By EMILY PENNA COLUMNIST Kicking off a whirlwind of a weekend, Japhy Ryder returned to Java Friday night. When the show started at ten, there was snow pouring down on St. Lawrence. The Java Barn was separated from campus by a thick layer of snow that had been accumulating all day long. Much of the [...]
By Emily Penna Columnist Clad in an array of colored jumpsuits, Turkuaz made their Java debut this past Thursday. As they were loading in, I couldn’t imagine how the 9 piece band would fit on our little stage. The Brooklyn based band consisted of Dave Brandwein [composer/producer/guitar/ vocals], Taylor Shell [composer/bass], Craig Brodhead [guitar], Michelangelo [...]
By CHRIS MELVILLE To save space, I’m cutting my usual rambling, lengthy, irrelevant introductory paragraph. How about that? The Impossible (2012) The Plot: Maria (Naomi Watts) and Henry (Ewan McGregor) are on vacation in Thailand with their three sons, Lucas (Tom Holland), Thomas (Samuel Joslin), and Simon (Oaklee Pendergast). And then a tsunami hits. The [...]
By RICHARD BOHAN A&E EDITOR Beysus Christ, aka Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter, rocked the Superdome last Sunday, absolving us from various sins, such as not buying her previous album 4, and listening to bad blue grass music (I’m looking at you, Java). Oh, there was some football game too. Speaking of the Beyoncébowl, I’d like to [...]
By RICHARD BOHAN A&E EDITOR Swedish brother-sister duo The Knife has never been an easy band to get into. One of their most popular singles, “Pass This On”, has Karin Dreijer Andersson sing in the most deadpan voice, “I’m in love with your brother.” It’s backed by a jarring minimalist production with so much steel [...]
By EMILY PENNA COLUMNIST Java kicked off the semester this past Friday with HiGHER ORGANiX. The band hailing from Great Barrington, Mass. consists of Jules Jenssen on drums and electronics, Clayton Squire on guitar, and Brian Ross on bass guitar, however, if you hadn’t seen the three on stage you could have sworn there was [...]
By RICHARD BOHAN This week, the weather’s constant mood swings made me dig up a favorite of mine, Penny Sparkle by Blonde Redhead; an album that is equally sunshine as it is rain. Released in the summer of 2010, Penny Sparkle was the final death-knell for the band’s Sonic Youth influenced, art-rock past. Even 23—the [...]
By RICHARD BOHAN It’s not just an art mash-up, re:WORKS is an ambitious exhibition by seven SYE students that plays with the concepts of time and space, and experiential nature of art. The basic premise behind the re:WORKS exhibition is that each senior in the SYE curate two to six works from St. Lawrence University’s [...]
By RICHARD BOHAN An outside marketing firm has helped streamline St. Lawrence University’s unique selling-points through a new communications platform that targets potential students. “The [St. Lawrence] brand was not as strong as their product,” Studio-e founder, Liz Rotter said during a presentation of the project at Thelmo last Wednesday. Studio-e, a marketing firm based in Concord, Massachusetts, [...]
By: RICHARD BOHAN Iamamiwhoami—quite the mouthful for a band name, but perfect for an anonymous music project that has songs named after letters of the alphabet, videos that feature a nude woman dancing in a forest, and a ‘concert special’ where they invited a super-fan from Germany and then proceeded to burn him in a [...]
