My New Favorite Tuesday Night Activity: Timeflies Tuesday Release

I hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful weather we are having. For this week’s blog I am going to highlight something that I suggest you all look into because the videos these guys release are a youtube trap of wonder!

I first came across Timeflies on my friend’s facebook. The group consists of 23 year old Cal and 22 year old Rez who began recording together in October 2010. They both went to Tufts and got their music started in Boston (woot woot!!)  and they are incredible.

So you may ask why specifically like to listen to them on Tuesdays? Well… every tuesday the duo releases a duo on youtube. It may be an on the spot freestyle, a mash up of popular songs, or even a twist on old classics, but the videos are incredibly entertaining and the beats are always good.

I’m going to show you a couple of my favorite of their videos as well as their most recent release and make sure you check in next Tuesday to check what they have in store with you. Follow them on twitter @timeflies and get updated on all of their new videos!

This is your answer to all of your past boring Tuesday nights. Tune in to watch and marvel at the great music and Cal’s mezmorizing good looks!

Video 1: This week’s Superbowl Special Madonna tribute

 

Video 2: (My Favorite) extended Under the Sea

 

Video 3: I just like this one

 

Try to tell me now that you’re not in love…

Until next time!

All my love,

Lanie

Tags: Timeflies, TimefliesTuesday

New Music Mondays: Apparat & Yellow Ostrich

Hope the semester is going great for everybody out there. It’s Monday evening, so that means it’s time to introduce y’all to some new bands!

First up is a band that’s not so new to 2012, but just got some major exposure last week when a track was featured in last week’s episode of the British teen series, Skins. I now present Apparat.

Apparat ain’t so easy to place into one genre, but Electronic Ambience is probably my best guess. “Black Water” made me tear up for a few days and it’s pretty much impossible to regard this song as anything other than perfection.

Next up, a band that I originally wrote my first blog post about over a year ago. Yellow Ostrich!

Yellow Ostrich can best be classified as quirky indie-rock with a pop sensibility. Their first album was a joy to listen to and I’m expecting the same of their forthcoming second album, Strange Land, which is expected to be out in early March. I’m love love loving their newly-released single “Marathon Runner” and I’m sure y’all will too.

Yellow Ostrich will actually be hitting up Boston on March 3rd at Great Scott. Sadly the show is 21+, keeping away my 20-year-old self, but I’m sure it’ll be fantastic. More details can be found here.

Hope y’all like tonight’s selections. See ya next week!

Josh

Tags: ambience, apparat, electronic, indie, indie rock, music, pop, Yellow Ostrich

My First BU Central Blog Post Ever!

Hello all! My name is Sherelle and I’m one of the newest members of the BU Central Venue Staff. I was supposed to submit my first post last week Friday, but at that point I hadn’t the slightest idea of how to even sign onto WordPress. I’m learning one day at a time so let bygones be bygones…

Did someone say Arctic Monkeys? Oh, you didn’t? Well that’s too bad because I’m going to talk about them anyway.

I just finished watching a live stream of the Arctic Monkey’s performance in Paris and it was phenomenal! Such lovely chaps. This definitely made me ten times more excited for their Boston co-headliner tour with The Black Keys at the TD Garden. In anticipation of their March 7th show, here are a few of my favorite Arctic Monkeys videos:

The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala - Arctic Monkeys

Suck It and See - Arctic Monkeys

Flourescent Adolescent  - Arctic Monkeys

Brianstorm – Arctic Monkeys

I know this blog post was kind of short–more like extremely short–but I’m still learning. I’ll get better at this whole professional blogging thing soon, I swear!

- Sherelle

Tags: Arctic Monkeys

Blast from the Past

I get livenation concert updates every week on the upcoming concerts in Boston and yesterday, one of them took me by surprise!

Nick Carter will be playing on Monday February 6th at Paradise. Yes, that means that one of the Backstreet Boys will be playing just a little over 500 feet from my bedroom! Needless to say, I’m still contemplating going. It is one of those things that I feel like my 10-year-old self would haunt me if I didn’t go in for just a sec!

