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Student Bands Playing Fun Day

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

If I could do college over, instead of being a slippingly anonymous blogger with caffeine headaches and bad skin I would be in a band.

I would play my instrument with my golden fingers and drive freshmen wild and people would carry me on their shoulders and my whole college career would be like one of the better montages from Almost Famous.

In this college-do-over-fantasy, my band and I play Fun Day and when I look out over the crowd of students, pale shouldered and drunk behind neon sunglasses I can see that I have melted their minds with my amazing guitar solo. The crowd literally has their melted brains dripping out of their ears and nose and I am fucking shredding on my ax and then fireworks go off behind me as I am lifted up by a crane and carried, dove like over the crowd, to a jacuzzi filled with champagne, a cold jacuzzi filled with champagne, where I am greeted by every girl I have ever crushed on, even my first German au-pair.

I think this is what having your band play Fun Day is like. Alas, I can only speculate. But you, Lucky Musician, you can live the dream. You and your band can play Fun Day. All you need to do to begin living your dream is click here. Sieze this opportunity! These are the best days of your life! You’re only young once! I am still in love with my baby sitter from 6th grade!

Aural Explosion

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Too Rad

Too Rad

Yo Motherfuckers, if you’re not totally popping wood about all the good music coming to campus this weekend you must be a serious wet blanket. Thursday night Lively Lucy’s brings you a free show with April Smith and the Great Picture Show and The Van Buren Boys and then Friday night is SEC and Benefaction’s biannual Benefit Concert with sets from VERBS, Silent Kids and Mutual Friends. After all that madness there is this little party called Moorebid Ball featuring LightsDownMusicUp on Saturday Night.

I just want to let everyone know now so we can collectively avoid all those what-are-you-doing-tonight text messages.

Verbs: Living Room

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

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Verbs, a relatively new Skidmore band, has released their debut album “Living Room” (it was not recorded in a living room, I believe). Verbs is comprised of five Skidmore students: Nate Terepka ’10, Matt Kirby ’10, Andrew Clinard ’10, Garrett Cook ’10, and Casey Baird ’11, who used to play under the name “Pistol Shrimp.”

Living Room is available online for a free download at Verbstheband.com. Check it out and let them know what you think below.

Santy Meets Lena

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Buried in the depths of Brooklyn Phila St. rests Caffe Lena, the “Best Small Venue in North America” according to the International Folk Alliance. Located next to Hattie’s (whose chicken is da bomb!), this venue caters to Skidmores’ musicians, as it often supports acts from small Jazz ensembles and more. This Wednesday, Lena’s EMERGING ARTIST BREAKOUT#$!@% will feature Skidmore student Luke Santy accompanied by Julia Ilowieck, who according to Facebook, did/does not go to Skidmark.

Where: Caffe Lena (47 Phila Street)
When: Wednesday, Dec 10th @ 7-8pm
How: Take the bus

Santy Space
Julia’s Space

Red Wire, Wes’ Wire

Friday, November 7th, 2008

Dedicated music fans with a car,

This weekend, our (not so) fierce competitor, Wesleyan University, will feature several Skidmore bands in what Wesleying is calling a “Wesleyan-style all star lineup.” Wesleyan band Red Wire/Black Wire will be playing an album “re-release” show accompanied by Snakes Say Hisss! (Skid ’08), Boogie Boarder (Skid ’07), and Hume. You’re probably already making all kinds of nasty assumptions (you pervs) about what a “Wesleyan-style” means, but their love for the au naturel lifestyle is a thing of the past. We encourage anyone looking to reinspire the naked revolution this weekend to at least stop by and support some Skidmore grads who continue to put on a mean show. The show is tonight from 10pm-2am @ Eclectic, which is somewhere in Middletown, CT — find a map.

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Spillway Train to Wesleyan

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

This weekend, Skidmore student and environmentally conscious bad ass musician, Doug Barber, took the train to Wesleyan University, located in the heart of Connecticut, to play a one-manned acoustic set under the name Spillway. Following an act by longtime friend Robby Hardesty of The Spools, Barber took the stage at WestCo Cafe, an establishment similar to Falstaffs, the Spa, or that area in front of the D-hall fireplaces where some people think it’s okay to play music. He played some solo acoustic versions of songs from his band “Spillway” (Barber and friend Jack McKool).

Spillway proper has yet to performer here on campus (we assume travel logistics and whatnot have kept these two apart), but Barber has been known to pop up in between spoken word sets at Lively Lucy’s. Spillway, who spent this past summer recording and touring around their home state of Texas, has an album available for free download here.

Check out the Spill-space