Bwog » music http://bwog.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:16:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Chillin’ with Chili http://bwog.com/2011/10/26/chillin-with-chili/ http://bwog.com/2011/10/26/chillin-with-chili/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:09:20 +0000 Claire http://bwog.com/?p=65944 The fabulous Live at Lerner series continues this afternoon at 12 in the Piano Lounge. This week showcases the musical stylings of The Loom, who say of their sound, “we’re a rock band but it’s kind of folky,” and their latest album, “it is a simple search for joy.” The band was deemed “The Next Big Thing” in the NYTimes and has received love from the New Yorker and Paste.

Yanyi and her crew are also providing piles of delicious food to satisfy your physical as well as your spiritual needs.

The menu du jour:

  • Chili, both meat and vegetarian, replete with with cheese, sour cream, and scallions
  • Corn bread!
  • Crudité
  • Churros
  • Red, green, yellow apples

Intrigued by the genuine loveliness of this event? Check out our conversation with Yanyi about the concert series from earlier in the semester.

 

]]> http://bwog.com/2011/10/26/chillin-with-chili/feed/ 3 Where Art Thou? http://bwog.com/2011/10/19/where-art-thou-19/ http://bwog.com/2011/10/19/where-art-thou-19/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:30:07 +0000 Megan http://bwog.com/?p=64843

Night of the Living Daed

Who doesn’t love free fun? Bwog’s Wednesday feature, Where Art Thou?, surely does. Do you supply the Columbia community with free fun? Expensive fun? Moderately priced fun? Let us know at events@bwog.com.

Today
  • La Ronde, 8pm at Riverside Theatre. Through Saturday. New work featuring MFA acting students. A Turn of the Century Sex Romp: whores, soldiers, parlor maids, death! Witness the men and women of Arthur Schnitzler’s Vienna spin through the pleasures of life and relationships while embracing their inevitable mortality. Visit the TIC for more info.
  • #CONTROLTOPPROBLEMS, 9pm – 10pm in Held Auditorium, 304 Barnard Hall. Control Top is Columbia’s only all-female, long-form improv group. Stop by Control Top’s first show of the semester and see special guest Fruit Paunch. Free.
  • Daedalus Quartet: The Night of the Living Daed, 10pm – midnight in 301 Philosophy. Classical musical and free food. Who needs anything else?
Thursday
  • L.H.MAYHEM, 8pm- 10pm in the Diana Cafe. Comedy show brought to you by Latino Heritage month. $3.
  • Latenite Fall Anthology, 11pm in Lerner Black Box. Additional shows at 11pm on Friday and 8pm and 11pm on Saturday. Don’t miss this hilariously offensive anthology of short plays. It’s free!
Friday
  • The Colored Museum, 8pm in the VagBox (Diana Black Box). Additional shows Saturday at 3pm and 8pm. Presented by NX Generation Entertainment & 7th Stage Productions in association with The Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University & Africa-Diaspora Literary Society. $10 with CUID.
Saturday
  • Alfred’s Lerner Ball, 9pm in Lerner 555. Columbia’s only musical improv group invites you to a night of fancy, imagination, mayhem, and song. It’s free!
Sunday
  • CU Wind Ensemble presents “LIGHT”, 2pm – 3pm in Roone. Music director Andrew Pease and the Columbia University Wind Ensemble will explore the role of light through riveting wind band music. Free with CUID, $5 without.
Columbia’s Life Size Maps and EMEFE were selected to perform in the week-long CMJ Musical Festival. Life Size Maps will play three shows: one tonight at 11pm the Legion, tomorrow at the Lit Lounge, and Friday at the Fifth Estate. EMEFE will play 7:30 pm – 8:15 pm at Le Poisson Rouge.

]]> http://bwog.com/2011/10/19/where-art-thou-19/feed/ 0 LectureHop: From Kind of Blue to Bitches Brew http://bwog.com/2011/09/24/lecturehop-from-kind-of-blue-to-bitches-brew/ http://bwog.com/2011/09/24/lecturehop-from-kind-of-blue-to-bitches-brew/#comments Sun, 25 Sep 2011 01:04:31 +0000 Claire http://bwog.com/?p=60786

A younger Miles with a smile

Bwog’s resident blue note enthusiast Briana Last reports from Thursday’s talk.

It was hard finding a seat in Room 622, Dodge Hall Thursday night at 8 PM. In fact, more than a dozen people stood outside the door for two hours, peering their heads in to listen to the raspy impersonation of Miles Davis that Quincy Troupe put on so expertly. Troupe’s shoulder-length braids, ornate scarf, and sleekly polished dress shoes are just indications of the flair he resonates in both his own personal life and the manner in which he tells a story.

