Wednesday, August 30, 2006 Robert Joslin Oklahoma Memorial Union, Norman, OK The Union houses an extremely busy cafeteria, where most of the upperclassmen on the University of Oklahoma campus snag lunch. The programming board, hip to the latest trends, often asks a guitar player to come play during lunch as a little background entertainment....
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Archive for August, 2006
Above the Crowd
Near-Legendary
Monday, August 21, 2006 Stardeath and the White Dwarfs/The Neighborhood/Rohypnol Rangers The Opolis, Norman, OK Having not been to a concert in roughly four months due to a working at a Christian summer camp, I was highly anticipating this show. I was also anticipating it because it was at the Opolis- a near-legendary venue...
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Me Without You
Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th , 2006 MewithoutYou / Norma Jean / Dead Poetic / He is Legend / Showbread / Copeland / Lovedrug / Anathallo / Bradley Hathaway and many more Ski Roundtop, Lewisberry, PA Multiple-day, all-day music festivals are probably the coolest things in the world to attend. Yeah, you...
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It’s a Big, Big, Big, Big World
It’s amazing how big the world of music is, and how little a space I inhabit in it. I heard the other day that there are 300,000 bands on Purevolume.com- and that number just amazed me. I’ve heard maybe 1000 of those- and that’s probably an exaggeration. I buy WIRE magazine whenever I have...
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Edenpark-The ___ Album
Band Name: Edenpark Album Name: The ___ Album Best Element: Consistently good punk rock Genre: Punk Website: http://www.edenpark-pa.com Label Name: PoorBoy Records Band E-mail: stack@edenpark-pa.com Edenpark’s style is right in the vein of punk legends such as The Misfits and the Dead Kennedys, without the horror movie or political themes. It is dark, brooding...
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Eagle Seagull
Band: Eagle*Seagull Album: S/t Best Element: Creativity Genre: Indie Rock Website: www.eagleseagull.com Label: Paper Garden (www.papergardenrecords.com) Band E-mail: I’ve long said that my favorite bands are ones that have abandoned guitar as their main method of communicating and implemented more keys. Relient K, Coldplay, Mae, The Flaming Lips, and the Starlight Mints are just...
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Blue Velvet-Four Songs
Band Name: Blue Velvet Album Name: Four Songs Best Element: The total abandon of narrative post-rock Genre: Post-Rock Website: www.bluevelvet.org Label Name: Phratry Records/BC Records Band E-mail: bluevelvetny@hotmail.com …then God created post-rock….and Mogwai to boot. He created the original and now allows for the evolution of His creation. Mutation in the form of Blue...
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Banner Pilot-Pass the Poison
Band Name: Banner Pilot Album Name: Pass the Poison Best Element: Staying true to punk Genre: Punk/Punk/Punk Website: www.banner-pilot.com Label Name: Arsenic Records Band E-mail: bannerpilot@gmail.com Banner Pilot is punk rock. If that sentence doesn’t convince you, just check out their EP Pass the Poison that features seven blistering tracks of punk rock goodness....
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12 Summers Old-Hair Spray and Hand Grenades
Band Name: 12 Summers Old Album Name: Hair Spray and Hand Grenades Best Element: Vocal Harmony, dynamics Genre: Power-pop, Emo, Screamo Website: www.12summersold.com Label Name: Sub-Verse Records Band E-mail: TwelveSummersOld@hotmail.com Hailing from Belleville, Illinois, the band 12 Summers Old’s newest effort Hair Spray and Hand Grenades opens up with the fast paced track “Boy...
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“What about Piracy?”
Oh no, I said it, the dreaded “P” word: piracy. Today, the major music industry is spending millions of dollars each year to fight piracy. We have seen Sony encrypt their CD’s so you can not copy them to a computer, which was determined to be an infringement on the rights of the consumer....
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