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8 Hyperliterate band, Aquinas THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007 9 , perform at Billboard Messiah College last month Top Five Arts Life By Eva Piatek the songs she performed, includ- & ing “Magic Rabbit,” came from Staff Writer her latest CD entitled, “Tear it On Saturday, March 31, Mes- Down,” where she remixes many siah College was graced with the of her older songs. musical talents of the Decem- Beginning their set with an ‘’ provides berists, who performed that eve- older song from their “5 Songs” EP ning in the school’s gymnasium. entitled “Shiny,” the Decemberists The energy generated from both immediately impressed the crowd the band and the crowd that night not only with their solid sound, made for a most exciting and en- but also with impressive visual double dose of violence joyable show. stimuli. The stage was beautifully According to Wikipedia, The adorned with a painted nature- By Cecilia Baress Decemberists obtain their name inspired background depicting AFTER TWO weeks on the from both the Russian Decembrist Managing Editor images of cascading waterfalls. Photo by Dennis Monaghan Photo by Dennis Monaghan charts Now 24 takes the num- revolt and the weather associated ’s and Robert It also made use of several large THE STARTING Line have a new due out this summer. guitarist, Casey Calvert. ber one spot away from Tim with the month of December. The McGraw. Rodriguez’s newest project, “Grind- hanging paper lanterns that con- band hails from and con- house,” is an interesting blend of stantly varied colors and gener- sists of singer and guitarist Colin vintage movie styles, real stunts, ated rays of light from reflecting Meloy, , Interview with Spring Concert headliners gross zombies and girl power. the various stage lights. The De- multi-instrumentalist , before we tour. some type genre. to get used to. It’s way different The double feature is com- cemberists themselves added to By Matthew Vita bassist , and drummer Q: What do you guys think of HH: It’s weird that people think than any other tour. Its like a big prised of two movies, separated this beautifully decorated Arts & Life Editor . They write lyrically in- smaller shows like these com- you do have to be called some- camping trip. Now I feel like we’ve by fake movie previews. The first by being dressed sharply in light- tricate songs that range from up- pared to bigger things like stadi- thing. It’s more the labels’ doing got the hang of it. movie, Planet Terror, is attributed colored suits and blouses. This past Saturday, April 14, beat to elaborate instru- ums and so forth? that than the bands. It’s more of Q: You guys are playing with to Robert Rodriguez, while the The Decemberists had a very Hawthorne Heights and The Start- mental ballads and even employ HH: We’ve only played one are- a marketing aspect than it, is ac- Hawthorne Heights tonight. Who second, , is attributed diverse set list, since they played ing Line shared the stage for the styles inspired by folk. American na tour, and it was fun. But this tual bands saying, ‘Hey, were this are some of your favorite bands to Quentin Tarantino. a variety of songs ranging from annual Spring Concert in the Long comedian Stephen Colbert may place isn’t that small. It’s nice play- type of band.’ and to tour with? “Planet Terror” is, in its simplest most of the they have re- Center. Aquinas was able to sit have adequately described them ing for colleges, even if it isn’t as AC/DC were just rock bands, but SL: We had fun touring with essence, a zombie movie with leased, including, “Her Majesty” down with them for an interview on as “hyper- big. they don’t really sound alike. You Brand New when we first started a high gross-out factor. A small Photo Courtesy MCT Campus and “.” before the show. literate prog rock.” Q: Your last album hit number wouldn’t say that one of them was out. Fun with Taking Back, back town is the target of experiments QUENTIN TARANTINO and Robert Rodrigez, co-directors of the Some of the songs performed HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS ‘LET IT Go,’ the newest album Overall, the Decemberists have three on Billboard. Any hopes that a certain type of rock band. Now in the day. Cartel, Boys’ Night Out, to find a cure for a biological dis- double feature, ‘Grindhouse.’ included “July, July,” “Song for Q: You guys left your label last from Tim McGraw, drops from released two major EPs and four the next one will hit number one? genre’s a selling point. those guys were fun. ease that a group of soldiers was Myla Goldberg,” “ year, is there anything you’d like the number one spot and into The lead up to the famous scene she can walk. Her lowest point full-length albums. Their latest HH: If it happens it happens. Q: Excited about tonight? Q: You have an album due out infected with while fighting the 1,” “The Bachelor and the Bride,” to say about that? second this week. is as follows: Cherry complains comes when she is taken prisoner album, released on Oct. 3, 2006, is It’s not something we sit there and HH: Absolutely. We haven’t this summer. What