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It's gonna be one for the books.

Mark your calendars everyone. On April 30th, one of the world’s most famous ex-engineering students will be gracing our campus. Gregg Gillis, better known as the mash-up artist Girl Talk will be up in the brand-spankin’ new ECAV with his laptop all set to go. Gillis’s last album, Feed the Animals was number four on Time Magazine’s Top 10 Albums of 2008 and is very popular as party and dance music.

Girl Talk shows tend to get a bit sweaty, but that doesn’t stop the party. A lesser known tech school newspaper had this to say about a previous performance. Last year, Gillis visited our neighbors to the north at Skidmore College too.

Tickets go on sale March 3rd for $10. [facebook]

http://www.myspace.com/girltalk
Thanks for the heads up Michael!

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I wonder what hat she'll be wearing in December!

We have received a forward of an exciting email from a club president.  Aretha Franklin, “The Queen of Soul” will be performing on campus on December 4th as a part of “Celebration Weekend,” a “Tribute to the Transformation of Rensselaer.” The weekend also celebrates a the 10th anniversary of Dr. Jackson’s tenure at RPI. In 2008, Franklin was ranked #1 on Rolling Stone’s list of The Greatest Singers of All Time.

You could say Franklin’s paying her R-E-S-P-E-C-Ts to our fine school.

This is really exciting, more details sure to follow!

photo: flickr user bo_mackinson

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Editors Note: The following concert review was sent in to us by Dan Scheffler. We hope you enjoy it!

“Having just stomached some of the wondrous offerings of a one, Commons Dining hall, I sauntered into the Houston Field House, multicolored ear plugs in hand. I knew what to expect from last year’s Honda Civic Tour and RPI’s solution to poor venue acoustics (volume to 11 please.) I watched as Hey Monday played to a crowd of mostly non-RPI civilians. This was easily deduced by noting that most of them were being monitored by their mommies, were shorter than 5 ft., and had a combined shriek worse than that of anything known to man.

But back to the music. Hey Monday played a decent set, and at least got enough exposure through each of the other bands that the audience couldn’t forget them (rather was not allowed to.) They had a decent set and certainly attempted to play to the crowd. And in my humble but completely warranted opinion – were much better live than on disc.

With them finished, I took a marvel as to how the music didn’t sound like UPAC Sound’s usual job and how peaceful the crowd seemed. It was nice not to have people swooning over half profile pictures of band members every 12 seconds.

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