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WORTHYVol. 21 Issue 4 - WSBU - #1 Station in the Nation

“The Boss” is back with Wrecking Ball

The Lorax is great for family fun

Ellicottville is a great place for an adventurous shopping trip

Also: An interview with The Demos, Project X and ... Letter from the Station Manager The Buzzworthy Station Manager Jess Rehac

“Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress Editor-in-Chief into a positive one.” Karly Gombert - Hans Selye

Contributing Staff

Here we are, more than halfway through the spring semester, and approximately 80% Paige Winston, Jess Rehac, of campus is stressing out. I know it’s true, not only because it was nearly impossible Bryan Clark, Emily Steves, to find an open outlet in the library today but because I did a (very unofficial) survey of Patrick Hosken, Mike Arena, Facebook statuses and Twitter tweets and almost everyone is talking about all of the work Levi Trimble, Cristabell they have to do now that St. Patrick’s Day has ended and everyone has come back from Ramdial , Kevin Smith, Victoria Nashville. Detmering, Emilee Lindner, Maybe you’re a senior, studying for comps or working on your capstone. Maybe you’re Makeda Loney, James Riley, a junior applying for internships, finishing off the last of those Clare classes. Maybe it’s a Joey Mullin, Sara Ward, Charlie research project that you’re writing, a presentation you have to give or a paper that you’ve Borges Jr. known about since January but didn’t quite realize it was due this Friday. In any case, you have a lot of stuff to do. I know it. You’re stressed and wishing it was Spring Weekend already and trust me, I know how you feel but you have to remember that we’ve got a lot to be thankful here at ol’ St. Bonas. The weather is nice again (and it’s only March!), our basketball teams are awesome, and we have great publications like this on campus to help take your mind off things for a bit. Table of Contents So go outside and enjoy it all. Turn off the computer, stop hogging all of the good spots in the library, and head out squinty-eyed into the sun for a bit. Take this copy of the 3 News @ The Buzz Buzzworthy with you and read about some great new music you can study to later, when you head back inside. To be clear I’m not advocating not doing your work at all – I’m just saying you look like 4 DJ Spotlight you could use a break, and to be honest, you probably deserve it too. 5 Memoryhouse, Pond -Jess Rehac Station Manager 6 Interview w/ The P.S. Watch for the upcoming mini-issue of The Buzzworthy including an interview Demos and recipe from the UK’s Sorted Food! 7 Bruce Springsteen

8 Andrew Bird + 9 Andrew Bird, Fun.

10 Action Bronson, Big K.R.I.T.

11 A night at the theater

12 + #Getbuzzed on fashion Join the conversa.on, 13 send us your recipe requests. 14 #getbuzzed #getsorted + WSBU Stubs & Charts 15

2 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net March, 29, 2012 Newsworthy @ The Buzzworthy Space Jam remains a favorite film of the ‘90s generation By Bryan Clark St. Bonaventure senior ‘it’ factor and Space Jam Space Jam remains a favorite film of Tyler Diedrich remembers his has just that,” says Pechie, the ‘90s generation excitement when he received a history major. “It always St. Bonaventure University senior a VHS copy of the film as an motivates me to be the best Kyle Zappia recalls he first saw the Easter present. person I can be and has film Space Jam when he was six years “I'm pretty sure I watched it taught life lessons that rival News Ticker old and immediately loved it. He immediately and repeatedly,” those in the Bible.” says to him there was nothing better says Diedrich, a journalism and Hosken says the film ties than National Basketball Association mass communication major. “It his friends to childhood. Spring Into Bonas will players and Looney Tunes characters certainly lived up to the hype. It “I could probably walk be Friday, March 30, coming together on screen. was the '90s.” into a room full of my from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. “It seemed unreal to me,” Patrick Hosken, a St. current friends my age and and will include an remembers Zappia, a journalism and Bonaventure senior, also say ‘Space Jam!’ or play organization fair in the mass communication major. remembers seeing Space Jam at one of its original songs by Reilly Center He compares the film to two musical a young age. Quad City DJ’s and people artists of different genres uniting to “I just loved it,” says Hosken, would enjoy reminiscing,” make great entertainment. a journalism and mass he says. “Something about these communication major. “It was a Zappia agrees nostalgia combinations doesn't feel right, but great children's movie that had plays a role into Space Jam when they combine forces, they make everything kids loved: cartoons, remaining relevant. magic,” says Zappia. “That's exactly sports and Bill Murray. It was all “I still love the Looney what Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny just wonderfully put together.” Tunes gang and watching did in Space Jam.” Nicole Nye, a St. Bonaventure silly nonsensical cartoons Deadline for garden Space Jam, released in 1996, English major, remembers always reminds me how apartments and Shay remains a popular film. her fascination with the film’s awesome being a kid really suites has been extended. In the film, the Looney Tunes mixture of live-action and is” says Zappia. Applications for both challenge five small aliens to a animation. Nye says Space Jam are available outside basketball game, risking becoming “I'm still amazed with the will always be one of her of RC 204 and will be enslaved employees at an outer space collaboration of a real-time favorite movies. accepted on a first-come theme park if they lose. The aliens movie and animation,” says “It would be hard to say first-served basis until steal the talents of five NBA players, Nye, a senior. “I can't remember it's anything but an epic both buildings are full. becoming “the Monstars,” skilled watching anything like Space movie,” says Nye. “Space Contact cbrown@sbu. gigantic basketball-playing creatures. Jam at the time.” Jam would honestly be one edu with any questions. Bugs Bunny then recruits retired Joseph Pechie, a St. of the popular ‘90s movies basketball superstar Michael Jordan Bonaventure senior, says the that I’d most likely be able to help the Looney Tunes win the film inspires him. to re-watch and fall in love game. “Some movies just have that with all over again.”

