ACRN is teaming up with the American Cancer Society for Relay for Life--a fundraiser for cancer research. This year's Relay for Life is May 16. Help fight cancer by donating to the ACRN Rock Lobsters Relay for Life Team! Follow this link: http://main.acsevents.org/
to donate or join our team. Every little bit counts when it comes to fighting cancer.

ACRN loves DIY, so we are very excited to have a craft fair this year during Lobsterfest!

The Lobsterfest Craft Bazaar will take place during the afternoon/evening of DAY 3 of Lobsterfest (you know, the outdoor festival day with ANDREW WK) on Saturday, June 7.  If you're interested in getting your craft on and showing/selling your work during this event, head on over to www.acrn.com/lobsterfest and fill out an application.

Application deadline is: Friday, May 23, 2008.
All applicants will be notified of their acceptance status by: Tuesday, May 27, 2008.

The School of Telecommunications is now the School of Media Arts & Studies! To celebrate the new recording console in the studio, they're hosting Media Day: The Recording Industry this Friday, May 2nd and ACRN is co-sponsoring the event!

11AM-12:30PM: TV Studio C (RTV 515)
Media School Alumni Panel Discussion:
Future of the Recording Industry
featuring:

John Biondolillo: General Manager-ATO
Records, NY
Ted Keyes: Engineer-Sony/Battery
Studios, NYC
Colleen Griffiths: President-Undiscovered
Radio Network
Josh Antonuccio: Co-owner, Producer-3
Elliot St Studio, Athens, OH

2PM-4PM: The Athena Uptown Cinema
Me and Mr Jones: Legendary Producer/Engineer Ken Scott (The Beatles, David Bowie, Supertramp, Lou Reed, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Devo and many, many others) with an outstanding multimedia presentation of the making of some of his classic tracks.

4-6PM: WOUB Studio A/Media School
Multitrack Recording Studio (RTV 300 and 329 respectively)
Public reception with Ken Scott and recording industry panelists, and live demonstrations of the The School of Media Arts and Studies’ new Rupert Neve Designs recording console across the hall in Multitrack Studio A.

9PM-2AM: The Union
A night of music celebrating artists who have recorded in Athens with Media School students, alumni and faculty.  Local favorites Kaslo  & Russenorsk and newcomer Jeff Ellis from Huntington, WV, will be playing material off their latest releases, all “made in Athens.”  The show will be recorded by audio students and possibly be broadcast live…!

Check out our new interviews!

1. Wheels On Fire
2. Royales
3. Rucus Roboticus
4. Sealove
5. Esskyma
6. Red Wanting Blue
7. The Ragbirds / Kal Penn
8. Los Viejos Blanquitos
9. Brian Bush
10. Bob Stewart
11. Dj Selfhelp
    

Stop by the Union this Thursday night (4/24) during Dance or Die and buy a grilled cheese from some friendly lobsters. We'll be raising money for Lobsterfest!

The new order of hoodies are in! Stop by the station to pick yours up.

Alumni: Thanks for you patience. Your hoodie will be shipped by the end of the week.

Before the Mahjongg show on Sunday (last day of ACRN WEEK!), stop by Baker Theater at noon for a premiere screening of Super High Me.

The spring edition of Snat's Treasure Chest, the ACRN Newsletter, is now available under Media.

The 10 day week of ACRN celebration is upon us! We have events happening all "week" long, so if you're a real Rock Lobster, you'll be there. This year's events are:

Friday April 11 @ 8:00pm: Via Audio w/ Grade School & Jake Householder at the Smiling Skull $3
Saturday April 12 @ 9:00pm: John Vanderslice w/ Joe Anderl & Nostra Nova at the Union $6
Sunday April 13 @ 3:00pm: Lobsters-Only Cookout at Bryan Olinger's house (32 Smith Street). It's a luau theme! 
Sunday April 13 @ 9:00pm: "Don't Dance, Be Relax" DJs upstairs at the Union.
Monday April 14 @ 11:00-4:00pm: "Free sale" and grilled cheese at the Howard Hall Site (next to Voight Hall). We will be giving away free stuff to passersby. One man's trash is another man's treaure!
Monday April 14 @ 9:30pm: Rock 'N Roll Bingo at the Smiling Skull. There will be prizes!
Tuesday April 15 @ 11:00-4:00pm: Grilled cheese and community graffiti at Howard Hall Site (next to Voight Hall).
Tuesday April 15 @ 9:00pm: Outdoor screening of Superbad and Milo & Otis at the Scripps Ampitheater (also called the Wilhelm Ampitheater) Weather permitting.
Wednesday April 16 @ 11:00-4:00pm: Treats & Twister at the Howard Hall Site (next to Voight Hall). Come eat food and play giant Twister.
Wednesday April 16 @ 7:00pm: Station redecorating! Wear your best painting clothes and get ready to see red...in a good way.
Thursday April 17 @ 10:00pm: Dance Away Cancer! Relay for Life Benefit Dance at 19 South.
Friday April 18 ALL DAY! Blackout Fest bands will be stopping by the studio for interviews and in-studio performances.
Friday April 18 @ 10:00pm: ACRN Blowout at Casa de Brittface (73 Franklin Street). Lobsters only 10:00-11:00pm, then tell your friends to come over!
Saturday April 19 ALL DAY! Blackout Fest bands will be stopping by the studio for interviews and in-studio performances.
Sunday April 20 @ 10:00pm: Mahjonng and Space6boy at Casa Cantina

DJs will be staying up for five days straight in the 2008 DJ marathon! (April 14-April 18). We're shutting off DJ Binary and committing to have live DJs at all hours.