I was always more of an N*sync fan, but the Backstreet Boy’s Millennium CD was good I’m pretty sire I had two copies! haha

I am going to give you two videos that will make you either cringe with annoyance or smile at memories past.

First off: Backstreet Boys “Show Me The Meaning of Being Lonely”

And Second, of course: N*sync “Bye Bye Bye”

The provocative dance moves at 2:34 blew my mind when I was little!

Somehow I have evolved past the days where I thought that the world was only complete when Justin and Britney were a couple and my walls were covered with boy band posters that came in my J-14 and M magazines, but every now and then it is fun to reminisce!

Have a Happy Thursday and come check out the local band Gastrea LIVE at BU Central tonight @ 9pm!!!

 

Love Always,

Lanie

There’s only one way to party

Even though it’s only the third week of class, it’s Sunday, and so many of us can’t be thinking about fun when we’ve got procrastinating to make up for. Regardless, I’m still feeling excited from the announcement that the Paradise is going to host one of my favorite people in the world soon : Andrew W.K.

It’s apparently been 10 years since the release of his cd I Get Wet, and he’s celebrating by getting a full band together to play the whole album through on tour for the first time in seven years. Having had the pleasure of seeing him perform solo with a keyboard and backing tracks (which he absolutely rocked), I can’t wait to get the full experience of seeing him rock out to a full band.

If you aren’t familiar with Andrew W.K., all you have to know is that the man likes to party. Hard. Regularly. I recommend following him on twitter to get regular, useful party tips. Listen to the follow tracks, and you’ll be as ready to party on this cold sunday night as you’ve ever been:

 

 

 

 

First of 2012: Of Monsters and Men

WELCOME BACK TO CAMPUS!!!

I Hope everyone is excited to be back and that all of your semesters are starting off splendidly. Almost 2 weeks down and I’m finally starting to get a handle on my new classrooms.

Today I am writing to share with you a treasure I found on my friend’s facebook:

Of Monsters and Men

This band hails form the far away land of Iceland. The genre is generally indie/folk and FANTASTIC. Their music is the type of music that suits every mood. Ever since I heard “Little Talks” I constantly find myself singing it in the middle of the day and wanting to listen to it immediately. So without further ado here are the 4 Of Monsters and Men songs that I have come most acquainted with and I encourage you to go out and discover more!!

Little Talks

 

Six Weeks

 

Love Love Love

 

From Finner

 

I hope you enjoy! Have a great weekend and make sure you come to BU Central and check out our weekend events. Tonight we have the first BU For Show open mic night! Sign ups at 8:30, show starts at 9!!

All my love!

Lanie

Best Music Videos of 2011

Hey yall,

Welcome to the first Tuesday Blog of 2012! (I actually just wrote 2011, and had to go back to change it… I’ll probably be doing that until May).

EDIT: HEY I JUST REALIZED THIS IS THE 200th BU CENTRAL BLOG POST – SAY WHAAAATTT!?!?!

It’s already been a month, but I think it’s appropriate to take one last look back at 2011. Here are some of my picks, in no particular order,  for the Best Music Videos of 2011. Also, I’m going to link you to the video instead of embedding it on here, since this blog already loads waayy to slowly!

1) Duck Sauce – Big Bad Wolf

First of all, Duck Sauce is awesome. Second of all, they have heads instead of genitalia. WARNING: Might be NSFW! Although I’m not really sure…

2) LMFAO – Sexy and I know It

I’ve blogged about this video before because I find it so hilarious. RedFoo and SkyBlu shake their stuff, a bit too much in my opinion, but hey, at least they work out.

3) Katy Perry – Last Friday Night

Katy perry brings together Blaine and Artie from Glee, Rebecca Freaking Black, Hanson, Kenny Mother Flippin’ G, and Corey Feldman(did you catch the references the Lost Boys?) to make an awesomely star-filled music video.