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March, 29, 2012 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net 3 DJ Spotlght

The Rolling Jones roll right to the top By Emily Steves While most freshmen may have felt it,” said Coyne (Hostetter can’t seem to get Jones puts out music from Dear and the intimidated by WSBU The Buzz’s position a word in edgewise, and Mike Paasch was Headlights and Kevin Devine. We’re back on top, Nick Coyne and Mike Paasch saw it M.I.A.). With that, “been there, done that” to the natural aspect of the show with these as all the more reason to join the successful topics on songs are taboo to this group – two groups. radio station. no song will feature common themes like “Kevin Devine relied on the natural, The two freshmen, along with two other dying. acoustic sound in his first couple ,” friends, snagged a show last semester, “All music influences other music,” said Coyne explained. “And Dear and the called themselves “Sonic Boom” and Hostetter (D.J. Hos), finally. Headlights (has a) Modest Mouse-like became familiar with the way a radio “It’s all interconnected.” feeling.” (It can be assumed Modest Mouse station works. When it comes to , influences would make the cut as well, then.) Spring semester brought a new crowd of if hip-hop are essential, and vice versa. No They’re not being sexist by barely shows, including Coyne and Paasch, this connection? No play on the show. including females in the playlists; it’s just time adding fellow freshman Eric Hostetter One hip-hop/rap group that’s occasionally “not something we relate to,” Coyne said. to the mix. The show, called “The Rolling heard on The Rolling Jones’s playlist is Each D.J. in The Rolling Jones contributes Jones” isn’t necessarily genre-specific. . The parts in some of something to make the whirlwind of They like to switch it up. the songs appeal to what the group looks to requirements and songs played possible. “We try to infuse pretty much everything,” put out there to listeners. “Hos is more in-tune with the rap part said Coyne, known as D.J. Yonks on the A Tribe Called Quest is another band on and Paasch knows what’s happening with show. “Everything” ranges anywhere from the playlist. indie music,” said Coyne. indie rock to , with some “They were the first hip-hop group to use “I meet them somewhere in the middle.” hip-hop as well. natural instruments,” said Coyne. “They’re And no wonder Coyne has more to say “We try to play as much hip-hop as like The Beatles of rap.” than Hostetter: Coyne’s iPod hosts over possible without delving into heavier rap,” Another requirement for The Rolling 14,000 songs to Hostetter’s 2,400. It he said. Jones: artificial sounds are a no-no. Plenty doesn’t matter, though. People like The Though The Rolling Jones is not a genre- of hip-hop groups rely on computers to Rolling Jones’s show and Coyne gets to specific show, they still stick to guidelines create the background music, but The fulfill his dream of hosting a radio show. with what it played during their timeslot. Rolling Jones will have none of that. By Tune in on Tuesdays from 3 p.m. – 5 p.m. Though they delve into different areas, natural instruments, Coyne means the to enjoy an array of carefully arranged genres played on the show share common instruments have to be recorded manually music from different genres. elements. instead of on a computer to create a sound “It looks good on a resumé,” Hostetter “We try to incorporate any kind of hip- or replace an instrument. said simply. hop that has natural rock instruments in In the indie rock world, The Rolling 4 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net March, 29, 2012 Featured Reviews

Memoryhouse makes waves with first LP initially teamed up in 2011 to produce a Abeele creates the illusion of a sunny days multimedia project collaborating music song that carries you through a certain and photography. What they got was a summer bliss—which is a nice escape from record deal with Sub Pop Records, and a the depths of winter. Nouvion urges the full length LP. person on the other end of the track to stop Photographer and lead vocalist, Denise “hiding in daydreams.” Nouvion, is heard clearly over the washed The entire revolves around idea out instrumental and synth play in all of the of trying to snap you out of the dream tracks. Nuvion’s sound is much like a toned sequences that Memoryhouse goes out down Zooey Deschanel. When mixed with of their way to put you in. The narrative composer Evan Abeele’s mood-controlling styling that they choose to convey their instrumentals, you’re experiencing a sound in pulls away from their lyrics. more soothing and otherworldly She & The album has a consistency that By Paige Winston Him. The dream-pop elements can be makes it easy to get lost in the sound Coming off the success of the lightly compared to Beach House, but interchanging string sections and slow- experimental project (in this case what I lyrically speaking the two bands go off into pounding drums. The first full-length consider to represent the acronym EP) The different realms. The other difference is album by Memoryhouse has the potential Years, Memoryhouse hits listeners again, that Memoryhouse provides more of an to receive a lot of hype, but whether they this time with the release of their first LP, earthy and raw feeling to it. achieve that or not is probably up to their The Slideshow Effect. The Canadian duo On the track “The Kids Were Wrong,” next album. Pond pounces with first album release By Jess Rehac With two-thirds of the band also in Tame Impala, it's pretty safe to assume what kind of sound Pond is going to give us. Recorded in 2010 and then shelved until they were signed by Modular Label, Pond's newest album, Beard, Wives, Denim is heavily influenced by the same psych feel and layered sounds that Tame Impala fans crave, though it also dabbles with a bit of but sometimes it starts out strong and then but in a lot of ways it wasn't exactly what trying to catch you off-guard. hides in a layer in the background, adding the world was expecting either. The entire album is a roller coaster an extra element to provide a fuller sound While Pond undoubtedly reached back of energy and emotions. Bouts of slow behind a louder, more excited rock feel. to grab onto what is left of of instrumentals and hushed vocals build up In tracks like “Fantastic Explosions of psychedelic rock, they also managed to into layered melodies and almost jazz-like Time”, Pond goes back to the roots of keep their feet firmly planted in the year beats, sometimes from one song to the psychedelic rock by showcasing distinctly 2012 while recording. They twisted the next and often in the same track. 60’s elements and blending them into a sounds and elements of an old favorite The psych influence that was expected more modern setting. with the guts and energy of a new era of from the album is constantly present in In some ways Pond's Beard, Wives, music, creating a distinctly modern album every song; in “Mystery” it's right on the Denim is exactly what the world expected, that allows for just the slightest taste of front line, bringing you dreamy vocals and with its layered sounds and dreamy feel, nostalgia as well. long, drawn out notes on an electric guitar, March, 29, 2012 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net 5 Interview w/ The Demos

