2008 Woodie Awards
Sampling Sepomana
Issue date: 5/1/08 Section: Arts
Did the Cake performance fail to satisfy your concert craving? WRMC is hoping that three-times will charm with their triple-band line-up for the station's annual music festival, beginning at 8:30 P.M. in the ever-popular and pleasing Proctor Dining Hall. Don't feel like mixing with musicians? Check out the after-party featuring the sound stylings of ESTAW and Palms Out Sounds at The Bunker starting at 10:30 p. m. Tickets for Sepomana are $8 in advance, $10 at the door.
Name: Menomena
Hometown: Portland, Ore.
Interests: Developing homemade computer programs that loop inventive riffs and create tracks that are innovative yet accessible - and completely alluring. Repetitive, synthetic sounds are crucial. And molding music that is both experimental and discernible, cerebral and catchy.
Top Friends: Radiohead and Atlas Sound
Downloads: "Evil Bee," "Wet and Rusting" and "Rotting Hell"
Name: The Capstan Shafts
Hometown: Lyndonville, Vt.
Interests: Prolifically producing mini rock-operas at home. Low-fi production, old radio shows and imitating the vocal stylings of Robert Pollard. Short attention spans and two-minute songs.
Top Friends: Guided by Voices and Neutral Milk Hotel
Downloads: "Shaky Days Bring Honey," "What Used to Become You" and "Sleepcure Theory Advancer"
Name: The Ruby Suns
Hometown: Auckland, New Zealand
Interests: Indigenous music of Kenya and Polynesia, and of course, The Beach Boys. Ukueles, sleigh bells, polyphonic percussion, vibraphones and sunshine. Baking up a poppy culture-clash genre of summer songs.
Top Friends: M83, Architecture in Helsinki, FOALS
Downloads: "There are Birds," "Tane Mahuta" and "Oh Mojave"
Name: Menomena
Hometown: Portland, Ore.
Interests: Developing homemade computer programs that loop inventive riffs and create tracks that are innovative yet accessible - and completely alluring. Repetitive, synthetic sounds are crucial. And molding music that is both experimental and discernible, cerebral and catchy.
Top Friends: Radiohead and Atlas Sound
Downloads: "Evil Bee," "Wet and Rusting" and "Rotting Hell"
Name: The Capstan Shafts
Hometown: Lyndonville, Vt.
Interests: Prolifically producing mini rock-operas at home. Low-fi production, old radio shows and imitating the vocal stylings of Robert Pollard. Short attention spans and two-minute songs.
Top Friends: Guided by Voices and Neutral Milk Hotel
Downloads: "Shaky Days Bring Honey," "What Used to Become You" and "Sleepcure Theory Advancer"
Name: The Ruby Suns
Hometown: Auckland, New Zealand
Interests: Indigenous music of Kenya and Polynesia, and of course, The Beach Boys. Ukueles, sleigh bells, polyphonic percussion, vibraphones and sunshine. Baking up a poppy culture-clash genre of summer songs.
Top Friends: M83, Architecture in Helsinki, FOALS
Downloads: "There are Birds," "Tane Mahuta" and "Oh Mojave"
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