Quincy Troupe is the perfect man to host a lecture called “Kind of Blue to Bitches Brew,” an analytical survey of Miles Davis’s musical reinventions and aspirations during and between the release of those two albums (1958-1970). Troupe, a St. Louis native born “right across the river” from where Davis grew up in East St. Louis, was one of Davis’s closest friends. Quincy Troupe attributes this to the fact that he wasn’t afraid to let Davis know when he was acting out of hand: “He knew not to threaten me because I would have whooped him.” Whenever Davis tried his sass, he would reply, “Imma aim for your lip and break your embouchure.” Miles’s only response: “Shiiiiit.” Famous for writing the memoirs of their friendship in a book called Miles and Me, Troupe established a relationship with Davis that was envied by writers who knew him to be a very private person, wary of critics who wanted to dissect and categorize his work. According to Troupe, “Miles hated the term ‘jazz.’ He said he was simply playing music.”

Troupe proceeded to dedicate his lecture to the two seminal albums of Davis’s career. The first, Kind of Blue was a foray into uncharted territory: modal music. With his dynamic quintet of renowned musicians in their own right, Davis played with various improvisation techniques that were revolutionary at that point in musical history. According to Troupe, “Miles used to say he wasn’t ahead of his time. No one could be ahead of their time, but he was on time.” This experimentation and reinvention of sound came to Davis as the political stage in America was changing. At at time when John Kennedy was running for president and African-Americans were fighting for civil rights, the musician began discovering different genres, such as Guinean African music.

In the eyes of Troupe, the years following Kind of Blue were Miles’s most successful. A new quintet formed, and accompanying it, a feeling a restlessness with the modal way of playing. Davis began to sit back and learn from this new set of players. The musician once said, “You got the right group playing the right thing at the right time and you got a motherfucker.” As he liked to put it, “Rhythm is like breathing and that’s what I began to learn to learn from this group.”

This new group of players— among them Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, and John McLaughlin, shaped the music that was recorded on Bitches Brew, where Miles found himself wanting “less abstraction and more funk.” At the time, Davis reinvented the way he dressed, secretly funded The Black Panthers, and was introduced to Jimi Hendrix by his wife Betty Mabry, who was familiar with the music of the rock n’roll because of their secret love affair. This new album was filled with shorter riffs, trumpets imitating the sounds of the electric guitar, and novel concepts of recording— like keeping the track running as to not stop the flow of music. This also caused a host of critics to assault Davis’s new style, but that didn’t stop him from continuing the search for different ways to express himself.

As Quincy Troupe’s lecture came to a close, he reminded the audience that Davis never stopped trying to reinvent the art form. He was unyielding in his risk taking and ever excited to try new things. As Troupe remarked, “Miles didn’t run out of music, he just ran out of time.”

Miles via Wikimedia Commons

]]> http://bwog.com/2011/09/24/lecturehop-from-kind-of-blue-to-bitches-brew/feed/ 1 “Indie Tastemaker” Takes Pictures of WBAR-B-Q http://bwog.com/2011/04/19/indie-tastemaker-takes-pictures-of-wbar-b-q/ http://bwog.com/2011/04/19/indie-tastemaker-takes-pictures-of-wbar-b-q/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:45:37 +0000 Grant http://bwog.com/?p=48961

Skewering Musicians With A Gigantic 3-Pronged Weapon And A Thesaurus

Pitchfork—the website whose album reviews have a Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease score on par with your student loan agreement—stopped by for WBAR-B-Q last Friday. They posted some snazzy pictures here and here. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to like these pictures before they were cool. 19 people already like the album on facebook.

Ah, spring. The chirping of the birds, the smell of the flowers…they’re all fine and dandy. But for fans of alternative music in the Columbia community, spring brings another joy—the WBAR-B-Q. The annual festival has brought the likes of Vampire Weekend, Gang Gang Dance, Japanther and countless more to Lehman Lawn – often way before they break through to the mainstream.

This year saw an expansion of the program, with the introduction of an after-hours, dancier set in the Diana Event Oval and a whopping 10-band lineup including critical darlings Real Estate and psychedelic baroque pop up-and-comer Julianna Barwick. After last year’s unfortunate rained-out affair—which had to be moved to the less-than-awesome Lefrak Gym – it was nice to be back out on Lehman Lawn in the sunshine—even if the weather was a little on the chilly side.

The afternoon portion of the program hit the ground running with a great mix of psych-pop and surf-rock acts. Columbia grad-student collective Beige and hot local band Big Troubles repped the lo-fi camp terrifically with plenty of drum loops, reverberated vocals and bare-bones instrumentals a la Pavement. Grooms, too, was a real treat, though unfortunate mic issues prevented vocalist Emily Ambruso’s voice from coming through—a damn shame, because her vocals are a key part of the Brooklyn trio’s jangly, Silversun Pickups-meets-Sonic Youth sound.

The afternoon’s best moments came later, augmented by the delicious, but not excessively plentiful barbecue (which was snapped up in roughly 5 minutes.) Julianna Barwick dazzled the crowd with her mesmerizing dream pop—a spectacle made all the more fascinating by the nature of Barwick’s act: a one-woman show comprising of layer upon layer of vocals and effects amidst a sea of hazy keys. Think Andrew Bird, but totally unique and arguably better. And of course, Real Estate were spot-on, closing the barbecue with their laid-back, washed-out psychedelia.

