Video: Tooth, 9/11/09
19 Sep 2009, Posted by Claire Finch in Concert, Playground, video, 0 Comments
We’re a bit late in posting this, but here’s some video from Tooth’s final performance at the Duke Coffeehouse last Friday.
Interview: Sian Alice Group's Sian Ahern
18 Sep 2009, Posted by Andrew Hibbard in Playground, interview, 0 Comments
Courtesy the Social Registry.
Sian Alice Group is making a stop at the Coffeehouse tonight at 9 p.m. with Polite Sleeper and Distrails on their across-the-pond tour. I caught up with vocalist Sian Ahern of the group, interrupting a visit with her friend, before the band left to talk about their new album and more.
What was different about your approach to this album as compared to the first?
The difference in approach, I think, was purely just experience. There wasn’t a different approach. We did everything really the same way, which is go in, experiment and stick to the same rules. There wasn’t a real change of heart or intention. We were all just really excited about the fact that we’d been given the chance to do it all over again. I suppose we were more excited and less scared and we actually knew more about what we were doing. It just became more fun and more and more enjoyable. There weren’t any new rules and strong changes or anything.
Do you have a clear idea of what the album will sound like when you finish?
Actually, no. For the two albums so far, no. They’re fairly experimental. Although we know, I suppose, what we don’t want them to sound like, and that’s too formulaic or really sticking to trend or genre. Why give yourself those boundaries? It’s not particularly what we’re into. The music we listen to is so varied, and we just want to have fun and see what comes out. So no, there aren’t really intentions.
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Video: NYT columnist Kristof speaks at Duke about oppression of women
18 Sep 2009, Posted by Zachary Tracer in Breaking News, National Politics, News, student life, video, 1 Comments
Video produced by Lawson Kurtz and Chase Olivieri/The Chronicle.
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof told a packed Page Auditorium that women’s rights is the issue of the 21st century Sept. 17. His visit to the University was the first stop on his tour to promote his new book “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide.”
Unequal access to health care, food and education has crippled developing countries and left the world short of about 100 million women, Kristof said.
Telling stories of sex trafficking, physical abuse and mental neglect, Kristof illustrated his emotional and often disturbing anecdotes with photographs of the women of whom he spoke.
Kristof followed his lecture with a question and answer session and a book signing. The first 200 audience members to arrive received free copies of his book, and more were available for purchase.
VIDEO: McCaughan & Ballance Perform at Regulator Bookshop, 9/15/09
16 Sep 2009, Posted by Kevin Lincoln in Concert, Playground, video, 0 Comments
In addition to reading from Our Noise last night, Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan made some music. The two played “Throwing Things” from No Pocky for Kitty, and McCaughan played two solo covers: the first from Butterglory’s Matt Sugg’s debut album, “Where’s Your Patience Dear?” The second was from Lambchop’s How I Quit Smoking, “Theone,” which McCaughan doesn’t know how to pronounce. Check out the videos below.
VIDEO: …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, 9/15/09
16 Sep 2009, Posted by Andrew Hibbard in Concert, Playground, 0 Comments
Check out the below video of …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead playing the first track off Source Tags and Codes last night at the Cat’s Cradle. For the interview we ran last week, click here.