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September 27, 2009

DJ Bios

Name: Alex Blumenfeld
Hometown: Needham, MA
Major: English on the creative writing track
Top Ten Favorite Bands:

Interpol
T. Rex
Radiohead
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Beatles
The Pixies
Creedance Clearwater Revival
Queens of the Stone Age
Kings of Leon
Devandra Banhart
Hobbies: writing, reading, swimming, bike rides, and relaxing

Name: Larsson Burch
Hometown: Nelson, NH
Major: Physics
Favorite Artists:

Bluegrass Sessions
California Guitar Trio
Kruder & Dorfmeister
The Beatles
Gamelan X
Medeski Martin and Wood
I play a bit of mandolin and guitar, love banging on the brass knobs of those gamelan, and a good meal sitting in is always a good time.

Name: Pidgeon Burdi
Hometown: land of winter and road construction
Major: as yet unknown
Top 10 bands:

-smashing pumpkins
-jars of clay
-peter, paul and mary
-the temptations
-fleetwood mac
-leekspin.com
-michelle branch
-abigail washburn
-eve 6
-bollywood soundtracks
Hobbies: saving worms and perpetrating random acts of randomness

Name: David Cummings
Hometown: Colorado Springs
Major: Computer Science + Music
Ten Favorite Artists:

World’s End Girlfriend
Frog Pocket
Juicy Panic
Utabi
edIT
Cycheouts Ghost
Aoki Takamasa + Tujiko Noriko
Squarepusher
De De Mouse
ilkae
Hobbies: Composing electronic music.
Name: Chelsea Davenport
Hometown: T-town (Tulsa), Oklahoma
Academic direction: Psychology, Sociology?
Top Ten Favorite Artists:

Be Good Tanyas
Beirut
The Black Keys
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Paperbird Band
Avett Brothers
M. Ward
Otis Redding
Iron & Wine
Ray LaMontagne

Name: Ian Froning
Hometown: Carbondale, Colorado
Major: Physics
Top Ten Favorite Bands:

The Beatles
Radiohead
Pixies
PJ Harvey
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Tool
My Bloody Valentine
Bjork
Massive Attack
Nine Inch Nails
Hobbies: Guitar & Piano

Name: Anna Fuchs
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Academic direction: sociology and education?
Top 10 artists or so:

wilco
animal collective
neutral milk hotel
cat power
the velvet underground
radiohead
pavement
the kinks
brother ali
white stripes
akron/family

random info: I’m lactose intolerant

Name: Cara Greene
Hometown – long island, new york
Academic direction here at cc – philosophy and political science
Top twelve artists in no order:

akron family
pentangle
tenacious d
gogol bordello
judee sill
sound experience
frank zappa
devendra banhart
jethro tull
man man
traffic
yeasayer

interested in: the past, unearthing truths, funny voices

Name : Kathleen Hallgren
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Major: Undeclared, but something in humanities
20 Bands I Can’t Get Enough Of (in no particular order):

The Weepies
Sly & The Family Stone
RJD2
Fleetwood Mac
Black Star
Oasis
Joni Mitchell
Silversun Pickups
Third Eye Blind
Nina Simone
Cut Chemist
Smashing Pumpkins
The Beatles
Lauryn Hill
Nirvana
Ani DiFranco
The Velvet Underground
Stevie Wonder
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Soulive

Name: James B. Haran
From Needham MA.
My major is undecided, but I am headed in the direction of Neuro Science.
Roughly my Top Ten Favorite bands (in no particular order, except for the first)are:

Dave Matthews Band
Ben Harper
Bob Marley & the Wailers
Damien Rice
Eric Lindell
Assembly of Dust
Jack Johnson
Ziggy
Stephan Marley
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood.

I Like to fly fish a lot while tanning my upper thighs.

Name: Emma Hatridge
Hometown: Denver, CO
Academic Interest: English major, journalism minor
Top ten bands: (in no particular order)

The Hush Sound
Dashboard Confessional
Jack’s Mannequin
Eisley
Cartel
Joshua Radin
As Tall as Lions
The Early November
The Postal Service
Broadway Soundtracks….

Name: Alix Hudson
Hometown: Crawfordsville, Indiana
Major: Drama
Top Ten Bands:

The Decemberists
The Weepies
Imogen Heap
Death Cab for Cutie
Regina Spektor
Jorge Drexler
Coldplay
The Blow
Damien Rice
Kings of Convenience
Hobbies: reading, writing, acting, climbing trees, riding my bike in a flobotsian fashion, dancing (poorly), singing (poorly), frolicking, cloud-watching, day-dreaming, catnapping in late morning sunlight. andeating. of course eating.