TheBy Patrick Hosken Demos dish on debut LP, Lovely Since rocking the Rathskeller in November 2010, Rochester’s The Demos have been up to quite a lot. Their debut LP, Lovely, dropped last May and has earned praise both here and abroad—in Japan, especially, where it sold out on its first run. They’re currently working on new music and playing gigs throughout Western . The Buzzworthy caught up with vocalist-guitarist Jay Milton and bassist Cal Saunders before a show at Rochester’s Bug Jar last month.

Buzzworthy: You guys are finding big success in Japan. How did that happen? Jay: This label in Japan [ThisTime Records] that signed us just found us on our Bandcamp [page] and listened to the whole record and basically sent us an email saying, “Yo, we love the record, especially ‘Nervous’ as like a power-pop smash that would do really well here.” And there was two months or so where we were going back and forth with contract stuff, and then we finally came to an agreement, they put out our record in January and it sold out of its initial run in three weeks. This is all weird because we kind of knew that it happened, but it was only through translating Japanese tweets! I remember I talked to Cal and said, “I think what this tweet is saying is that our record sold out in Japan, but I don’t know!” … We just sent them the masters of our and stuff that I guess are going to go on Japanese TV. Cal: Neither of us can speak any yet. I’ve been writing down different words, kind of the basics. I figure if I can learn like 21 words in any language that are the basics like “bathroom,” “hotel,” “cigarette”…then I can accomplish anything I want, and that’ll be good. Jay: I think eventually we’ll end up playing there, and that’s a big thing. It’s just a lot of money ‘cause we’re such a big band in terms of how many people are in it, but I’m sure once we make enough money over there, we’ll end up over there playing a few shows or something.

Buzzworthy: Tell me more about your label, Young Lion of the West. Jay: That’s our label that we started. It’s (Lovely producer) Mike James’ label technically—he’s the guy who started it all—and we joined him. It’s kind of like a big music collective…It’s just way more professional to have your own label and say, “This record is out on Young Lion of the West” than to say, “Oh, we put it outindependently.” It looks better to everybody else. Cal: If you’re signed to a label and you have a manager or a booking agent that works with you, all those people need to get paid, and it’s just more mouths to feed. More or less, we’re not doing this for fun. We don’t intend to stop doing it anytime soon, so we’re in business for ourselves… To have a label like that as kind of a united front for everything we do is just kind of the easiest way to slap a name on what it is we are. Buzzworthy: What’s been the response to Lovely since Jay: The eventual goal is to, when we have the means to do so, take it was released? in other bands that we happen to like and work on stuff for them and Jay: People like it. possibly put out a record of somebody else that comes along that we Cal: It’s been an excellent response. happen to like and work on. Jay: We didn’t really get any bad reviews of it when we did the whole press run, which was cool. People have said Buzzworthy: Any new music in the works? more good things about this than any other thing we’ve Jay: We have a whole record that’s pretty much written. We have done so far, so it’s definitely an improvement from where two songs that are more or less completely tracked and we’re going to we were before, and all that. mix those in Memphis. We don’t know when it’ll be out yet since it’s Cal: I think if I could say one thing that I really think still independent. If somebody comes along that wants to put it out, we about the record is that it finally fills a niche that could wouldn’t be against it. But as of right now, we’re still doing the whole manage to be filled a lot more often…There’s a lot of what independent thing. goes into a Demos record, and we got the right blend, I Cal: It’s going to have to be the right thing, not the easy thing—always think, on this one. We made something honest that we with us. could also be proud of, which is always a good thing to do.

