"Give It to Me Hardcore" show at Eclectic

In what's being billed as "a radical queercore and punk rock explosion," The Noms and Precision Libido are to perform at the "Give It to Me Hardcore" show this Friday. More on Facebook.

The Noms and Precision Libido will be rocking the fuck out in the noisiest, angriest, friendliest, sexiest, and sex-positivlieist of ways. There will be special guest performances, too. This concert has to end at midnight (when everything goes all pumpkin-shaped), so be fashionable, by all means, but don't be late.

The Noms is Max Krafft '09, Jeff Rovinelli '10, Daniel Selsam '09, Thaddeus Ruzicka '08, Jared Paul '11, and Josh Koenig '09.

Precision Libido is Rayna Edwards '10, Elissa Martel '10, and Aliza Simons '09.

Date: Friday, Dec. 12
Time: 9:00 PM – midnight
Place: Eclectic

[Via Aliza Simons '09.]

WesNYC Music: MGMT, Bottle Up and Go, Spirit Marines

In the New York area? No plans tomorrow? Well, it's the luckiest day of the year (7/7/07), so you shouldn't just sit on your ass. Why don't you take a trip to the Flamboyan Theatre (107 Suffolk, NYC) and see MGMT (formerly known as The Management)? Their new album Oracular Spectacular will be out this September, and word on the street is that it's really good.

If you head over to Bottle Up and Go's myspace, you will also see that they have several New York shows coming up including a show with The Spirit Marines at TRASH BAR (256 Grand, Brooklyn) this Monday, July 9th. I plan to be there, and hopefully I will see you. Hopefully, I will be drunk and ready to tell you all about post-Wesleyan life.

Bands performing at WestCo Cafe

Rosina Belcourt '08 would like you to "come see Wesleyan bands Red Wire Black Wire and Babewatch, as well as Red Sails, a folk/experimental/blues/rock band visiting from New York. Red Wire Black Wire goes on first at 10:00, followed by Red Sails and then Babewatch."

Date: Friday, May 4
Time: 10:00 PM
Place: WestCo Café
Cost: Free

Passion and Profession

Melanie Cherng '08 sends in:

Indie Rock Band Johnny HIFI performance and workshop on "Passion and Profession"

Asian American Indie Rock band, Johnny Hi-Fi, will perform and lead a workshop on "Passion and Profession". One critic calls them the "Radiohead of the boy-band generation". Another reviewer created for them a new genre "Asian-Britpop". Their fans simply call them the "American Coldplay". They have toured all over the US and Asia. All of band members are full time professionals such as doctor, IT ceo, graphic designer etc., as well as members of Johnny HiFi. They will come and share their music but also hold a workshop on their experiences as both band members and full time professionals, the pressures they faced from their parents and peers, and how they currently maintain this tenuous balance between working full time and expanding their creative and artistic talents through music. The discussion will begin at 8 and the performance at 9 pm. Wesleyan's own Apples for Immigrants will open Johnny HiFi's performance with a fifteen minute set.

Begin your Saturday evening with good music and good conversation as musicians share their personal experiences.

Date: Saturday, April 28
Panel Discussion: 8-9 PM
Performance: 9-10 PM , Opening by Wesleyan's own Apples for Immigrants
Place: 200 Church

Update on Tonight's WESU Show

Jeffrey Wong '08 tells us that Grizzley Bear did have to cancel due to a death in the family but we have replaced them with Japanther.

The show will still be going on at Eclectic from 7pm to Midnight, but will now be FREEEEEE. If you bought a ticket already, however, you can get a refund at Eclectic. WESU members will be at the door to sell T-shirts and such, so just give them your ticket and they'll refund your money.