Name: Neal Hustava
Hometown: St. Louis, Missouri
Show: Aggressive Electronic – with an emphasis on Colorado DJs/producers
Areas of academic interest: Economics Major, Music Minor.
Favorite Artists:

The String Cheese Incident
Phish
ZillaEOTO
PANTyRAiD
The Glitch Mob
MiMOSA
Excision
Pretty Lights
Mac Dre

Name: Zoë Isabella
Hometown: New Haven, CT (originally from Baltimore, MD)
Major: Biology
Favorite Artists:

Röyksopp
Coldplay
Kanye West
Kings of Convenience
Citizen Cope
Ben Folds
The Bird and the Bee
Lily Allen
Owl City
Daft Punk

I play the harp and I love detective shows :)

Name: Jillian Keahey
Hometown: Roanoke, Texas
Major: History

Really Good Sh*t:
Velvet Underground
Radiohead
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Talking Heads
James Brown
Jimmy Reed
Brightblack Morning Light
David Bowie
The Doors
Rolling Stones
Jimi Hendrix
The Kinks
Iggy Pop
Johnny Cash
Led Zeppelin
Miles Davis
Medeski Martin & Wood
My Morning Jacket
Pixies
STS9
T. Rex
Beatles
Hobbies: Listening to all that and more

Name: Adam Korpusik
Hometown: Merrimac, MA
Major: Psychology
Ten Solid Labels:

Memphix
Heardrums/Galapagos4
Solesides/Quannum
Mo’Wax
Ninja Tune
Ish
White
Def-Jux
Equinox
Ubuiquity
Hobbies: record Hunting, bike fixing, and throwing myself down big hills with boards strapped to my feet,

Name: Hilary Lempit
Hometown: Wilton, CT
Major: Environmental Science
Top Ten Artists:

1. Grateful Dead
2. Railroad Earth
3. Gillian Welch
4. Joni Mitchell
5. The Allman Brothers Band
6. Fleet Foxes
7. The Band
8. Wilco
9. Bela Fleck
10. Alison Krauss
I like farming, skiing, and music and wish I could do all three at the
same time.

Name: Rebecca Levi
Hometown: Beantown
Major: Art Studio
Top Ten Favorite Bands:
(currently)
A Tribe Called Quest
The Sound Providers
The Pharcyde
Billie Holiday
Crown City Rockers
De La Soul
Digable Planets
Wax Tailor
Blockhead
10 ft. Ganja Plant
Hobbies: Drawing, Skiing, Climbing, Hiking, Walking, Biking, Tuning, Chilling, Yoga, Eating, Finding new things to do

Name: Peter Markoski aka DJ PM
Hometown: Alexandria, VA
Academic Direction: Sound Production and Film
Top Ten Artists:

J Dilla
Notorious B.I.G.
Modest Mouse
Dj Shadow
Big L
Deltron
Outkast
The Fugees
Wu-Tang Clan
Sublime

I am a music producer and like writing

Name: James Mayo-Smith
Hometown: Boston, MA
Majors: English, Political Science
Top artists:

The Roots
The Grateful Dead
Gang Starr
Bob Dylan
Wu-Tang Clan
Rolling Stones
NaS
James Brown
The Wood Brothers
OutKast

Other clubs: F.U.C.C. Ski Club, Roosevelt Institution, Mighty Math tutoring

Meg McDermott
Riverside/Greenwich Connecticut
Interested in pursuing Psychology
Top ten artists:

1. Ray LaMontagne
2. Miike Snow
3. Andrew Bird
4. The Killers
5. Arctic Monkeys
6. Arcade Fire
7. The Strokes
8. John Mayer
9. Michael Franti
10. Spoon

MY NAME IS WYATT M. I AM FROM AMES IOWA. I AM AN ENGLISH MAJOR.

