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It soars, shivers, and slides. It squeaks around the edges, wraps around you head, and winds itself up into you ears. Unrestrained in its innocence, it's joyous and intimate. So much so that it can surprise you at first. Steve Marion's guitar whispers and howls at the same time.
Marion's psychedelic, surfy, afrobeat-infused instrumental project Delicate Steve rose from his New Jersey bedroom to stages shared with acts like The Dirty Projectors and Sigur Ros.
If ever in your life you have harbored some sort of desire to listen to danceable, sexy, latin-jazz fusion, look no further than Wesleyan's own Don Froot (Leo Grossman '16, Justin Friedman '16, Ben Zucker '15, Matt Chilton '16, and Jonah Wolfson '17). Their new EP, Don Fruta, is a very worthwhile listen and a total jam. Josh Davidoff of Aural Wes took a dive with the band into their musical and ethnomusicological roots before their release show tonight at Earth House.
Earth House becomes witch-house. A guitarist-o legend returns to campus. And MORE.
Know what's good this weekend. Here's the Weekend Preview: Aural Wes's weekly serving of music happenings on campus. Wesleyan artists kick off the weekend with back to back intimate Earth House events and a Friday night Art House-opening showcase. Saturday's Planet Hip Hop Festival has afternoon workshops and an evening concert featuring Muslim women who are breaking new ground in the genre. "DMV-bred" emcee Goldlink heads to Psi U Saturday night and indie lo-fi Mount Eerie plays Sunday night in Memorial Chapel.
Two NYC bands, Brooklyn's Baked and Staten Island's Bueno, hit up Eclectic last night to play the first rock show of the year. These alliterative indie-rockers have been touring around the Midwest and Northeast together, playing 10 shows in the last 11 days. New and old friendships and family relations tie Baked and Bueno together into an exceptionally goofy, laid-back group of guys. Headlining the show was Wesleyan's own post-punk group Thatcher (Chris Gortmaker '17, Jesse Cohen '17, Ryan Breen '17, Alex Lee '17), who just dropped their debut EP. Thatcher's Chris and Zander Porter of Aural Wes swooped in for a quick interview with the bands before the show.
Sophomore band Thatcher just dropped "For Today," the first track off of their eponymous debut EP. Thatcher (Jesse Cohen, Ryan Breen, Alex Lee, and Chris Gortmaker) played a sweaty guerrilla show in the Westco Triple on the last day of school and now return with this 5-track album, recorded in a hot-Boston-baked-bean basement. These post-punkers have an EP-release show on the 12th. In the meantime, hit up their Bandcamp and check out the new track.
We spoke to DJ Rashad about the Teklife Crew, Venues, and Vine before his show at Eclectic in February.
Wesleyan, in recently years, has churned out almost as many rappers as it has unpaid interns. Most of these rappers are also unpaid, but recent graduates Kill-F (anon '13) and producer Mouthfeel (Dan Nass '13) have turned this paradigm on its head with Isn't it Rich? EP, where the idea of accruing wealth becomes an opaque rhetorical question. After listening to the EP I had to know what exactly "It" was to these two musicians. I sent them some questions, trying to get at the heart of their art, only to become permanently suspended in my search for meaning.
On February 28th, Teen Suicide headlined a show at Eclectic, with openers, Sorority Noise and Special Explosion.
