You didn’t see it here, but a little birdie says MGMT’s new album leaked in full this weekend . . .
There are some sweet moments on this record, much more in tune with Oracular Spectacular’s spacey latter half than “Kids” or “Time To Pretend” (and far more cohesive than “Flash Delirium” might have you [...]
“Kids” fans: good luck humming this one incessantly. Go ahead and try.
“Flash Delirium,” our first taste of MGMT’s upcoming Congratulations, is available now on the band’s website. I’m not sure how I feel about this one. It’s retro, clever, and slightly schizophrenic in a distinctly White Album sort of way (see: “Happiness is a Warm [...]
February 26, 2010 – 12:13 PM
[ February 27, 2010 10:00 PM to February 28, 2010 1:30 AM. ] Jordan Lewis ‘12 writes in about a sweet Westco show this Saturday:
Wesleyan affiliated band Ishmael will be playing live music at the Westco Cafe on Saturday, February 27. Ishmael is Jordan Lewis and Andy Werle, along with Aaron Silberstein of NYU and Nick Otte of the New School. We will be playing at least two [...]
February 18, 2010 – 12:54 PM
[ February 20, 2010; 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM. ] Wesleyan’s own bluegrass band will be tearing it up and playing what, in some circles, could arguably be referred to as “music”.
Featuring Nick Jackson ‘11 on mandolin, Sam Werbalowsky ‘11 on banjo, Michael Vitale ‘11 on fiddle, and Eli Hetko ‘11 on guitar.
Date: Feb. 20
Time: 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Place: Music House – 316 Wash
February 18, 2010 – 12:53 PM
If you’re already sick of news about MGMT’s upcoming sophomore effort, Congratulations, skip this post now.
If not, check out this fucking sweet pop-art-meets-Nintendo album cover:
Congratulations, the follow-up to 2008’s Oracular Spectacular, comes out April 13 on Columbia Records. Pitchfork reports that the album “features flutes, at least one 12-minute song, and is generally out there”—all [...]
February 16, 2010 – 4:15 PM
New this week – “One Or Several Wolves?” – a sweet E.P. recorded by our favoritests, Duchampion (ben/will/jake/asa)‘10 (and mixed by rod o’connor ‘08 -> sounds nasssty!) featuring hit single “Swamp Thing.”
Its available HERE at a price of your choosing, but keep in mind that the amount we cumulatively pay for it is directly proportional [...]
February 9, 2010 – 12:37 PM
[ 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 [...]
February 1, 2010 – 10:12 PM
At the very beginning of last semester when we were still moving carpets around, my housemate, Mark, played a bunch of really weird disco revival music by a band called Desire on our living room stereo. Desire has lyrics like “I don’t eat / I don’t sleep / I do nothing but think of you.” [...]
January 18, 2010 – 8:28 AM
[ January 23, 2010; 10:00 PM; 10:00 PM; 10:00 PM; 10:00 PM; 10:00 PM; ] Spring 2010 at Wesleyan is in session, and here to kick it off this Saturday night will be the fantastic Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers, preceded by Wesband Duchampion.
Shilpa & co. have been local favorites in Brooklyn/NY for over two years, and have been racking up buzz since playing SXSW last spring – they [...]
December 3, 2009 – 12:56 PM
[ December 5, 2009 10:00 PM to December 6, 2009 1:00 AM. ]
Come To Buddhist House for a night of awesome Hip-Hop with Seattle emcee Gabriel Teodros and Wesleyan’s Wordsmith and The Temps!
Gabriel Teodros is an intimate storyteller with an electrifying stage presence; smart, soulful, street-raised with roots in the Horn of Africa. As an emcee who brings his deep social consciousness to the masses with an [...]
November 27, 2009 – 1:17 PM
[ November 29, 2009; 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM. ]
Asa Horvitz ‘10 has this to say:
Going to New York for thanksgiving? Round off your weekend of eating and family (or boyfriend’s/girlfriend’s family!) with an awesome show at the Sidewalk cafe Sunday night. 94 Avenue A in the East Village.
First off, at 8 pm SHARP, Jugbone, who has taken the Sidewalk by storm a number [...]
November 26, 2009 – 8:50 PM
Moar musical Wes Alums, plz!
Brandon Patton ‘95 released his third solo album over this past summer. Clearly thankful for Wesleyan, he has this to say:
“My first recording project was done on Fountain Ave. summer after my junior year. Wesleyan was an amazing place for creative incubation. I’ve been touring the country with MC Frontalot (Damian [...]
November 26, 2009 – 1:13 PM
[ November 28, 2009; 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM. ]
From Jordan Lewis ‘12:
Anyone going to be in the New York area during this Thanksgiving break? Ishmael, who recently played on campus at Earth House, will be playing a concert on Saturday, November 28 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at The Loving Cup. Jordan Lewis ‘12 and Andy Werle ‘12 will be playing. We [...]