6 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net March, 29, 2012 Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen doesn’t disappoint with Newest LP By Mike Arena Wrecking Ball is the seventeenth studio labor because that is all he can hope to do. styles or genres in his work which helps to album from rock legend Bruce Springsteen This particular track sends a message to keep his sound fresh and fun to listen to. and as always “The Boss” does not the wealth of America from the point of What makes this album for me is that disappoint. view of the working middle class. it is the first studio release from “The This new album does not vary from past “It’s still fat and easy up on banker’s Boss” since the death of long time friend Springsteen work, writing meaningful hill. Up on banker’s hill the party’s going and E Street Band saxophonist Clarence music and giving a voice to the voiceless. strong. Down here below we’re shackled Clemmons. Clemmons died on June 18, Bruce writes this album as the unofficial and drawn”. These lyrics convey that in 2011 of complications from a stroke and anthem of the 2008 recession and all the today’s society the wealthy do as they Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band events that have followed. please while the poor man breaks his back lost an integral part of what made them the Songs like “Jack of All Trades” and “Death just to get by. rock legends they are today. to My Hometown” document the strife of Springsteen uses several unique loops Clemmons blaring saxophone solos in people just looking for a break, whilst other that you wouldn’t typically see in popular past Springsteen works are one of the tracks like “We Are Alive” and the powerful music today. “Death to My Hometown” many things that Bruce fans everywhere “Land of Hope and Dreams” give listeners uses Celtic influence to give the track the (including myself) associate most a sense of hope. feel of an old Irish rebellion song. commonly with the band. Springsteen pays Bruce Springsteen has always written Bruce writes this tune to make the point tribute to Clemmons by including the track songs about things that carry significant that war and fighting aren’t the only ways “Land of Hope and Dreams” which includes meaning, whether that meaning has direct that pain and suffering can be produced. saxophone solos that were recorded some ties to his own life or not he never lays He makes reference to “robber barons” time before Clemmon’s death. down a track without purpose. From the and “greedy thieves” who came and “Land of Hope and Dreams,” was controversial 1984 album Born in the USA “destroyed our families’ factories and took written about two companions who leave to today’s Wrecking Ball, Bruce has never our homes” and in turn brought death to everything behind in hopes of finding failed to say it how it is, and in a way I think his hometown. something better. It takes the idea that that’s why his fans stuck with him through “Rocky Ground”, the ninth track on the here in America there is always something the years. record, is heavily influenced by gospel better to come upon no matter what your With this new album Springsteen delivers music and includes singer Michelle Moore circumstances may be. his message with heartfelt lyrics while on backup vocals. The icing on the cake for Wrecking Ball integrating several different influences and Moore is also heard at the end of is hearing Clarence Clemmons deliver styles into each track. the song, which is the first time rap music powerful solos in between the choruses of The song “Shackled and Drawn” is an has appeared on a Springsteen album. this track. It’s a perfect conclusion to an era upbeat tune that carries a sound that could One of the better listens on Wrecking Ball and almost brought this Bruce Springsteen have been sung by a chain gang or enslaved “Rocky Ground” shows why Springsteen is fan to tears. men working the fields, but its message still a relevant artist in 2012. Wrecking Ball is a well thought-out still carries meaning today. Despite the fact that he has been record and its infusion of different styles It documents a poor man that wakes up putting out records since the early 1970’s, and genres along with Bruce’s legendary every morning and goes to work doing hard Springsteen isn’t afraid to include new songwriting makes for a great listen. March, 29, 2012 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net 7 Featured Reviews String virtuoso uses adversity to create masterpiece By Levi Trimble

Broken hearts fuel passionate music. With his latest release, Break it Yourself, Andrew Bird proves that a break-up can inspire an incredible to work at an increased level. Bird’s previous releases dealt in observations regarding our natural surroundings, science and human behavior. His 2003 release, Weather Systems, dealt in this theme throughout the album. “And every time you turn the soil, another cloud begins to boil,” from the title track of Weather Systems shows the power man has on the environment. Sidenote: Righteous Babe Records, recording the individual tracks himself. “All this time it took to realize that you owned and operated by Ani DiFranco in The violin instrumental shows Bird’s could use some help,” sang Bird right Buffalo, NY, released Weather Systems. expertise with use of trills and legato to before the final chorus. With his previous five studio albums, Bird amplify the solo’s meaning. “Lazy Projector” follows with its slow beat has defined a genre known as chamber Danse Carribe demonstrates musical and emotional music. Minor inflictions on pop. His music takes motifs from pop expertise as well as Bird’s utility. With a voice and instruments start the song off music and combines them with chamber country feel, the track starts off with a sultry, with a sad feel. Whistling and violin trade instruments like the violin and mandolin. relaxing feel. The chorus shows passion as back and forth, showing melodies that The instruments ring with the sounds of Bird emphatically belts out, “There you go inspire hope, emotion and beauty. Mozart and Tchaikovsky, proving they mistaking clouds for mountains.” “They say all good things must come to an have been handled by a classically trained At the two minute mark, the song turns end, every day the night must fall. How it expert. up-tempo as Bird uses another expertly all came to this I simply can’t recall. Too Since his 2009 release , wielded instrument, whistling. Each many cooks in the kitchen; how the mighty Bird has made many changes. He left whistle has perfect pitch and vibrations, must fall and I can’t see the sense in us Fat Possum records and signed with giving the high-pitch noise a voice. breaking up at all,” sang Bird. These sad Mom+pop Records. He started writing Immediately following the whistle solo, lyrics help tell the story of Bird’s emotions film scores, releasing a soundtrack for the Bird plays a fiddle-style solo that slowly as he wrote. film Norman. He played a 165-date tour evolves into a sophisticated into a baroque- Bird played a version this song on his in 2009 all the while in heartache from a sounding classical melody. 2009 tour, starting a few days after his relationship change. He suffered a heel “Give it Away” follows, starting with an relationship change. injury on tour and dug himself deep into intro similar to the folk-rock band My “Near Death Experience Experience” his work. Morning Jacket. Instead of guitar though, follows with a quirky, sliding melody. The “I think he just ran himself ragged,” said the intro is a plucked and electrified violin. song finishes the middle section of the Bird’s bassist Mark Lewis in an interview The rest of the song flows naturally with album. with . “Being out and busy a swinging beat that emphasizes Bird’s The next section begins with an can be a false escape,” added Lewis. beautiful vocal melody. instrumental track entitled “Things Behind Bird left the tour, wounded both in body The next track, “Eyeoneye,” has the most the Barn.” Bird’s violin sings in this song and spirit, and began to write. single potential. It starts with another with fast-paced fingerings, creating a In his reclusive attempt to recover, MMJ-style intro, only this time from a fuzzy repeating melody that demonstrates his Bird wrote 14 songs that flow together guitar with intense reverb. The song ripples alacrity. masterfully. from the simple drum rhythm and staccato “Lusitania” comes immediately after The album starts with the track strumming of the guitar. The tempo picks the instrumental. This song, a duet with “Desperation Breeds,” a fitting opener for up, making the song upbeat near the end. Annie Clark of the band St. Vincent, sound an album that arose from despair. Bird All of this matches the profound lyrics. gorgeous with the combination of Bird’s layered multiple instrumental tracks, 8 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net March, 29, 2012 Featured Reviews beauty. and culminates with a 2:30 instrumental The song screams proficiency. The lyrics Belles. The song describes Bird’s feelings have great impact as well, singing about without saying a word. Space fills this love and blame through the metaphor of serene song, making the listener close their the 1914 tragedy. eyes and wander through thought. “If you loosen libel lips you keep sinking “Belles” slowly brings the album to an all my ships. Oh and you’re the one who end, finishing the 14-track LP and leaving sank my Lusitania.” listeners wanting more. The next song, “Orpheo Looks Back,” Out of all his albums, Break it Yourself has incredibly played fiddle parts with a shows more passion, expertise and scratchy sounding beat in the background musical prowess than his others. You of the folk-country style track. Bird sings can tell in his music he has become more “String virtuoso...” continued a melody similar to Irish folk musician experienced. With experience comes skill Damien Rice, completing the song with and inspiration. whistling and 1960’s-folk-sounding vocals. an Irish-jig-like solo violin solo to end the I don’t believe Andrew Bird could top Cymbal splashes add a brilliant texture to song. this album in quality and meaning. This the mix, sounding like waves crashing on The album comes to conclusion with album should go down in history as his the hull of a metal ship. Clark adds a verse three long songs, highlighted by the eight- masterpiece. and harmonies that rival Bird’s musical minute-long “Hole in the Ocean Floor,”