Guns Drawn, The Boys, The Boca All-Stars to play Westco Cafe

If OMGMUSIC isn't quite your cup of saturday night musical experience tea, or if you'd rather see bands composed of your wonnerful peers, you might want to check this out: "A TRIPLE FEATURE SPECTACULAR the likes of which you've never seen before... unless you have seen Grindhouse... while hopped up on Special K... while receiving a blow job... while smelling the scent of freshly baked apple pie... while feeling the kiss of a cool breeze...while tasting the salt of your tears as they trickle down your cheek."

ze Bands:
Guns Drawn:
Prospector: Joe Stankus
Sheriff: Jon Sirlin
Outlaw: Jake Greenberg
"Drummer": Dustin Brockner

The Boys:
The Dirrrty Clown
Big Joe Stankus
MC Testee
MC Unreliable
MC Grigorian

The Boca All-Stars
Miles Pearce: guitar
Miles Abraham Turner: Bass
Galen DeGraf: Drums

Time: 10pm, Saturday Night
Place: The Westco Cafe
Price: Sweat, Fear

Lumberjack Isto 2.0

I'm a bit late with this, but the wonderful Isto, Chris White '06, has posted a buttload of new videos. Watch them here on youtube.

Here's a personal favorite from this series...



Make sure to check out the rest!

Oh, but wait, MORE MUSIC

Meg Sinick '07 doesn't want you to forget that the following bands will be rocking out on Friday:

The Art Department (From Goucher College)
Bnnk
The Fusty Nuts
Dead Language

Date: Friday, April 6th
Place: Alpha Delt
Time: 10pm

WESU Variety Show

Everyone should go to WESU's Variety Show this weekend! Come hang out with WESU and bring your friends!

Music & Poetry! Performers include Balkan Situations, Evan Simko- Bednarski, Ben Seretan, John Cusick & Sarah Elmaleh, Maya Odim, Sam Ottinger & Cory Baldwin, Dave Abravanel, Fareed Sajan, and more.

Date: Saturday, March 3
Time: 7-9pm
Place: The Buttonwood Tree Theatre (605 Main Street across from O'Rourke's)
Cost: Suggested $3 donation

Nat Webb Appearance (er Coffee House)

Alpha Delt will be hosting Nat Webb, yes, all of him, this Thursday. They will be appeasing the beast with snacks, coffee and music. If you are lucky, a few morsels may escape his grasp and you may eat them.

Performers will include Drake Morgan, Alex Pfeifer-Rosenblum, Todd Rosenthal, Steve Sunu, Zach Young, and, making a triumphant return from graduation, Nat Webb! (And also hopefully Pat Wolf :D )

Date: Thursday, February 22
Time: 8pm-10pm
Place: ADP living room

WesMusic Update

Wesleyan's own Boy Crisis has some new tunes! Boy Crisis is Tal Rozen '06, Victor Vasquez '06, Alex Kestner '06, and Lee Pender '07 with most of their videos directed by Jordan Fish '06. They claim to sound like "a computer having sex with a beautiful bird or something", and I'd say that's relatively accurate. Listen to the two new tunes, "Boy Crississippi" and "Seven Years War", up on their space.

In other Wes music news, you can now listen to a live version of "Ollie Oxen Free" by Laura Goldhamer '06 from her recent tour with Belly Boat.

Attn: Wesleyan Music People

Sophie Pollitt-Cohen '09 is working over at VH1 over break and would like to invite all you talented musicians to take part in a new contest. She writes:

Inspired by the upcoming romantic comedy Music and Lyrics, VH1 and Warner Brothers are offering aspiring songwriters the chance to be heard with "Your Music, Your Lyrics," a contest starting Tuesday and running through Jan. 20. The lucky winning songwriter will be flown to Los Angeles for the red carpet premiere of Music and Lryics and will also have their song professionally recorded.

Sound good?

Then write, record and upload an original love song to http://www.talentload.tv.

(Also you should totally make a music video for it and upload it to youtube so that we can put it here, too, because there's nothing we like more than watching silly Wesleyan music videos.)

