The Almost-Acoustic Showcase of Musical Talent!

THIS SATURDAY, November 12th, WDCV is crazy-excited to present…

The Almost-Acoustic Showcase of Musical Talent

What is it, you ask? How would you feel about an all-night, 100% free concert featuring five, count ’em, FIVE kick-ass bands? Because, that, my friends, is exactly what it is.

You’ll hear from Wild Horse and Video 54, two bands comprising current Dickinsonians and resident Carlislians.

You’ll hear from Trunks and Tales, a one-man acoustic troubadour from Harrisburg.

You’ll hear from Scott Pine and the Conifers, indie goodness from Bethlehem, PA

And you’ll hear from the ever-popular Ton Taun, the official partially-bearded band of WDCV.

And it’s all for free and free for all THIS SATURDAY.

Doors open at 7 pm  at The Depot, the show kicks off at 8 pm. There’ll be great music, cool people, light refreshments, WDCV merch, and an awesome atmosphere. Free and open to anyone, Dickinson students and non-students alike, so bring your mom! Bring everyone, because it’s going to be a damned good time.

 

Here’s how it’s gonna go down:

7 pm: Depot doors open

8 pm: Video 54

8:45: Scott Pine and the Conifers

9:30: Wild Horse

10:30: Trunks and Tales

11:00: Ton Taun

 

You can pick up some WDCV swag, merch from the artists, plus water and lemonade. But the show itself is totally free.

The Depot is located on the Dickinson College campus right next to the Kline Athletic Center, on Cherry Street in between High and Louther Streets.

It doesn’t get any better, and it doesn’t get any cheaper, so we hope to see you all there! Until then, rock and roll and don’t lose your cred!

 

With much love,

All your favorite folks here at WDCV

COLLEGE RADIO DAY!!!

 

October 11th is the first ever College Radio Day!  This is super awesome and we are so excited to participate in it.  College Radio Day was created to help showcase the wonderful stations across the country that may be seen as secret gems within in community they serve.  Many colleges have been selling their radio licenses to fill gaps in their budget, but once that happens, you aren’t going to get the station back and a void is left on campus and the community.  Please support WDCV by listening in and telling others what a great station we are.  We love Dickinson & Carlisle and we plan on being around for a long, long time!

Become a WDCV DJ!!

School is here and WDCV is looking for djs to fill our airwaves with delightful tunes!  If you are interested in becoming a dj (or returning from last year) you can stop by the WDCV table at activities night.  We will hold dj meetings on Sept. 14th & 15th (you only have to attend 1) in Tome 115 @7pm to give you all of the information you will need to get started.  Follow us on Facebook for updates!  If you have any other questions, or just want to say hello, email us at wdcvfm at gmail.com



WDCV’s Discover Dickinson!

 

On Friday, August 26th,  WDCV hosted it’s second Discover Dickinson orientation workshop. WDCV exec staff showed first-years around the station, helped them play their first song over the air and had them make posters for our upcoming DJ meeting. The groups showed lots of potential, for excellent DJs, awesome exec members and maybe even station manager someday. Only time will tell. In the meantime, enjoy the pictures below!

From Left to Right: Nasir, Eli, Nancy, Aaron, Bre

WDCV Interviews… Isis

Backstage before her set, Isis shared her views on Skittles and being an independent female artist with WDCV’s Tessa.

Tessa: So, Isis of Thunderheist!

Isis: Yes I am Isis of Thunderheist.

Tessa: And you like red skittles.

Isis: I like red skittles. I used to like green skittles, but I’ve changed, I’ve grown older. My tastes have changed.

Tessa: I respect those tastes. Red skittles, where it’s at.

Isis: I’m telling you, f*ck green skittles! [laughs] I’m gonna write a letter to Skittles: “YO, F*CK GREEN SKITTLES. RED POWER.” Okay, I’m done.

Tessa: No, sorting them was good, it was a nice…

Isis: I was going somewhere with that, I was! You know, if you don’t stop me now…

Tessa: I mean, that they should just make bags of red and green. They do it for M&Ms.