A short while later, the crowd relocated to the Event Oval for some great electronica acts. No dubstep here; instead ARP and Blondes treated music fans to bubbly, vibrant trance with unfurling samples and persistent bass. The grooves were so alluring that by the time the Crystal Ark took the stage for their epic set, the dance floor was packed, at least by Event Oval standards.

One of the best things about WBAR-B-Q, as cliched as it sounds, is how its music brings people together. In the middle of The Crystal Ark’s disco-fest, the electricity completely cut out, halting both the music and trippy visuals. Rather than give up and leave, the crowd rallied behind the leadership of campy house prophet Gavin Russom in some serious accoustic grooving. The hand-claps and foot-stomps brought everyone in the room together, in a pretty amazing display of funky solidarity.

But of course, the show had to end, and at 11 pm sharp, Barnard security had to kick the music-lovers out. But the music never dies, and the fans dispersed to start their own shindigs—or at the very least, download the discographies of this WBAR-B-Q’s stellar lineup.

Neptune via Wikimedia Commons

]]> http://bwog.com/2011/04/19/indie-tastemaker-takes-pictures-of-wbar-b-q/feed/ 4 WBBQ Mix http://bwog.com/2011/04/11/wbbq-mix/ http://bwog.com/2011/04/11/wbbq-mix/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:01:33 +0000 Matthew http://bwog.com/?p=47669

WBBQ

Our friends at WBAR threw together this awesome mix featuring tracks by each of the ten bands scheduled to play at this upcoming Friday’s annual WBBQ.

Some Highlights: Real Estate earned Pitchfork’s prestigious best new music with their self-titled album. The Crystal Ark, lead by Gavin Russom, counts two of the former members of LCD Soundsystem among their ranks and will be performing their 2nd US show. Blondes promise to fulfill your Balearic disco dreams.

Tracklist after the jump. Download the full mix here.
WBARBQ2011 by djdjnate

Outdoor Stage (3 pm – 7 pm)
(0:00) Driphouse – Maskelyne Crater A
(4:40) Beige – Silver Writing
(10:48) Big Troubles – Freudian Slips
(12:53) Grooms – Dreamsucker
(16:23) Julianna Barwick – White Flag
(21:15) Real Estate – Out of Tune
Indoor Stage (7 pm – 11 pm)
(26:01) Laurel Halo – Embassy
(30:04) ARP - White Light
(32:35) Blondes – Paradise City
(37:17) The Crystal Ark – The Tangible Presence of the Miraculous

]]> http://bwog.com/2011/04/11/wbbq-mix/feed/ 13 Battle of the Bands Lineup http://bwog.com/2011/04/04/battle-of-the-bands-lineup/ http://bwog.com/2011/04/04/battle-of-the-bands-lineup/#comments Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:05:15 +0000 Matthew http://bwog.com/?p=46370

Fight!

The Abacchalypse approaches! CU Records has selected the 10 bands that will compete on Friday, April 15th to be the opening band at Bacchanal. A panel of 3 outside judges and an audience vote will determine the winner of the Battle of the Bands. Check out the bands’ websites to whet your palette:

Also check out this mixtape of Snoop and Das Racist tracks, compiled by Rajib Mitra, SEAS ’11 and these two free Das Racist mixtapes available for free via the artist’s website.

HxC via Wikimedia Commons.

]]> http://bwog.com/2011/04/04/battle-of-the-bands-lineup/feed/ 44 Where Art Thou? http://bwog.com/2011/03/02/where-art-thou-6/ http://bwog.com/2011/03/02/where-art-thou-6/#comments Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:15:51 +0000 Megan http://bwog.com/?p=41692

Columbia Festival of Winds?

Bwog’s kind-of-new Wednesday feature, Where Art Thou?, is here to keep you posted on what’s going on in the A&E department in Morningside Heights and beyond (basically all the cool events your friends are in/on/at). If you would like your whatever-event-we-just-want-to-have-a-VIP-option posted on Bwog, now you can! E-mail us at events@bwog.com.

Thursday

  • CU Records Lounge Night + Women in Music, from 7 to 9 pm in Liz’s Place, featuring campus’ acoustic talent, Free.
  • Cahoot’s MacBeth, starting Thursday at 8 pm and running through Saturday in Minor Latham Playhouse at Barnard. Part of the Senior Thesis Festival. Free.
  • MaMa Project 2011: Embers, starting Thursday at 8 pm and running though Saturday in Lerner Black Box. $5 with CUID, $10 without.
  • The Saint Plays, starting Thursday at 9 pm and running through Saturday in Minor Latham Playhouse at Barnard. Part of the Senior Thesis Festival. Free.

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

]]> http://bwog.com/2011/03/02/where-art-thou-6/feed/ 2 Where Art Thou? http://bwog.com/2011/02/23/where-art-thou-5/ http://bwog.com/2011/02/23/where-art-thou-5/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:17 +0000 Megan http://bwog.com/?p=40759 Bwog’s kind-of-new Wednesday feature, Where Art Thou?, is here to keep you posted on what’s going on in the A&E department in Morningside Heights and beyond (basically all the cool events your friends are in/on/at). If you would like your mysterious-due-to-copyright-laws Action Film Screening posted on Bwog, now you can! E-mail us at events@bwog.com.

