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Arts & Life Editor Gabby Sanabria Billboard Campus Comment Arts & Life Francis Gradijan Top Five Three CDs stand out as must-haves Commentary by Joe Wolfe Staff Writer ‘’

After being hailed for their 2006, Photo courtesy of MCT Campus self titled, debut , Be Your PICTURED ABOVE is of The Moldy , Own Pet finally released its follow whose music is featured in the Oscar winning film “.” up, “Get Awkward.” The album is full of everything with which a SEASON 4 winners of “Mak- true punk fan is in love. It is full ’ Kimya ing of the Band,” Day 26 hits of aggressive instrumentation, number one. screaming vocals about anger and heartbreak, and screeching guitars Photo courtesy MCT Campus “PROJECT RUNWAY” host Dawson rides ‘Juno’ success and pounding drums that allows Heidi Klum. of the film: a patchwork of home- you to reminisce about the good Kevin Amorim made sounds made by teenagers days; when the punk genre was Photo courtesy of MCT Campus MCT Campus whose ... honesty rang through made up of bands such as Minor ‘Project Runway’ PICTURED ABOVE is , lead singer for . Kimya Dawson is talking, but the crappy tape recorder used Threat and Black Flag. The four- you know her eyes are surveying to capture their chicken-scratch teen-song track list comes in at network switch the road ahead. lyrics,” the director writes in the only 33.4 minutes which, although Nine Inch Nails breaks from “We’re on a mission to find soundtrack’s liner notes. short, is the perfect length for this sends studios a playground,” the star of the Dawson, who now lives in album. chart-topping “Juno” soundtrack Olympia, Wash., still employs Enough cannot be said about major label, releases album says last week as her husband those “chicken-scratch” stream-of- Jemina Pearl Abegg’s vocals. When into courtroom and opening act, Angelo Spencer, consciousness words, it’s just that I first listened to their debut album Brian Tenazas last two categories, then there is steers the couple’s minivan. The more people are hearing them I fell in love with female vocals in no reason to pass it by, and NIN David B. Wilkerson Staff Writer littlest one in the entourage, baby now. The soundtrack, on Rhino, a punk band. When compared to makes it easy. MCT Campus When the word “ghost” is men- Panda , all of 20 months, is bounded up the charts to No. 1 on another female vocalist along the A quick visit to the “Ghosts” tioned, I usually think of a scary quiet in the background. the Billboard Top 200 in January. lines of the same genre such as Web site allows a visitor to down- “Project Runway,” the fashion- image of some dead guy staring “I got a good one,” the proud “The shows are a little bigger PANIC AT the Disco is back Andrea Zollo of Pretty Girls Make load the entire first volume, nine design reality series that has been me in the face, waiting to chase momma says of her girl as the and we have more opportunities with their album “Pretty Odd” Graves, with this release Abegg tracks, for free in a range of for- one of the Bravo cable network’s me out a window. family heads toward Fort Myers, to play other countries, we’re going has surpassed them and cemented mats and quality. biggest hits, is slated to move Thankfully, Nine Inch Nails’ Fla. It’s because of another baby, to Australia and New Zealand in her place as one of the best female If you like what you hear, NIN to the Lifetime channel this fall new album, Ghosts I-IV, is not as albeit a fictional one, that Daw- June,” she says. “Oh, and I’ve been vocalist in her genre. provides several ways to get the under a new five-year deal, but frightening as it sounds. It is a son’s career has seen something of able to afford health insurance for Be Your Own Pet establishes rest of the tracks. Bravo parent NBC has filed suit to deep, rich, and varied instrumen- a rebirth, too. the first time in 15 years.” their aggressiveness right away ABOVE are the album covers for Be Your Own Pet’s latest album, “Get Awkward,” She & Him’s For $5, you can download the Half of the Manhattan anti- ‘Volume One’ and ’s ‘The Execution of All Things, must-have for any Indie music block the switch. tal triumph, pushing the envelope In August, she plans on releas- with “Black Hole” and this ag- full four volumes, an amazing folk duo the Moldy Peaches, she collection. David Boies, counsel to show’s of what a musician can do without ing “Alphabutt” (), a