This past weekend WDCV brought Wiz Khalifa to town for Saturday’s hip-hop night of our Rock-Hop weekend. His new mix tape, Kush & OJ, came out just a few days earlier. Despite pitchfork’s snobbery of having their finger on the pulse of new, underground music, we were a step ahead of them on this one. WOOT! Check out their review, they gave his mixtape a 7.2. Not bad. Not bad at all.
Jen’s New Obsession – The Pack A.D.
So my friends at Pirate sent me this awesome album that I can’t get enough of currently. It’s called We Kill Computers and it’s by The Pack A.D. It’s a girl duo consisting of Becky Black and Maya Miller from Vancouver. It sounds alot like if The White Stripes and The Black Keys got together and had a baby, but that baby looks more like the White Stripes than the Black Keys. That baby’s siblings are also The Kills and The Gossip. Wouldn’t you like to meet this baby?
Pack A.D. is loud, edgy without being noisy and obnoxious. It’s got a grungy, unpolished Jack White-ish guitar riffs along with Meg White-esque simple and clean drums. The opening of Pack’s Crazy is reminescent of the Stripes’ The Hardest Button to Button and Pack’s Everyone Looks Like Everyone has hints of Stripes’ My Doorbell. The vocals on Cobra Matte sound like Amanda Palmer from The Dresden Dolls and she’s super awesome. Even without all the similarities, it’s an awesome album that you should seriously check out. Tune in to wdcvfm.com and 88.3 to hear it played all the time.
Wiz Khalifa Ticket Information
***********WARNING: WDCV will not be accepting any more ticket reservations starting Friday at 4pm. OR if we get more than 250.**********
To those of you who are unaware, WDCV 88.3 FM, Dickinson’s radio station, is hosting two concerts this weekend, April 16th and 17th. However, people have come to us with questions and misconceptions, and we wish to clarify some things, particularly regarding tickets for the Saturday night Wiz Khalifa concert.
Admission for both nights is FREE with your Dickinson College ID.
Tickets are also available for those without a Dickinson College ID. The price is $10 (CASH ONLY) and they are first come, first serve basis. Tickets can be reserved in advance by emailing wdcvfm@gmail.com. You may reserve multiple tickets. Reserve tickets can be picked up when the doors open at 7PM and must be retrieved before 7:30PM.
Because the Wiz Khalifa concert is free to Dickinson students, and because we have great interest from people outside the Dickinson community, we recommend coming to the concert as close to 7pm as possible. ATS has a limited capacity of 1000 people, and we will not be able to let more people in once that number is reached.
Doors open at 7PM and the concert begins at 8PM. If you plan on buying tickets please arrive early as we are expecting a large crowd for the event.
Thank you very much, and we hope to see as many of you as possible at the concert.
WDCV T-Shirts! YAY!!
I’m sure you have caught yourself contemplating “Oh how I wish I could get an awesome WDCV-FM t-shirt”……right? Well contemplate no more! WDCV has made t-shirts and will be selling them at the upcoming “Live on Britton Plaza” & the Rock-Hop Weekend concerts. Stop by our table to see what the new threads look like and pick one while you are at it. With a wide selection of sizes & colors, you are sure to find the perfect match.
The Slow Club: Yeah, So
I don’t know about you guys, but one thing I really look forward to about warm weather is summer music. You know what I mean–bright, cheerful, fun music that just makes the sunshine seem that much brighter. The debut full length “Yeah, So” from Sheffield, England band Slow Club is definitely a candidate for that great warm-weather album.
Slow Club consists of guitarist Charles and percussionist Rebecca. Their music is a perfect balance between folk and pop songwriting: sweet, melody-driven, and full of vocal harmonies between the two members. It’s classic and free of gimmicks, and while it may not be mindblowing, having it playing in a room will make everyone a little happier.
You can listen to Slow Club on their myspace–and, of course, by listening to WDCV!
Live on Britton Plaza
It’s that time again…the sun is shining…the students are lounging in the grass….is there a better time to crank WDCV’s tunes in Britton Plaza? Not really. We have already set up twice this week and next week we will be out again 4 more times with the week ending with our HUGE Rock-Hop Weekend full of live music in ATS. Come out to see us April 13th & 15th from 11am-2pm and April 14th & 15th from 4-7pm. We will be selling yummy treats and sweet musical crafty things! For more information about our upcoming shows, go here and RSVP!
Heavy Rotation as of April 5th
Hello Lovelies! We have been busy little beavers here, working on getting everything ready for our awesome Rock-Hop concert weekend, but that doesn’t mean that we’ve been ignoring heavy rotation! Here’s what we’ve got for you this week:
Disco Biscuits- Planet Anthem: Brotastic jam/livetronica from Philly. Some good cuts, solid synth and tight baselines.
Fugitive Souls- Strangers EP: COMING TO DICKINSON APRIL 16TH.
The Bird and The Bees- Interpreting the Masters Volume 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oats: Hall and Oates cover album Woot! Private eyes are watching you.
Josiah Wolf- Jet Lag: A member of the band Why? this cd sounds like a more chill version of what Why? usually creates.