Fun. stays true to its name By Emily Steves let’s set the world on fire / we can burn instrumentally. Its catchy beat will get Take three guys from three different, brighter / than the sun.” “We Are Young” stuck in your head. albeit, successful, bands, cram them into was popular enough to reach the coveted “All Alright” opens up with piano, adds one band, and what do you have? Fun., number one spot on the iTunes top charts some techno and then takes off with the literally. list for singles. chorus immediately. Anyone can relate to Nate Ruess (The Format), Andrew Dost “Carry On” has a positive message the chorus Ruess sings. “I got nothing left (Anathallo) and Jack Antonoff (Steel attached to it: “If you’re lost and alone / inside of my chest / but it’s all alright.” Train), released their second full-length or you’re sinking like a stone / carry on.” “Stars” is a 6:53-long song, but it’s not album on February 21 under the name “It Gets Better” and “Why Am I the One” the type you wish would end. It keeps you “Fun.” Since the album’s release, Some are lesser-known tracks on the album, interested, much like the entire album. Nights has brought in a whole new crowd but are still worth a listen. Some Nights is a catchy album. Buy it of listeners for the band. “All Alone” sets itself apart and you won’t regret it. “Some Nights (Intro),” opens the album. The instrumentals and vocals are barely audible in the beginning. About a minute in, one thing becomes clear: the song is a crescendo. Slowly but surely, vocalist Nate Ruess’s voice picks up. “And you, why you wanna stay? / oh my God! Have you listened to me lately? / Lately, I’ve been going crazy…” By the end of the song, you could swear you listened to a musical number after hearing Ruess’s voice bring up the finale, followed by applause. The next song, “Some Nights,” takes off in an acapella fashion. Like most of Fun.’s music, the song is catchy but the lyrics mean something. Ruess sings, “Some nights, I wish that my lips could build a castle / some nights, I wish they’d just fall off.” The third song on the album is one everyone should know by now. Fun. teamed up with Janelle Monáe, an R&B singer, for “We Are Young.” Monáe and Ruess sing together: “Tonight / we are young / so

