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 Andrew Bird... 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.” Purchase tickets for The Ready Set and Breathe Carolina in the RC ticket office. Tickets are $10 for SBU faculty, staff and students. 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 albums,” 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 indie rock, 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. Atmosphere. The piano 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 alternative rock, 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.