Author Archives: Axelrod

Soulive tix on sale tomorrow

Tickets for Soulive go on sale tomorrow (Monday) at noon at Usdan. $8 to see Soulive play April 2nd at Beckham hall. Student band Mad Wow will be opening and things will be popping. Get your passes for funky goodness while they’re hot!

Wesleyan bands take it to the road

Oh, spring break. Weather’s getting warm, trees are budding, flowers are blooming, and birds are chirping. And taking a hint from those baby birds who are taking wing and flying from the nest, Wes bands Duchampion, The Last Minutes, Apache Kid, Metacomet, and Ishmael are using this break as an opportunity to sing their songs [...]

Senior Thesis Opera: Bad Island

[ February 26, 2010; 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM. February 27, 2010; 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM. 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM. ]

Come see Bad Island, an opera by Ben Bernstein ‘10 based on the book by William Steig. One day on an island filled with horrible, ugly, rotten monsters, complacent in their horrible life, a beautiful flower comes out of nowhere. The monsters then explode into a new kind of violence. This staging uses 16 singers, [...]

Bar Night 2.0

[ February 17, 2010 10:00 PM to February 18, 2010 1:00 AM. ] Head over to The Shadow Room tonight to dance along to the grooves of the Ben Block Solo Trio (aka The Last Minutes served with a twist) and partake in the ages-old tradition of bar night.  Musical guests abound, bringing to the table everything from rap to harmonica.  $3 well drinks before 11… That pretty [...]

And You Don’t Stop!

[ February 13, 2010; 10:00 PM; ] beats.breaks.poetry.art

Check out And You Don’t Stop! for music/art/general mayhem this Saturday, Feb 13th at WestCo Cafe!

Featuring:

Sankofa (Luke Turner-Owens) on the turntables

Fusion dance troupe

Poets from Writer’s Bloc: Writer’s Bloc line-up includes Josh Smith, Randyl Wilkerson, Zach Goldberg and more!

Funk/hip-hop group MetroSonics (led by Wes Alum Paul Josephs) Check out MetroSonics website for more info: www.MetroSonicsMusic.com

Plus, live [...]

Acapella Benefit Concert

[ February 11, 2010; 7:00 PM; ] As part two of the Haiti benefit concert series (part one being the concert at Psi U last Friday), there will be an acapella concert in the Memorial Chapel this Thursday, featuring some of campus’s best singers.  Tickets will be available at the door or during lunch Wednesday and Thursday in Usdan.

You’ll be hearing from:

The [...]

Haiti Benefit Concert Tonight

Friday night, and what to do?  Why not come to Psi U for a great concert for a great cause.  Student bands Duchampion, Fly Machine (formerly Soul Kat Too) and Linus (formerly Friendsome) will be rocking out to raise money for Partners In Health in Haiti.  If you come, you can rock out too!
Date: Friday, [...]

Bar Night: The Last Minutes @ The Shadow Room

Music, friends, and all the (liquid) things that you think of when you think of bar night.  What a splendid combination!
Tonight that combination will be show in its ideal form at The Shadow Room on Main St, lead by a splendidly jammy set by The Last Minutes, who will be joined by several special musician-about-campus [...]

Haiti Benefit Concert Series at Psi U

[ February 5, 2010; 10:00 PM; February 11, 2010; 7:00 PM; ] Music and philanthropy have been a natural combination since the dawn of time.  Well, maybe not quite that long, but for quite a while now.  Remember MJ and “We Are the World”?  Now this combination can happen Wesleyan-style, with a series of benefit concerts that will raise money for Partners in Health in Haiti.

To kick [...]

The Last Minutes and Ishmael take the Big Apple

In the city this weekend?  Then come see The Last Minutes and Ishmael, two budding Wesleyan bands, play at the Sidewalk Cafe in NYC with no cover (I have been told that the last two words are magic).
The Last Minutes are Bella Loggins, Ryan Rodger, Katherine McDonald, and Ben Block
(They’re also playing at Eclectic tonight, [...]

Friday Night Concert Fun

[ January 29, 2010 10:00 PM to January 30, 2010 2:00 AM. ] Come Friday we will have finished the first full week back. You have fought with professors for classes, bargain hunted for books, and braved a monsoon. Come celebrate your success (and survival) with:

Savoir Adore
http://www.myspace.com/savoiradore

Playful, dreamy pop music. Vocals that weave around danceable instrumentation.

Grandchildren
http://www.myspace.com/grandchildren

World beat influenced music with delicately ambient vocals that [...]