Slideshow: Mike Posner Live at Duke for Purple
12 Sep 2009, Posted by Chase Olivieri in Concert, Playground, 0 Comments
Mike Posner @ Duke : Purple Week – Images by Chase Olivieri and Lawson Kurtz
Video: Mike Posner Live @ Duke Chapel
12 Sep 2009, Posted by Chase Olivieri in Concert, Playground, 0 Comments
Interview: God's Pottery
11 Sep 2009, Posted by Brian Contratto in interview, Playground, 0 Comments
Brian Contratto took some time to talk to Christian comedy duo God’s Pottery, asking them for their advice on hypotheticals (for his first interview, click here). God’s Pottery will be advice on the pressing issues young people face in college and beyond, this Saturday at Cat’s Cradle in Chapel Hill.
Claire is having trouble focusing in her schoolwork and is considering the use of a study drug like Adderall.
This is one of the new designer drugs. I can tell you right now she’s already in a very dangerous place. It’s a myth that many successful people do drugs. The fact is, a successful person by definition does not do drugs. You know how in baseball all the records are in question now because of the drugs they’re taking? It’s the same thing in academics. If you start poisoning the records with brain “juice” the whole system’s gonna collapse. If she wants to do a drug to stay awake, try a coca cola—even that’s a little edgy. Or celery with a little bit of honey.
Andrew wants to join a fraternity but is worried about their reputations for intense partying and hazing.
There’s nothing better than young men spending a lot of time together. Whether it’s team building, intramural sports, community service….But the truth about alcohol is that it too is a drug (and we’ve already covered that). This drug is especially dangerous though, because it’s in liquid form.
We’ve heard of some of these college students doing keg stands—at first we thought it was like a charity lemonade stand, where you give fifty cents to an orphanage.
The truth is, Brian, fraternities started with the monks and now it has devolved into these terrible parties with weird games, like “Who can hug Brenda the longest.” Avoid alcohol—we recommend tapping into the Keg of Christ. You can get super drunk on Christ, and that keg never runs out.
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Interview: …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
10 Sep 2009, Posted by Brian Contratto in interview, Playground, 1 Comments
…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead will play the Cat’s Cradle Sept. 15 with Secret Machines. Check out the interview with Conrad Keely.
The press release for the new album, The Century of Self, calls it “a return to form” and then references Source Tags and Codes, your most critically acclaimed album. Is that accurate, or just an annoying comparison?
I hate that thing. It’s stupid. I usually write some creative essay as a press release. I don’t know really, I guess that Source Tags and Codes was just good timing. Our music has always sounded like us.
Obviously, critical reactions are hot and cold since then.
Yeah, well I’m at a place in my life where I’m making music for myself, not really with what people want in mind. I mean—I’m definitely grateful for their support though. But when I was younger being well-received was a big priority, As you get older you get more in tune with your inner voice, and make what it wants to create. It gets more important I think—if you don’t follow your own intuition, your desire, it’s very damaging psychologically.
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The Beast to Drop LP, Play Coffeehouse in October
09 Sep 2009, Posted by Andrew Hibbard in Concert, Playground, 1 Comments
The Beast, bred of strong musical genes, will drop their debut LP Silence Fiction in October. The band will self-release/co-release the album with Chapel Hill’s Robust Records. The band will also play a CD release party at the Duke Coffeehouse Oct. 16 with Carlitta Durand, Kooley High and Freebass 808. You can check out the album art here.