Today!

Tomorrow!

Friday!

  • Postcrypt Exodus, Friday at 8 pm at 285 East Third Street (Between Ave C & D) #2. $3 at door.

Saturday!

  • Violin Recital, Saturday at 4 pm in Lerner C555. Free.
  • Naach Nation, Saturday at 7:30 pm in Roone. $12.

Sunday!

Adventure via Wikimedia Commons

]]> http://bwog.com/2011/02/23/where-art-thou-5/feed/ 5 Bucket List: Hear About Prezbo and God http://bwog.com/2010/11/03/bucket-list-hear-about-prezbo-and-god/ http://bwog.com/2010/11/03/bucket-list-hear-about-prezbo-and-god/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:45:22 +0000 Conor http://bwog.com/?p=29890 One of the greatest perks of an Ivy League education–right in NYC, no less–is having all sorts of guest lecturers and talks hosted right on campus. Yet many of these great talks are not publicized enough. Enter Bucket List, a weekly feature that aggregates these events in a single location that will hopefully make you realize, like Bwog has, just how special our campus is. Our recommendations for this week are below; the full list is after the jump. Take a gander, who knows what you’ll find!

Recommended:

Wed, Nov 3

  • “A Free Press for a Global Society: The Great Debate” Low Library Rotunda, 9:00 am – 11:30 am, Lee Bollinger, Benjamin Liebman, Nazila Ghanea, Peter Herford, Qin Liwen, and Fred Teng
  • “The Kazakh Quartet Tlep” Satow Room, Lerner Hall, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
  • “Native American Heritage Month Opening Ceremony and Banquet” James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Sterlin Harjo

Thurs, Nov 4

  • “Realism and American Grand Strategy: The Case for Offshore Balancing” 1501 IAB, 4:15 pm – 6:00 pm, Stephen Walt and Kenneth Waltz
  • “God of Creation/God of Destruction: An Eco-Theological Perspective on the Meaning of Evil and Suffering” Rennert Hall, Kraft Center, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm, Rabbi Lawrence Troster
  • “Let Us Go Out into the Starry Night: Three Plays” Austin E. Quigley Black Box Theater, Lerner Hall, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm, Runs Through Nov. 6, CU Players

Fri, Nov 5

  • “India: Economic Policies and Outcomes” Low Library and Faculty House, 8:30 am – Nov 6, 2:30 pm, Alfred Stepan, Pavithra Suryanarayan, Poonam Gupta, Arvind Panagariya, Ashutosh Varshney, Pradeep Chhibber, Ashok Gulati, Kaveri Ganguly, Ashok Kotwal, Rajeev Kohli, Jagdish Bhagwati, Rajeev Dehejia, Rakesh Mohan, Barry Bosworth, Pravin Krishna, Guru Sethupathy, Amartya Lahiri, Nandini Gupta, Jan Svejnar, Anusha Chari, Shankar Acharya, Jay Panda, N.K. Singh, and T.N. Srinivasan
    “A Jihad for Love: Screening and Conversation” 569 Lerner Hall, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm, Parvez Sharma
  • “Jamnesty” Earl Hall Auditorium, 2nd Floor Earl Hall, 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm, Blaxel, Dominique Star, Nonsequitur, Plastic People, Jared Frieder, Osekre

Sat, Nov 6

  • “Diwali Celebration” Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall, 7:00 pm – 12:00 am, Various
  • “First (Friday): Ko$her” Lerner Party Space, Lerner Hall, 11:00 pm – 3:00 am, Various

FULL LIST

Wed, Nov 3

  • “A Free Press for a Global Society: The Great Debate” Low Library Rotunda, 9:00 am – 11:30 am, Lee Bollinger, Benjamin Liebman, Nazila Ghanea, Peter Herford, Qin Liwen, and Fred Teng
  • “’Islamic Slavery’ or Slavery in Muslim Societies?” 207 Knox Hall, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm, Abdul Sheriff
  • “A Free Press for a Global Society: Building Global Legal Norms” Low Library Rotunda, 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm, Miklos Haraszti, Agnes Callamard, Michael Camilleri, Frank La Rue, Dunja Mijatovic, and Geoffrey R. Stone
  • “A Free Press for a Global Society: The WTO and a Free Press” Low Library Rotunda, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Merit Janow, Alan Beattie, Keith Rockwell, Stephen Salyer, Joseph Weiler, and Mark Wu
  • “Multiplying and Dividing the Human: Political Theory without Politics in Diderot and Rousseau” Buell Hall, Maison Francaise, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Susan Maslan
  • “Brecht and Greek Tragedy: A Creative Encounter” 617 Hamilton Hall, 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm, Olga Taxidou
    “Climate Dynamics: A Primer for Surviving the Anthropocene” Seminar Room 3, Faculty House, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Robert Newton
  • “The Kazakh Quartet Tlep” Satow Room, Lerner Hall, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
  • “New York Business History Forum I: Of Money and Manhattan—Perspectives on the New York Real Estate Market” 523 Butler Library, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Lynne B. Sagalyn
  • “It Takes Two: Perspectives from Men Working in Gender” 701 IAB, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Dan Seymour, Adam Quinton, Ravi Karkara, and Dale Buscher
  • “Capital Markets for Social Good” 311 Warren Hall, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Durreen Shahnaz
  • “Native American Heritage Month Opening Ceremony and Banquet” James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Sterlin Harjo
  • “Poverty in Brazil: Are Government Policies Succeeding” 802 IAB, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Otaviano Canuto
  • “Yavneh-Yachad Extravaganza” 5th Floor, Kraft Center, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Various
  • “The Western Front—Film Screening” Altschul Auditorium, IAB, 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm, Panel Discussion/Various
  • “CU Bhangra Open Practice” Kraft Center, 11:00 pm – 11:30 pm

