When I attended orientation two years ago, I remember hearing “Soulja Boy” about as frequently as I saw people draining cheap beer. Last year, “Paper Planes” was the song of the summer. Who will we be hearing this year? I’m guessing a melange of that horrifying Black Eyed Peas song, that Mariah Carey song I’ve heard is big, maybe that song that presents a viable case for stripping Jamie Foxx of his Oscar and candidate for the most star-studded collaboration of all time: “Run This Town.” Probably that brain-cell-killing Asher Roth song (cliche!) too.
But if all the Michael Jackson tributes get old, we have the antidote. Check out the official recess playlist to guide you through orientation 2009–it’s a little awkward, a little fun, but mostly, filled with good music.
Also, don’t forget to follow @DukeChronicle on Twitter as they, well, chronicle orientation.
This is not the cover to Bob Dylan's forthcoming holiday album.
Bob Dylan’s recent announcement of his forthcoming Christmas album rocked the music world last week. As this bit of news has set back the Playground’s inevitable best-of-the-decade list due to the fact that Dylan’s holiday album will certainly be the best record of the decade ever, I had some time to dream up what the cover artwork might look like. With a little bit of imagination, some introspection of my Catholic upbringing, a look at Dylan’s back catalog and my poor grasp of Photoshop, I came up with this. Bob, it’s yours for the taking.
The seminal brat pack film that made some of the 1980s biggest stars is coming to a television set near you. Though not a John Hughes, this seems especially timely in light of the director’s recent death.
The 1985 film might have been about a recently-graduated group of Georgetown co-eds, but it was inspired by a crop of Dukies and penned by Duke alum Carl Kurlander, who has been working tirelessly to promote his semi-autobiographic documentary about Pittsburgh, My Tale of Two Cities. You can read more about the TV show (which will probably pick up with the Georgetown setting though seeing the Bull City on primetime TV would be a hoot–Shooters II, anyone?) over at The Hollywood Reporter.
As we learned earlier, Tooth will be playing the Duke Coffeehouse Friday, Sept. 11. Turns out, the show will be the metal band’s last, and it will serve as a release party for the split 12-inch with Philadelphia’s the Claw. The EP is the Claw’s last recording before frontman Mikey Brosnan was killed in 2008.
Churchkey is taking pre-orders for the album, which will be released Sept. 11. The album is alimited pressing of 300, and pre-orders will include a certificate for a digital download.
As we reported Monday, music site Ear Farm was assembling a list of the Old North State’s 10 bands you should be listening too. Respectable if, like any good list, a bit controversial, the Web site made readers wait two days–until today–to find out who topped the list. And the North Carolina band you should be listening to? As the title of this post reads, it’s Lonnie Walker, who also earns the distinction of being Ear Farm’s band of the week. Lonnie Walker is also appearing on the forthcoming Hear Here compilation.