should we ex- war in Afghanistan. The disease “O Valencia,” and “A Cautionary HH: We’re still involved in a throughout the movie about her by the soldiers and made to dance entitled “The Crane Wife.” go, ‘We hope we hit number one.’ played any shows in a while, we’ve pect? causes the skin to mutate, erupt Song.” Among these and other lawsuit to clarify that, so we don’t seemingly useless talents, includ- on one leg for one of them. Wray The opening act for the show It’s something you always want as just been writing new material. So SL: Expect rockingness, great- into boils and even melt off. The songs, they used a harmonious have any updates. ing being incredibly flexible and bursts in at the right moment, not was the band My Brightest Dia- a goal, but it’s not heartbreaking if we have a couple shows coming ness. I don’t want the expectations only cure is a special gas that the and unusual array of musical in- Q: Do you plan on signing to acrobatic. She has a number of only to save her from her embar- mond, who has been touring with you don’t get it. up, and we’re definitely looking to be high, what if they shoot soldiers must carry with them struments, such as the another label anytime soon? plans and dreams for her life, but rassment, but also to give her a the Decemberists since March. Q: What would you say are forward to it. over? at all times. When several of the and melodica. They even allowed HH: As soon as we are legally they never seem to work out. She new leg – a gun. After this, Cherry consists some of your biggest influences Q: Have you ever played any Q: You guys have a MySpace, town’s people become infected, one of the crowd members to play free. reunites with her ex-boyfriend realizes her true calling is to kill of Shara Worden, a young woman for music and lyrics? other shows in the area? Purevolume, a Web site, do you a small band of citizens, led by with them during one song by us- Q: You guys are touring for the Wray at a truck stop, and asks him lots of zombies with her new leg. born in Michigan who moved to HH: Really pretty broad, actu- HH: Tinks, Café Metropolis in think the Internet is important or Cherry, played by Rose McGowan ing a percussive noise maker. next few months. Are you excited for a lift. While on the road, Wray While the movie is cheesy and after her college ally. We all grew up listening to a Wilkes-Barre. We played Tinks last overrated for advertising and that and Wray, played by Freddy Rodri- The band also surprised the au- or more daunted? swerves to avoid a zombie, caus- peppered with a number of dis- years. Although the audience did lot of different things: old rock, February. So we’ve been to Scran- sort of thing? guez, must fight them off. dience with a captivating rendition HH: Definitely excited. We’ve ing a crash that costs Cherry her gusting scenes that cannot be not seem too familiar with the classic like Led Zeppelin, new ton before. Obviously we watch SL: I think it’s great. Now there’s “Planet Terror” is the movie of “The Perfect Crime #1,” which been off the road for about six leg. Cherry struggles with her loss repeated in good taste, the movie music of My Brightest Diamond, stuff like Jimmy Eat World, Foo The Office, so we’ve had a lot of so much of it that it’s hard to where the girl with the machine is a recently recorded b-side from months now writing a new record. throughout the movie, especially will appeal to fans of good slasher Shara most certainly captured Fighters, Death Cab. buzz. weed through, but it’s definitely gun for a leg, hyped in most of “The Crane Wife.” What made it And ahh… we’re very excited to ’S new album, when Wray breaks off a table leg them with her melodic, yet pow- Q: Where’d you get your name? THE STARTING LINE a powerful tool for people who the movie’s previews, appears. Please see “DOUBLE” page 6 get back out there. ‘Dignity,’ hits the charts at and jams it into her bandages so erful, opera-like vocals. A few of Please see “INDIE” page 6 HH: Matt came up with it, we Q: You guys have played don’t have the means to advertise Q: Now I heard you were going number three. all thought it was cool, and it Warped Tour a number of times, in other kinds of ways. You can be to start recording the new record didn’t sort of pigeonhole us in any how did that go? an independent band just starting sometime in August? Kurt Vonnegut specific genre. SL: Good, this is going to be our out and build your band up on the ‘Reign Over Me’ aims high, delivers big HH: No, we’re actually going Q: What do you think of the fourth year, I think. It’s been good, Internet. It puts everyone on the to start hopefully here in about a whole genre aspect of music now? we’re getting more and more used dies at age 84 Charlie has lost not only his dental week. We’re going to record right Please see “BANDS” page 10 By Robert Swinton It seems every band has to declare to it. At first, it was a little rough practice but almost every connec- Staff Writer from head injury tion to world around him. Initially, Alan Johnson seems to have the Charlie says that he does not re- Peter Björn and John give indie fans something new