BU Central is excited to bring Young The Giant to BU on Thursday, September 8th! Doors at 8:30PM and show at 9PM. This show is closed to the BU Community and free with your BU ID. The opening band is to be announced.
Be sure to check out Young The Giant’s performance this weekend at the VMAs. Not familiar with the band? Check out the video for their song “My Body” below!
We hope to see you there!
By now, if you haven’t already spent a full workday on the site, you’ve probably at least heard of turntable.fm. Launched just a few short months ago, the popular music community website is gaining more and more members and buzz every day. This site is not only the perfect distraction, but also an awesome way to share and discover new music.
New to turntable.fm? Here’s how it works: After signing up via Facebook or Twitter, you’re presented with a list of rooms ranging from 90’s themed to Dubstep to my personal favorite, Indie While You Work. Have friends already on the site? The rooms they are listening in appear at the top of your list. If you’re in the mood for something different than you see, create your own room and invite your friends. Once you choose your room, you’re entered as a crowd member. If you like what you hear, click like. Your avatar’s head will start to do an adorable bob back and forth to support the current DJ. Don’t like it at all? Hit dislike. If enough people choose this option, the next DJ will automatically begin playing the next song in their queue. Did I mention the adorable avatars and crisp graphics? When you’re able to claim one of the five coveted DJ spots, you have the option to upload your own music from your computer or browse the turntable library.
With connectivity to iTunes, Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter, and the new, buzzworthy Spotify, this website is quickly becoming the best online music community. Even musicians are catching on to the trend, like Diplo who previewed new Major Lazer tracks on the site just a few weeks ago. Companies ranging from music blogs (local Allston Pudding and Consequence of Sound) to large Advertising Agencies (Arnold Worldwide) create rooms on a regular basis to share what they are listening to.
Maybe BU Central will have a regular room once school begins… Stay tuned
37. The atomic number of rubidium. The number of plays William Shakespeare has written. Probably the amount of times I’ve eaten Chipotle in the past few months. But also, the number of concerts I have attended so far in 2010.
This doesn’t include festivals, because that would just get ridiculous, but it’s a pretty big number. Live music is something of a hobby for me, in case you couldn’t tell. There is just something amazing about being in the same room with an artist you admire. But when you see as many shows as I do, you have to keep a list of the best ones, the performances that went so far beyond your expectations that you leave the venue speechless.
Last year, a group of my friends and I decided to make a list of our top ten albums of 2009. The list also included 5 “discovery” albums, albums not released in 2009 that we found ourselves listening to over and over again, and also our top 5 shows of the year. That list probably took me longer to write than the final paper I was working on at the time.
So for this year, I’ve already started keeping track, and last weekend, I saw the fourth addition to my top 5 shows list.
Gayngs is a 23-person band made of of members of Bon Iver, Megafaun, Solid Gold, Andrew Bird’s band, and P.O.S. of Rhymesayers. The touring band is a little smaller, made up of about 9-10 people, depending on the location of the show. As a pretty huge Bon Iver/Justin Vernon fan, I immediately bought tickets to their show at the Paradise the day they went on sale.
The show was phenomenal, to say the very least. I somehow ended up in the front row, three feet directly in front of Justin Vernon. Seriously, I wanted to cry. There are very few words that properly describe this experience, so check out this video and these tracks.
The Walker
Faded High
Enjoy!
-Rose
