Wardicus Wednesdays #8 - Sepomana!

This week we've got some highlights from Sepomana, which takes place this Friday, the 17th at 9:30. Come early to get into the Sepomana Hangover Event on Saturday in Bunker. Tickets are only 5 bones, and will be sold during dinners and lunches all this week or are available at the only box office,

Headlining the event are electro-punk rawkers, the motherfucking Death Set. This is my favorite of their songs, left off the Sepomana Sampler in the station due to gratuitous profanity. Play this shit loud.


Other famous dude, Tobacco, goes on right before the Death Set. His signature brand of psychedelic electronics are made using pre-digital age equipment.


The trio Ghost Ghost includes Middlebury alums Kevin Peckham and Tim Ireland. Kevin was around back when Sepomana was born 11 years ago and has basically done all soundwork since then until last year when he moved to New York and started his band.


Local group Brown Heir grew up in the county of Addison. Since then they've moved to the big city (Burlington) and have been rocking out with their ultra dirty jams. They're opening, so come early to get your dark groove on.


The first 190 people to show up to Sepomana get to see the Bran Flakes perform at the Bunker the following night. According to their website, "Dancing, new videos, a mini-marching band - and MANY more surprises!!!"

DAFT PUNK GAME

OH MY GOD. Jump around onto people heads to make music (D punk samples) and collect record samples. BEST THING EVER

http://www.pedestrian.tv/blogs/view/2389/daft-punk-the-game.htm

I Heard it Today: Awestruck at the fact that were all fucked.

Marxism today?
"Work a steady day job, then go home. Your free to roam anywhere around in our zone. Not liking the options? Here's a tax break, now go shopping."
Mr. Lif has delivered the first political concept album that makes good points....and doesn't suck. I can't get enough of this album. Its beats are fucking deep and thoroughly herbalized.

Emancipation under Nancy Reagan. Its like watching Michael Irving catching passes from Troy Aikmen. Dallas Fucking Cowboys and an "all out war on the poor."

Watch out Immortal Technique.
Lif's beats drip with mad flavor even when he speaks.

Santigold - Spring Concert 2009

Mere weeks before Sepomona 2009, Middlebury receives a visit from Santigold for our Spring concert. Santigold (aka Santi White) who has just launched a North American tour took time off her schedule to bring her entourage to the campus.

Pictures:

Ukranian Polka Band Covers Katy Perry

Wow. Thats really all there is to say, heres the video.



Props to Docking Station.

I used to have to listen to Madvillainy while playing Zelda just to preserve my thugish/ruggish aesthetic. Team teamwork just turned Zelda's soundtrack into a dre instrumental. As my man Tucker says, hwellz yeah. Teamwork truly pushes some of hip-hop's (N64 paddle) buttons.

01 - Clipse - Virginia (Lost Woods)
02 - Dr. Dre + Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E. (Getting Treasure)
03 - Jay-Z - No Hook (Meeting the Owl)
04 - Pimp C, Lil Keke + P.O.P. - Knockin’ Doorz Down (Hyrule Field)
05 - Common - I used to Love H.E.R. (Hyrule Market)
06 - Aesop Rock - No Jumpercables (Goron Village)
07 - Edan - Fumbling Over Words (Battle)
08 - MF Doom - Vomit (Horse Race at Lon Lon Ranch)
09 - Spank Rock - IMC (Zora’s Domain)
10 - Slim Thug + Mike Jones - Still Tippin’ (Great Fairy’s Fountain)

Download here

Wardicus Wednesdays #7 - We're Back

It's 55 degrees outside which can only mean one thing:

LEGS. I cannot wait for underclassmen to return from island nations that end in 'a' and start showing off their newly bronzed bipeds! Soon Battell Beach is going to be covered by youngsters trying to soak up the ever increasing rays of sun. Of course, they won't realize that while doing so, their backs are getting covered in mud. Afterall, It's only March and it's still Vermont. So while you're weathering out that final snowstorm, here's songs to get you ready for summertime.

ww7



The first song is Countdown (Sick for the Big Sun) by French pop masters Phoenix. These guys basically wrote the soundtrack for my summer three years ago with their debut, It's Never Been Like That. Their new release, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, is slightly more disco, but equally as bubblegum .



Next up, we've got Now We Can See by The Thermals. I've loved this band for a long time now with their unique brand of talk-rock that makes me miss Thompson. (I never thought I'd say that.)



Hells fucking YES. Metric. It's been four long years since the last real Metric release and I definitely have not been disappointed with Fantasies. Granted, nothing can touch OWU, but this will definitely piss off my roommates for the next few weeks when I wake up to the album on full blast every morning. Also, I'd like to take this opportunity to officially propose to Emily Haines. Emily, you are the coolest older woman in the world and are incredibly sexy (in a weirdly Canadian way).



Next up is the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Zero is the first single from new album It's Blitz!. They've traded their Sonic Youth sound from Fever to Kill for more synths ala Blondie, but that doesn't mean it's not good. They've managed a nice balance between punk and pop. So if you were disappointed by Show Your Bones, don't worry. The YYYs are as cool and as rockin as ever.



Finally, we've got The Decemberists with The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid. For the new album, The Hazards of Love, hyperliterate frontman Colin Meloy wrote a rock opera, casting Becky Stark (Lavender Diamond) as Margaret, the doomed protagonist, Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) as a forest queen (appearing in the song) and featuring Jim James, Robyn Hitchcock,and Rebecca Gates. Listen closely and you might hear Comfortably Numb on The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned) or The Who's Tommy all over the fucking album. Rather than rip-off these giants of the 70's, the Decemberists channel them, crafting a narrative that's enjoyably poppy, but also get my head banging every time Chris Funk starts shredding and the Forest Queen starts belting. If you've not been listening to this album on repeat for the past few weeks, get on it. Oh, and for a bonus: NPR has the whole thing live at SXSW.

c'est tres tres bien

it is, how you say? the spring break? and i am sitting in my house, writing le thesis.

this video is beautiful beautiful beautiful. sufjan stevens also on la blogotheque.
i have been meaning to post this and share it with everyone, but i guess dave's post subconsciously inspired me even more.



in station news, streaming is back!!

LISTEN TO WRMC HERE 24/7/365!

also lots of things are going on over break: cds getting graded and subsequently added, promoters getting emails, sweet shows getting planned, so be excited for the next two months of 'rmc! because i am excited enough for BOTH OF US!!

xo rachael

decaying blog to sigur ros

I have no idea what is going on around here. Shit has obviously hit the fan. I blame Ernest.


Sigur Ros - Við spilum endalaust - A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Here is a Take Away Show produced by La Blogotheque. Its sweet and simple.

Cacophonic Bubonic Shit the Made Me Choke

SALEM - DIRT from ACEPHALE on Vimeo.


Salem is as erie as it is beautiful. According to Uncle Pinglewood: "If you kidnapped Bauhaus, tied them up in your basement, tortured them with slo-mo Houston hip-hop and performance art pornography, then killed them, their ghosts might have sordid dreams about a record like this."

Check a few of their jams here