Thurs, Nov 4

  • “A Free Press for a Global Society: What do Journalists Need to Know?” Low Library Rotunda, 9:00 am – 11:00 am, Nick Lemann, Emily Bell, Bill Grueskin, Michael Schudson, and Jack M. Weiss
  • “Limited Liability Miltilateralism: IOs and U.S. Military Intervention” 707 IAB, 12:15 pm – 2:00 pm, Stefano Recchia
  • “Application of a Cloud-Resolving Model to Address a Climate Change Problem” 214 Mudd, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Marat Khairoutdinov
  • “Opening Doors: The Federal Strategic Plan to prevent and End Homelessness” 6602 All-Purpose Room, Psychiatric Institute, Medical Center, 3:15 pm – 4:45 pm, Barbara Poppe
  • “Realism and American Grand Strategy: The Case for Offshore Balancing” 1501 IAB, 4:15 pm – 6:00 pm, Stephen Walt and Kenneth Waltz
  • “The Future of the WTO and the International Trade System” 310 Warren Hall, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm, Keith Rockwell
  • “The Archaeology-Linguistics Interface: Etruscan Inscriptions from Poggio Civitae” 411 Fayerweather, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Rex Wallace
  • “The (Dis)ability of Representation: Korean Literature and Film during the Pacific War” 403 Kent Hall, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Moom Im Baek
  • “God of Creation/God of Destruction: An Eco-Theological Perspective on the Meaning of Evil and Suffering” Rennert Hall, Kraft Center, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm, Rabbi Lawrence Troster
  • “Celebrating the Andrew Alpern Collection of Drawing Instruments” 523 Butler, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, James O’Gorman
  • “Greenborough/EcoReps Delish-a-Thon: CU Top Chef” Greenborough House, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm, Student Teams
  • “Mobile Money and mHealth” 413 IAB, 6:10 pm – 7:10 pm, Menekse Gencer
  • “Intimacies Deferred: Genealogies of Freedom” James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Lisa Lowe
  • “Sexual Abuse in Religious Communities” 5th Floor, Kraft Center, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Michelle Friedman and Omar Chaudhry
  • “Which Doctor: Determinants of Utilization of Formal and Informal Health Care in Post-Conflict Liberia” 503 Hamilton, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, Margaret Kruk
  • “Let Us Go Out into the Starry Night: Three Plays” Austin E. Quigley Black Box Theater, Lerner Hall, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm, Runs Through Nov. 6, CU Players
  • “Writers House Open Workshop”, 2nd Floor, Harmony Hall, 8:00 pm – 11:30 pm, Students
  • “Screening of Inception” Roone Arledge Cinema, Lerner Hall, 9:30 pm – 12:00 am
  • “Lerner Pub: The Rock Show” Lerner Party Space, Lerner Hall, 11:00 pm – 1:00 am, Blaxer (Meghna Prasad, Ben Chuchinsky, Rich Quatrano, and Blake Pollard)

Fri, Nov 5

  • “India: Economic Policies and Outcomes” Low Library and Faculty House, 8:30 am – Nov 6, 2:30 pm, Alfred Stepan, Pavithra Suryanarayan, Poonam Gupta, Arvind Panagariya, Ashutosh Varshney, Pradeep Chhibber, Ashok Gulati, Kaveri Ganguly, Ashok Kotwal, Rajeev Kohli, Jagdish Bhagwati, Rajeev Dehejia, Rakesh Mohan, Barry Bosworth, Pravin Krishna, Guru Sethupathy, Amartya Lahiri, Nandini Gupta, Jan Svejnar, Anusha Chari, Shankar Acharya, Jay Panda, N.K. Singh, and T.N. Srinivasan
  • “Constructing the Balkans, De-Constructing Ourselves” 1501 IAB, 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Volker Berghahn, Dusan Bjelic, Evangelos Calotychos, Vesna Goldsworthy, and Robert Hayden
  • “Leaders in Global Energy: Nissan LEAF and Zero Emission Mobility” Teatro, Italian Academy, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm, Carlos Tavares
  • “Measuring Political Support and Issue Ownership Using Endorsement Experiments, with Application to the Militant Groups in Pakistan” 711 IAB, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, Kosuke Imai
  • “The History of Medicine and Health in Modern Central Asia” 1219 IAB, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Paula Michaels
  • “Provost Claude M. Steele on Diversity” Monell Building Auditorium, Lamont-Doherty, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
  • “Flash in the Pan” Buell Hall, Maison Francaise, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Benedict Beauge
    “Open Mic” Lerner Party Space, Lerner Hall, 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm, CU Glee Club
    “A Jihad for Love: Screening and Conversation” 569 Lerner Hall, 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm, Parvez Sharma
  • “Jamnesty” Earl Hall Auditorium, 2nd Floor Earl Hall, 8:30 pm – 11:00 pm, Blaxel, Dominique Star, Nonsequitur, Plastic People, Jared Frieder, Osekre