March, 29, 2012 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net 9 Featured Reviews Bronson’s mix-tape tells a story By Cristabell Ramdial Seems like everyone wants to be a out the public. Listeners get rapper these days, but at first glance to listen to the creative and Action Bronson doesn’t fit the image unique styling of Bronson of a rapper. and Party Supplies with the Born in Albania, a well respected, simple click of a mouse. fire-flame gourmet chef don’t exactly Blue Chips, feels different scream hip-hop or rap. However, after than your average mix- listening to his collaboration mix- tape, and feels more like tape with Party Supplies, Blue Chips, Bronson’s 17 tracks tell a it’s clear that his style of melody and story-- one that everyone rhymes have worked in his favor should hear. because. The mix-tape, which dropped Be advised, the explicit on March 12, already has people content on this mix-tape buzzing that Bronson is a name you comes in tons. His most should remember for the future. memorable track on his Though he’s not well known, some tape, “Thug Love Story of Bronson’s tracks give promise to 2012,” starts off sweet with the future of his music career. The a nice melody, but gives mix-tape as a whole uses instrumental intense description and backgrounds helps create a softer tone uses graphic terms that is to accompany Bronson’s harsh words more than some may want about the hardships of life. to hear. His entire album shows the Even with the intense struggles of life, which is not rare graphic language, this track for an underground rapper. Though is arguably the best on the Bronson’s instrumentals add a soft mix-tape. The background tone, it sometimes overshadows the vocals and beat gives essence of his words. I found myself Bronson’s voice a clear listening to the melody rather than soap-box to tell his story. the words and this could pose to be a Bronson’s ability to not problem for future records. sugarcoat the truth and However, Bronson’s decision to could be exactly what music make the mix-tape free for download should be about. worked in his favor to get his name Mississippi mix-tape flows with southern style By Kevin Smith legendary southern rappers N A Day is just another mix-tape is an old-school classic and the Southern rapping seems like , Ludacris, and step until KRIT drops his future on the new take of southern hip- to be coming back in a big even the quirky, out of this debut studio album Live hop. way. A young man from world rap group . From the Underground Mississippi named Justin The young Miss rapper later this year. This guy is Scott, aka Big K.R.I.T (King has a lot of potential behind no question a hip-hop artist Remembered in Time), him, with fellow rapper that has potential to bring brings his own take of Curren$y mentoring him to a version of rap back to the southern style flow to the the top, who was mentored promise land where the rap game. by at one point. likes of Bun B and Ludacris His new mix-tape called His single off the album left off. 4eva N A Day is the sequel “Boobie Miles” has brought He has the potential to to his critically acclaimed critical acclaim to major to make it far with his lyrically mix-tape Return of 4eva. the likes of Billboard, XXL upbeat and mixture of His new tape seems to be and magazine. old-time classic that made more streamlined, chock Hopefully for KRIT, music the way it is today. full of smooth-move the song will be able to Big K.R.I.T is far from saxophone samples and make it to the mainstream the one hit wonders and lazy summer cruiser jams. television on MTV or even commercial rappers that Big’s mix-tape is even BET and its show 106 & have poisoned this genre compared to some of the Park. Nonetheless, 4eva the past couple years. His

10 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net March, 29, 2012 A Night at the Theater The Buzzworthy Reviews the Latest Feature Films

Moon bounces, midgets, and mischief;

By Paige Winstonholy hangover Hung-over, that’s the way I school. Needless to say you felt after viewing director Nima begin to root for the three Nourizadeh’s first film, Project X. outcasts, but at times get As I sat merely a few rows back overwhelmed by Costa’s, from the silver screen and looked for lack of a better term, at the three protagonists— Thom- douche-baggery. Costa fits The Lorax is nothing short of brilliant as, Costa, and JB-- I couldn’t help in with the Jonah Hill type By Cristabell Ramdial but think about my own esca- in Superbad, another Todd Everyone can remember, for the forest being destroyed. pades. Philips production (Coin- at some point during their Undeniably the best character in Sure, I’ve cidence? I think childhood, hearing or reading the movie is the Lorax (Danny never pulled not, people). Dr. Seuss, so it’s only natural DeVito), who brings his character off half of the The movie that a movie about one of his to life with quirky jokes that antics these plays into a tired books grasps attention from appeal to all ages. After the forest clowns did. formula, almost all age groups. is destroyed, the Lorax ascends to I’ve never too predict- Chris Renaud, director of the sky but leaves behind a pillar had the balls able from the Despicable Me, does a terrific that says, “unless.” to, but I did first scene when job in telling Seuss’s story of Like every movie, there must be walk out of we’re intro- why there were no more trees a villain; Aloysius O’Hare (Rob the theater duced to Thom- in Thneed-Ville. For those Riggle) is Thneed-Ville’s mayor proclaiming I as’ childhood who complain that the movie and head of the “O’Hare Air” would surely friend Kirby. is too different from the book, company that supplies fresh air to compete with Kirby, a lifelong of course it is! The book was his residents. owning my friend, who just simply a stepping-stone to His townspeople are provided own house happens to be help create a modern day with synthetic lawn, trees, and next year— to attractive, and version of Seuss’s masterpiece, plants, and he charges them the dismay of Thomas, a bash- and the production of it does to purchase air. This tiny, yet my poor housemates. That’s all ful scrawny kid who has not disappoint! powerful man becomes unnerved beside the point, though. Project that whole Michael Cera Just like almost every other when he learns Ted has received X is something every desperate thing going for him. , movie, there is a boy trying to the last tree seed, which was high school kid wants, 15 minutes do they? Will they? win a girl’s heart. Ted Wiggins given to him by Once-ler, and of fame. Yes, yes they do, but you (Zac Efron) is in love with he intends on planting it in the What the movie has to offer is already know that. Don’t Audrey (Taylor Swift) and town’s square. everything you would imagine worry, there is plenty of plot braves outside the walls of The townspeople break out in happening in the blacked-out mo- development that I’m sure his city in search of the one song and Ted, Audrey and his ments of The Hangover, a movie will hinder my giving that thing she loves most, trees. grandmother are allowed to plant from the same producer, Todd away. Okay, enough sar- Efron and Swift’s voices mesh the seed. The townspeople all Philips. Intoxicated women, an- casm. You won’t walk away perfectly together throughout rejoice, and then Once-ler finally gry little people and a wrecked car from the movie in any awe the movie. understands what the Lorax had that would have surely paid for over the plotline because it Ted goes in search of a tree been saying all along. at least one year at Bonaventure, lacks one as a whole. and is introduced to Once- The Lorax blew the box office wide were just a few of the elements Project X held my atten- ler (Ed Helms) who takes us open with a whopping $17.53 that created an “epic” party. tion for the 88 minutes it back to the forest before all million in its opening night alone, The characters weren’t necessar- played out, but I walked the trees were destroyed and leaving the competition in the ily likeable on any surface level, away from it with only that. we are introduced the Lorax, dust. but the movie draws an accurate It’s not to the fault of the the protector of the forest. This cute and charismatic movie depiction of the superficial wants director, writers, or actors Renaud does a wonderful job appeals to all ages with its simple of three high school losers. Yes, involved, but to the simple at entertaining viewers with yet powerful message, “Unless losers— because that’s what they reality that originality is the delightful creatures of someone like you cares a whole were, bottom of the barrel kids dead. the forest. Later, we’re told awful lot, nothing is going to get with little going for them in a big that it was Once-ler and his better. It’s not.” greed, which was responsible March, 29, 2012 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net 11 Ellicottville #Getbuzzed

