After arranging a meeting with Victoria through guitar-player and Wash. U. psychology graduate student Chad Rogers, I was excited to see what these guys were like in person, but primarily, I was somewhat speculative as to how I would pick them out of the hustle and bustle of Whispers.
Educating yourself in the local music scene is always fun, especially when the bands are more than decent, the music is wildly accessible, and it is actually possible that your psychology TA is a member of said bands. You may know them as the kick-ass band that dominated Battle of the Bands last year, or the energetic trio that opened for Ben Kweller at the Gargoyle last semester, but then St. Louis group Victoria is definitely worth a listen (and actually includes a member that is a Wash. U. psychology graduate student).
As the “most highly attended touring exhibition in the world,” the St. Louis Science Center’s BodyWorlds3 exhibit aims to give viewers a chance to look at the human body in a different light by means of 200 authentic human specimens. These specimens include whole bodies, specific organs and what is labeled “transparent body slices,” all willed by donors for the precise purpose of preservation and educational enlightenment.
The Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Ros returns this week after a two year silence to release their first ever film with a two-disc album, “Hvarf-Heim”. “Hvarf” (said like “kvarf”) means “disappear” and features five tracks the band feels have disappeared from their history.
Chris Carrabba, lead singer and guitarist of Dashboard Confessional, leaves his “emo poster child” status unchallenged with Dashboard’s fifth album release, “The Shade of Poison Trees.” Complete with a bleeding apple on the cover (allegory to the bleeding heart perhaps?), the twelve track album features a sound that steers away from the bigger band sound tested in the previous two albums.
Indie music is generally predictable. The token indie group has a complete desire to steer away from “mainstream” by engaging in extreme introversion to become more fashionable. The unintelligible sounds, the whiny vocals and the mish-mosh of instrumentation often lend themselves to an admirable musical arrangement because of their uniquely chaotic quality.
If you’ve perused YouTube in the past couple of months or read Student Life with any regularity, you have probably been told to “supersoak that ho” more times than you can count. The phrase originated with Soulja Boy’s recent hit, “Crank That”; the music video has garnered over 2.
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