the

LCD Soundsystem album a blend of humor and dance
By Matt Hunziker
"For any artist, the tendency to move toward a more polished approach carries the threat of glossing over all the charming imperfections that make their work human," writes Matt Hunziker.

Albarn weighs in the good and the bad of his new band
By Matt Hunziker
"Like any split, Blur’s 2002 breakup left its share of hurt feelings and disappointment, but at least chief songwriters Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon knew precisely which half they each wanted to take," writes Matt Hunziker.

Allen’s debut is better than ‘Alright’
By Matt Hunziker
Lily Allen’s musical beginnings (daughter of British celebrity spurns record industry hit factory and runs own promotional campaign over MySpace) have been harped by the media so many times that it seems like it all must have happened 100 years ago.

Canadian collaborators have the number of the ‘Beast’
By Matt Hunziker
"Though 'Beast Moans' doesn’t measure up to the best of any of its creators’ outside work, Swan Lake has succeeded in creating a compelling album that can stand alone from any of the talents going into it," writes Matt Hunziker.

...And you will know this band by the fact that their name is really, really long
By Matt Hunziker
"Trail of Dead now appear to be looking in all directions at once for new ideas," writes Matt Hunziker. "Unsurprisingly, this approach yields mixed results."

Hold Steady do more than just hold steady
By Matt Hunziker
"So far, each Hold Steady album has topped the last," writes Matt Hunziker, "but on Boys and Girls in America, they surpass not only themselves but also just about everything else released in 2006."

Manic dance-punks hold listeners Rapt
By Matt Hunziker
"For the first six or seven tracks, the Rapture's Pieces of the People We Love is easily one of the best releases this fall," writes Matt Hunziker.

The Hunziker Proxy: Matt bids farewell
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the WolfFrom the desk of Aaron Spencer Douglas, first year law student and amateur legal counsel to Mr. Matthew S. Hunziker: Frequent and non-readers of this column alike …

Screw Abby: Hunziker answers all your nagging questions about music
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf As the writer of this column for the past two semesters, I've been vested with a certain dubious authority on the subject of music. Accordingly, people …

Record companies need a lesson in radio history to survive the internet
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf At the beginning of the 20th century, broadcast radio as we know it today was on the brink of oblivion. The problem facing it should sound …

One Ring to Lead them all
By Matt Hunziker
The solo career of Stephen Patrick Morrissey may be rock and roll's best example of the unfortunate effect the shadow of past success can have on new material. After splitting …

Courtney shows less 'Love'for Nirvana catalog
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the WolfAs music fans around the world learned earlier this week, Courtney Love has sold off a portion of her controlling interest in Nirvana's musical catalog to a …

Dr. Hunziker adds insult to your injury
By Matt Hunziker
Generally, discussions of musicians and athletes do not overlap. With a few notable exceptions, including Shaq-Fu: Da Return" and of course the Go! Team's disappointing medal count at the 2006 …

TV Personalites'album no rerun
By Matt Hunziker
For the vanguard of the punk revolution of the late '70s, mainstream recognition has not been a predictor of longevity. The Sex Pistols were through before the decade was out, …

Whatever You Say He Is, Hunziker Is Not
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf After writing a few dozen album reviews, an Arts writer can find themselves stuck in a creative rut. In the interest of pushing the boundaries of …

White Power music, pt. 2
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf Welcome to the second week of a two-part series on the White Power music scene in the United States and elsewhere. Last week's column gave a …

Fight the white: a look at racist music
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

FCC and the Stones: Bureaucracy versus indecency
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

Arctic Monkeys nearly live up to hype
By Matt Hunziker
Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, the debut album from Arctic Monkeys, was released in the United Kingdom a month ago, and even before it broke the …

Record industry continues war on consumers
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

Secrets about buying and learning The Guitar
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

Howlin’ Wolfgang prepares to rock youth
By Matt Hunziker
This column runs on Thursdays, so let’s see...that means it’s been one, two ... five days of recovery from our drunkenly debauched celebration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s 250th birthday. And …

Doherty gets ’Down’
By Matt Hunziker
When Pete Doherty’s problems with heroin led to the breakup of the Libertines in 2004, it seemed unlikely that he would be able to continue musically for any length of …

iPods: An invasion of the hearing snatchers?
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

You down with BDB? Join the brigade!
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

’Second sentence’ puts heterosexual unions in jeopardy
By Matt Hunziker
In writing and passing amendments banning same-sex marriage, socially-conservative politicians across the country have relied heavily on the religious convictions of their constituencies for support. These convictions have won in …

Clear Channel ruins concerts, lives
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

French rappers nearly as evil as Judas Priest and Ice T
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