4) Rihanna – We Found Love ft. Calvin Harris

This video tells the story about how doing drugs and drinking alcohol will lead to awesome concerts, technicolor cigarettes, and bathing with your clothes and shoes still on. I think that’s what it was supposed to be about…

5) Beastie Boys – Make Some Noise

The only video that could possibly fit in more celebrities than Katy Perry’s. To name just a few of the famous faces you’ll see: Elijah Wood, Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, Susan Sarandon, Rashida Jones, Will Arnett, Rainn Wilson, Ted Danson, Roman Coppola, Steve Buscemi, Amy Poehler, Alicia Silverstone, Kirsten Dunst, Maya Rudolph, David Cross, Orlando Bloom, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Jack Black… That’s about 1/2 of them.

PS: The link above is just the music video. For the Full, 30-min video, click here.

6 ) Superchunk – Crossed Wires

Cute kitten video! That is, it’s a video made by a cute kitten, who, actually turns out to be a complete badass. You’ll see what I mean.

7) Foo Fighters -Walk

A video about the worst day ever. ever.

8) Is Tropical – The Greeks

When I was a kid, I used to have pretend firefights with my friends and toy guns. But it was never quite as awesome as this!

So There you have it, my picks for some of the best music videos of last year. I’m interested to know what your favorite video of last year was. Comment on this post and tell me!

‘Til next time,
Tim

Tags: 2011, bad, Beastie Boys, best, big, black, Duck Sauce, Fighters, Foo, Greeks, Harris, Katy Perry, list, LMFAO, music video, Noise, rebecca black, Rihanna, Superchunk, Walk, wolf

New Music Mondays: The Concept & Clock Opera

Hey everybody! Long time, no talk. I sincerely hope winter break treated y’all well because it sure as hell was kind to me. I’m ready to get right back on top of spreading new music to the world. Time to get excited.

First up, “Gimme Twice” from The Concept. They’re a new dance-rock band out of Sweden and I’m love love loving them. The majority of their tracks sound eerily similar to Phoenix, but I don’t mind in the slightest. It’s quality music, even if it’s not crazy-innovative.

Clock Opera is definitely poised to blow up in 2012 and this video for “Once And For All” should do much make you agree with me. I found myself in tears after watching it for the first time, so good luck holding back your own tears!

See ya next week!

Josh

Tags: clock opera, dance, indie, music, Phoenix, pop, Rock, the concept

BU Central presents… Spring 2012!

Ladies & Gentlemen, Our full Spring line up..

 

Oh, How I love the Holidays!

When I was little, I had a pop-up book of the song “The 12 Days of Christmas.” Although it may not seem possible, that little book got me in tons of trouble. First off I used to run around my house singing and reading for the entire month of  December, that is when my mom took the book away from me. Too bad she couldn’t take my memory away because even with no book I continued to sing. Then one year we were at a holiday concert by a local singer and she was going over the 12 days of Christmas, AND SOMEONE SAID THEM WRONG!! So, little Lanie had to speak up and tell everyone that they were wrong and that the 12 days went a certain way because that is how my book said they did. Needless to say, I didn’t get the book back anytime soon…

Now even though I have grown up a bit, I still love holiday songs so much! Today I am sharing with you my favorites.

Happy Christmas (War is Over) -John Lennon

 

Santa Baby- Madona This is too much of a classic to omit it

 

Little Saint Nick- The Beach Boys

 

White Christmas- Bing Crosby

 

All I Want for Christmas is You- Mariah Carey

 

I came across this on youtube… Bieber kind of gives me the creeps!

 

I hope everyone has a fantastic holiday, whatever you are celebrating!

All my move,

Lanie

P.S. I was just up getting food in the Union Court and someone was singing the 12 Days of Christmas WRONG!! So to eliminate any more confusion:

1 Partridge in a Pear tree

2 Turtle Doves

3 French Hens

4 Calling Birds

5 Gold Rings

6 Geese ‘a’ Laying

7 Swans ‘a’ Swimming

8 Maids ‘a’ Milking

9 Drummers Drumming

10 Pipers Piping

11 Ladies Dancing

12 Lords ‘a’ Leaping