Video: Nurses at Duke Coffeehouse, 9/5/09
07 Sep 2009, Posted by Claire Finch in Concert, Playground, 0 Comments
For an interview with Nurses‘ Aaron Chapman, click here. Video of Throw Me the Statue forthcoming.
Video Leftovers: J. Cole on East Campus, 8.28.09
05 Sep 2009, Posted by Andrew Hibbard in Concert, Playground, 0 Comments
Apologies for posting this late, but here’s a video of J. Cole’s performance Aug. 28, 2009 in the rain on Duke’s East Campus Quad. You can find more videos of headliner Wale here.
Duke Girlz
03 Sep 2009, Posted by Kevin Lincoln in Music, Playground, 0 Comments
Now this is something different.
James Brooks, a ’09 Pratt graduate who backed up aspiring NFL player Eron Riley, just dropped a song celebrating the virtues of Duke girls. It’s called… “Duke Girlz.” A silly name and silly subject matter deserves an appropriately silly song, and Brooks and his brother, Mike, (who go by the pseudonyms Mic B and J 2 Da B) don’t disappoint: “Duke Girlz” uses Autotune sort of like Christopher Walken uses cowbell. Catchy, fun and worth keeping an eye on; God knows Duke needed its own T-Pain, and now we’ve got one.
The Lovely Feathers and the Rural Alberta Advantage to Play Coffeehouse 10/3
03 Sep 2009, Posted by Kevin Lincoln in Concert, Playground, 4 Comments
Canada’s coming to the Coffeehouse.
Saturday, Oct. 3 will see Montreal band the Lovely Feathers dropping in to celebrate their new LP, Fantasy of the Lot. Accompanying them will be acclaimed newcomers the Rural Alberta Advantage (out of—you guessed it—Alberta), who also have a recent release to promote—debut album Hometowns. Four days after they hit the Coffeehouse, the two indie rock outfits will be playing the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, putting our campus venue in illustrious company.
The Lovely Feathers were one of my favorite bands after releasing their ultra-quirky debut Hind Hind Legs in 2006. They dropped off the face of earth (read: the Internet) after going on indefinite hiatus, but it’s thrilling to see them back in the game. And the RAA released one of the more exciting debut albums of the year; for proof, just listen to lead single “Don’t Haunt this Place.”
Here’s the video for the Lovely Feathers new single “Lowiza.”
INTERVIEW: Nurses' Aaron Chapman
03 Sep 2009, Posted by Andrew Hibbard in interview, Music, Playground, 1 Comments
Photo by Nilina Mason-Campbell. Courtesy Dead Oceans
Just a month after the release of Apple’s Acre, Portland’s (from Idaho, by way of Chicago) Nurses are hitting up the Duke Coffeehouse as an early stop on their epically long tour (that includes a stop at Local 506 in November). Here’s the full version of the interview with Nurses’ vocalist/guitarist Aaron Chapman that ran in today’s recess. Nurses, along with the Brunettes and Throw Me the Statue, are playing the Duke Coffeehouse this Saturday, Sept. 5. Tickets are $10 (free to Duke students). Doors are at 8:30 p.m. and the show starts at 9 p.m.
Your tour is remarkably long. Have you ever toured this long before?
No. The longest we’ve ever toured before is about a month.
How have things been since the record came out?
Excellent. We haven’t been on tour yet so we’ll see how things are outside of Portland, but things are great here. We had a record release show that was pretty awesome. We had a lot of our favorite bands in town and artists and such. So we collaborated and that was really fun.
Do you think moving to Portland has had any effect on the album or your music, given the artistic community there?
Yeah. I mean, our record was completed early on here, so I don’t think we had too much time to get assimilated into the Portland culture, I guess. Definitely now, having spent a lot of time here, there’s a lot of bands and artists that we really look up to. It really just motivates you. It’s just kind of a cool feeling to be around. But lots of ambitious and just really talented people—it’s really encouraging and motivating for sure.
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