Belly Boat: winter break west coast tour

You may have seen Belly Boat (featuring Silvie Margot Deutsch '09), Laura Goldhamer '06, or Daniela Gesundheit '04 of Snowblink perform on campus, but west coast folks have a chance to see them live this winter break. Xue mentioned this earlier, but I figured I'd post the tour dates for those of you who may be lazy. This will give you an opportunity to hear some quality tunes while ditching your parents or the television reruns*. Or...if you're the kind of person whose parents complain that you don't spend enough time with them, why not bring them with you? They might be particularly interested in Natalie Tate remixing their p*ssy.

* Beware of "My Super Sweet Sixteen". It is the best way to increase Brainrot.

DATES**

• January 3rd, 8:00PM-- Santa Cruz, CA w/ Port o'Brien
  
• January 5th, 8:00PM-- Portland, OR w/ Laura Goldhamer
• January 6th, 8:00PM-- Olympia, WA w/ Laura Goldhamer, Natalie Tate
• January 7th, 8:00PM-- Seattle, WA w/ Laura Goldhamer, Natalie Tate
• Januart 8th, 8:00PM-- Eugene, OR w/ Laura Goldhamer, Natalie Tate
• January 12th, 8:00PM-- San Francisco, CA w/ Laura Goldhamer, Natalie Tate, Snowblink
• January 14th, 8:00PM-- Santa Cruz, CA w/ Laura Goldhamer, Isabela Soloman
• January 16th, 9:00PM-- Los Angeles, CA w/ Laura Goldhamer, Pocahaunted, Sounder
• January 20th, 9:00PM-- Santa Monica, CA featuring Snowblink only (details)
  

** All dates include Belly Boat except January 20th. See their myspace page for venue details as available.

HEAR/SEE

• Belly Boat, watch video for "give me a pot to piss in and i'll give you something to drink" here.
• Laura Goldhamer, watch videos on page.
• Snowblink
• Natalie Tate
• Pocahaunted
• Port O'Brien
  

WesMusic, for real

Youth hero Laura Goldhamer '06 of biodiesel bus fame is coming out with a full length album, Ye Olde Leave Behind. She'll also be touring the west coast with Belly Boat (half of which is Silvie Margot Deutsch '09) with some dates including Snowblink, the band of Daniela Gesundheit '04. Thanks for the heads-up goes to Joe John, who apparently can't remember that he's a Wesleying contributor and just e-mails us his news instead*.

*Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Making Flippy Floppy Concert

Making Flippy Floppy, a Talking Heads cover-band, will be holding a concert tomorrow night in Westco.

Date: Tuesday, December 12
Time: 9:00pm
Place: Westco Lounge

"Only 50 people allowed in so come early, and be ready to dance. Seriously."

Bands @ Earth House

Free and good music this Thursday...

Date: Thursday, October 5th
Time: 9:00pm
Venue: Earth House (159 High Street)

Bands:
Snowblink
Snowblink is the extraordinary singer and guitarist Daniela Gesundheit and a revolving cast of others. Daniela is from California and lives in San Francisco.

Nat Baldwin
Nat Baldwin is a great doublebassist and singer who plays solo, accompanying himself on bowed and plucked bass. Nat is also the bassist for the Dirty Projectors. He lives in Portsmouth, NH.

Extra Life
Extra Life is the solo moniker for Charlie Looker, an instrumental component of the famous Dirty Projectors, Zs and Silver Sprigs, whose music can all be easily found on the internet. Charlie Lives in New York City.

Belly Boat
Belly Boat is Silvie Margot Deutsch '09 and Zoe Ruth Cusmus Latta. The two sing charming and racy songs supported by Silvie's piano and Zoe's accordion. They are both from Santa Cruz and live in Middletown and Providence.

Bands @ Eclectic this weekend

The Reading
Babewatch (Formerly Syndicate)
Spirit Marines
Balloon

10 PM, Saturday, September 23rd, @ Eclectic

Totally not hard lineup

Find the real Wesleyan band!