Sunday Night Study Sessions
There is a weekly show on WRTC, Sunday nights from 7-8:30 called Sunday Night Study Sessions. The host of the show, Eli Cassel, is looking for artists at Trinity to do live performances. So if you write your own music and can rap, sing, play guitar, or whatever, and want to be interviewed and perform on air, get in touch with Eli Cassel!
This is a perfect opportunity to not only showcase your musical talents, but to get on the radio also!
Tune in next semester and take part!
Maps & Atlases
First off, if you’re a Trinity student, you should know that volunteering at WRTC is awesome. WRTC is Trinity’s radio station. I started DJ-ing a weekly indie rock show three weeks ago, and I’ve been exposed to boatloads of new music. The world does not end with HypeM, and I don’t want to sound like a hipster and say that I’m really beat in terms of the way the internet spreads music, but I am. The whole process of the radio station feels far more genuine. But now that I’ve thoroughly made myself out to be a snob, I’ll get to the point.
Maps & Atlases is one of the many discoveries I’ve made from going through the new music cabinet at WRTC during my show. Perch Patchwork is the best album I’ve heard in a while. The whole thing is pretty much a much mixed bag, not in the regard that the songs are either good or bad, since every track is pretty darn sweet. The thing is that Maps & Atlases has such a wide variety of influences that you just never know what you’re going to get. Over the course of the album, I hear mid-90’s pop-rock cliches, African-influenced percussion, Williamsburg indie-rock, and Appalachian folk, among many other generic classifications that I could throw out there solely for the purposes of my own understanding of this fantastic album. Legit, from one moment to the next, these guys can be compared to artists from Sufjan Stevens to the National to Weezer to Peter Gabriel to yada-yada-blah-blah.
Regardless, it’s solid and you should definitely take a listen. What’s pretty easy to say is this: every track on Perch Patchwork is different from the one before it. They’ve all got slow build-ups to huge cascading climaxes and it’s just awesome.
Not to mention that lead singer Dave Davison is just absurdly talented.
