Pat
Green totes Texas tunes on East Coast tour
By
Ethan Dougherty
When Pat Green took the stage at Ziggy’s Nov. 15, he knew who his
audience was. “To me (the college market) is the drive,” he
said, lounging on his tour bus several hours before show time. “A
solid showing in a college-based arena typically lends you to a long
career in this business.” And sure enough, it was primarily university
students who packed the venue to watch Green take one more step in pursuit
of such a career.
The 29-year-old Texas singer/songwriter who spent the past half-decade
building a tremendous fan base in his home state has only in recent
months achieved a high degree of national success. This can largely
be attributed to his new album on the Universal label, Three Days, and
its first single, “Carry On,” which has earned Green airtime
on more than 100 radio stations nationwide, and the number one spot
on Country Music Television’s Most Wanted Live.
Creed
progresses with ‘Weathered’
By
Zach Cotter
In the late ’90s it seemed as though every rock band wanted to
experiment with a new sound. No one wanted to play just straight-up
rock. Then in 1997, Creed hit the scene with their debut album My Own
Prison – the first real rock album to come out in quite a while.
Featuring four hit singles it established the band so well that within
a year they were headlining their own tour.
Marionette
troupe performs ‘Magic Flute’ in Brendle
By
Aaron Bokros
While most of us were packing up and securing rides to the airport last
week, we missed one of the most unique artistic experiences that has
ever been offered on our campus. In the three days leading up to Thanksgiving
Day, the world’s premiere marionette troupe gave three performances
of its adapted opera, Mozart’s The Magic Flute.
The Salzburg Marionette Troupe, performing as the third installment
of the Secrest Artist Series, rolled in the evening of Nov. 19, erected
its stage, gave three nights of memorizing shows and packed everything
up on Nov. 21 and trucked it all to Green Bay. In those three days,
I ran lights for some of the greatest performers I have ever met. Combining
the deeply emotive genre of opera with the seemingly exact science of
puppetry, our visitors from Austria provided students, faculty and adults
with two hours of beautiful performance.
Anthony
Aston Players’ ‘Boys Next Door’ lands in Ring Theater
By
Tom Clark
Four
men living together in a state-run apartment for the mentally handicapped
are sure to have a crazy lifestyle, which provides the perfect situation
for a comedy that is meant not only to entertain an audience, but also
to deliver an important message about care and acceptance.
Bands
release benefit CD for United Way Sept. 11 Fund
By
Dayton Vielguth
Now that the dust from the Sept. 11 attacks on New York City and Washington,
D.C., has settled, people find themselves searching for something to
cling to, something to bring joy back to their lives, something to help
them return to normalcy and remind them of how things were before these
tragedies. The entertainment and music industries has answered this
call through such events as the Concert for New York, the Tribute to
Heroes telethon, and, most recently, a new compilation CD titled Bands
for America.
The disc is released through FreshTrackMusic and Mountain Records and
was for a while available only on the Internet at www.FreshTracksMusic.com.
However, the CD has just recently been made available for purchase at
retail record stores across the nation as well as at the live shows
of the participating bands.
University’s
fall dance concert a feast for the senses
By
Aaron Bokros
Two weeks ago, the last production of the year by the theater department
of Theatre, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was closed and torn down.
For most theater students, that is the end of the semester. There is
no more painting; the scene shop is silent. To most, the season is over,
ready to continue in the spring. For me, I am nothing short of ecstatic.
Betty
Blowtorch heats up Ziggy’s
By
Aaron Bokros
Betty Blowtorch is a part gimmick, part punk, and part raging bitch.
The four woman punk band looks and sounds like the love-children offspring
of the passionate threesome of George Thorogood, Joey Ramone and Kim
Deal. On tour to promote their newest album, Are You Man Enough, the
foursome shared the Ziggy’s stage Nov. 14 with perennial redneck
favorites Nashville Pussy.
The
DTR is all in the timing
By
Brandy Jones
One constant question on every student’s mind is this: where do
I stand in my relationship with this person that I’ve been repeatedly
hooking up with? Since dating is a relative non-issue here on campus,
how is one ever to know where a relationship stands?
Our
Band Could Be Your Life’ captures spirit of ’80s indie rock
By
Paul Bullock
From cursory investigation, Michael Azerrad’s latest work, Our
Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground
1981-1991, seems like it could be a disastrous smearing of the decade
that led up to the so-called “Alternative Rock Revolution.”
With quotes from such esteemed musicologists as Janeanne Garofalo, Matt
Pinfield (the large, bald, raspy-voiced ex-MTV host of Farmclub.com)
and Kurt Loder adorning the dust jacket, I must admit that I put some
serious thought into investing $25.95 in this new hardcover from Little,
Brown and Company. Even after realizing that Azerrad’s highest
selling work to date was the frighteningly titled Come As You Are: The
Story of Nirvana, I took the chance that the subject matter would carry
me through what could easily be a train wreck.