Isis: That’s what I’m saying, segregate the skittles. I think it’s about time, you know. Segregate these skittles! [laughs] Some of the soundbites you’re gonna get are f*cking ridiculous, oh my god. Okay.

Tessa: So you’re from.. Toronto?

Isis: I’m Nigerian. And I was born in Nigeria–Africa, it’s a continent, not a country–some people don’t know that–and I was raised in Toronto, and I’ve lived in Vancouver, sometimes Philly, and … yeah that’s about it.

Tessa: Did you go to college for music, or…?

Isis: No, I’m a college dropout, I went for a week and then I went on tour.

Tessa: Wow.

Isis: Yeah.

Tessa: And you were originally Thunderheist, were you something before that?

Isis: No, I was originally Isis, and then I met Graham through a mutual friend, and he was really into my musical stuff, my solo stuff, and then accidentally sent me a beat for this other thing he was doing. I rapped on it and he was really stoked about that. And then he was like “Do you want to be in a band with me?” and I said “Sure, why not?” And then we started Thunderheist, and that went for about three years. And then we decided to take some time apart, and now I’m going back to my solo music, which is now different from what I was doing initially. Initially when I first started as a solo artist I was doing a lot of spoken word and I got into MCing, and then a little bit of singing, but mainly MCing. And then with Thunderheist it was mainly MCing, a little bit of singing. Now I’m focusing more on singing and writing vocal stuff versus just rapping. I think I’ve mastered the rap thing.

Tessa: And you write all of your lyrics?

Isis: Yes, I write all of my lyrics, and on this–on my solo project now, I’m for the first time also producing music as well. So it’s not–so, the music I’m writing as well, and co-producing… So it’s a real collaboration, whereas with Thunderheist it was more like, you know, I rapped and Graham would make the beat for me to rap for, like, you know, Graham would make a beat and I’d rap on it. So it’s definitely more of a hands-on, full experience. I think, for women especially it’s like usually we are just a voice, we’re a face, you know, and I think it’s important for us to start exploring the other back-ends of the music industry, not just, like, you know, being the front singer, like really writing your own music. It’s really liberating. Also extremely, extremely difficult. And hats off to anybody who does that full time and is good at it, because it’s not easy. I become kind of anal, because, staring at a screen and wavelengths… Just looking at waves and cutting and pasting for hours, and like moving things around and trying to get the synth to sound an exact way, that’s why it all make sense now why Graham was the way he was.

Tessa: So, since you write all your own lyrics and everything… most of what we’ve been talking about at the radio station is what is “Jerk It” really about?

Isis: Oh, really?

Tessa: We wanna know what it’s about [laughs]. We’ve been… is it dancing?

Isis: Well, “Jerk It” is a Thunderheist song, I’m Isis! Why are you asking me about “Jerk It”? I wrote that song a long time ago. No, I’m kidding, um, “Jerk It” is… um… honestly I made it up, I made up the f*cking word, I have no idea what the f*ck it means. Um… It’s really just, for me, a song about, you know, not really caring what society tells you you’re supposed to be or you’re supposed to look like or any of that stuff, essentially shaking off any of society’s rules and really just embracing self and individualism and kind of just going for the gold, you know, and not really–and I think, especially like, a lot of times we spend too much time worrying about what other people think. I do it too, you know, we all do it. And I think that song, it was kind of like a moment for to step back and just enjoy being you and not having to apologize for it.

Tessa:  Well that’s pretty awesome, we had little bets going what it was about–

Isis: Yeah? Who’s winning?

Tessa: Well, I don’t think anyone won that one. We were–we said it was, you know, the fifties dance “the jerk”–

Isis: Really?

