“It’s definitely more due to us . . . I think.”
Also, DKE parties described as “tea, knitting, mutual handjobs, stuff like that.” Enjoy . . . if you can tolerate Nardwuar’s grating interview style, that is.
Thanks to anonymous shoutboxer for the tip.
Talented Wes MC and overall great guy Zach Goldberg ‘13 (you might recognize him from live hip hop/funk group Bones Complex) has a new EP release: The Microphone Menace. You can download the tracks for free here, or check out a track streaming here:
This one’s for all the Experimental Music students out there. Inspired by Professor Alvin Lucier’s wonderful “I Am Sitting In A Room,” one bored internet user updates the experiment for the YouTube generation:
YouTube user canzona uploaded a video to the web, downloaded it, then re-uploaded it one thousand times, gradually eliminating “all human qualities” of his voice and image.
The final video in canzona’s series is a mess of distorted colors and sounds; you can recognize from the motion that the original featured a person talking into the camera, but all individual characters and specifics have been lost, replaced by artifacts created by YouTube’s video and audio compression algorithms.
Edit: Check out Matt Hurwit ‘12‘s band, Almonds and Elephants, and download their recently released work for free.
Check out Rob Rusli ‘10 (O-Zi) and Saeid Vahidi ‘09 (D1G1TA1 D00D)’s hip-hop concept album about robots and other stuff. Featuring David Moench ‘09 (Underfur), Sam Quintero (QUINTessential) and Vickie Wing Yee Cheng ‘10. It’s a free download, dog.
All hail the lightbulb dance!
I’m up working the end of my library shift and totally not studying for my Psych final tomorrow (today!), so here are some random concert pics from this band called Mamarazzi that played a little show a couple weeks ago. Thanks to the band for sending me the photos this weekend!
See more by left-clicking on the following internet hyperlink (technology is amazing!): Read More
From Ram Sivalingam ‘10 comes a new Wesleyan-produced music video…
P.O.N. from Nappy Roots on Vimeo.
Directed by: Bill Kirstein ‘10 and Ethan Berger ‘10
Director of Photography: Stefan Weinberger ‘10
Produced by: Drae Jackson, Ram Sivalingam ‘10, and Adam Paulson ‘10
Music House and friends cordially invite you to share in a live performance of Arcade Fire’s album Funeral this evening at 10:30, in the Memorial Chapel.
The Spirit ‘81 writes:
The Spirits’ Spring Jam! Come see it. Big things. New musics. A life-changing experience. A waste of your time. All wrapped into one hour of songs you love and other songs too. A revelation; a revaluation! A cappella–without boundaries!
Plus, it’s your last chance to see senior Phi Beta Kappa members Daniel Charness ‘10, Justin Bours ‘10, and Hansel Tan ‘10 do the only thing they are good at!
Date: May 7th
Time: 9pm
Place: Memorial Chapel
Price: Fo FREE
“We the type of people make the club get crunk.”
Wes’s own Linus brought the jangly indie-pop, Dirty Projectors quite possibly (okay, definitely) stole the show with their uniquely fractured world-tinged psychedelia, Black Lips fucked things up and got noisy, and Big Boi killed it with an Outkast hits medley (from “Player’s Ball” to “The Way You Move”) and beyond. Fantastic day, yo. More pics in the gallery below.
For those of you who have spent the past few days checking weather forecasts every fifteen minutes anticipating rain during Spring Fling, stop. The weather forecast looks very optimistic right now. Courtesy of Weather.com:
Spring Fling is roughly from 2PM to 6:30PM, which means we start off with some clouds and a 10% chance of precipitation and end up sunny with a 0% chance of precipitation. As they say, all’s well that ends well.
From Frank Fineis ‘13:
Come get your sweet-ass t-shirts tomorrow for Spring Fling! We’re going to be selling them around 2:30, and the shirts, designed by winner Jason Bitterman ‘10, are ri-goddamn-diculously rad. They’re $10 and will go fast!
(Click the image at right for the full size design.)
To celebrate the end of classes and everyone’s favorite holiday, we’re throwing crazy concert called “Legalize Fucking Fireworks-o!”
With:
Static Stamina (feat. Emma Daniels)
and…
See the facebook event here.
Date: Cinco de Mayo! (May 5 for any gringos)
Time: 10:00 PM – 12:30 AM
Place: Music House
This notice from Brian Papish ‘10:
May 5th is the last day of classes. It is also bar night. It is a regional holiday in Mexico commemorating the Mexican army’s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. It is also Sarice’s birthday.
To celebrate all these impressive milestones, Orquesta Fiebre and La Boca have teamed up to bring you an evening of margaritas and salsa–and yes, we know salsa isn’t Mexican, but it IS hot. Come for dinner and hear the Latin jazz rhythm section from 6-8, or the main event with the full 31-piece orchestra from 9-12:30. It will be hot hot hot!
Date: May 5th
Time: 9 PM
Place: La Boca
Also: It’s 21+, sorry!
Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd!
Book by Hugh Wheeler; Music and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
The rare instance of a musical thriller, this suspenseful, heart-pounding masterpiece of murderous “barber-ism” and culinary crime tells the infamous tale of the unjustly exiled barber who returns to 19th century London seeking revenge against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. His thirst for blood soon expands to include his unfortunate customers, and the resourceful proprietress of the pie shop downstairs soon has the people of London lining up in droves with her mysterious new meat pie recipe!
Sophisticated, macabre, visceral and uncompromising, “Sweeney Todd” nevertheless has a great sense of fun, mixing intense drama with howlingly funny moments of dark humor: audiences find themselves laughing hysterically one moment and gasping in surprise the next.
Presented with special permission by Music Theatre International, Inc.
Dates: Thursday May 6th, Friday May 7th, Saturday May 8th
Times: 6:30PM every night with a 1:30PM matinee on Saturday
Place: The Patricelli ‘92 Theater
Cost: Free (Pick up tickets at the USDAN Box Office the day of the performance; limit of 2 per person)
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