[ February 12, 2010; 9:00 PM; ] Come to Eclectic on Friday, February 12th to rage, party, dance, and listen to witty raps about fast food chains.
The lineup consists of Wesleyan DJs Ian Johnson and Harrison Schaff, live performer and seriously durrrty rapper Khalif Diouf (aka Leif), as well as Das Racist.
Based out of Brooklyn, Das Racist is composed of Wesleyan alumni [...]
If Pizza Hut/Taco Bell earworming into your brain last year turned you off from Das Racist completely, maybe time to reevaluate.
A newish video is out for “Rainbow in the Dark”, a track that uses fast food (via White Castle) only as a jump-off point and is more indicative of what they’re about. Some rap exegesis [...]
SORT-OF-EXCLUSIVE. Boy Crisis’s official music video for “Dressed to Digress” was finished over the summer, but might not be officially released for awhile due to label issues. Now it’s on Youtube. LEAK.
Everything in the video is Wesleyan, and it is hilarious. Directed by Ray Tintori ‘06, filmed on campus and in Middletown, groupie love from [...]
Last month the New Yorker “Cartoon Lounge” blog poked fun at Das Racist’s Wesleyan roots in a facetious analysis of “Pizza Hut Taco Bell”.
Well, DR’s Victor Vazquez ‘08 was not amused. Or, was amused enough to challenge cartoonist Farley Katz to a cartoon duel:
Dear Farley Katz,
While I appreciate you taking the time to blog about [...]
Nylon interviews Das Racist; everyone is blazed. Hima met Victor at a students of color against oppression dorm.
The notoriety enjoyed by the Wallpaper remix of “Pizza Hut Taco Bell” this summer prompted the New Yorker blog to investigate the many combination businesses that exist in New York City:
Wesleyan is a fancy university in the élite [...]
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 [...]
The NY Times music review published an article about Wesleyan’s Das Racist which includes Obama and fighting racial prejudice. What more can you want from an article, Wes?*
Check it out:
During a news conference on Wednesday night, President Obama stood up for the prominent African-American Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., who had recently been arrested [...]
Das Racist is blowing up – Pitchfork touted “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell” as one of the songs of the summer, and the Village Voice just discovered the track and finds it to be a transcendent encapsulation of our times or something. Even Perez Hilton (?!) featured it last week, after a post entitled [...]
Music update: some recent Youtubes of Wes bands playing in various places:
“King of wobble rap” Leif (Khalif Diouf ‘11) performs a medley of “Black Magic” and “Jungle Fever” with Das Racist and Purple Crush at the Annex in New York. Reminds me of Gravy Train!!!!, in a really good way:
[via Gordon Gartrelle]
Red Wire Black Wire [...]
Online magazine The Root has this embarrassingly unironic article about the rise of black hipsters, or… blipsters, thus somewhat legitimizing a term that probably should not have become a serious thing.
One Himanshu Kumar explains the advent of black people wearing tight pants to readers:
“You can’t really wear sagging jeans without being embarrassed on your skateboard,” [...]
Tickets to Francis & the Lights/Das Racist at Eclectic tonight are basically sold out. Here is some small compensation if you couldn’t get tickets.
What RCRC LBL had to say about these dudes (Victor Vasquez and Himanshu Suri ‘06) recently:
We should preface, these tunes should be listened to while high somewhere on a porch in Brooklyn. If [...]
[ April 16, 2009; 9:00 PM; 9:00 PM; 9:00 PM; 9:00 PM; 9:00 PM; 9:00 PM; 9:00 PM; ]
Formerly listed in the Wesfest event catalogue as an “alumni music extravaganza”, this is still happening and will be as extravagant an affair as promised. Featuring Francis and the Lights, Das Racist, Acrylics, Tall Tales, it’s a big night for music this semester.
Tickets go on sale Monday in Usdan at lunch, and will be sold [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lately we’ve mentioned some Wes-related music acts in passing, but not in detail. Here is further explication, most of which is lifted shamelessly from Aural Wes, which naturally is on the ball with these musical sorts of things.
Das Racist, described by the Guardian as “a self-styled ’slacker-art-rap Dutchpop world music band with mad street cred’”, [...]
Lately we’ve mentioned some Wes-related music acts in passing, but not in detail. Here is further explication, most of which is lifted shamelessly from Aural Wes, which naturally is on the ball with these musical sorts of things.
Das Racist, described by the Guardian as “a self-styled ’slacker-art-rap Dutchpop world music band with mad street cred’”, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
: PLEASEEE
: http://www.wesleyan.edu/registrar/transcriptkey.pdf
: at least they still define them on the transcript information so i think they're still given out
: eliminate Latin Honors (summa cum laude, magna, etc.)?
: http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2010/03/16/allbritton-center-honored-with-gold-certification-for-sustainable-building-practices/
: is the case over? anyone know what happened on the 9th?
