Open Mic @ The Mill
FRIENDS!
come to the Mill this FRIDAY night for our second open mic of the year. Trinity’s best DJs will hold things down as we present a showcase of home-grown talent.
CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP time is limited, so make sure you get a spot by posting on the wall of the facebook group.
MCEEs, Poets, Songwriters, Comedians, and all other types of acts are encouraged to sign up.
Sam Adams (aka WIZ) @ the MILL
TOMORROW NIGHT, Friday Jan 29, Wiz will be playing a show at the Mill to benefit the earthquake victims in Haiti.
The concert will start at 9pm and he is expected to play around 10. Entrance is included with the $5 Hope for Haiti wristbands available in Mather. Wristbands can also be reserved by emailing milltix@gmail.com
This show is on campus at TRINITY COLLEGE - at the Mill (79 Vernon Street)
Check out his music at http://www.myspace.com/samueladamswizzy
Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Machine, Man vs. Pandora: Age-old Conflicts Dealt With Here:
A while back, I posted on Roxy Paine— a sculptor whose work seems to blur the man-made and natural worlds into one strange hybrid. His installation on the rooftop of the Met this past summer was an abstraction of fallen branches created with stainless steel industrial piping— an “abstraction” which provokes us to consider the relationships between man, nature, and machine. He presents objects of nature as “abstract”, shiny, industrial, so we can’t help but notice the irony: the industrial machine, responsible for so much of our environment’s destruction, now recreates it. While his stainless steel branches remind us of a lightning storm, or those static-electricity globes they used to sell at Radio Shack, the works below— his SCUMAKS— vaguely recall the glowing vegetation on Pandora. They are created with an Auto Sculpture Maker (yes, a machine) which spits out the plastic blobs onto a conveyor belt. Each unique creation retains a certain personality to the effect that it wouldn’t seem inappropriate to give them each a Power Ranger name. ”Zach”, “Billy”, and “Kimberly” (below) were included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and are three examples of the heavily-collected SCUMAKS. No 3D glasses required.
For more info on Roxy Paine, click here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/design/24roof.html
or read a book:
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=roxy+paine&x=0&y=0
Movies at the Mill presents ANNIE HALL
Come to the Mill on WEDNESDAY AT 7:30 (not 8PM) for Woody Allen’s Annie Hall.
The film, seen as a turning point in Allen’s career, is one of the most influential films of the 70s. Take a break from your finals studying and enjoy a good classic movie!
(this will be the last movie for the semester, but we will be back in the spring!)
I don’t have much to say - only that I hope you’re half as pumped as I am for the Das Racist and Boy Crisis show this Friday (or at least half as obsessed with Boy Crisis’ Fountain Of Youth as I am).
E-mail MILLTIX@GMAIL.COM for tickets. Include your name, cell phone number, and how many you’d like.
BOY CRISIS.
You may have heard that Das Racist is coming to The Mill this Friday (12/4)…
You may NOT know that Victor Vasquez of Das Racist is also in a band called Boy Crisis, or that Boy Crisis will be opening.
A mix of electronica and grunge and with swells from the ultra low-key to the maddeningly danceable, each Boy Crisis song brings something completely different to the table. At times, their haunting vocals and mellow synths remind me of a mesh of Brand New and Hot Chip. At others, they pump it up and their beats have the potential to hustle a crowd into an all-out frenzy. All aside, though, they’ve got something different going on than other Indie-Electronic acts that have exploded nowadays - their sound is very vintage-pop-esque, more along the lines of Prince or Bowie than Passion Pit or Simian Mobile Disco (or Lady Gaga for that matter).
So once again, swing by. Doors will open at 11. Send an e-mail to milltix@gmail.com with your name, cell#, and how many you’d like for tickets ($5 each).
Check these tracks while you’re at it…
Dressed to Digress (mp3 via Bored and Beats)
Fountain of Youth (mp3 via Bored and Beats)
L’Homme (Run Hide Survive Remix) (mp3 via Bored and Beats)
DAS RACIST.
Das Racist is a rap duo from Brooklyn (via Wesleyan University, right around the corner) who’ve fiercely dichotomized the music community. You, as a listener, probably have one of two opinions about them:
1) They are brillaint. Their hypnotic style and poignant rhymes border the musically transcendental, all the while quietly hinting at the overwhelming apathy and consumerism that runs in the veins of today’s youth culture.
2) They’re immature. They’re senseless. They are the bottom of the barrel as far as music is concerned. I hate them.
(Okay, so maybe you can be somewhere in the middle too. Work with the hyperbole for a least a wee bit.)
I’m not really sure where I personally fit in these two groups, but if nothing else, Das Racist are two guys who happen to pump some jams that are absolutely perfect if you’re interested in jumping up and down and sweating your brains out. A mesh of synth-based techno-dub beats behind scream rap that reminds me of whatever the pre-pubescent Beastie Boys would have sounded like, their sound is one that simultaneously puzzles and excites me. Style aside, they’re absolutely epic live, brimming with enthusiasm and packing crowds everywhere they go. That’s where Trinity comes in.
This Friday, December 4, Das Racist will be playing at The Mill with Boy Crisis, with doors opening around 11. Tickets are $5; to buy them during pre-sale, send an e-mail milltix@gmail.com with your name, how many you want, and your cell phone number. We’ll let you know what’s up from there. So swing by. Solid tunes. Solid people. Solid time. Check these mp3s…
Ek Shaneesh (mp3 via Pop Tarts Suck Toasted)
Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix) (mp3 via Music Ramen)
YES GIANTESS!
Last April, an up-and-coming band called Giantess came to Trinity College to play a small show in a frat basement. Now, months later, they’ve changed their name (now they’re Yes Giantess), gone on a European tour, shared the stage with Little Boots, pumped out tons of remixes, and are returning to Camp Trin?
What?
Yes. Last semester at AD, Yes Giantess put on one of the best small shows I had ever been to. Their live energy and finesse at feeling out the crowd was unmatched for a band with their short career on stage, and their sound was in a class of its own; nothing crazy or fancy - just straight up dance-pop with blaring synths, a bouncing bass, and some fun vocals to match. But fortunately, the audience members were not the only ones to feel this way. The guys from Yes Giantess enjoyed their visit to Trinity so much that they’ve decided to come back for more.
This time, they’ll be playing at The Mill. New venue. New audience. Same wild time. So swing on by. Tickets are $5. Pre-sale tickets are sold out, but you can still buy at the door.
Check it out…
Can’t Help It (.mp3 via Cream Team)
You Were Young (.mp3 via Pop Tarts Suck Toasted)
Every Little Earthquake (remix of Little Boots) (.mp3 via Brooklyn Vegan)
Here is another jam from Cut Off Your Hands called Still Fond. Tickets are on sale now for the April 29th show! $10 tickets for 4 sick bands at an outdoor concert on the last day of classes? Sounds good to me. Contact any Mill member to pick yours up, and we’ll have a T-commerce link up here soon hopefully….in the meantime, enjoy the song and get pumped
It’s time to start getting excited for our concert on April 29th. Here is an epic song from Cut Off Your Hands! called Happy As Can Be. If you guys could bottle how I feel about the springtime at Trinity and add an addictive drumbeat, I think it would sound something like this… this is why I hate blogging about music, because I don’t want to sound like a toolbag but I have no real musical training, thus reducing my ability to describe tunes down to my endless cache of literary flourishes, if you will. But seriously, when they play this @ The Mill and it’s sunny and warm out and school is over and everyone is there, how happy will you be?