Tessa: There was like, a dance move like that in the fifties, um, called “the jerk” and we thought it was about that, and some people thought it was about beef jerky, and, you know, the obvious, “jerk it”…

Isis: Oh, like jerking–

Tessa: Yeah, especially with the video. But–

Isis: Oh, you know, I didn’t ask to put a cock in the video. You know, it’s just a chicken. But a male chicken, so a cock. I see the innuendo. I see it! I didn’t ask for it, it’s just happened to happen, you know, sex surrounds me, I don’t know why. [laughs]

Tessa: It was, when we found it we were like “Oh! Interesting. I’m excited for this woman to come to Dickinson!”

Isis: Are you excited just because you want to hear me play “Jerk it” or are you excited because you actually want to hear some of my solo music?

Tessa: Well, we want to hear someone who can bring it and who can have us all dancing, and we just want someone with energy and that’s what you–

Isis: That’s a good answer! That’s a nice way around the answer, too, that was good, you didn’t really–that’s good, you’re good at this! If you’re looking in the world of interviewing, you’re alright stuff. I’ve been interviewed by many people and I’ll say you’re doing a pretty good job.

Tessa: Thank you for complimenting me on my–

Isis: I also liked your jacket earlier, too.

Tessa: Wilson’s leather. They’re everywhere around here.

Isis: Really? Do you guys pay taxes here?

Tessa: Um, not on clothes in Pennsylvania.

Isis: F*CK YEAH we’re going shopping, yo. …Sorry, you can’t see, I was pointing at my bag. Pointing at the bag!

Tessa: On clothing, no tax.

Isis: That’s nice. I’m gonna buy some chaps.

Tessa: There’s a cowboy store..

Isis: Oh yeah, I’m sure there is. This is America, cowboy [laughs]. Cowboys and Indians! [laughs] Okay. So do you want to ask me anything else about my solo stuff, ’cause that’d be cool.

Tessa: Why don’t you tell us about your solo stuff?

Isis: Yeah! Well, like I said, I’m producing and writing the record. It’s not nessessarily the same Thunderheist music because again, it’s not the same people. But it’s still danceable. I think a lot of it’s introspective instead of me writing more for people and helping them find their confidence, I guess I’ve kind of gone inside and just, kind of used this as an opportunity to write about things I don’t normally tell people. I’m not really a share-my-feelings kind of person, I’m more like “let’s all get drunk and not talk about it,” so it’s a really cool opportunity then to be a bit more vulnerable. With that said, I still get the b*tches on the floor, so it’s all good. Don’t be scared guys, you know, you’ll still be able to dance to some of the songs. But I hope people will listen to the lyrics as well, and actually spend some time listening to the music and, you know, not just hoping for another “Jerk It,” cause that’s… sorry it’s not gonna happen. I might not even play “Jerk It” tonight, see? That’s how much I don’t like that song.

Tessa: You really don’t like that song.

Isis: I just… it’s just.. I love the song, it made me lots of money, you know. I think now, as somebody who’s pursuing solo music, I don’t want people thinking I’m Thunderheist, you know, I’m Isis. And I was Isis before Thunderheist and I’ll be Isis after Thunderheist. And… [knock on door] hold on a second! And, you know, I think it’s really important to not have people pigeon-hole me. Again, a lot of Thunderheist, a lot of the branding of Thunderheist was me… and I don’t want to be typecast right now, I want people to remember that as much as I am the party-starter and the girl that made sure some people got pregnant, I also am somebody who’s an artist first and foremost. And I think that’s a very important message for me to get people. I’m not, you can tell I’m not a super-serious person or anything like that, I just don’t want people thinking that every time they come to my show, they’re gonna hear “Jerk It.” You’re not going to. I literally haven’t this entire time we’ve been doing this tour. I play the other songs from Thunderheist, it’s just that that particular song is so iconic with Thunderheist, it’s so connected to Thunderheist. I really avoid going there. So again, I’m not mad at anybody who asks for it, I don’t blame them, it’s a great song, I’m glad that I was able to have that three years of awesomeness. I just, again, like I said, it’s really important for people to understand that this is not a Thunderheist show. Thunderheist is no longer playing shows, so it’s really important for people to know that it’s Isis of Thunderheist and not Thunderheist. It still can be fun.

