Introducing ivyTunes: Songs To Cram For Midterms By
Campus bands got it rough. Best case scenario: they open for the big spring concert performer — in which case everyone just wants them to get off stage so J5 can start. Worst case scenario: they play Thursday night black box shows for an audience of friends who come more out of guilt than fandom. Maybe that’s why most campus musicians ditch instruments altogether.
Toiling away in obscurity, theirs is a quiet fight. And we think it’s time they got some recognition. (As you know, around here that can be a good or a bad thing.) Introducing ivyTunes, our newest feature: an occasional auditing of groups … with some sort of Ivy tie.
With that massive handicap working against them, most won’t get past the finely calibrated hammer, anvil and stirrup of our guest reviewer. (More on him later.) But who knows? Maybe we’ll find some Ivy groups that don’t suck. We’ll have MP3s for download, and as always, the hydrochloric acid of our comments section. First deadline for submissions: Monday, Nov. 27. Who’s excited!? It’ll be like American Idol, ‘cept with careers to fall back on!
Want your band to be considered for ivyTunes, or whatever we call it after Apple’s trademark lawyers find out about this? Email tracks to ivygate@gmail.com. Your band must be sorta-kinda Ivy (we’re desperate flexible), and you must be okay with us posting the MP3s for download.
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November 16th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
check out filligar at dartmouth
November 16th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Most of what we have here are solo acts (singer-songwriter types). I assume these are okay as well as bands?
November 16th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Yeah, solo acts are fine.
November 16th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
Terminal preposition! Ahhh!
November 16th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
“Songs to Cram for Midterms By” never end a sentence on a preposition! philitines! and i thot u were columbians…
November 16th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
there’s absolutely nothing wrong with ending a sentence with a preposition. “songs by which to cram for midterms” just makes you sound like a pretentious jackass.
November 16th, 2006 at 9:33 pm
Ending a sentence with a preposition???
That’s the kind of impertinence up with which I shall not put.
November 16th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
It’s not a sentence, fools. It’s a fragment. And also a play on the album “Music to Watch Girls By”.
November 16th, 2006 at 10:19 pm
Or “Music To Make Love to Your Old Lady By.”
November 16th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
“Ending a sentence with a preposition???”
Most of the greatest writers did it, but I bet your teacher tells you not too.
November 17th, 2006 at 1:38 am
re: Veritas
The problem here is the preposition at the end of the phrase.
November 17th, 2006 at 1:47 am
A man comes to an Ivy League school and asks a student for directions.
- Excuse me, can you tell me where the cafeteria is at?
- Sir, I am afraid you might have to rephrase that. Here, at this school, we do not end our sentences with prepositions.
- Can you tell me where the cafeteria is at, asshole?
November 27th, 2006 at 12:24 am
definitely check out filligar at dartmouth…. filligarband.com
December 4th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
Dear Readers,
The above are just some prime examples of the creative comments we need more of–at, top, around, on.