Columbia University is home to an immense number of beautiful, intelligent, and talented people. Now we introduce you to yet another group of aforementioned individuals: Phonoscenes.

The group that you may never have heard of, but probably should have, Phonoscenes competed at last year’s Battle of the Bands and Lowlapalooza. They are self-described as “a group of five early twenty somethings living in New York who devote all their time to playing music together and sharing it with anyone who will listen” on their Facebook page.

Composed of CC’14 Isaac Bunch (drums), Jacob Sunshine (bass), Spencer Cunningham (lead guitar),  Dan Girma (guitar), and SEAS’14  Cameron Erdogan (vocals), the group has been influenced by the likes of Radiohead, The Strokes, Nirvana, The Rolling Stones, and Obama, among others. While these may sound like the bands of your parents’ cocaine-laced years youth (excluding Obama), don’t despair: these guys are good.

Their motto? “A jaguar, unlike a human, is not stopped by many things.” We have no idea what this means, but man does it sound good. Just like their music.