Matt's leaving SUNY PURCHASE!!! tomorrow after a solid year of hard work and studying so in the name of documentation and sentimentality we spent the afternoon cataloging all the show flyers and posters and other random shit we have collected over this school year. Everything has to come down. Here are some of my personal favorites:
Check out the whole tear-jerking process at the MYSONCOOL FLICKR or on facebook [PART ONE , PART TWO] which should work for at least a little bit. Feel free to send us photos of any we've forgotten to steal from the bulletin boards. Have a great summer everybody!
This school is filled with awesome bands and really great music, so lumping everything into a list of 5 would do no justice to our community here. Here are my honorable mentions, bands definitely worth checking out.
These guys have such a huge, developed and carefully constructed sound. They fill up rooms completely with both instrumental ambience and an army of an audience bobbing in unison from the hip.
MOKAAD AND THE FLEX POINTS
Funk isn't really my thing but this band is by far made up of some of the best musicians on campus and they really know what they're doing. They definitely put on a good show and get people to come out, yet they are apparently too funky to be found anywhere at all on the internet.
I remember the first time I saw these guys it was at a Crossroads open mic and they were the first math band I've ever witnessed. Since then I've seen them numerous times and they grow on me more and more every time. These guys are touring this July and currently have more shows on their myspace than any band I can think of.
Pete's one of my favorite guys in the music department and he's involved in a lot of different projects so that should be all the more incentive to check them all out. Matt and I actually just saw Pete play earlier tonight at the Stood open mic with what I think was an entirely new band that was very loud and abrasive and great. Check out Pete's BLOG for news and updates and videos and lots of great stuff. Matt caught these guys last Saturday while I was setting up for my show a the CO-OP, so expect a more detailed post on their show sometime soon.
First SUNY PURCHASE!!! band I ever heard. Data Dog mixes elements of acoustic indie and synth-heavy electro pop with a top coat of layers harmonies and samples. The cool thing about these guys is that they reproduce their sound very well in a live setting. Come see for yourself on this Saturday, April 4th, (at what appears to be an undisclosed location on campus) for their first CD release.
Last week, I put up my top 5 bands list, and this week, Nick "No-Nonsense" Corbo, put up his. Now that we have had time to digest and sort through your overwhelming feedback, we are both ready to present our "Hon. Men." list; in my case, right now, and with Nick, who f-ing knows, right? But sorry to keep you waiting, germs- let the games begin!
Battle Ave Tea Club is a great bizarro-pop group that makes a really nice Canadian indie type of music. Influenced by Frog Eyes among others, the lead singer has a fairly idiosyncratic voice, but if you can get past that (and you should be able to), there is lot to like about this Purchase band.
Landlords are a very weird/shitty/dead kind of band. As a three-piece industrial noise outfit, this isn't yr typical Rihanna by any means. They're more sweet 'n sour (like Plain White Tees) and they can be 'lil ruff at times ;) Most of their songs just consist of a fuxx bass farting out long ominous notes to a death march drum beat while feedback screeches in from the guitar amp. It's very thick and swampy. It's sticky like mucous, and makes you feel weird about yourself. <3
I've seen a couple of Tamarin shows lately, and, truth be told, they've all been pretty great. I saw them the other week headlining a show at Whitsons, and then a couple days later, performing songs by The Band, for the Greatest Show Ever, sponsored by the one and only Sam Schachter. Tamarin has a couple members of The Shakes in it, but is more country than those guys. They did a great version of a number of The Bands songs, and rly captrd the spirit of the whole thing.
Well, me and Nick are on spring break right now, and have been feeling pretty lazy 'bout blogging ya know? We decided that during this week-long hiatus from school we would take time to reflect and pontificate upon our experience with muzack thus far this year. We now emerge from the first few days of meditation and ponderance and offer up a list; a list that has names; and these names are BANDS, ladies and gentlemen. So now, without further ado, my (Matt Palmer's) list of the top five SUNY Purchase!! bands!!
1. The Shakes- a fantastic organ-driven rockabilly punk band with two panty soaking singers that croon and swoon and play awesome Sam Cooke covers.
2. Screwed Again- a clean cut bunch of 'prep-city rockers' that really know how to shake, and even roll! a little bit. Srsly tho, a really great nu-wave band that creates sing-a-long anthems out of the mny injustices of the MTA.
3. Twin Sister- a really very pretty band that combines chimey gutairs with the beautiful voice of a beautiful, blue-haired angel. There are other instruments (assuredly), but I've only got eyes/earz for you... O TRUE BLUE!!
4. Vince Vonnegut- a very interesting artist who, through his many delay pedals, drum machines, and rolling papers, creates expansive sonic landscapes with only his voice and his wazzle-twads.
5. Nick Corbo- singer songwriter, sweetheart, sincere student, honest citizen, passionate lover, righteous writer, hallowed heart-tamer, dragoon warrior, fire mage, LVL 70 Gnome on the Aleddriss server (PM him), and faithful LARPER.