MY FAVORITE ARTISTS ARE
1.SAVAGE GARDEN
2.THE FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS
3.SCOTT WALKER
4.MARILYN MANSON
5.EMINEM
6.WILL SMITH
7.JANDEK
8.T-PAIN
9.CIARA
10.JANDEK

Name: Sean O’Keeffe
Hometown: Albany, NY
Major: undeclared (bio maybe)
Favorite bands/artists:

Sublime
Slightly Stoopid
K’naan
Modest Mouse
Wu-Tang
The Clash
Flogging Molly
Bob Dylan
The Exploited
Red Hot Chili Peppers

Name: Sage Santmier
Hometown: Winchester, Va
Major: Comparative Literature
Top Ten Favorite Bands:

Black Sabbath
Queens of the Stone Age
Soundgarden
Raconteurs
Modest Mouse
Rage Against the Machine
Tool
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Primus
Pink Floyd
Hobbies: Snowboarding, running, traveling

Name: Dustin Sigaty
Hometown: Aurora, CO (born in the Springs)
Major: English, Film Track
10 Favorite Bands:

Nine Inch Nails mc chris PIG Bryan Black (Haloblack/Motor/X-Lover) YTCracker Skinny Puppy Type O Negative Einstürzende Neubauten The Decemberists Chemlab
Hobbies: Devouring (and sometimes developing) Language and Music, especially the experimental aspects of each.

Name: Becca Simpson
Hometown: Southlake, Texas
Major: Undeclared. Perhaps French.
Favorite Artists:

Regina Spektor
Radiohead
Bat For Lashes
George Harrison
Feist
Sigur Ros
Animal Collective
Bob Dylan
Broken Social Scene
M. Ward

Activities of Interest: baking, knitting, cleaning my dentures, etc…

Name: Hannah Sohl
Hometown: Ashland, Oregon
Major: Sociology
Top 10 Bands,

The Waifs
Gillian Welch
Grateful Dead
Reeltime Travelers
Crooked Still
Alison Krauss
Fleetwood Mac
Uncle Earl
Bearfoot Bluegrass
Solas

Hobbies: Moving and exploring and being ridicules.

Name: Vivian Spiess
Hometown: Lakewood, CO
Major: Undecided
Top 10 (in no particular order):

The Beatles
Keller Williams
Rocky Votolato Stars
Dispatch
The Dandy Warhols
The Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Wilco
A Tribe Called Quest
Mason Jennings
Hobbies: exercising, friendship bracelets, hiking, piano, concerts

Name: Garland Max Thorn III
Hometown: Fayetteville, Arkansas
Show: Independent Clauses, reviewing and playing a wide variety of independent and unsigned musicians; Thursdays from 5 p.m. until 6 p.m.
Areas of academic interest: Technically undeclared, but deciding on a major/minor combination including English, Religion, and Philosophy.
Favorite Artists (in no particular order):

Grizzly Bear
Fleet Foxes
The Beatles
Sufjan Stevens
John Coltrane
Art Blakey
Iron and Wine
Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Radiohead
Panda Bear
Andrew Bird
Beirut
Bon Iver
Talking Heads

Name: Sarah Vélez
Hometown: Davis, CA
Eight Great Bands:

Ellie Fortune
MiniVan
Josh Rouse
David Gray
Sufjan Stevens
Loch Lomond
The Magnetic Fields
Pete Seeger
“You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow.” -Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket. This quote seems something akin to my personal philosophy: Life is nothing without art. With that in mind, I spend most of my life trying to make it, appreciate it, and feel it. Excuse me while I go doodle now…

Name: Kate Vukovich
Hometown: Panora, IA
Studying: history and creative writing
Favorite artists:

Coldplay
John Coltrane
Dead Kennedys
The Decemberists
Fortune Cookie
Juanes
L’arc~en~ciel
Dmitri Shostakovich
Eric Whitacre
The Who
other interests: drama, reading, rugby, sewing/costuming, being a dork

Name: Tim Weiss
Hometown: Jackson Hole Wyoming
Major: Undecided
Top 10:

John Scofield
soulive
pat metheny
derek trucks band
phish
bill withers
robert glasper
rolling stones
sly and the family stone
john coltrane
Hobbies: playing guitar, skiing, snowboarding, hiking/backpacking, cycling/mountain biking, sailing, traveling to foreign lands, salsa dancing, flexing in front of the mirror, and reading romance novels
Name: Spencer Williams
Hometown: Evergreen, CO
Majors: Physics, Chemistry, Philosophy
Most Fulfilling Music:

1 Lemon Jelly
2 Eileen Ivers
3 Zoo People
4 Mermen
5 Flook
6 Cloud Cult
7 Crowded Agnes
8 David Grisman
9 Nino Josele
10 Streetlight Manifesto
Hobbies: Enjoying everything available.
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