Most of us know the basics of square dancing; of how to swing your partner and round about going to a gay rodeo in them dosey-doe. Contra dance is very much like square dancing, but there Denver, followed by square WHY I WANTED TO HIT PEOPLE OVER THE (including ever-vocal Sen. Lindsey Graham) is a church hall in Boston where it is a little more radical. Looking at the dancing. “As soon as he said that HEAD WITH THE AMERICAN FLAGS THEY wanted to happen. Treating Tsarnaev as an dancers’ feet you can see how different they are. On Saturday night at the my eyes popped open and WERE WAVING LAST FRIDAY enemy combatant would mean stripping him First Church in Jamaica Plain there are high heels, a pair of rainbow stock- I said, ‘You mean a gay square Let’s get one thing clear: Dzhokhar Tsar- of every right he possessed as a citizen, ings, some bare feet. Each song lasts about 10 minutes and that whole dance?’ It was like these two naev is an American citizen. And I’m holding and questioning him indefinitely time you won’t hear anyone utter the words ‘ladies’ or ‘gents.’ completely separate areas of my world in that moment just came crashing not saying that what he did wasn’t without charge or trial. And why should it bug a big deal or anything – because us that people wanted this to happen? It started as a place for same-sex couples to contra dance– although together and I just knew what I had to do,” said Ricciotti. In it was – but it didn’t suddenly The Bill of Rights may not have been straight folks have always been welcome as long as they come with an traditional contra dancing, gender is a handy way to tell the dancers how make him NOT American. made exactly with Tsarnaev in mind, but it open mind. The official name is “gender free contra dancing” but that really to match up. Without boy/girl pairs would the dance fall apart? After some And that means some- was made to protect him nonetheless. If our just means that people here are free to pick who they want to dance with. research, Chris went home and tore up a bed sheet. He made armbands thing, as did everything else leaders decide that it can just declare some- You are also allowed to pick whether you are the leader (traditionally the out of the fabric. And it works–the only difference is between the ‘bands’ nthat surrounded the lockdown of one “not a citizen” and ignore due process man’s role) or the follower. and the ‘bares.’ nnnnnn- Boston last week. Personally, I can (which, to certain extents, is already hap- get behind the lockdown. Boston’s pening), they’re throwing out a fundamental Chris Ricciotti, the founder and one of the organizers of these dances, Letting people pick their partners and choose how they want to express a tiny enough city that if some dangerous dude who basis of this country: Justice for all. America had the first gender-free contra dance here in the late-80s. This type of themselves in dance is definitely a political statement, but for some like njust set off bombs is running around putting people didn’t win against some “other” last week. community is far from anything Ricciotti could have imagined at 11– when Chris it is also important that these events are playful. Sometimes he just at an indeterminable risk, it’s reasonable for law Like it or not, we are a country of immigrants he first realized that he wasn’t quite like the other boys. “I couldn’t deny the wears a skirt on the dance floor– not because it says anything about his enforcement to be like, “Okay how about you stay inside while we and every citizen is just as American as any fact that I had feelings of being a gay man at a very young age and had identity, but because it is fun to twirl in. catch this guy, okay?” Yeah, I think we should do that. Let’s get out of other. A city won over one who would do us absolutely no clue what to do with it,” said Ricciotti. Those early years were It is this ability to make connections between so many different people your way so you can get this dude. I don’t think that’s a particular threat to harm, but we can’t lose sight of the fact that stormy. He struggled with intense bouts of depression. But then he found in one place that sets this dance apart. This dance is not about the gay our Constitutional rights. You know what would’ve been, though? Nailing there’s even greater harm to be done here, music. “As soon as they put on the square dance music in gym class in community or the straight community. It’s about community. Kerstin Egenhofer, WTBU this guy as an “enemy combatant,” which is what a bunch of congressman at the hands of those who would protect us. first grade, I owned it,” he said. “I thought,‘Oh, I don’t know what this is but Laura Jane Brubaker, bleeding-heart I love it.’” Fast-forward many years later. Chris is out of the closet but still trying to find his niche nnnwhen a friend told him FREE THE UNIVERSE THE MAJOR LAZER mellowed out vibe for the entirety of his perfor- This “could be the future of EDM,” the HuffPo yelled mance. Finally, it was The Bynars’ last week. Well I freaking hope so. Rife with reggae turn to go on. I was expecting a influence and danceable, booty-ful beats, this latest outpouring of musical awesomesauce can make good show, but what I even a 40º April day feel like summer. Diplo got all witnessed was beyond what I sorts of rad folk together for this piece, including could’ve imagined. I don’t know if whats-her-face from the Dirty Projectors for the lead When it was the excitement of debuting a you’re spinning at single “Get Free.” Don’t knock it til you try it. Do to be what I want to dagger it, though. 