’Schoolhouse Rock’ evolves
By Matt Hunziker
Though challenging the status quo is the basis of all innovation, a certain amount of oversight is required to distinguish between good ideas and for example, Pat Boone’s ’No More …

Local artists ’band’ together for survival
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker like the Wolf

Gorillaz shows smash reality
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker like the Wolf

MTV music videos still far scarier than ’The Newlyweds’
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

Hunziker predicts a riot
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker like the Wolf

Weird Sisters, band names and lawsuits
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

Franz follow-up could be 'So Much Better'
By Matt Hunziker
With the possible exception of Arcade Fire's Funeral, no debut album in 2004 received such an unabashedly positive critical response as Franz Ferdinand. Finding a mostly unexplored niche between post-punk …

An unknown hero prompts Hunziker to incite a dance dance revolution
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker like the Wolf

The Coral invade with polished brand of eccentric Brit rock
By Matt Hunziker
The music scene in the United Kingdom is a funny thing. Anyone who's listened to half the bands mentioned in New Musical Express has noticed that the UK seems to …

RIAA amnesty offer seeks pirate booty
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker like the Wolf

Despite lacking peg legs, music pirates still walk the plank
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

The reality of Madison's Fall concerts
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker like the wolf

New Pornographers present intriguing 'Cinema'
By Matt Hunziker
If something awful does not happen to the New Pornographers soon, the Vancouver band just might exhaust all of the complimentary adjectives in the modern indie rock lexicon. Catchy, tuneful, …

New Pornographers present intriguing 'Cinema'
By Matt Hunziker
If something awful does not happen to the New Pornographers soon, the Vancouver band just might exhaust all of the complimentary adjectives in the modern indie rock lexicon. Catchy, tuneful, …

Festival planning as important as the acts
By Matt Hunziker
Hunziker Like the Wolf

Eels have shocking 'Revelation,' return to form
By Matt Hunziker
Eels frontman and songwriter E (born Mark Oliver Everett) has been a lot of things: gas station attendant, quirky pop songwriter, MC Honky and now, with the 33 track Blinking …

'What comes after the blues?'-a mediocre album
By Matt Hunziker
It must be hard to be an alt-country musician. Your genre has barely turned old enough to see dirty movies, half of the country thinks you're Hank Williams' pot-smoking grandnephew …

Sea Power serves up solid second album
By Matt Hunziker
British Sea Power and The Flaming Lips must be kindred spirits. In addition to touring together, both bands have reputations for performing some of the most bizarre live shows around, …

The 'radical' town of shameless consumers
By Matt Hunziker
Because of the public perception of UW-Madison's student body as being dominated by the radical left and the high regard generally given to its academic programs, this school has long …

Kasabian's self-titled debut delivers brawling dance sound
By Matt Hunziker
Music abhors a vacuum. No musician in history has been able to escape comparisons to those who came before, ever since the first primitive percussionists were inspired by the sound …

The Decemeberists release CD in March
By Matt Hunziker
The Decembrists have always been a little hard to place on the spectrum of modern rock. They land somewhere around the twisted storytelling of Neutral Milk Hotel but forego Jeff …

Ida know where "River" went wrong
By Matt Hunziker
Whether or not you recognize either sadcore or dreampop as legitimate musical subgenres, both of these compound adjectives effectively describe the output of New York indie outfit Ida. On Heart …

The Mars Volta should remain anything but 'Mute'
By Matt Hunziker
In 2003, when The Mars Volta released their debut full-length, De-loused in the Comatorium, the album met extremely mixed reviews. Some hailed the album as a triumphant work of art, …

Coxon delivers 'Happiness'
By Matt Hunziker
Graham Coxon Happiness in Magazines (Astralwerks) Anyone confused about the dramatic difference in sound between Blur's most recent album, Think Tank, and the latest release from the band's former guitarist …

Bambi's mom dies, Stereo Total does him-poor deer
By Matt Hunziker
Stereo Total Do the Bambi (Kill Rock Stars) With the recent return to popularity of electronic pop music in the United States and the enormous amount of attention garnered by …

'Nightbird' showcases stagnant synth-pop
By Matt Hunziker
Erasure Nightbird (Mute Records) Erasure, the British two-piece formed in 1985 when former Depeche Mode keyboardist Vince Clarke, fresh from the break up of synth-pop act Yazoo, joined forces with …

Bird soars on 'Mysterious Production'
By Matt Hunziker
(Righteous Babe Records) The singer/songwriter genre has had a lot to apologize for these last few years. The rise to fame of John Mayer and the legions of sound-alike "Mayerites." …

Cake, sounds good, tastes good
By Matt Hunziker
Cake (Columbia) "Stay the course" seems to have been more or less Cake's unofficial modus operandi for the past decade. Ever since the 1994 release of Motorcade of Generosity on …



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