Welcome Back Concert

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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<p>Does anyone know who is playing at this year's welcome back concert?</p>

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<p>Haha, I was just wondering that too. Should be found out soon enough and I’m sure everyone will be posting it on Facebook when it’s told.</p>

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<p>It’s probably 50 cent or some hip hopping gangster like Lady Gaga - aka horrible music</p>

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<p>Here is the information about the August 20th showcase.
Time: 4:30 pm. August 20, 2009
Place: Bovard Auditorium
Cost: Free</p>

<p>There is no reserved seating…arrive early.</p>

<p>It will feature music, dance, performance art and spoken word.</p>

<p>Featured Artists:
SickStep–hip-hop
Karmagraphy–Bollywood dance company
Ariana Delawari–multimedia artist/musician
Jude Narita-Playwright
Tim Miller-Performance artist and writer
Tara McPherson-Associate Professor of Critical Studies</p>

<p>Reception following with live music by the Derik Nelson Band. Attendees will receive free Visions & Voices T shirts and bags.</p>

<p>This link has complete information on each artist or group: [USC</a> Arts and Events Calendar](<a href=“http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/32/event/869558]USC”>http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/32/event/869558)</p>

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<p>I think they were talking about the Welcome Back concert on Aug 22, Sat. I have the same question as the OP.</p>

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<p>man, i’d love it if lady gaga came.</p>

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<p>@squadus</p>

<p>lady gaga is a hip hopping gangster?
i personally would want a metalcore concert…but not everyone is into so it thats out of the question</p>

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<p>I don’t know, she’s pretty though. haha I was just stereotyping popular music.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t mind metalcore, but if Death Cab for Cutie came I’d be in loveeeeee. :D</p>

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<p>My freshman year, they had a 3-4 bands if I remember. The Lovemakers were one of the earlier performances with Phantom Planet being the main show.</p>

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<p>horrible lineup</p>

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<p><strong>ARTISTS</strong></p>

<p><em>Cold War Kids (<a href=“COLD WAR KIDS | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos”>http://www.myspace.com/coldwarkids&lt;/a&gt;)</em>
Cold War Kids means International Blues. They began in August ’04 with friends, jangly guitar, hand claps, and a harmony amp in a storage room atop Mulberry Street restaurant in downtown Fullerton, CA. For the first practices, having instruments was secondary to stomping and chanting; clanging on heat pipes, thumping on plywood walls, hollering into tape recorders, slipping and swaying into alleyways and juke joints of yesteryear, tapping in to the American dustbowl and British maritime
Cold War Kids strive to make honest songs about human experience in orchards and hotel rooms, laundromats and churches, sea ports and school halls
**Songs to check out: Hospital Beds; Hang Me Up To Dry</p>

<p><em>As Tall As Lions (<a href=“As Tall As Lions | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos”>http://www.myspace.com/astallaslions&lt;/a&gt;)</em>
The third full-length album by New York’s As Tall as Lions, You Can’t Take It With You, is a thoughtful, textured tour de force of soundscapes, vocal harmonies, melodies and insightful lyrics about the modern world. The songs’ subject matter faces head-on the politics of God, love, war, and the human condition while examining everyday struggles such as anxiety, isolation, and money." With You Can’t Take It With You, the band; vocalist-guitarist Dan Nigro, guitarist Saen Fitzgerald, bassist Julio Tavarez and drummer Cliff Sarcona, has made its smartest and most impressive album to date.
**Songs to check out: Love, Love, Love; Ghost of York</p>

<p><em>Down Down Down (<a href=“DownDownDown | Listen and Stream Free Music, Albums, New Releases, Photos, Videos”>http://www.myspace.com/wearedowndowndown&lt;/a&gt;)</em>
Unlike bands that revive or emulate a genre, this one tries to take a modern approach to what has stylistically influenced so many of today’s musicians. The band executes songs about love, lust and moral ambiguity on a soulful and sometimes circus-like backdrop.
**Download the track “Run Like Hell” from their EP on Amazon.com: [Amazon.com:</a> Run Like Hell: Down Down Down: MP3 Downloads](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Run-Like-Hell/dp/B001OF7HX8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1249600914&sr=8-]Amazon.com:”>http://www.amazon.com/Run-Like-Hell/dp/B001OF7HX8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1249600914&sr=8-)</p>

<p>*Trojan Marching Band Pep Rally ([The</a> University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band](<a href=“http://www.usc.edu/dept/band/]The”>http://www.usc.edu/dept/band/)) *</p>

<p>*We’ll also have a DJ spinning in-between set changes (courtesy of AT&T)</p>

<p>**VENDORS</p>

<p>FREE GIFTS from Victoria Secret Pink & Roxy Clothing
Amplified Boarding Co: <a href=“http://www.amplifiedboarding.com/[/url]”>http://www.amplifiedboarding.com/&lt;/a&gt;
AT&T
Coolhaus Ice Cream Truck: <a href=“http://www.eatcoolhaus.com/[/url]”>http://www.eatcoolhaus.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>where’d you get that info from?</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=112168649375&ref=nf[/url]”>http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=112168649375&ref=nf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>AHH The Cold War Kids! Yes yes yes. :)</p>

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<p>Cold War Kids – not bad, though I agree the Death Cab would have been incredible. :)</p>

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<p>Holy crap those bands suck. Haha.</p>

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<p>Couldn’t agree more btbam</p>

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<p>there goes my dream for a metalcore/metal lineup…oh well</p>

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<p>I’ve never heard of those bands… maybe As Tall As Lions… but now I’m not so sad I’m going to be missing it for my EHP Retreat. :)</p>

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<p>I understand how you feel, I mean, OBVIOUSLY all those bands suck compared to the Trojan Marching Band! If nothing else, come to the concert to see us! And start learning the songs, chants, yells, and practice your Fight On, because you’ll be doing a lot of those at the football games!</p>