NEW MIXTAPE! The Study Mix

Hey gang,

Here’s Mixtape number 2: The Study Mix. This time everything is in one track (YAY!). Check it out, and chill out as you study for finals. Enjoy!

1. “In Ear Park” – Department of Eagles, from In Ear Park

2. “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” – Neutral Milk Hotel, from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

3. “Reckoner” – Radiohead, from In Rainbows

4. “White Winter Hymnal” – Fleet Foxes, from Fleet Foxes

5. “Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dying” – Belle & Sebastian, from If You’re Feeling Sinister

6. “Skinny Love” – Bon Iver, from For Emma, Forever Ago

7. “Furr” – Blitzen Trapper, from Furr

8. “Place to Be” – Nick Drake, from Pink Moon

9. “Two Doves” – Dirty Projectors, from Bitte Orca

10. “Pagan Angel and a Borrowed Car” – Iron & Wine, from The Shepherd’s Dog

11. “I’m Not” – Panda Bear, from Person Pitch

12. “Weird Divide” – The Shins, from Oh, Inverted World

13. “Ambivalence Avenue” – Bibio, from Ambivalence Avenue

14. “River” – Akron/Family, from Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free

15. “Know Better Learn Faster” – Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, from Know Better Learn Faster

16. “Campus” – Vampire Weekend, from Vampire Weekend

17. “Crystalised” – The xx, from The xx

18. “Banshee Beat” – Animal Collective, from Feels

19. “Those to Come” – The Shins, from Chutes Too Narrow

http://www.mediafire.com/?zwmyjjoqjzh

Password is: MindsetMixtape2

Check back next week for a new mixtape!

Rock on,

Christopher Tulisiak

Hannan Interview

Hey guys,

I hope you read the Hannan review in next week’s Mindset. In the mean time, check out this interview with Central Florida Live:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/video/video.php?v=374281137503

Enjoy!

The Decade in Indie: A Mixtape

Dear Mindset reader,

Thank you for coming to our website to check out our online content.  Below you will find a link to the advertised mixtape.  If you have not picked up a copy of Mindset yet, please do so!  It is an excellent issue with loads of great articles and other content.

Links:
http://www.mediafire.com/?hamiyzte3wg
http://www.mediafire.com/?myhmtkootjj

Password: MindsetMixtape1

Thanks for listening, and be sure to  check back in a week or so for a new mixtape!

Rock on,
Christopher Tulisiak

Mixtapes 4 U :-)

Hey guys,

As promised, here are some links to the songs listed under our mix-tapes.

Gold Sounds – Pavement: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6QilYg5VA

We Are Beautiful We Are Doomed – Los Compesinos:

Animal – Miike Snow:

Blood Bank – Bon Iver (explicit)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=774mOmdKtZM

Yankee Bayonet – The Decemberists

I Love Tealights

The Tealights came to Notre Dame in October for an in-studio acoustic set. Check out some footage at http://www.nd.edu/~wvfi/videos.html and http://www.ilovetealights.blogspot.com. They played “Passport” from their album “Take Us By Sea.”

 

Get excited for their concert at Legends this December!

WOO!

Hey guys,

I’m new to this so bear with me.  But instead of my first blog post ever being about Music or Art or Literature, its going to be about the antithesis of all this greatness…. NASCAR!!!!!!!

First of all let me get my strong feelings out about Nascar…

I LOVE IT!

It is fast-paced, dramatic action (like watching Grey’s Anatomy during its early seasons(never saw it, but I heard good things)) that is chock full of EXCITEMENT and SPEED.  People hate it claiming that the drivers just go in circles, but they do have 2 road tracks that are not purely circles.  Furthermore, they are OVALS!  WOO!   Also they are not merely driving, they have to execute drafting and timing/gas strategies.  Its like a chess match between Gary Kasparov and Deep Blue packed into one oval track.  Adding to this excitement is the off track tension of what each driver is going to say or do?  Is Kyle  Busch going to get super angry at Brian Vickers and maybe attack him?  Is Tony Stewart going to eat a Whopper and then read Shakespeare?  Is Jeremy Mayfield going to do methamphetamines (he would if he weren’t in jail)?  So therefore I defend, I offer my apology, to NASCAR on the arts and literary circuit.
My friends, I entreat you, I IMPLORE you to give NASCAR a chance.  It may just change your life!