Sat, Nov 6

  • “Treasures in Tractors: A Symposium on the Selling of Russia’s Cultural Heritage, 1918-1938” 1501 IAB, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm, Various
  • “Diwali Celebration” Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall, 7:00 pm – 12:00 am, Various
  • “First (Friday): Ko$her” Lerner Party Space, Lerner Hall, 11:00 pm – 3:00 am, Various

]]> http://bwog.com/2010/11/03/bucket-list-hear-about-prezbo-and-god/feed/ 4 Bwoglines: Bang on a Can Edition http://bwog.com/2010/10/20/bwoglines-bangp-on-a-can-edition/ http://bwog.com/2010/10/20/bwoglines-bangp-on-a-can-edition/#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:45:51 +0000 Conor http://bwog.com/?p=28792

This truck is overturned.

Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor of our own CU Orchestra, debuted yesterday as conductor of the LA Philharmonic, for the concert “Green Umbrella: Bang on a Can.”

A federal judge in California overturned DADT, and has ordered military recruiters to start accepting gay recruits. (NYT)

The J-School is making a news outlet website for NYC. (NY Convergence)

The CSA says that the CSA is now better, so more people use it. (Spec)

Image via Wikimedia

]]> http://bwog.com/2010/10/20/bwoglines-bangp-on-a-can-edition/feed/ 5 QuickTix: Once Again http://bwog.com/2010/10/06/quicktix-once-again/ http://bwog.com/2010/10/06/quicktix-once-again/#comments Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:00:18 +0000 Conor http://bwog.com/?p=27217

Today is an alternating Wednesday. So welcome back to QuickTix! Remember the TIC? Remember that you said you wanted to see New York?

Tickets sold for on campus events this week: 990

On campus events on sale now:

  • 7th Annual Guria Benefit: October 9th @ 6:30pm, Roone, $10, Tickets.
  • The Physicists: October 21st @ 3pm and 8pm and October 23rd @ 8pm, Minor Latham Playhous, $5 with CUID, Tickets.
  • Afropolitan: October 9th @ 10pm and October 10th @8 pm, Lerner Party Space/Roone, $10 with CUID, Tickets.

Tickets sold for off campus events this week: 880

Off campus events on sale now:

  • Fall for Dance Prgr 4: October 6th @8pm, $13, Tickets.
  • Fall for Dance Prgr 5: October 8th @ 8pm, $13, Tickets.
  • Sankai Juku: October 9th @ 8pm, $36, Tickets.
  • Contes d’Hoffman, Les: October 12th @ 8pm, $29, Tickets.
  • Fela!: October 14th @ 8pm, $33, Tickets!
  • Scottsboro Boys: October 21st @ 6pm, $32.5, Tickets.
  • Wicked: October 27th @ 8pm, $58, Tickets.

]]> http://bwog.com/2010/10/06/quicktix-once-again/feed/ 7 Flash Mob: Listen to Low http://bwog.com/2010/04/08/flash-mob-listen-to-low-2/ http://bwog.com/2010/04/08/flash-mob-listen-to-low-2/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:58:53 +0000 Mahrah http://bwog.com/?p=18408 The flash mob to take back Low is happening at 1pm! Apparently this is what you have to do:

“1) DOWNLOAD our free podcast by visiting http://tiny.cc/listentolow and following the link to the iTunes store.

2) INVITE at least 10 of your friends who you think would also enjoy taking part in this unique event.

3) ARRIVE at our secret meeting place in front of Butler Library at 1:00pm on Thursday April 8th with the following – ipod/mp3 player with the podcast ready to play – headphones – a book of your choosing in hand

4) AWAIT a sign for when to press play and help reclaim Low Library!”

Photo via Wikimedia

Happy listening!

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Photo via waitwhat

If you haven’t heard of wait what yet, your playlist is due for an update. Wait what, (aka Columbia alum Charlie Kubal, CC ’08) released his first album last Thursday called The Notorious xx (click for free download), a mash up of Biggie and The xx. It’s caught on: NYMag, Prefix Mag, and the general worldwidewebz have given the mashup their kudos. Charlie, who currently lives in San Fransisco, started out DJing in high school and was once in a band called Jubala. He’s played sets at bars and house parties, but recently has been more into creating new tracks. Here’s what has to say about his music and his time at Columbia.