By Emilee Lindner and Victoria Detmering St. Bonaventure is there and checked out what about 25 miles away from they have to offer-- it’s a Ellicottville andon students fashion whole lot. still make it seem as There were a lot of shops though it is too far. specializing in jewelry and Aside from the great fair trade products. Next skiing, snowboarding and time you and your friends restaurants E-Ville offers want to do something it’s also a great place to different, take a short drive shop. Emilee and I spent to Ellicottville, and shop one Friday afternoon around!

We went into Gado-Gado from hangers on the wall. thinking it was a health food And then we saw the cases and cases of store, but it was so much jewelry – most of it fair trade more than that. from other countries. Feeling Not only was this place a the need to touch everything, holistic haven – providing we tried on all the rings. The massages, incense, and coolest ones were made from herbs – it had just what we copper with welded swirls. were looking for: eclectic We gawked over the jewelry clothes and jewelry. for quite some time, not The store is huge and realizing that Ellicottville has has different-themed a lot more of it to offer. rooms. We took a left Gado-Gado had plenty of Gado-Gado when we entered, took a dresses, skirts, tops and most 28 Monroe Street whiff of some lavender of all – scarves. Cashmere, (716) 699-2128 and darted right toward cotton, linen, silk, wool-- they some sundresses draped were all there.

12 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net March, 29, 2012 Ellicottville butterflies hanging from the ceiling, or maybe Kazoo II it’s the white lights climbing up a real-life 18 Washington Street tree centered in the floor. This place has an (716) 699-4484 atmosphere we liked. And guess what? More jewelry! Jewelry that stood out was from an artist named Jenny Weisenthal. She cut squares of azurite, The first thing we noticed turquoise, malachite, lapis, chrysolite, about Kazoo II was its serpentine and various shells together to large, round, cast-iron create these beautiful pendants and bracelets door handle. Just like that (according to the artist’s website). handle, the store is filled Kazoo II would be a fun place to take your with unique ingredients, roommates when shopping for apartment giving us plenty to look decorations, but beware: the items are on the through. pricey side. The shop holds a collection of Maybe it’s the strings lamps, wall décor and many other things you of wire-and-polyester could put around your townhouse. Alexandra Ellicottville may be known as the 10 W. Washington Street ski capital of the southern tier, (716) 699-5621 but it might as well be the jew- elry capital. This town has more Along with jewelry, the shop has jewelry than the Kardashians and other fun trinkets, notebooks, craft- the English monarchy combined. books, wind chimes and even a gong. Alexandra was a gift shop with an This would be a fun place to go if you entire wall devoted to the stuff. need a gift for a friend. A pair of earrings we liked was The woman working in Alexandra diamond-shaped and metallic. was also very nice. We had met a lot One geometric shape hangs over of happy shop workers that Friday, the other. One diamond has a but we also encountered some not-so- hammered finish and the other pleasant people. Their shops didn’t had a smooth, matte finish. The make our list. contrast is perfect.

March, 29, 2012 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net 13 Stubs/Charts

1 Action Bronson WSBU Stubs Blue Chips 2 Curren$y & Styles P other rappers in Jedi” swag, as she would #1st28 right now like Drake, Wale, say. and . She keeps I am not the most edu- 3 Big K.R.I.T her topics real and clean cated person when it comes 4evanaday cut, so there isn’t any con- to the world of rap and hip- By Makeda Loney fusion about what she’s hop, but I thoroughly en- 4 Schoolboy Q , also known as talking about or how pas- joyed her music. If you are Habits & Contradictions Rapdiddy, is making a new sionate she is about what looking for tracks to check appearance when it comes to she’s doing. out on this album, you 5 Jon Connor She has gained some mo- should look into “Shining The Blue Album the world of female rap. Her approach to rap is pleasantly mentum from previous Moment” and “Right Now.” surprising, since she does tours she has gone on with I don’t personally know her 6 other big name rappers, either, but I can feel her XXX sound like what a typical fe- male rapper would sound such as and presence in her music. 7 Action Bronson like. J.Cole, and will continue “A Jedi knows no igno- Well--Done She has a mature sound that to wow the crowd with her rance…. only knowledge.” confidence and “Black Girl 8 Kid Cudi & Dot da Genius can be compared to many WZRD 9 Juicy J Blue Dream & Lean instrumentals off of Jay-Z’s display the skill set that is Blueprint series, with his Connor’s wordplay, with 10 Rapsody own original writing over each song requiring you to The Black Mamba each beat. I must admit, run it back once or twice to I was a skeptic of Jon’s catch every metaphor and talents based solely off of punch line he drops. 11 By James Riley The Wonder Years his geographical location-- Jon Connor has been Jon Connor, the first real when was the last time co-signed by damn near 12 The Roots rap talent out of Flint, Michi- you heard of a prominent every major name you can gan, recently released his -based rapper? think of, and with 2012 heavily anticipated mix-tape However this project just getting underway, 13 Common The Blue Album, hosted by proved me wrong. The Blue Album looks like The Dreamer, The Believer DJ Green Lantern. Tracks such as “Song just for this The Blue Album is a col- Cry”, and “Hova Mojo” young emcee’s career. Pun 14 Brother Ali lection of Connor’s favorite The Bite Marked Heart EP intended.