Mindset Articles due tomorrow

To the mindset staff:

Please send me your articles tomorrow or bring them to Mindset. Thursday at 7:15 as always.

Thanks!

fun.

My new favorite band features Nate Ruess of The Format (RIP), Andrew Dost of Anathallo, and Jack Antonoff of Steel Train. Their CD, “Aim & Ignite” features the familiar pop sound of The Format, with plenty of room for clapping and tambourines, as well as the brassy instruments frequently featured in Anathallo songs.

Check em out: myspace.com/fun

The Somersaults – Come Home: The Carterco Sessions

Indie-crunk rockers Somersaults have finally released their long-awaited CD-R. I first heard the band way back in 2005 when they opened for Ted Leo and the Pharmacists in the Lafortune Ballroom. Over the next few months, I had the privilege of seeing them a couple of more times, until the inevitable post-graduation hiatus. These guys were a huge part of the campus music scene for me for the brief time such a “scene” existed for me. I’d offer my own limited knowledge of the band’s history, but instead, Dav González gives us his own words on the band and their new album.

Somersaults formed in the summer of 2004 after the dissolution of the Mondays, of which Kevin and Nathan were a part. Spurred by a need to have fun and to create, I approached Kev and Nate, asking if I could play with them. They agreed, and after a game of freeze tag I worked up the nerve to ask to play music with them. Again, they agreed, and for the better part of a year we thrashed about, making noise, engendering tinnitus, and soaking ourselves in sweat. In our furor, Nathan broke his “drum stool,” I went through 10+ packs of strings, and Kevin broke his glasses and the door handle of our practice space. (Many thanks to Maggie for getting us out, and for putting up with us in general.)

After some time we decided to buckle down and play some shows, which involved distilling our memorable themes into manageable pieces, especially the 40-minute beast that became “Iowa.” After some distillation and performance, in the spirit of seriousness, we recorded four of our songs for the unreleased Songs of Travel EP, and decided to add a member. Come Fall of ’05, decked in tight girl pants while making hooker and dead baby jokes, Jason sprung into Somersaults. We began to practice and perform regularly, birthing a good group of songs, and eventually recording most of them over two sessions at Carterco Studios in Chicago.

In terms of artistic intent, I think it is safe to say that there was none. This is not to say that the music was not cared for, or crafted. What I’m trying to say is that there was no conceptual end for which we were striving. Somersaults was purely emotional and reflexive.

Somersaults became a constant in my life, one that allowed venting of frustrations with relationships, school, work, family, and miscellaneous life events. There were times when the thought of practice, whether it be to introduce a new idea or to get really ****ing loud, was all that got me through the week. It is something that I was glad to be a part of, and am proud of looking back.

I mixed and mastered this collection to the best of my ability, which was limited considering I have no experience mastering audio. Mixing was also hard, given that our two Carterco visits were very rushed live recordings, played with substantially different equipment. Also, some data was lost, and I had to rerecord a few sections, including the complete replacement of Jason’s voice with Kevin’s on “Surgery.” Despite all this, I’m content with the results (for the most part) and hope that these songs can come to play a part in your life as they did in mine.

Somersaults @ Myspace

Pretty. Odd. Review

 

            If you want to sing about whores and harlots, go ahead. If you want to insert a random folk song into your pop/alternative rock album, I guess I can live with that. Make up a fantastical world where 9 p.m. is still the afternoon, and I’ll play along. Do what you want, Panic at the Disco, but don’t lie to me.

            I’ve stuck with you through the years—all three—and the least you could do is be honest. I watched as the concept album you were working so hard on fell apart. I made it through the disappearing exclamation point in your name. I was even fine with your new sound. It was upbeat, refreshing, and, as most critics are saying, a little reminiscent of The Beatles. Who doesn’t love The Beatles?

            Yes, you are bold, brave, experimental, and I respect that. But where-oh-where do you get the nerve promising me, “You don’t have to worry, ‘cause we’re still the same band”? Let me tell you, boys, I sincerely hope this is a joke.

            Ever since this new album dropped, I’ve felt like I don’t know you anymore. That fever you said couldn’t be sweated out? Gone. The crazy techno beats of 2006 have been replaced with guitars, trombones, trumpets—instruments I didn’t even know you knew. I know that, in many ways, you are still the same band, so maybe we can still work things out.

            And if it was all just a joke, Panic at the Disco, I beg that you please stop toying with my emotions. It’s the least you can do after what we’ve been through together.