August 5, 2009 – 12:34 PM
The Wesleyan Music Scene is gaining exposure in the American mainstream media – British periodicals NME and the Guardian have been watching this trend since last year, and the Village Voice has now picked up on it with an article examining how Wes came to be the “epicenter of surrealist Brooklyn pop”.
In contrast to the [...]
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For awhile, I only ever saw or heard Amazing Baby mentioned as one among the many proliferating Brooklyn/Wesleyan bands, and usually in the same sentence as MGMT. Descriptions of their “psychedelic” music didn’t do much to distinguish them from the others, and neither did this video for “Pump Yr Brakes”. And an opportunity to form [...]
January 7, 2009 – 5:29 AM
In case you forgot why we rule, allow yourself to be reminded by this Wesleyan-centric article, “The Awesome-ization of Wesleyan University,” published yesterday on The Huffington Post.
President-elect Barack Obama was the key note speaker at the 2008 Wesleyan Commencement – passing on valuable advice…
…and blessing a new crop of Brooklyn bands! 2008 brought [...]
January 7, 2009 – 4:29 AM
In case you forgot why we rule, allow yourself to be reminded by this Wesleyan-centric article, “The Awesome-ization of Wesleyan University,” published yesterday on The Huffington Post.
President-elect Barack Obama was the key note speaker at the 2008 Wesleyan Commencement – passing on valuable advice…
…and blessing a new crop of Brooklyn bands! 2008 brought [...]
December 23, 2008 – 10:13 AM
Last week Fader posted a condensed conversation between Wes alum editor Eric Ducker ‘00 and Aural Wes editor Anna Wiener ‘09 in the online column “A Rational Conversation Between Two Adults“, about campus reactions to the off-campus success of Wes-affiliated music acts.
Topics discussed: the MGMT/Management generational divide; more MGMT lore; Santogold’s apparent ambivalence [...]
December 23, 2008 – 9:13 AM
Last week Fader posted a condensed conversation between Wes alum editor Eric Ducker ‘00 and Aural Wes editor Anna Wiener ‘09 in the online column “A Rational Conversation Between Two Adults“, about campus reactions to the off-campus success of Wes-affiliated music acts.
Topics discussed: the MGMT/Management generational divide; more MGMT lore; Santogold’s apparent ambivalence [...]
November 21, 2008 – 5:07 PM
The Guardian profiles Boy Crisis, with an in-depth anaylsis of the group’s interpersonal dynamics, as well as their strategies for pre-emptively dealing with hipster douchebag media:
With two members dating fashion designers and a look and sound that suggest their twin spiritual New York homes are notorious disco haven Studio 54 and punk mecca CBGBs, Boy [...]
November 21, 2008 – 4:07 PM
The Guardian profiles Boy Crisis, with an in-depth anaylsis of the group’s interpersonal dynamics, as well as their strategies for pre-emptively dealing with hipster douchebag media:
With two members dating fashion designers and a look and sound that suggest their twin spiritual New York homes are notorious disco haven Studio 54 and punk mecca CBGBs, Boy [...]
November 14, 2008 – 4:54 PM
Amazing Baby is out with a new video for “Pump Your Brakes”, directed by Alex Goldberg ‘03 and Ben Schechter.
Check out Goldberg and Schecter’s site, weirddays.tumblr.com.
[Thanks to Nick Goldberg '09 for the tip.]
November 14, 2008 – 3:54 PM
Amazing Baby is out with a new video for “Pump Your Brakes”, directed by Alex Goldberg ‘03 and Ben Schechter.
Check out Goldberg and Schecter’s site, weirddays.tumblr.com.
[Thanks to Nick Goldberg '09 for the tip.]
October 24, 2008 – 9:57 AM
Ok here is more beating you over the head with this Wesleyan/Brooklyn thing- page 132 of this month’s Nylon magazine features “Brooklyn Bands” as a reason to feel superior about being American: “In New York’s most populous borough, you can’t toss a PBR can without hitting a good musician.”
Repping Wesleyan among said bands are Amazing [...]
October 24, 2008 – 8:57 AM
Ok here is more beating you over the head with this Wesleyan/Brooklyn thing- page 132 of this month’s Nylon magazine features “Brooklyn Bands” as a reason to feel superior about being American: “In New York’s most populous borough, you can’t toss a PBR can without hitting a good musician.”
Repping Wesleyan among said bands are Amazing [...]
October 22, 2008 – 10:26 PM
The latest periodical to cover Wesleyan as a hotbed of entertainment talent is British music magazine NME, which devoted a two-page spread this week to investigating our “nest of noise” which “has spawned artists such as MGMT, Amazing Baby and Santogold – and there’s a lot more to follow.”
It was clear that NME had a [...]
October 22, 2008 – 9:26 PM
The latest periodical to cover Wesleyan as a hotbed of entertainment talent is British music magazine NME, which devoted a two-page spread this week to investigating our “nest of noise” which “has spawned artists such as MGMT, Amazing Baby and Santogold – and there’s a lot more to follow.”
It was clear that NME had a [...]
October 3, 2008 – 1:40 PM
The sold-out Halloween show at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn is almost entirely fronted by bands containing or composed of Wesleyan alums:
10/31 Music Hall of Williamsburg:MGMTAmazing BabyViolensBoy CrisisFrancis & the Lights
Links:MGMT/ Amazing Baby/ Boy Crisis/ Francis & the Lights/ Violens
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