member Alan, but the two soon By Matthew Vita perfect life. He heads a successful By Alison Swety butter and jelly sandwiches are Aug. 14, 2006 in Europe and Feb. or lack in original ideas. The pow- dental practice, has a wonderful bond and reignite their friend- Arts & Life Editor ship. Both Alan and Charlie yearn Staff Writer not as popular in as they 6, 2007 in the U.S. According to erful first full-length song, “Ob- family, and lives in a beautiful are in America. the band’s website, PB&J recorded jects of My Affection” gradually Manhattan apartment. His one for what the other has—Alan for If ABBA and Ace of Base are Kurt Vonnegut, author of Charlie’s freedom and Charlie for the only bands that come to mind Every member of the group “Writer’s Block” in Björn’s studio in builds in intensity and gets the problem? He has no friends. He contributes vocals, keyboard and Hornstull, . Björn, who album off to a great start. The “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s feels overwhelmed by the incred- Alan’s picturesque lifestyle. Their when the phrase “Swedish music” Cradle,” died last week, he was 84. relationship turns into a journey is uttered, it is time to give Peter . The band’s most common has worked with other indie rock purely enjoyable single “Young MARTINA MCBRIDE’S album, ible amount of time spent with his line up, according to Wikipedia, groups such as and Folks” follows, which will cause ‘Wake Up Laughing,’ debuts According to wife and jumps at the chance for to find a balance between the Björn and John a try. Even disre- Vonnegut “suffered irreversible garding the band’s Nordic roots, consists of Peter on guitar and har- , produced “Writ- you to whistle along, thanks to this week at the number four even a little taste of freedom. Alan two. spot. brain injuries as a result of a fall.” This movie is one of the first indie pop group Peter Björn and monica, Björn on bass, keyboards er’s Block,” according to Pitchfork its incredibly catchy melody. Vic- unexpectedly gets that chance, and string arrangements and John Media. This album is the first to toria Bergsman of The Concretes Vonnegut wrote and then some, when he runs into that addresses the extreme per- Photo Courtesy MCT Campus John, or PB&J if you will, is defi- 14 novels, all of sonal loss felt by an individual DON CHEADLE and Adam Sandler star in ‘Reign Over Me.’ nitely worth a listen. on drums and percussion. Ac- showcase all three members of accompanies PB&J in this duet, (or chases down) his old dental cording to the band’s Myspace the group as and lead which has been featured in the which satirized on 9/11, and Adam Sandler and trol, a man who has never healed. guessing what Sandler and Chea- Peter Morén and Björn Yttling school roommate, Charlie Fine- website, they state their influ- vocalists. television shows “Grey’s Anatomy” the world we Don Cheadle play their parts bril- Cheadle’s performance as the man dle were going to do next and had been playing music together man. Unfortunately, much had ences as “Each other, love and life, “Writer’s Block” is a pleas- and “.” The live in. liantly. Sandler, who has broken who has it all but who remains who they might bring along with for eight years when they met changed since the two last met. girlfriends, movies, food, books, ant and upbeat mix of poppy track was ranked number five on Vonnegut’s his typical “Happy Gilmore” image unsatisfied serves as a perfect foil them. in 1999, according Charlie’s life, like so many others, traveling, relationships and lots of melodies, great percussion and Pitchfork Media’s Top 100 Songs of most critically with movies like “Spanglish” and for Sandler’s Charlie. The supporting cast was equal- to the band’s website. The follow- changed dramatically on Septem- good music of course. But there is drum beats, and multiple layers 2006, and includes relatable lyrics acclaimed nov- “Punch Drunk Love,” realistically I enjoyed the unpredictable ly as impressive. Making her first ing year, the trio started a band ber 11, 2001. He lost his entire fam- so much music in the world that of instruments and vocals. The such as, “It doesn’t matter what el was “Slaugh- portrays a man who has lost ev- plot that “Reign Over Me” had to called Peter Björn and John, not ily, his wife and three daughters, Please see “REIGN” page 8 we can’t mention just a couple of album’s songs cover subjects such we do, where we are going to. terhouse-Five.” in the terrorist attacks. Since then, erything to forces beyond his con- offer. This move left the audience because they lacked ideas for a The novel tells better name, but because it felt things, it would look silly and give as love, breakups and materialism, We can stick around and see this the story of Photo Courtesy right. The group stated on their you the wrong impression. So we all with rhythms too tempting to night through.” MCT Campus don’t mention anything.” keep your feet still. The album continues with one Billy Pilgrim, KURT Cate Marvin’s “Fragment” is a skillful second offering Web site, “Band names are often an American VONNEGUT ridiculous—so why not just go Peter Björn and John debuted