gressiveness is sustained all the price for the number and qual- producers, The Weinstein Co., the pressures of a . became almost as much of a children’s album that utilizes kids way until the albums’ finale, “The Your Own Pet has showed great ter,” originally written and per- female vocalists, I found it fit to ity of music you are getting. For commented in a statement that According to the album’s Web household name as Oscar-winning from toddler to teen singing and Beast Within.” However, in order potential to be one of the top formed by The Beatles. The third start this new section off with $10, you can get the album on CD NBC suit in the Supreme site, ghosts.nin.com, front man “Juno” screenwriter Diablo Cody. playing instruments with her. “It’s to experience this aggressive- bands in their genre for a long cover on the album is hidden as Rilo Kiley’s “The Execution of All mailed to you with your down- Court is “without merit.” Trent Reznor described the pro- “I didn’t think it wouldn’t happen,” a little more free and fun,” Daw- ness fully, you would need to find time to come. Do not stop at just the final track of the album and Things” (2002). load. Boies is perhaps best known for cess of recording this new album says the 35-year-old singer-song- son says. someway to get the UK version of their new album, start with Be may be the best of the three. The Leaving Barsuk Records for Sad- For the fanatics, you can his role as lead counsel in former as “10 weeks, no clear agenda, no writer with a knack for ragamuf- More fun? That’s to believe, the album. Your Own Pet’s self-titled album last track, “Swing Low, Sweet dle Creek, the label that has given pay $35 for the download, the CD, Vice President Al Gore’s litigation over thinking, everything driven fin spoken-sung melodies. “I just especially if you remember the According to Media, and then purchase “Get Awkward” Chariot” is easily Deschanel’s best us bands such as Bright Eyes and and a data DVD with the music on over the disputed presidential by impulse.” didn’t expect the movie to be as eponymous Moldy Peaches album Universal, the label that releases you will not regret it. vocal performance on the album. Cursive, Rilo Kiley set out to make multiple layers for easy remixing. election in 2000. With a small team of other mu- big as it was.” from 2001 (sample song, “Who’s Be Your Own Pet’s albums in the Being the first album released their sophomore album, “The Ex- The deals are incredible and She & Him The Weinstein Co. contends sicians, Reznor was able to create Dawson has the film’s star, El- Got the Crack”; sample lyric, “I like , said that there were by this duo, it is certainly a very ecution of All Things” and music will hopefully catch on in the near ‘Volume One’ that NBC declined to “compete for a 36 track work with almost two len Page, to thank for turning it when my hair is poofy/I like it three songs that they deemed impressive one. Ward, like in all is so much better for it. the right” to keep “Project Run- future. “Juno” director Jason Reitman onto M. Ward has taken on a new hours of acoustic bliss, ranging when you slip me a roofie”). “too violent” for the album. These of his albums, never fails to dis- “The Execution of All Things” way.” “Ghosts” represents the band’s the Moldy Peaches, a duo special- COUNTING CROWS rocks the project as the guitarist and pro- from slow, somber piano pieces to She reunited with the other three songs include “Black Hole,” appoint and Deschanel, for her is the album that started the ris- Boies added that it’s “always first release since their break izing in off-key, childlike ditties, charts with “Saturday Nights ducer of the recently formed band, fast, catchy techno beats. Peach, , for a perfor- and Sunday Mornings.” “Becky,” and “Blow Yr Mind.” In- first album, has indeed made her ing of Rilo Kiley up the Indie ranks unfortunate when parties try to with major record labels in 2007. strummed on beginner’s guitar and She & Him. Accompanying him is The group did an excellent job mance on ABC’s “The View” in stead of allowing United States mark on the Indie scene. Outside and brought every Indie boy to fall win in court what they have lost Although they are not the first, recorded lo-fi. The band, which is Zooey Deschanel, once known for forging a fantastic package. Note, January. But a full-scale reunion citizens to purchase an album that of the three covers, all