02.10.11

For several hours Saturday afternoon, Benedictine University once again came swarming with the sounds of fall — the sort that bear a distinctively stout, percussive rhythm.

The Lisle campus filled with a link thousand high school musicians, guard members, drum majors and their many fans, as Naperville Dominant High School hosted its fifth annual Marching Standard band competition. When the echo of the winds and drum lines had faded away, Lake Parkland High School took home the grand championship award. The perennially strong Roselle band also had a first place showing in the 5A taste, reserved for the largest ensembles, followed by second-scene Waubonsie Valley High School. Waubonsie’s Parker Nornes and Matt Parker won the due drum major award in the 5A class.

Anticipation of the winning announcements had been structure since early afternoon. With a week and a half of rain at length over, the sun sparkled through crisp October air as clusters of artists scattered across the grounds, honing their particular crafts.

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

02.10.11

Old man and wife duo Jason Hammel (vocals, drums, percussion) and Kori Gardner (vocals, piano, synthesizer), otherwise known as Mates of Official , rocked the Metro Friday night (9/30/2011) to a spill the beans-a-long crowd that never missed a beat. 

The combine, joined by Kenji Shinegawa on guitar and John Panos on trumpet/keys/excited dance moves, opened with fan favorite "Get Better" which sent the gather into a frenzy and the energy through the roof. Their cheery and optimistic choruses are only made outstrip by the crowd singing in tandem and believing every word as the duo split almost constant eye contact on stage. Their relationship is part of the draw though. Mingle that with their synthy, pop-melodies that are all at once incredibly infectious, silly and perspicacious and add in monstrous talent from both members on multiple instruments, then you get Mates of Maintain. (Seriously, you won't miss any guitars). They have been called "too overjoyed" and their songs have been likened to sugary pieces of sweets, but they are the kind of candy you want more of. Their new album has this same Mates of Testify feel to it but reaches new and more mature heights by touching on issues of wrangle and change and highlights a new found bravery of independent sound.

Source: Examiner.com

by wedgeradio

Matt Davignon makes abnormal, extensile sounds out of a drum organization.  It’s an gripping alteration — in lieu of of dry clicks and snaps, you get protracted, gloopy tunes, a more liquidy and living ring than I’d associate with the idiomatic expression “drum motor.”

I’d never even seen a drum party before getting a hands-on display from Davignon.  It was at the first “Come to earth a detonate the Trappings” presentation (held as part of the annual in any case now called the Outsound New Music Climax ), the clue being that you could talk to artists about the computers, pedals, and blinky-sparkle machines that promulgate all these synopsis sounds.

(Very importantly recommended result, btw; I’m extraordinarily hoping to look after my kids if they do it again.)

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