Hear New Music From Yellerkin, Half Waif, and Ice Cream Social!

February 9, 2014 By Dan Rasch in Culture Tags: alumni, Electronic, half waif, ice cream social, indie, music, Punk, Student Bands, yellerkin Leave a comment

It’s been a busy week for Kenyon musicians: the past 7 days have seen new releases from pop-punk wonder duo Ice Cream Social (Catherine Dwyer ’14 and Jack Washburn ’16), baroque-pop sorceress Half Waif (Nandi Plunkett ’11), and the forest-dwelling indie-pop outfit Yellerkin (side project of Poor Remy frontman Adrian Galvin ’12).

This random sample of singles and EPs does a really good job of showcasing just how far-ranging and diverse a range of styles and influences inspire Kenyon musicians. Like guitars? Hit the jump and press play. Or perhaps you enjoy reverb-drenched laptop psychedelia? Hit the jump and press play. Or maybe you just want to hear pop music composed by a classically trained alumna who wrote a nigh-atonal piece of experimental classical music for her comps? I’m really serious, hit the jump and press play. You will not be disappointed! Continue reading →

Sad Robot EP by Dr_nothings

January 19, 2014 By Noah Henry in Culture Tags: +, cool music, dan rasch, Dr_nothings, Electronic, Pop, Sad Robot, Sadness, sounds 4 Comments

via Dr_nothings’ bandcamp

the cat’s in the bag and the bag’s in the river

A voice slinks in over a creeping 6/4 groove, riddled with a celestial “oooh,” or “(( 。o O o 。o O o h ))” as Dan Rasch ’14 writes on his Bandcamp page.

With the coming of 2014, Dan Rasch, aka Dr_nothings, slipped his five song EP, Sad Robot, onto the web. A year in the making, the EP shows careful dedication not only to crafting each song in a unique fashion, but also engineering a myriad of different sounds that coalesce into blankets of complex music. Continue reading →

Ryan Chapin Mach Releases New LP, Dishes on Auto-Tune and Generational Vapidity

December 20, 2012 By Dan Rasch in Culture Tags: Electronic, Indie-Pop, Pop, Ryan Mach, student music 5 Comments

Cover art by Peter Falls ’14.

When I first met Ryan Chapin Mach, he could usually be found in McBride 315, recording lo-fi indie-pop and Bob Dylan covers with little more than a laptop, a guitar, a Casio keyboard-cum-drum-machine, and his larynx.

Two years have elapsed since then. This past December 2nd, 2012, Ryan uploaded 14 new songs to his Bandcamp – by no means an unexpected occurrence, to be sure – yet from their overall sense of polish, coherence, and deliberate track ordering, I think it’s safe to say we can call this an honest-to-god album.

Or, if you want to make Ryan happy, you could call it Just Hanging. I think that’s what he’d prefer.

(Intrigued? Full review and some quotes from the man himself after the jump…) Continue reading →

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Sad Robot EP by Dr_nothings

Ryan Chapin Mach Releases New LP, Dishes on Auto-Tune and Generational Vapidity