October 28, 2009 – 5:14 PM
[ October 29, 2009; 8:00 PM; ] Jordan Lewis ‘12 writes to tell us about a sweet gig at Earth House tomorrow:
Progressive rock band, “Ishmael” comes to Wesleyan tomorrow night with The Static Jacks.
Two of Ishmael’s members are current Wes Students: Jordan Lewis ‘12 and Andy Werle ‘12. This is
their first show since their successful show in Brooklyn a few weeks ago. [...]
October 19, 2009 – 10:30 PM
MGMT’s upcoming sophomore album, due out sometime next year, will be called “Congratulations”. Yes, congratulations, MGMT, for having a sophomore album!
Here’s them playing the title track this summer:
More from Pitchfork.
[Thanks to Colin Small for the tip.]
October 8, 2009 – 7:59 PM
[ October 9, 2009 10:00 PM to October 10, 2009 2:00 AM. ]
Casey Feldman ‘12 write to tell us:
KURT VILE live at Eclectic Haus, for FREES!
Colossally psychadelic. Monumentally hypnotic. Matador Records’ Kurt Vile serves up tripped out bedroom pop jams that make you feel like you’re on drugs, even if you’re not in real life!
Lots of hair!
Featuring Wesleyan’s own:
FLORA AND FAUNA
While eating a box of Trix, old [...]
October 6, 2009 – 5:30 PM
[ October 8, 2009; 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM. ]
From Facebook event:
Cryptacize
An up-and-coming LA band currently on tour with Sufjan Stevens and featuring ex-guitarist of Deerhoof. Their sound is vintage psychadelic pop with shimmering vocals that melt your heart.
Day Sleeper
Shoegazey, reverb-soaked indie rock from Massachussets. Aural Wes calls them “totally endearing.” Featuring Dan Ferm ‘12 on bass.
Apache Kid
Fresh off an NYC show with Bear [...]
October 4, 2009 – 7:49 PM
Wesleyan’s own Bella Loggins, Ryan Rodger, Katherine McDonald and Ben Block of The Last Minutes just released their EP for free download!
If you enjoyed their show at Eclectic this past Friday then you certainly want the newly released EP of theirs. Exclusively on TNC.
Wash is named after the house (316 Washington Street) in which the [...]
September 24, 2009 – 9:40 AM
Alum Alex Klimovitsky ‘03 sends us greetings and info about his band Youthless.
From Muso’s Guide:
“Youthless is Sab and I. I play drums and sing and sometimes I play synth lines with my free hand. Sab sings and plays bass through two amps which he alternates between using a footswitch. We also use a [...]
September 23, 2009 – 8:55 AM
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 [...]
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September 18, 2009 – 10:30 AM
The Plastic Billionaires (Raph Worrick ‘88 and Matt Rogalsky MA ‘95) have a bizarre new video for their cover of Brian Eno’s “Fat Lady of Limbourg”:
The Billionaires’ album, “Bankrupting Tiger Mountain (By Credit Default Swap)”, is available for free download at the band’s official site. A recession-ready blurb:
“Mr. Rogalsky and Chairman R. Worrick are [...]
September 16, 2009 – 10:34 AM
Boy Crisis is out with their first official video, “Fountain of Youth”, directed by Jordan Fish ‘06, in which the members of the band are enslaved by a pagan tribe of wild Williamsburg women, and ritually sacrificed in McCarren Pool.
So yeah, it’s a series of over-the-top cliches piled all over each other, but this is [...]
August 26, 2009 – 12:45 PM
Decora, one of last year’s best live campus acts, is out with their debut album, Hibernator.
Decora consists of Ben Bernstein ‘10, Will Brant ‘10, Ian Staub ‘10, Josh Koenig ‘09, Ben Seretan ‘10, and George Pritzker ‘10, and plays what Aural Wes calls “super-sophisticated pseudo-metal… technical but unpretentious, with rhythms and melodic layers are so complex and beautiful, it’s easy to [...]
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 [...]
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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Boy Crisis has a hilarious (and hilariously low-budget) unofficial video for “Dressed to Digress”, put together by Bob Weisz ‘07 with outtakes from the official video and featuring Genevieve Angelson ‘08 as their biggest fan.
Stay tuned for the actual Ray Tintori-helmed video. Meanwhile, there is this teaser:
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 [...]
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 [...]
After releasing videos for a few less pervasive tracks from Oracular Spectacular over the past year, MGMT is finally out with one for “Kids”.
Directed by Ray Tintori ‘06, the video is a whole six minutes long and jumps between live action, puppets, and a psychedelic cartoon, with a narrative pitting a terrified toddler against a [...]
More Wes music Youtubes. Might as well call this the South by Southwest post, two months after the fact as it may be. Oh well:
Boy Crisis for ten minutes in the Aces Lounge at SXSW:
Francis and the Lights does “Striking” in the Fader Fort at SXSW:
Bear Hands were also at SXSW and gave some interviews. [...]
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