6a.m. on Sunday mornings, new single, the bittersweet realiza- hear and what everyone it’s easy to drop below the radio tion that it was Ben’s last show, or if else wants to hear.” Despite radar. This week, we’re shining the MOSQUITO The Bynars always pack this much its label, Ke-Mo-Sah-Bee manages THE BYNARS spotlight on our Spring 2013 WTBU Best nnn- nenergy into a set, but I was totally blown to span YEAH YEAH YEAHS Hip Hop/Urban show award winner Ke- So first off, Mosquito is not the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ SINGLE RELEASE SHOW multiple genres and uses radio as a mu- away. “All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun Tonight,” as well Mo-Sah-Bee. best record. With that said, the album has its high as the rest of their set list, sounded just as great live as it sic sharing platform. Schepps explains, points: “Sacrilege” is a kick-ass single, “Subway” is The Bynars show at Great Scott on April 24 was a night full radio has “introduced me to new things, did recorded. For more from The Bynars and to listen to DJ Danny Schepps says he does one of the most interesting and affecting of the bands’ and I like sharing that experience with ballads, and “Wedding Song” is a lovely closer. These of firsts and lasts. It marked the first release of the band’s radio “for the love of music,” which is their new single, head over to thebynars.com. You’ll thank other people.” tracks prove that the band hasn’t lost any of their new single, “All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun Tonight,” the evident in his dedication. When he’s in yourself later. Schepp’s current playlist includes artists excellent songcraft. They also make Mosquito well first off-campus WTBU live event of the semester, and the the studio, most listeners have barely worth a listen. Jacqlene Boening, WTBU as varied as Pavement, Gang Starr, and first time I got to see any of the bands perform. Unfortu- begun to shake the sleep from their the experimental 70s German rock band systems. Schepps had always wanted to nately, this show also marked the last time The Bynars’ Can. be in radio, and got his start on WTBU’s keyboardist, Ben Mettey, performed with the band. Going SOLEMNS EP world music show Music Without Borders. in with high expectations based on the recordings I heard, I Scouring the web for songs, this DJ “Radio exposes you to so much music THE MARQUIS DE TREN lives for the magic moment of finding mu- left with a feeling of fulfillment that only comes from seeing that you’d never heard of before. It opens sic that really speaks to listeners. “Great AND BONNY BILLY a great show. up your world,” says Schepps. Will Oldham’s been pretty busy this year, and we’re music is out there; you just gotta listen for not complaining. In this gear-up for the forthcoming it,” he says. While sites like Pandora and Solemns full-length, Oldham (aka Bonny “Prince” Billy) ATM took the stage first, filling Great Scott with catchy rap Ke-Mo-Sah-Bee: what is it and where BEST BUILT-IN 8tracks are great resources, Youtube is teams with the Dirty Three’s Mick Turner (Marquis) for did it come from? If you ask Schepps, he’ll ALARM CLOCK The delivered between sampled throwback jams. Crowds always a trove of b sides, demos, alternates and three Psalms-fully inspired indie/folk hymns, all sweet T braking just outside tell you “I asked my boy and the first thing tend to be a bit low energy during the first act, but by the live recordings, Schepps explains. The and haunting and fulfilling. There’s a lot of room in these my window at 6 AM he said was ‘high-ho silver ride.’” While a songs, airy in sound and wide-open for interpretation. end of his set, all heads in the room were bopping along. WTBU DJ’s go-to leads on song searches reference to the American TV classic “The Give it a few spins, see what you get. BEST are his favorite artists. “I like to see what Between his fun, upbeat rhymes and contagious dance Lone Ranger,” broadcasting before sunup POPULATION- [they] listen to. It’ll give you an insight into moves, ATM made sure that everyone else was having as is not as lonely as it seems. According to THE MOMENT SUSTENANCE other stuff you might like,” he says. good a time as he was. Schepps, Ke-Mo-Sah-Bee has an inter- ON ONLY MIA DYSON CARDBOARD Australian blues lady Mia Dyson totally nails it in this, her esting first hour. He explains, “I get a lot The mice in my closet, apparently BEST ARCHITECTURAL For a taste of something good and 4th studio album, which FINALLY made it out in the US André Obin followed, giving a performance of an entirely of people who have been up all night at ANOMALY three-way tie be- something different during breakfast, tune this month. With riotous high points and poignant, affect- concerts and from around the world.” BEST AT NOT DRINKING THEIR tween the world’s narrowest different nature. After turning the lights on the stage off and ing lows, The Moment is a brilliantly crafted ride through into Ke-Mo-Sah-Bee Sundays at 6 a.m. MILK BEFORE IT GOES BAD hallway, the crooked window one woman’s world of blues-rock. Praised be the gods setting up two projectors that looped colored static over Or as DJ Danny Schepps will tell you, My roommates frames in the living room, The early morning hours don’t keep for all the hard work everyone’s been doing to make this the band, Obin started his set of ambient electronic tunes. “Wake up, it’s worth it fam.” and the window/wooden sil Ke-Mo-Sah-Bee from spreading good genre not suck anymore. For a really good time, give a - Madeline Walsh, WTBU BEST BUGS combo in the shower The perfect combination of eerily serene static projections listen to the title track, also the lead single for the album. vibes. “I definitely like gangster rap early The bathtub and distorted vocals over repetitive beats established a in the morning,” Schepps says, “It seems Man, it’ll stir you up inside. -Nate Fairchild and Laura Jane Brubaker, Music Directors 4/28 5/3 THEE MIGHTY FEVERS (japan), THE MON- BU SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS SENIOR THESIS SIEURS, FUNERAL CONE, WHITE PAGES Ga- SHOW Senior works from painting, graphic rage punk 5ever @RADIO DOWNSTAIRS 7:30 $8 design, and sculpture. Also “probably” wine and 4/29 cheese @808 GALLERY 6-8pm ALLSTON PUDDING Presents: NICE GUYS, MERLIN’S MAGIC MUSIC BOX (nh), SILKIES BLACK PUS (pvd), GUERILLA TOSS, DESIGN- ~garage rockin poppy jams~ @CHARLIE’S ER, FRKSE Punk and good punk too @DEMOC- KITCHEN 8pm $5 21+ RACY CENTER 7pm All Ages

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