Columbia’s influence

Columbia played a pretty substantial role for me — I did shows on WBAR for a couple semesters, recorded tracks in my room in McBain, and got to take classes from two of the most awesome music professors you could imagine: Brad Garton and Terry Pender at the Computer Music Center on 125th. ADP and Postcrypt were both really cool venues to check out new music, too.

The Columbia music scene was definitely getting better during my time — there were some awesome artists there: Vampire Weekend obviously leading the pack, but also Supraliminal, The Stolen Cars, Live+Direct, Kane, Reni Laine, Anton Glamb, Farm to Market — lots of people doing really cool stuff.

One thing that’s tough about Columbia is the tendency, that I found, for Columbia kids’ baseline attitude to be to dislike something — there’s a unique brand of hate that Columbia kids tend to have for new things, as if an implicitly negative attitude makes your opinion more compelling. I was guilty of this too, and when the Varsity Show touched on it (my Senior year, so ’08), and it really resonated.

How would you characterize your taste in music? How do you decide who you’re going to mix?

I like a ton of different music, and think that for any given situation, activity, or emotional state, there’s an ideal musical accompaniment. I like a lot of hip-hop, some indie rock, some straight pop — it kind of runs the gamut. One thing I try really hard to do is not let an artist’s popularity influence whether I like a song — the idea of a hipster not liking a band only because they’re popular is just as absurd, to me, as a 12-year-old not liking a song because it’s not on Now 57.

As for deciding what to mix, I usually look for thematic connections. I kind of think of it as similar, in a way, to doing a literary analysis of two texts, and comparing and contrasting. My hope with tracks I make is that people see who’s being put together, don’t immediately get the connection, but then after listening they appreciate the combination.

When and how did this particular album start? Any particular reasons why you chose Biggie and The xx in particular to mix an entire album?

I did all the initial demos for this album during a three week span in January, and the project first came about by putting together Juicy and VCR. I was visiting my sisters for their birthday (they’re twins, hence: two sisters, one birthday) at Williams, and was thinking back on all their former birthdays, and for some reason conjured this image of the Super Nintendo next to the VCR that used to be in our family room. The Biggie line about ‘Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis’ from Juicy and the chorus from VCR popped into my head, and I wanted to hear what they’d sound like together.

I think of different kinds of music as perfect fits for certain situations, and in a lot of ways The xx and Biggie are opposites — you listen to Biggie at a bar or club surrounded by friends, you hear The xx most often in iPod earbuds, alone. I became really intrigued by the idea of Biggie, as ‘extroverted’ music, stripped down and put over the xx, which I think of as ‘introverted’ music, and still matching up tracks that explored some similar lyrical themes.

You talked about different kinds of nostalgia going on in juicy-r. Would you say there’s an overall theme to the album?

So for people familiar with the xx’s record, I used every track of their album, in order, when I made this project. I had a whiteboard that I basically wrote tags of adjectives for each track on the album, and then also for about 30 Biggie tracks. Some of them were obvious matches from the outset, but some took a couple demos to really get down.

As far as a theme for the album, it’s dictated a bit by the themes of The xx’s album, but part of my aim was to create something that showcased both artists in such a way that fans of just Biggie or just The xx would appreciate the contributions from the other artist. I guess you could say the theme for the album was this notion of the extrovert meets the introvert.

Why did you decide to mash up the videos as well? Are there more videos coming?

The video mashup came together kind of last minute — I thought of it at work on the Tuesday before the record came out last week, and posted it that night. Since videos can sometimes show thematic elements of the songs more clearly that the songs on their own, video mashups can be a cool way to make a stronger link between the two original works. I don’t have any plans for another video right now, but could definitely see myself putting one together in the future — either for this project or a future project.

Every month, you also put a mix together on songs.i.like. How did this start? Where do you find you find your new songs?

Songs.i.like started actually when I was a sophomore in high school — each month, I carefully put together a mix of songs that I wanted to hear in the car that month, cramming as much as I could onto an 80 minute CD. I did things like bucket similar tracks with each other and put movie quotes or voicemails as skits to connect between different bunches of tracks.

My friends started asking me for copies of the mixes, and before long I was burning a dozen CDs and handing them out each month. When I got to college, I mailed them to friends for awhile, but no one really listens to physical CDs that much anymore, so I started the site in January 2007 to help spread music I liked to people.

I find the songs through a lot of different places: friends’ recommendations, Pandora, Hype Machine, blogs, things I hear in cafes — really, anywhere there’s music playing. I probably listen to a couple hundred new songs a month, but I’m definitely always looking for new recommendations.

Wait what has a few more one-off tracks on Facebook and plans to release more soon, so stay tuned!