Tessa: No, I respect your independence.

Isis: Yeah, it’s just really important for me to get that message out there, cause you know, people get sh*t f*cked up and confused. And, you know, I don’t have to choke anybody.

Tessa: So were the posters okay…?

Isis: Can we just cut that part out? I will not be assaulting any of the Dickinson College students [laughs].

Tessa: So were the posters okay? We put one of them in the box, they were fine, “Isis of Thunderheist”…?

Isis: Yeah, that’s fine, that’s totally fine. Honestly it’s just a matter of like—were you just talking at me? Honestly I didn’t even notice that, you’re good, you’re getting good at this! Um, no, it’s just, again, it’s like I said, I hate pulling the W-card but again, especially as a woman too in this industry. It’s such a boys’ club, so now as somebody who’s producing the music as well and writing the music I want people to respect me as an artist, and as somebody who’s actually bring something to the table besides a couple dirty words and fun beats, there’s—

Tessa: And shock value, right?

Isis: And shock value, you know, I’m not Gaga. You know, I definitely provide the same kind of excitement, but there’s–

Tessa: You’re not gonna come out wearing like, a seashell.

Isis: Exactly, exactly. I don’t make music for shock value. I make music because it’s what I was born to do, it’s what I’ve done pretty much all my life, and I love doing it. And I love having that experience with a crowd. When you’re in a different country, across the ocean and people know lyrics to your songs, that’s a very–it’s a high you can’t even describe, you know. And that’s why I do it. I don’t do it for the sake of just to get headlines or anything like that. It’s nice to be in the headlines. But everything I’ve ever said that’s been shocking is only because I don’t have a f*cking filter, you know, I was never born with one, and doctors are still trying to see if they can post-op, you know, figure something out. But uh, whatever. I’m stuck this way.

Tessa: Um… I would say–

Isis: Yeah, you’re like “yeah, so uhhh”

Tessa: That’s just awesome that you aren’t just gonna censor yourself or censor your feelings or put yourself into this box that, I agree with you, I feel like a lot of female artists–and thinking back to female artists that I’ve listened to throughout the years, starting with Britney Spears when I was like nine years old–the issue is all about, like shock value–

Isis: Yeah

Tessa: And then, going through other.. like Amanda Palmer, who is not like a Britney Spears or pop idol, but still, what does she do? Shock value. And I really respect you for saying “I don’t want to do the shock value route, and anything I do say is accidental.”

Isis: Well, that’s what I’m saying, it’s like, I don’t go for shock value, I’m just f*cking shocking. It’s just the… this is my life, it’s not a joke, it’s my f*cking life, that’s just who I am. You know, if I decide to blow up a couple f*cking frogs, you know, I might just f*cking do that, you know, I get the urge sometimes to kill something. [laughs] I’m kidding. No, but that’s what I’m saying, I do it just for the sake of doing it and not nessessarily for the gimmickness of it. And I think a lot of people get lost in gimmicks and that kind of… that world, that part of the industry. I think it’s important to remember the music, what happens–the feeling you get when you hear that song at the right moment, like when you’re going through a breakup or something, that one song comes on and your whole entire world opens up and everything makes sense, like that’s why I write music. For those moments. Not for… you know, not just to get laid. Although it’s really helped my sex appeal, it’s totally… if my sex appeal was stock, f*ck the recession, it hasn’t hit yet. I’m good. It’s recession-proof.

Tessa: You should write for Cosmo.

Isis: I’m telling you, man! Cosmo should call me.

Tessa: They should.

Isis: There’s definitely a column. Call it “Surprise Sex”. “Sexualation.” You know what, I’ll just make my own magazine, “Sexualation Nation.” What do you think about it?

