While our grandparents may quietly complain about how different kids these days are from kids back in the day, we don’t expect to hear any complaints from our grandparents about the Chicago-based band Kids These Days, who the Gargoyle and Kuumba TV will bring to campus on Wednesday, Feb. 1.

On Monday night, several hundred people filled the Gargoyle to watch up-and-coming indie rockers Tokyo Police Club. Hailing from Ontario, Canada, and known for their upbeat, infectiously catchy songs, the band has been steadily growing in popularity, particularly after their most recent 2010 album, “Champ.

Tonight’s impending Tokyo Police Club concert got us here in Cadenza pretty excited, so instead of just telling you about it, we decided to throw together a fall concert preview. Here are some our most anticipated events. Tokyo Police Club – Short of failing to get a ticket, Wash. U. students have no excuse for [...]

Bethany Cosentino, songwriter, vocalist and overall public face of her band Best Coast, recently collaborated on a song called “All Summer” with Kid Cudi and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij. “All year long we wait for sun /At the beach we come undone,” she sings, her honey-colored voice steady amid church bells and pulsating beats.

I’m not the man I used to be. Or rather, I’m not the boy I used to be. When I got to Wash. U. back in 2007, most of you were dancing to Ja Rule at bar mitzvahs, or whatever it is kids do these days. I myself arrived on this campus in the harsh middle years of late-onset puberty; I was a knobby exoskeleton with exactly six facial hairs to my name.

Chloe Cooper is a junior who books bands for the Gargoyle Committee.

Although the lunchtime crowds have moved to the Danforth University Center and plans for renovation have been delayed, Mallinckrodt Center still plays a major function in programming by Washington University’s student groups.