La Strada- New Home: I wasn’t quite sure about this album at first but it really grew on me! It’s a really versatile album with a ton of different instruments and that seems to jump from genre to genre
Rotary Downs- Cracked Maps & Blue Reports: AMAZING ALBUM. A band from New Orleans with really creative lyrics and a diverse sound.
Anything you guys think we’re missing? Give us a shout and we’ll do our best to get our hands on it.
Much love,
WDCV’s Music Directors
Heavy Rotation Update!
Hey all you lovely Internet people! Wondering what’s new in WDCV’s heavy rotation? Well you’re in luck because the WDCV music directors have been busy little bees putting all sorts of new and great stuff in heavy rotation. So if you feel like your music collection is getting a little stale, check out some of these recommendations.
Drink Up Buttercup: Born and Thrown on A Hook-They are coming to DICKINSON in our Rock/Hop show!! They sound like The Beatles if they did more drugs. I’m not the only one who thinks so, honest.
Dark Dark Dark: Bright Bright Bright- Besides their awesome naming skills this is a super album with great vocals and complex chamber-pop instrumentals.
Bonobo: Black Sands- A super chill album with epic reach and massive emotional pull. It’s one guy who plays all the instruments by himself. (Written by another MD- Bonobos are monkeys that “penis fence” for real, look it up. I learned this in 9th grade bio).
Adam Green: Minor Love- Adam Green is from the group The Moldy Peaches comes out with a not so folky sound but it’s still pretty awesome- striking a good balance between tenderness and tastelessness.
Kasper Bjoke- Standing on Top of Utopia (EP): Solid downbeat electro from Denmark.
Portugal. The Man- American Ghetto: I have no idea who this sounds like, but it sounds like someone good so don’t be scared. Most of the songs are good so pick one!
Capsule-Player http://blogs.dickinson.edu/wdcvfm/2010/03/capsule-player/
Turin Brakes: Outbursts- Self proclaimed indie folk rock, but it’s not too folky I think they just call it that because some of the songs are pretty laid back. “Sea Changes” and “Mirror” are my favorite tracks of the album.
She + Him: Volume Two- I’m really excited about this album. I honestly like it better than their first one. It’s a peaceful kind of happy. You can’t go wrong with any track.
So that’s what we’ve got for you this week. Hopefully your willing to open up your ears to something new!
Hugs and Kisses,
WDCV
The Modern Electric
I’m always trying to represent bands from Northeast Ohio, seeing as many people around here are always bashing Ohio for many reasons – football, politics, the stereotype of “backwardness.” Instead of responding to criticisms by bashing all your states, I just try to change your opinion on my home.
According to their bio to LastFM, one of my time consuming websites…
“The Modern Electric is a Cleveland-based Indie-rock band. They are comprised of 4 young gentlemen, Garrett Komyati (vocals, organ/piano) Bryan Lecky (guitar) Matthew Puleo Childers (bass) and Michael O’Brien (drums). All born and raised in the Cleveland area, they play local venues and continue to expand their growing fan base and show their undying love for their city.” (http://www.last.fm/music/The+Modern+Electric)
“David Bowie (Save Us All)” is a tribute to the rocker and my top most played song “Love and Misery” is about the songwriter wondering what he did to deserve heartbreak.
The album is available on iTunes but if you want to hear a song or two tune into my show on Mondays between 8 and 10pm.
WDCV’s Heavy Rotation (As of March 12, 2010)
Just in case you were wondering what WDCV is playing in our heavy rotation, here’s a list of what we’ve got!
Pavement- The Best Of
Manchester Orchestra-Mean Everything to Nothing
The Splinters-Kick
Frightened Rabbit-The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Rouge Wave- Permalight
Sade-Soldier of Love
The Weatherthans- Live From Burton Cummings Theater
Sambassadeur- European
LoneLady-Nerve Up
Ernest Gonzales-Been Meaning to Tell You
Quasi- American Gong
Local Natives-Gorilla Manor
Hanne Hukkelberg- Blood from A Stone
Six Gallery- Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Golden Triangle- Double Jointer
Shearwater- The Golden Archipelago
Pantha Du Prince – Black Noise
Gill Scott- Heron—I’m Not Here
Holly Miranda- The Nocycian’s Private Library
My Robot Friend- Soft Core
Jeff The Brotherhood-Heavy Days
Field Music-Measure
Datus- Neut
The Law- A Measure of Wealth
Galactic- Ya-Ka-May
Gigi- Maintenant
Los Campesinos!- Romance Is Boring
Massive Attack- Heligoland
Shannon and The Clams- I Wanna Go Home
Cute Lepers- Smart Accessories
Rachele Eve- Mouth of Feathers
Lightspeed Champion- Life Is Sweet! Nice To Meet You
WALE-Attention Deficit
Whew! What a ridiculously awesome list of bands. It’s kind of overwhelming right? Now that I’ve got them all down, the next time I update, I will just let you know what we are putting in for that week and I’ll even give you a little blurb about the record, written by WDCV’s lovely music directors. But this should give you something to start with…