15 Chase N Cashe defied all obstacles. The Heir Up There EP alternative rock in his Now, with his hip-hop solo album Legend of Mr. 16 Curren$y persona a household label, Rager and it was an instant Muscle Car Chronicles the Kid decided one day to success. WZRD brings a make an alternative rock bigger picture of how Cudi 17 album with his fellow long can bring his voice and Rich Forever time Dot a guitar and turn it into By Kevin Smith Da Genius. The two musical something incredible. 18 geniuses came together to Kid Cudi could quite Kid Cudi has always been Death Comes in 3’s make the band WZRD and possibly be the Jimmi the unpredictable rapper/ in the process create a self- Hendrix of our generation rocker that people thought 19 Gucci Mane titled album. and with his partner in would Trap Black Now this album is crime Dot to help produce never work out. It’s not heavily lyrical but Cudi and play guitar as well, 20 Nipsey Hussle easy to mix two legendary barely raps throughout it. nothing can stop this The Marathon Continues genres into one amazing Cudi experimented with underdog lyrical genius. outcome, but Cudi has

14 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net March, 29, 2012 Stubs/Charts recent project dubbed as a With production from “FreEP”, aka an album free underground legends such as of cost. (member of Atmosphere), The album is a short one, and features from talent such Indie Charts holding only seven songs as and , this 1 Tennis on its track list, which, for is one project you should not Young and Old Fat Possum By James Riley me, is not a bad thing at all. let sneak past you. Make sure Each song has been to keep your ears open for the 2 Underground Hip-Hop carefully selected, written, tracks “Shine On” and “I’ll Be Attack on Memory icon Brother Ali has done produced and recorded to Around”, a few of my favorites it once again with his 3 Fun. create the perfect fit for the off of this smooth collection. latest release, The Bite sound Ali was reaching for. Some Nights Marked Heart, his most The single off the album is Max Bemis screamed at me 4 Big Deal “Burn a miracle,” which is to “Burn a Miracle” over and Lights Out Mute yet another song telling us over again. 5 Sleigh Bells to rise up and take control If there’s anything the youth of the government, only of America should rise up Reign of Terror Mom and Pop this time, the guitar riffs against and change, it should 6 Magnetic Fields By Joey Mullin and melodies are failed be a release of another album Love at the Bottom of the Sea attempts to be creative by this group who needs to Say Anything, and unique with “new” realize when their era was Merge unfortunately, is back. A harmonies that simply do over. 7 First Aid Kit band that should have quit not work. The best part of The most impressive part The Lion’s Roar Wichita while they were ahead with the song was during the of it all was the drums, so big their release, In Defense of bridge when they really did shout out to Coby Linder, the 8 Vacationer Genre, this confident group show the talent they used backbone of the group and Trip (Single) of rockers return with to have, but it disappeared probably the only reason Say their sixth studio release, again when co-founder, Anything is still trying to be 9 HUNX Anarchy, My Dear. lead vocalist and guitarist, relevant. Hairdresser Blues Nowheresville. your head as easily as “That’s 10 Chairlift In the first song, “Silence,” Not My Name” did. Something ’s voice sounds They slow down and soften monotonous. That, plus up for “Help,” but pick their 11 Kishi Bashi heavier instrumentals, catchy Ting Ting flair back 151 makes the song sound very up again for “Hands.” White By unlike . sings, “Clap your hands if 12 Miniature Tigers “Shut Up and Let Me Songs like “Hit Me Down, you’re workin’ too hard.” Mia Pharoh Go” made you want to Don’t pick up this album Sonny,” “Guggenheim” and listen to The Ting Tings’ “Soul Killing” are closer expecting something as light 13 Said the Whale over to the catchy We Started and appealing as We Started Little Mountain and over. Their bold Nothing Ting Tings, but Nothing. Instead, expect 14 Geographer beat is lost in their Feb. these songs won’t stick in heavier, slower sounds from 24 release Sounds From the English duo. Myth 15 Memoryhouse The Slideshow Effect 16 Laura Gibson Charlie’s Metal Corner La Grande 17 Black Belles By Charlie Borges Jr. it’s because he kicks ass in make you say, “Damn.”. The Black Belles his debut. It wouldn’t be a Soulfly al- Soulfly puts out its first re- The drummer in this band bum if Cavalera didn’t bring 18 Sharon Von Etten lease since 2010 with new has had some big names in in some special guest. Dez Fa- Tramp members-- bassist Tony the past, like current Stone fara, the insane lead singer for Campos and drummer Da- Sour drummer Roy May- Devildriver, and the song Dez 19 Air vid Kinkade. orga. is on, “Redemption of Man by Le Voyage The thing that stands out Former lead God”, is the best song on the in this album is how im- singer is his album. With that being said, 20 Shearwater pressive Kinkade is, not same old self, with power- Enslaved gets 3.8 devil horns Animal Joy saying that because he is ful vocals and lyrics that out of 5. from Jersey like me, but March, 29, 2012 The Buzzworthy | wsbufm.net 15 The No. 1 Station in the Nation