Tessa: “By Isis”

Isis: By Isis. “The new fragrance for Isis? Sex.” [laughs] Just “Sex.”… “By Isis.” And then the commercial would be like, all like super-sultry, like a girl with brunette hair, all this silk flowing in the place, and like, on a beach or some sh*t, you know, and like a guy on a white horse, like romance novels, and it’s like “Sex, the new fragrance by Isis.” I like it guys. And it’s smells like sex.

Tessa: Would the bottle be shaped like…

Isis: I don’t know, might be.. boobs. Or just one boob. And then there’ll be the little spray thing… [laughs] GUYS. WRITE THIS DOWN! THIS F*CKING GENIUS IDEA, GUYS. GENIUS. I’ll write the f*cking mayor of this b*tch. That should do.

Tessa: I’d buy it!

Isis: I mean, yeah! That’d be awesome. “You smell cool.” I .. I should totally get an investor.

[knock on door]

Isis: Yeah hold on!

Tessa: We should probably actually get that.

WDCV Interviews… Ton Taun

Remember that time back in November when we had Ton Taun and MC Isis stop by? James sat down with the guys of Ton Taun after their set to talk about poetry class and having their songs stolen by Jeff Tweedy.

James: Hey! I’m James. I’m here with uhhh… I guess I should introduce you as FORMER DJ of DCW…

Jordan: DCW?

James: Uh, WDCV.

Jordan: WDCV 88.3, the Voice… of Dickinson College.

James: He’s got it. Jordan Capizzi, and Ton Taun, which is..

Lewis: Lewis

Doug: Doug

Mario: Mario

James: Alright. So I got a few questions for you guys. Where’d you form? Give me the backstory of Ton-Taun.

Doug: We were born in the… [laughs]

Jordan: We all went to high school together. We were formed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. What was the first time we ever played, “Wake Up,” we played “Wake Up” by the Arcade Fire. And um, Lewis was not there–

Lewis: I watched you guys play though.

Jordan: You did.

Doug: The first song we played was at that.. Save Darfur thing.

Jordan: Oh!

Doug: No it wasn’t. Yes. No. It was um.. we played….

Jordan: I don’t remember.

Lewis: This Must be the Place? Talking Heads?

Doug: Nothing But Flowers? Let’s call it Nothing but Flowers.

Jordan: The first song we ever played was Nothing but Flowers by the Talking Heads. We uh, we went to high school together…

Doug: We’ve had such a long career together that, obviously we’ve forgotten [laughs]

James: What was that first song?

Jordan: And, then we got Lewis… so that was the end of that.

James: Oh. That’s pretty convenient. So, uh, what would you guys say–well actually, you just got done with the show, how’d it go?

nJordan: Um… it went great. We’re really happy. This is–we thought it went great, we had trouble to adjusting to how big the room was though, this was like the biggest place we’ve played thus far. Aside from Madison Square Garden.

James: Right.

Jordan: Those four nights–

Mario: Four nights in a row, Madison Square Garden.

Jordan: Sold out, sold out.

Mario: No opener or anything, it was all us.

James: That was your unplugged show, right? When you did the stripped-down acoustic?

Jordan: Yeah we did.

Doug: Not only did we strip down the instruments, we–

James: You guys were actually naked for that.

Jordan: Um, no microphones at all. No lights in the place either, no electricity.

James: It was during your Amish Period.

Jordan: Yeah, exactly. But uh, no, we had a great time, we really did. We really appreciated the stage and… you know..

Lewis: I had trouble with the monitor. Did everyone have trouble with their monitor? I had trouble with my monitor in the end.

James: Alright. So, what’s your Zodiac signs, fellas?

Jordan: Um… I’d say… I’m an Aquarius.

Lewis: No idea.

Doug: Whatever September is.

Mario: FIRE. Is bald eagle a zodiac sign too?

James: I think bald eagle is an acceptable answer. So what would you guys say is your biggest musical influence, like personally, not as a band.

Mario: Ask Jordan.

James: I’ll ask you first.

Mario: The Grateful Dead.

Doug: Creed.

James: Old Nickelback?

Mario: Hansen.

Jordan: You’re serious right now? Let’s go around.

