Breaking! Penn's Social Planning and Events Committee sent us an email announcing their Spring Fling band today and it's... Limp Bizkit! This must be the apotheosis of Ivy League spring concerts, so intensely "irony-hungry" that I was totally speechless until our Thursday Ragtime guy and resident Pennian, James Yu, pointed out that SPEC's email address was in Gmail, so maybe it's a prank? If so, it is an idea so perfect in concept, so elegant in detail and design (press embargo! exclamation points!) that we'll have to bow down to whoever came up with it. We had James write a Bizkit bio:

Last seen toying with the angst-ridden hearts of suburban high schoolers eight or so years ago, Limp Bizkit is headlining Penn's Spring Fling this April. Fred Durst, Limp's limp 37-year old frontman, has been best known in recent years for sexing batshit crazy Britney Spears before she was crazy and for allegedly leaking a sex tape online in 2005 to gain publicity.

See SPEC's embargoed email and multi-exclamation-pointed flyer after the jump.

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It's the #1 time to break out your adorable flowered pastel sundress, get doused in beer, and get down with your bad, white self. That's right -- spring concert season is just around the corner, and Ben O'Donnell has the scoop.

What do Ben Folds, Third Eye Blind, and Sister Hazel have in common?  They're all musicians no one listens to anymore who were sacrificed to irony-hungry Ivy Leaguers last spring during the Ancient Eight's spring party or concert weekends.

As spring is a season traditionally associated with graduation and, by association, with a lifetime of thankless toil capped off by cold, empty death, it is especially important for the various committees of people who do stuff with their lives at our schools to choose upbeat, crowd-pleasing concert acts.  In this way, we may all forget, however briefly, this season/lifetime of soul-crushing meaninglessness in which we are mired.

With that in mind, said committees at Brown and Cornell have already announced their picks for their major spring concerts, while those at Yale and Dartmouth have tossed around and parried rumors about theirs.

After the jump, who the artists are, obviously.

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