]]> http://bwog.com/2010/04/01/listen-up-you/feed/ 4 Jammin’ with JJ http://bwog.com/2010/03/06/jammin-with-jj/ http://bwog.com/2010/03/06/jammin-with-jj/#comments Sat, 06 Mar 2010 21:45:17 +0000 Peter http://bwog.com/?p=15695 Bwog’s Late Night Dining/Procrastinating Correspondent Carolyn Ruvkun asked the staff of JJ’s Place to compile “celebrity playlists.” As follows is what they returned with great excitement; Bwog proudly presents you with enough conversation starters to last you through the semester. Procrastinate on, friends.

Willie

  • Clear Touch, “Freestyle”
  • Noel, “Silent Morning”
  • Michael Jackson, “Beat it”
  • Cynthia, “Endless Nights”
  • Lil Wayne, “Got Money”
  • Beyonce, “If I Were a Boy”
  • Jay-Z, ”Jockin”
  • Judy Torres, “No Reason to Cry”
  • Lil Wayne, “Mrs. Officer”
  • Coro, “Where are you tonight?”
  • Giggles, “Love Letter”

Al

  • Wu Tang Clan, “C.R.E.A.M”
  • Weezer, “Sweater Song”
  • Queen and David Bowie, “Under Pressure”
  • Queen, “Another One Bites the Dust”
  • Jimmy Hendrix, “Foxy”
  • Biggie Smalls, “Big Poppa”
  • James Brown, “Funky Drummer”
  • Otis Redding, “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay”
  • Smokey Robinson, “Tears of a Clown”
  • Temptations, “The Girl’s Alright With Me”

Arnulfo

  • Hector Acosta, “Primavera Azul”
  • Aventura, “El Malo”
  • Don Omar, “Hasta Abajo”
  • Frankie Ruiz, “Tu Con El”
  • Maxwell, “Woman’s Worth”
  • Luis Enrique, “Yo No Se Manana”
  • R. Kelly, “A Woman’s Threat”
  • Hector Lavoe, “El Cantante”
  • Arcangel, “Pa Que La Pases Bien”
  • El Torito, “Tu Primera Vez”

Robert

  • Ali Farka Toure, “Arsani”
  • Eddie Floyd, “Big Bird”
  • Television, “Friction”
  • Neutral Milk Hotel, “Two-Headed Boy”
  • Iggy Pop, “The Passenger”
  • Gang of Four, “Not Great Men”
  • Liz Phair, “Johnny Sunshine”
  • Mable John, “Don’t You Hit Me No More”
  • Little Joy, “With Strangers”
  • Big Mama Thornton, “Hound Dog”

Iris

  • BB King, “Big Boss Man”
  • Ester Dean ft. Chris Brown, “Drop it Low Girl”
  • Betty Wright, “Tonight Is the Night”
  • Theodis Ealey, “Stand Up In It”
  • Z.Z. Hill, “Love Is So Good When You Are Stealing It”
  • Ray Charles, “I Got a Woman”
  • Michael Jackson, “This Girl Is Mine”
  • Betty Wright, “Woman to Woman”
  • Lenny Williams, “‘Cause I Love You”
  • Shirley Murdock, “As We Lay”

Charles

  • Prince, “When Doves Cry”
  • Al Green, “For the Good Times”
  • Aretha Franklin, “A Rose Is Still a Rose”
  • Whispers, “A Song For Donny”
  • Ashford and Simpson, “Solid As a Rock”
  • Baby Face, “When Can I See You Again”
  • Chaka Kahn, “Through the Fire”
  • Chicago, “If You Leave Me Now”
  • Sam Cooke, “Frankie and Johnny”
  • The Whispers, “Get You In The Mood”
  • Manhattans, “I Kinda Miss You”

Rafael

  • Rick James, “Super Freak”
  • TI feat. Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Kanye West and M.I.A, “Swagga Like Us”
  • Young Jeezy, “Vacation”
  • Daddy Yankee, “Somos Asi Underground”
  • Lipps Inc, “Funky Town”
  • Barry White, “Ain’t No Stopping Us Now”
  • Chic, “Good Times”
  • Young Jeezy, “My President Is Black”
  • Ludacris feat. T Pain, “One More Drink”
  • Fat Joe, “Lean Back”

]]> http://bwog.com/2010/03/06/jammin-with-jj/feed/ 18 17th Annual WBAR-B-Q Lineup http://bwog.com/2010/03/04/17th-annual-wbar-b-q-lineup/ http://bwog.com/2010/03/04/17th-annual-wbar-b-q-lineup/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:00:09 +0000 Mahrah http://bwog.com/?p=15562

Photo by Burning Star Core

Barnard College Radio WBAR has posted the lineup for their annual outdoor BBQ and concert! On Sunday April 25th­­ from noon to 10pm on the Lehman Lawn, you can look forward to hearing:

Cold Cave

Blues Control

Liturgy

Burning Star Core

Jana Hunter

Twin Stumps

U.S. Girls

Thing About Life (They’re playing early, so get there early)

Prince Rama of Ayodhya

Old Men

There will be free food too (and they promise not to run out)!

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