This Is What Wash U Needs

In my opinion, the most valuable thing about YouTube is that it exposes you to subcultures that you maybe knew existed, but never had direct contact with. For example, southern marching bands. One fateful day, I was searching the YouTube, and I somehow stumbled on a video of the Southern University Marching Band. These guys are tight. Nothing makes me happier then really funky horns. Check this out:

Here's another:

Here's one with them on the march, although the sound kinda sucks:

The best thing about these videos, besides the insane musicianship, are the heated YouTube discussions at the end, where partisans of SU or of rival university marching bands attack or defend the performance. "Just cause yall played real soft one part and then played loud as you could on another doesn't show any dynamics it shows extremes.....any body could just play the melody soft then play the chorus loud....come on dog with the dynamics crap..." Well put, SouthernUHB.

New Steve Earle

The new Steve Earle record, Washington Square Serenade, came out yesterday. The album reflects Earle's recent move to New York City and marriage to Allison Moorer, who sings harmony on several tracks. It moves away from the outright anger of his last two albums, The Revolution Starts Now and Jerusalem, towards more restrained protest music, in the vein of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.

Washington Square Serenade is currently in the new releases rotation at KWUR.

Check out this awesome video of a very young Steve Earle performing "Hillbilly Highway" on Austin City Limits:

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Metal charts - 9/25

1	AS I LAY DYING	An Ocean Between Us	Metal Blade
2	NILE	Ithyphallic	Nuclear Blast
3	BEHEMOTH	The Apostasy	Century Media
4	HORSE THE BAND	A Natural Death	Koch
5	OBITUARY	Xecutioner's Return	Candlelight
6	THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD	Malice	Prosthetic
7	SONS OF AZRAEL	The Conjuration Of Vengeance	Ironclad
8	3 INCHES OF BLOOD	Fire Up The Blades	Roadrunner
9	HIMSA	Summon In Thunder	Century Media
10	AMORPHIS	Silent Waters	Nuclear Blast

Charts - 9/25

1	M.I.A.	Kala	Interscope
2	ANIMAL COLLECTIVE	Strawberry Jam	Domino
3	GO! TEAM	Proof Of Youth	Sub Pop
4	MABUSES	Mabused	Magpie
5	LES SAVY FAV	Let's Stay Friends	Frenchkiss
6	BLACK LIPS	Good Bad Not Evil	Vice
7	MIRAH AND SPECTRATONE INTERNATIONAL	Share This Place: Stories And Observations	K
8	CARIBOU	Andorra	Merge
9	AGAINST ME!	New Wave	Sire
10	GHOST OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE	With Fiercest Demolition	thirty ghosts
11	MATT POND PA	Last Light	Altitude
12	TEGAN AND SARA	The Con	Sire
13	1990S	Cookies	Rough Trade
14	LITTLE NAME	How To Swim And Live	Sleepy
15	TINY MASTERS OF TODAY	Bang Bang Boom Cake	Great Society
16	SNMNMNM	Crawl Inside Your Head	Unschooled
17	BETTYE LAVETTE	The Scene Of The Crime	Anti
18	CRIBS	Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever	Warner Bros.
19	BANG CAMARO	Bang Camaro	Black Sword
20	CAPGUN COUP	Brought To You By Nebraskafish	Team Love
21	SOUNDTRACK	Kurt Cobain: About A Son	Barsuk
22	GREY RACE	Give It Love	Unfiltered
23	LE LOUP	The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations Millennium General Assembly	Hardly Art
24	MANNEQUIN MEN	Fresh Rot	Flameshovel
25	DEADLY SYNDROME	The Ortolan	Dim Mak
26	THANK GOD FOR ASTRONAUTS	Bring Us Meat	Needlepoint
27	SHOUT OUT LOUDS	Our Ill Wills	Merge
28	JASON ANDERSON	Tonight	ECA
29	MYSTERY OF TWO	Arrows Are All You Know	Exit Stencil
30	CLOCKCLEANER	Babylon Rules	Load

Charts - 9/18

1 GO! TEAM Proof Of Youth Sub Pop
2 CARIBOU Andorra Merge
3 M.I.A. Kala Interscope
4 TEGAN AND SARA The Con Sire
5 WEAKERTHANS Reunion Tour Anti
6 BISHOP ALLEN The Broken String Dead Oceans
7 AGAINST ME! New Wave Sire
8 1990S Cookies Rough Trade
9 NATIONAL Boxer Beggars Banquet
10 MATT POND PA Last Light Altitude
11 SHOUT OUT LOUDS Our Ill Wills Merge
12 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam Domino
13 PONTIAK Sun On Sun Fireproof Recordings
14 DEADLY SYNDROME The Ortolan Dim Mak
15 BLACK LIPS Good Bad Not Evil Vice
16 CRIBS Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever Warner Bros.
17 TALIB KWELI Eardrum Warner Bros.
18 MIRAH AND SPECTRATONE INTERNATIONAL Share This Place: Stories And Observations K
19 WZT HEARTS Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones Carpark
20 MABUSES Mabused Magpie
21 SHARON JONES AND THE DAP KINGS 100 Days 100 Nights Daptone
22 MINUS THE BEAR Planet Of Ice Suicide Squeeze
23 SNMNMNM Crawl Inside Your Head Unschooled
24 MANNEQUIN MEN Fresh Rot Flameshovel
25 JASON ANDERSON Tonight ECA
26 CLARE AND THE REASONS The Movie Frog Stand
27 NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Challengers Matador
28 VHS OR BETA Bring On The Comets Astralwerks
29 STEVE EARLE Washington Square Serenade New West
30 MONO Gone Temporary Residence Limited