Mario: Alright, we’ll all go around and say one.

Jordan: We don’t have to stand up. Um.. Wilco. Jeff Tweedy from Wilco.

Lewis: Phish.

Doug: What did you say?

Jordan: I said Wilco.

Doug: You stole mine… [turning to Mario] If I say Radiohead, will I steal yours?

Mario: Yeah.

Doug: Radiohead.

Jordan: Don’t say Radiohead.

Mario: So I’m gonna be different… Who’d you say?

Jordan: I said Wilco.

Mario: Wolf Parade!

Others: You just said that, that’s not true at all.

Mario: Oh, mine, personally?

James: Yeah yeah yeah, yours personally, not as a band, you know. Like what do you–

Mario: Phish. P-h-i-s-h. Woo!

Jordan: You’re making Phish fans look really really intelligent right now.

James: So, Jordan, you played a song that I personally workshopped in a poetry class.

Jordan: Ah, yeah.

James: I workshopped one of your songs, and you didn’t give me a writing credit.

Jordan: Oh, well I apologize! Actually, I didn’t take any of your notes.

James: Me and Mitch were pretty pissed off about it.

Jordan: I bet you were.

Doug: What song was it?

Jordan: Well, Merit O’Hare, the greatest poet in Dickinson College history, which, I’m not saying that I don’t agree with that, wrote on my paper, and I quote: “You are a crazy genius.” So, I was like, that was a very high compliment.

James: There you go.

Mario: Every other song on the album, I wrote when I was stuck in a cave. I had to write it on the cave walls. I had to sing the chord progressions to figure out what would happen next.

James: Oh, I see. Well… I don’t know, I don’t have any more questions.

Jordan: Want me to tell you about our new album? We have a new album out, it’s called Exporter, and… we all wrote it together and recorded it over the summer in Mario’s basement. It’s available on iTunes, and on cdbaby, but only digitally, right–oh, I’m sorry, it is on Amazon, but you have to pay $9, I wish you only had to pay $3–I wonder how you get the $3…

Mario: Napster.

Jordan: It’s not on Napster.

Mario: Yes it is.

Doug: You can get it on your Verizon cellphone, it’s ridiculous.

Jordan: Oh, really?

Doug: It’s on everything.

Jordan: I want a cellphone like that, that’s f*cking awesome.

Doug: How much of a d*ck would you feel like if your phone went off in a room and it was you, like, singing a song?

Jordan: I wouldn’t feel like a d*ck at all.

Doug: [sings]

Mario: Was that the first song we ever recorded?

Doug: That was the first song we ever played.

Jordan: No-

Mario: Original song we ever played.

Lewis: That was the first Ton Taun song.

Doug: First Ton Taun song recorded was “Burning Building”.

Jordan: We stayed up all night, we didn’t sleep.

Mario: Except for, um, we did record “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.” Um, Wilco actually stole it from us. They now have the copyright, which is b*llshit. F*ck you Jeff Tweedy.

Jordan: I was six years old when I wrote the entire Wilco catalog.

Lewis: What song did you–Didn’t you submit one of our songs as like a poem in seventh grade?

Jordan: No.. um

Lewis: Animal III!

Jordan: I submitted all the sh*tty songs I used to write as poems in high school.

Lewis: You told me you submitted–

Jordan: It was here, it was a poetry class here, at Dickinson. I was a freshman in college.

Lewis: Ohhh.

Jordan: A lot of the songs on the first album did get workshopped in classes. I took absolutely no notes from anybody.

James: That’s fair.

Jordan: I mean, not that they weren’t good notes, but not that they were really poems either. If everyone had critiqued the chord structures and the melodies, maybe I would have changed that. But probably not.

James: Right, probably would have ignored it anyway. So if you could steal any song–

Jordan: This is a conversation I have all the time! What did I say? What was the last thing I said?