Be sure to tune in all week for the ACRN Win @ One at 1:00pm as well as In The Garage for ticket giveaways to Blackout Fest! 

Interested in joining the only student-run radio station on campus? Join us THIS SUNDAY (4.6) at 8:30PM in Baker Center room 231 to get information on each ACRN department and meet the executives. All majors welcome! Bring your friends!

Weezer's forthcoming release, titled Weezer (yet again) but already known as The Red Album, has received a new release of June 3, 2008. The album's release date was originally slated for June 24. Eight of the ten tracks from The Red Album faced an Internet leak this past weekend. A music video for the album's first single, "Pork and Beans," is to be released in upcoming weeks.

(http://www.weezer.com)

Matt Pryor, former Get-Up Kids and now frontman for The New Amsterdam, will release a solo album on Vagrant records titled Confidence Man. The album will consist of acoustic folk tunes, echoing a style similar yet more more mellow to The Get-Up Kids.

This album is set to release on July 29, 2008. You can listen to a track off of it on his myspace (http://www.myspace.com/mattpryorsongs).

After the unexpected release two weeks ago of a new single, Discipline, Trent Reznor and Co. have released a new (digital) full-length album entirely for free on their website.

The album, entitled The Slip, can be found on the bands website. Any interested party just has to provide an email adress and the entire album, with PDF album art, will be sent to them.  A physical release on cd and vinyl will be released in July for those interested.

www.nin.com

Andrew W.K. is a big supporter of all music, from classical, to rock, noise, rap, Lil Wayne and even Hanson.  He also has a great liking for Emo, a style that has recently been a huge media buzzword.  He recently shot an interview explaining his thoughts on Emo that can be found from a link on his webpage.  Other videos include him discussing his hair as well as live performances, including solo piano performances!

Andrew W.K. will also be headling ACRN's Lobsterfest behind Baker Center on June 7th.

Emo video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1mIu1L-RIs

Official Website: http://www.andrewwk.com/  
(click through the picture show to get there)

Ben Stein recently released an oh so charming film about the fight to teach creationism in schools called "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed."  Needless to say, a lot of people aren't thrilled about another movie still rattling on the age old debate.  Inherit the Wind was most likely more fun, and Spencer Tracy is just a bit more charasmatic than Ben Stein.  However, Scopes Monkey Trial aside, the creators of this new movie made one mistake (well, probably many, but I'm only writing about one).

They placed a clip on John Lennon's "Imagine" in their film.  Anyone familiar with the song can tell you that Lennon and the Expelled creators probably did not agree on the subject of a higher power.  Thus said, Yoko and Lennon's two sons, Sean and Julian, are sueing for the removal of the song from the film as well as for "unspecified damages."  The creators, however, claim they used the clip legally under the fair use doctrine. This is the same law artists, such as Girl Talk, use to sample clips of other peoples music. Ono and the two sons (and a team of probably very expensive lawyers) will have to prove that the use of the song in the film will hurt the value of the song.

(Pitchfork)

A new single, Discpline, has appeared on the Trent Reznor's website.  This single has full vocals in contrast to the recent all-instrumental 4x release, Ghosts.  The new single sounds much like a song that would have been found on 2005's With Teeth.  The sudden release of the single also makes room for speculation as to whether or not a new Nine Inch Nails album could be appearing soon with little notice in Reznor's new, sneaky style.

It can be found on www.nin.com .

Milo Aukerman from the Descendents went to college in 1987 to study biochemistry.  The other three members started a band called ALL, named after the title of the Descendents last album up until that point.  A man named Scott Reynolds took vocal responsibility from 1989 to 1993. 

ALL continued in some form or the other for most of the last 15 years, often even at the same time as Descendents reunions. But the most popular lineup with Scott Reynolds is returning, for the first time since his departure, at the Riot Fest happening in Chicago October 10-12.  This is a reunion to not be missed!

No other acts have been announced on the festival's website yet.  Previous acts have consisted of Bad Brains, The Lawrences Arms, Naked Raygun, Agent Orange, and The Bouncing Souls.

http://www.riotfest.org/

Weezer's third self-titled album, referred to simply as The Red Album, will be released on June 24th.  The newest single, "Pork and Beans," can be heard on the bands website now.  The official press release from the bands label, Geffen, claims that the album returns to the sound of The Blue Album and Pinkerton.  Also, in a more interesting turn, all four band members will take turns singing lead on the new album.

This is the bands sixth full length release.

The album cover art and more information is available at www.weezer.com.

The last several days have been quite hectic for several major performers.  First off, Chan Marshall (Cat Power) has injured her vocal chords and has had to postpone atleast seven shows.  According to her label, Matador Records, it will take time and the approval of her doctor to determine when Cat Power will be able to perform again.

Similarly, Neko Case (New Pornographers) recently took a spill, badly hurting her ankle and damaging her ligaments.  She has had to cancel all upcoming appearances with the New Pornographers.  The tour, with Okkervil River, will continue without her.

The Pipettes have avoided injury, but they are undergoing a reformation.  RiotBecky and Rosay have went their seperate ways to work on other musical ventures.  Two new faces have come to fill their Pipette shoes, however. Ani and Anna are the two new faces of the group.  The two new faces will appear on the sophomore release by the group.


(Source: pitchforkmedia.com)

Anyone who actually knows what a Zune is, and also happens to be really into Joy Division (like obsessively really), will be excited for this anouncement from Microsoft.  Anyone still reading?

In early June, Microsoft is releasing a limited edition of it's Zune MP3 player with a design in the style of Joy Division's album, Unknown Pleasures. The release is a promotional tie-in for the June 10th release of a new Joy Division documentary DVD.


(Source: Pitchfork)