This Is Not the Jersey Shore

I’m sure you’ve heard about the new show on MTV, Jersey Shore. In case you haven’t, it’s about eight 20-somethings who venture down to Seaside Heights, New Jersey to work on the boardwalk and live and party in a house together. According to the network, “MTV peels back yet a different curtain to follow eight […]

MTV College Life

It was only a matter of time: this Monday, April 13, MTV will be launching College Life, a new reality series following the lives of eight University of Wisconsin-Madison students as they struggle to balance classes and partying in college. According to MTV, which all but created reality television as we know it when it […]

OSU’s Number One!….At Pissing Off the RIAA

Got the new Lil’ Wayne album? If you go to The Ohio State University, we bet you do–a recent RIAA report revealed OSU is the number-one college in the country for music piracy. The RIAA recently presented Congress with a list of the top campuses for download offenders, and OSU takes first place, […]

College Music’s Hot Summer in the Steel City

Ah, summer in Pittsburgh–the lazy breeze through the abandoned steel mills, the lingering smell of Iron City beer, and all the pierogis you can eat. Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis must be jonesing for the ‘Burgh, too, since he announced yesterday that the first New American Music Union festival would be held […]

Josh Keesan’s School of Rock

Josh Keesan isn’t the first person to come up with an eccentric study routine, but he might be the best at it. During his first year at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, the musically-minded Keesan (class of 2009) turned legal course notes into song lyrics for the purposes of memorization. Like many other […]

Robots can be Guitar Heroes, Too

We love video games. We love robots. Thus, we really love this “Guitar Hero”-playing robot created by a group of engineering undergrads from Texas A&M, dubbed “Slashbot.” Slashbot has five mechanical fingers to hold down the frets, one for strumming, and is able to “see” video signals from the Playstation 2 console […]

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Kanye West doesn’t get out of bed for less than 24 bottles of Propel Water

The University of Arizona may have scored a concert coup with tonight’s Kanye West show, but they’re paying a steep price for it. After concert organizers had to eliminate seats because of safety concerns–and after student organizers found out just […]

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Music majors finally see a big college payday

While the typical college student’s idea of music usually involves Jack Johnson in a field somewhere, college conservatories like Juilliard and Los Angeles’ Colburn School have received over $100 million in gifts and donations over the last few years. The Chicago Tribune reported last week that music […]

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Vampire Weekend kicks it old-school at their old school

Vampire Weekend is back where it all began (like, two years ago). Courtesy of Pitchfork.tv, check out the four young alum reminiscing about those Ivy days of yore and playing tunes like “A-Punk” and “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” in the Columbia University arts society dorm where […]

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CMJ plans College Day for NYC music Marathon ‘08
The last time you went to a mixer, chances are you got a ride from your parents and were rocking some serious 90s hair. But College Music Journal (CMJ) is planning a mixer of a much cooler variety for college radio representatives its annual CMJ Marathon […]

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