Lewis: You’re between–

Jordan: Oh yeah! I would steal “Let It Be,” so I could get all the money from “Let It Be,” and be famous and get deals, or, and it changes all the time, the first one is Gospel by the National because it’s the most beautiful song I ever heard… ever, ever written, it is the greatest piece of music that exists.

James: What about you guys, you got any songs you would steal if you could?

Lewis: Yes. Uh… It’d have to be some Phish song, I don’t know. “The Curtain With.”

Doug: Um… I would steal… “How to Speak Clearly.”

Jordan: I changed my mind, I would steal whatever this is here.

James: I believe it’s “Jerk It.”

Mario: I would steal… what would I steal…

Lewis: I would steal “May You Never” by John Martin.

Mario: What should I steal?

Doug: If you steal something, steal “My Body is a Wonderland.”

Mario: Because my body is a wonderland?

Doug: If you steal something, you have to try.

Mario: If I could steal any song… “National Anthem” by Radiohead.

Lewis: That’s like the worst Radiohead song!

James: Okay… um… oh! I understand that you guys don’t play together often, so what’s that been like, and what’s the last time you played together?

Mario: Let me get this, let me get this.

Lewis: Me and Jordan wrote something for a school project I did.

Mario: Before that, the last show we had was at the Chameleon Club in Lancaster. It was a pretty awesome show, it had a good turnout..

Doug: It was two months ago.

Mario: Yeah, two months ago. And actually… if Jordan starts to do it, because he’s lazy, very lazy…

Lewis: Yeah, he’s lazy. We just finished our second album and he still sent me like five f*cking songs.

Mario: Hold on! We’re trying to make an album, or an EP, across, you know, state lines. We’re gonna try and throw like three or four songs together, record your own part and send it to the next person. Jordan’s really lagging on that though.

Lewis: That’s such b*llshit! He’s the only one recording songs.

Mario: We should’ve recorded the MSG shows!

Jordan: That’s something we talk about all the time. It’d be nice to get a live recording, throw it up, either on iTunes or for free or something.

James: Did you guys actually end up webcasting this?

Jordan: No, because–

Mario: There’s no excuses, we just didn’t get enough interest.

Jordan: Every time we say we’re going to webcast something, we always put it off too long and forget about it–

Doug: We did do it twice– There were nine people who viewed it, and they were probably looking for something else, something Star Wars-related.

Lewis: People were talking to me about watching it.

Doug: Yeah, but they probably came to the show.

James: Speaking of Ton Taun, you obviously get the name of your band from Star Wars. It’s the beast of burden on Hoth.

Doug: Actually, it was the first words that Jordan said.

Jordan: It was. It was the first sound I made, my mom recorded it. We were watching home videos.

Lewis: Can you give me an interpretation of what it sounded like?

Jordan: It was just like…  “ton ton…”

James: Alright. So, that’s it. End of the interview. Listen in to WDCV.

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Rock Against Homelessness

We’re proud to say that WDCV’s Rock Against Homelessness fundraiser raised nearly $700 for Carlisle Cares last weekend! Carlisle C.A.R.E.S is a wonderful organization “whose mission is to provide shelter to homeless individuals and families when no other shelter can be found”, and this past month WDCV has raised donations selling baked goods and crafts during ‘Live on Briton Plaza’ broadcasts, all leading up to the station’s Rock Against Homelessness event.

In the spirit of fundraising, WDCV DJs James and Tori braved pies to the face and random objects duct taped to their limbs.

And let us never forget the riveting suspense of the pie eating contest, where Tessa almost took down reigning champion Chris in a sudden death second round!

Special thanks to local artists Peter Joseph and the Roaring Twenties and Trunks & Tales for providing fantastic performances during the event, and to all the local businesses who provided items for the ruffle (which was very successful!), including the Carlisle Theater, the Clothesline, Timebomb, George’s Subs and Pizza, California Cafe, Courthouse Commons, Hanover Grill, and Marjorie’s Gems: Vintage Jewelry.

And, of course, a thanks to all our DJs who helped and everybody else who came, participated, and donated. We couldn’t have done it without all of you!