songs are in love with . The shift in the marketplace.” as Radiohead did the same thing on hiatus, is Page’s muse, appar- her work in the movies “Almost however, that this is not for every- won’t happen “anytime soon,” has music deemed “too violent” on credited as written by her. She has from vocals primarily performed Representatives from NBC with their album, “.” ently. Reitman especially liked Famous” and “Elf,” takes a shot at one. Dawson says. it, Universal decided to drop these established herself not just as a by as they are on Universal did not immediately re- If you want some good mu- “,” which is a music career as the “She” part of Listeners looking for emotion- She says the same thing about songs. The disappointing part is very good singer, but an excellent “” (2001) spond to a request for comment sic to listen to while you work, featured a second time in the film She & Him. In case you were won- al or provocative lyrics need not having another baby: “Not any- that these are three strong songs songwriter as well. to vocals now being performed Monday afternoon. “Ghosts” might be able provide with Page and ’s BFF dering, she fits these shoes quite apply, and those who dislike any time soon.” Because she’s got a on this album. “Black Hole” and Look for more good things to by Lewis, helped to establish her Lifetime, whose programming the extraordinary sound that characters singing to each other. well. form of electronica should steer good one right now. “Blow Yr Mind” may be two of the come out of this band. They re- as one of the best vocalist and is tailored for women viewers, is won’t scare you away. “This song ... defined the sound Their debut release, “Volume away. If you are not in one of the best songs from this album. cently played at the SXSW (South songwriters in the music indus- jointly owned by Hearst Corp. and One,” is full of folk music, which Do not worry though Be Your By Southwest) Music Festival pro- try, male or female. Songs such as Walt Disney Co. is similar to that on Ward’s previ- Own Pet has found a way to get moting their new album. Hope- “A Better Son/Daughter” and “My Hosted by supermodel Heidi ous albums. Ward’s work on guitar these songs to you. According to fully, there will be more volumes Slumbering Heart” highlight these Klum and featuring Tim Gunn, Love the Arts? is solid throughout, as he takes a the article, these songs are cur- to go along with “Volume One.” abilities. the exacting mentor to the show’s backseat to Deschanel’s amazing rently streaming on the band’s With the combination of Lew- contestants, “Project Runway,” vocals. Her vocals are highlighted Rilo Kiley Are you a lover of MySpace page as well as in their is’ vocals and her song writing which completed its fifth season on songs such as “I Thought I Saw ‘The Execution of All personal Web site. If you are to ability fused with that Indie pop last month, has become a signa- Your Face Today,” and “I Was Made purchase this album, please take Things’ sound, compliments of Blake ture series for Bravo in the reality life? for You.” about seven minutes to listen to Sennett’s guitar work, Rilo Kiley era. However, Ward does make a ANOTHER “MAKING of the these songs it is not fair to the I figured that instead of stretch- finally found their sound in the The show, which follows the couple vocal appearances on the Band” winner, Danity Kane, band to listen to the album while ing to find three albums a week music industry, which they will contest between a series of de- album. He appears on two out of hits the top of the charts. neglecting these songs. Wouldn’t and possibly recommending a continue to highlight on their fol- signers as they meet challenges the three covers, “You Really Got To write for this section please it be great if Radiohead really did sub-par album to listen as a third, lowing two each week, was the highest-rated a Hold on Me,” originally written contact: take down major labels for good? I would recommend essential al- reality competition show in all of and performed by Smokey Robin- For a band whose average age bums to be listened to. Please see “CDs” page 8 cable for 2007. hovers just around 19 or 20, Be son and “I Should’ve Known Bet- To continue with the trend of Gabby Sanabria at “If you could create a class for The University curriculum, what would it be?” Campus Comment [email protected]

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