The album begins with a 15-sec- catchy song after another. “Am- soldier who By Joseph A. Koivisto ing success by becoming a widely regarded more as a disease than finds few answers. In the pub- for your own name?” They also with their self-titled album in ond instrumental entitled “Writer’s sterdam” has a pounding beat THE THIRD new release to 1922-2007 make the top five, Timbaland’s witnesses the Staff Writer used text on college campuses anything, as it causes the speaker lisher interview, she asks, “What stated during an interview broad- 2002, released their sophomore Block,” which faintly plays chords and light-hearted feel. The song album, “Falling Out,” in 2005 and from the song “.” De- “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off” album, ‘Timbaland presents bombing of Dresden during World Since the publication of her and a much-discussed volume to lose her head... and dedicate sorts of pressure does one need to casted on the Internet that they Shock Value,’ settles at num- War II. Like Pilgrim, Vonnegut first collection in 2001, Cate Mar- in the literary world. With these herself to the beloved with an apply to the boundaries erected are aware of their band’s abbrevia- followed with the album “Writ- spite the song and album title, Please see “BJORN“ page 10 ber 5 witnessed the destruction of the vin has contributed much of accomplishments, Marvin is be- intensity that, while intoxicating, by gender construction so as to tion, and commented that peanut er’s Block,” which they released Writer’s Block does not disappoint city. After being captured by the herself to the world of contem- ing hailed as a new strain in the has resulted in an ugly hangover.” see their cracks?” The inquisitive German Army during the Battle of porary poetry. With the pub- chorus of American poetics. And In the title poem, and in others nature of her work compels the the Bulge Vonnegut was assigned lication of “The World’s Tallest now, Marvin continues her song such as “Love the Contagion” and reader to venture forward, search- work duty in a meat packing fac- Disaster” (Sarabande), Marvin with the release of her newest col- “Your Childhood,” Marvin creates ing for the answers that are not Campus Comment “What would you do if you were attacked by a swarm of bees?” tory in Dresden. This location established herself as a powerful lection, “Fragment of the Head of characters who have been sav- necessarily provided. saved his life when Allied forces voice by skillfully crafting poems a Queen.” agely misguided by “love” and are “Fragment of the Head of a began their attack on the German of a confessional lilt. Addressing The poems of “Fragment of a left destroyed and bitter. Queen” also pays a great level at- city. The bombing had a huge ef- various topics of personal experi- Head of a Queen,” due to release In her approach to the decon- tention to the dimensions of craft fect on Vonnegut, who created ences, interactions, and emotions, from Sarabande Books in August struction of the romantic image and song. Many pieces throughout Billy Pilgrim to tell the story. “The World’s Tallest Disaster” is 2007, presents a further progres- of love, Marvin also addresses the the collection resound with such Vonnegut has been hailed as a sound collection of addresses sion and evolution of the voice notion of socially constructed gen- skillful tone as to greatly compli- one of the great humorists of the to the reader, the moment, and present in “The World’s Tallest der roles. In poems such as “Land- ment the imagery and narrative past century. His writing often others not present. Next, Mar- Disaster.” Where the voice of her scape with Hungry Girls” and “All of the poems. In “Monsterful,” the mocked and satirized every as- vin collaborated with associate first book seemed victim to the My Wives,” she adopts a critical opening lines illustrate Marvin’s pect of human life, ranging from Michael Dumanis to produce the emotional injuries of romance, view of the confining nature of music: “We meet day-plain and office work to sex. For Vonnegut modern anthology, “Legitimate Marvin’s new book seeks to de- these roles to be fulfilled. By mar- inches away, faces / facing off in “I’d wet my pants.” “I would hit them with “I would punch ev- “None of your BEES-ness.” “I would get a BEES-er.” nothing was sacred. Dangers: American Poets of the construct the romantic illusions rying this view of gender with her a garden, / kissing closed kisses, / Giuseppe Bongiorno, The Windhover.” ery bee in the face.” Mike Genereux, senior Josh Rosas, senior, His last novel, “Timequake,” New Century” (Sarabande, 2006). to which people are subject. In an critical approach to the romantic, solemn, bone-dry and exquisite as freshman, Westchester, N.Y. Jenna Gilligan, fresh- Charlie Hennessy, sophomore, Staten Island, N.Y. Staten Island, N.Y. was a New York Times best seller. This collection sought to celebrate interview with publishers, Mar- Marvin constructs a body of work Please see “MARVIN” page 10 man, Queens, N.Y. Downingtown the poets of the new age, achiev- vin says, “In ‘Fragment,’ love is that asks questions of much and