6 AQUINAS THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2008 7 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 Be Your Own Pet ‘Get Awkward’ After being hailed for their 2006, PHOTO COURTESY OF MCT CAMPUS self titled, debut album, Be Your PICTURED ABOVE is Kimya Dawson of The Moldy Peaches, Own Pet finally released its follow whose music is featured in the Oscar winning film “Juno.” 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 The Moldy Peaches’ 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 Trent Reznor, lead singer for Nine Inch Nails. 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 Delilah, 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 Rilo Kiley’s ‘The Execution of All Things, must-have albums 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” (K Records), a gressiveness is sustained all the price for the number and qual- producers, The Weinstein Co., the pressures of a record label. 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 New York 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 remix 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 hard 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 Pitchfork 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 United States, 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, Adam Green, 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.