Posts Tagged ‘music’
Office Concerts, Episode 3: Jeffers Win
There are a lot of insanely talented musicians at Columbia, and not nearly enough opportunities to hear them. The Eye decided to invite a few of them to play little concerts in the Spectator office. (We were more than a little inspired by NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts series.)
In our last installment last spring (The Eye has been busy), we hosted Jake Snider of the Jake Snider band, and this time we were lucky to get Jeffers Win.
Made up of Stephan Adamów, Cam Johnson, Henry Murphy, PJ Sauerteig, and Erika Thompson, Jeffers Win has been gaining a bit of a following around campus since they put a two-song EP up on BandCamp. Their next show will be at Live at Lerner’s Finals Study Break on May 2 at noon.
After the jump: More info about the Live at Lerner gig. More »
We are liveblogging Baccha90s!
UPDATE: The show is over! Read over our liveblog for some highlights from the event, and let us know what you thought in the comments!
7:15 p.m.: The show is over! Last thoughts from some of our people:
“Big Gigantic was really good. Surprisingly. That was a really fun show. And that seemed to be a collective feeling, which just made it better.” — Grace Bickers, Spectrum Opinion Deputy
“Wavves was–perfect music for the weather. Curren$y was great too. I didn’t understand why Big Gigantic had a saxophone. I’m impressed by the people who made it onto the facade of Kent, even though it meant that there were random people in the men’s restroom. Also I didn’t think Columbia could go this hard–this kid I know crowd surfed for like 8 minutes.” – David Salazar, Spectrum Eye Deputy
“My thought: sweaty.” – Charlotte Murtishaw, Spectator senior staff writer
“I cannot attempt to type thoughts.” – Samantha Henderson, Spectrum token drunk daily editor
“I fell asleep during Big Gigantic so they probably suck.” – Darron Kinney, Spectrum daily editor
Check after the jump for the rest of our liveblog — featuring profanity, vomit, and even a wedding! Also we occasionally talked about the music or the musical acts or whatever.
The Eye chats with Keep Shelly in Athens
Your music has been called down tempo electronica. Where do you see your style fitting in within the electronica genre?
We like to say we are making downbeat pop. That means that there are many genres that can be identified in our music. There is a wide range of influences we share and that reflects on our tunes. We are more ambient and no one would call us a band that makes dance music, [but] our up tempo songs are still down tempo-ed. I think that is [what we are] all about: creating a dreamy atmosphere that makes people calm down and get in a trip, guided by intricate electronics and soft voices…
Where does the name for the band come from?
There is a neighborhood in Athens called Kipseli. But somewhere in Athens there might be our Shelly… More »
Katy Perry, child-killing sorceress?
Every Monday, we analyze the number one Billboard song for its deeper meaning and what it says about the human condition.
Looking at the latest Katy Perry song as a scholar of the core (read: second semester freshman), I think I’m totally qualified to say that “Part of Me,” which debuted at Number One on Billboard’s Top 100 list this week, is an artistic response to Euripides’ Medea.
For those of you looking for a refresher, Medea is a barbarian who kind of married Jason (from the Argonauts). When Jason decided that he wanted a new wife (likely a fleece-digger—get it? His fleece made of gold), Medea gets mad and kills the kids, then poisons Jason’s new lady friend. Then she flies off on a dragon. (See what you’re missing out on, SEAS kids?)
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TUNED IN with Henry Murphy and Alex Ellenberg
For this edition of “Tuned In,” a new series about campus DJs, I ventured into the bowels of Reid Hall to the WBAR DJ booth, where CC ’15ers Henry Murphy (from Jackson, Mississippi) and Alex Ellenberg (a San Fran-Hawaii transplant) were spinning their show on Wednesday from 2 am to 4am, M2D2 (Music to Dream to). We chatted it up during a dreamy playlist.
What is the proper music to dream to?
Alex: A mix of R&B, chillwave soul music…
Henry: I like ambient stuff. Music with a lot of atmosphere, a lot of soundscapes.
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Your morning dose of Pearl and the Beard
Even if you couldn’t make it to Live at Lerner (or didn’t know about it), you can check out a sample of what you missed. See below for a video of Pearl and the Beard’s Performance:
TUNED IN with Max Nelson and David Beal
For the first edition of “Tuned In,” a new series about campus DJs, Charlotte sat down with Max Nelson (from Charlottesville, VA) and David Beal (from “a little east of Berkeley,” CA), both CC ’15 and co-founders of the new undergraduate film journal Double Exposure. They both have shows on WBAR: “Maxwell’s Music Mondays” airs weekly from 10am to noon, and David (who is also co-music director at WKCR!) hosts “Guitars Guitars” on Thursdays from 12 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Highlights from last night’s Grammy Awards ceremony
Last night, the 54th Annual Grammy Awards were held. There were performances by big names including the night’s big winner, Adele, who took home six trophies. In what we hope will be an annual trend, Bon Iver won Best New Artist and, like Esperanza Spalding last year, nobody knows who the hell they are. It was an interesting night, so without further ado, the highlights from last night’s awards.
1. Opens with a prayer for Whitney Houston, accompanied by a speech about “the power of music” and the first of many gratuitous Adele shout-outs.
2. Chris Brown dancing and lip-synching on top of what can best be described as a replica of the Aggro Crag from Nickelodeon GUTS.
3. Rihanna doing her best Courtney Love impression, dressed in a long denim vest and tights, and black lipstick and looking strung out on..something. The monotonous “We Found Love” doesn’t lend well to the stage, although a bevy of torch-holding back-up dancers help to inject a little energy into what is essentially a frat-pop song.
Thursday pregame playlist: Natalie Robehmed
TGIT! Time to actually chill after the stress of shopping for courses. For this week’s “Thursday Pregame Playlist,” we sat down with WBAR’s RPM Music Director Natalie Robehmed, CC ’13. Playlist after the jump.
Which of these People’s Choice nominees is the least awful?
Tonight, the 38th annual People’s Choice Awards will air on CBS. Winners are determined by voters on the internet, and in past years this selection process has had predictable results. But it doesn’t explain why the nominees — who are not selected via online voting — are almost all appallingly bad. Below, you can see our picks for the least terrible of the terrible bunch, and you can vote for which awful movies/TV shows/musicians least deserve to lose to the other awful movies/TV shows/musicians. Make your choices and then tell us in the comments which choices that were not nominated actually deserve to win these awards!
Favorite movie
House pick: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Was it the best movie of the year? Of course not, but this is one of the few cases where the People’s Choice nominee actually makes sense. After all, it was one of the movies that people were most excited about in 2011, and it was a fitting close to a saga that so many of us have grown up with. The only question in this category is, why were Pirates and Transformers nominated for anything other than “Loudest explosions?”
More categories and nominees after the jump! More »