Caboose: Best of the Rest

CD releases

2/2

A Chorus of Storytellers – The Album Leaf

Smoke &Mirrors – Lifehouse

Body – Jamie Foxx

2/9

Soldier of Love – Sade

Thug Motivation – Young Jeezy

2/16

Raymond v. Raymond – Usher

Constant – Story of the Year

2/23

Everything Comes and Goes – Michelle Branch

New Amerykah, Part II: Return of the Ankh – Erykah Badu

Of Men and Angels – The Rocket Summer

Live Shows

ES Jungle

A Skylit Drive

Feb. 10

Murat Egyptian Room

Killswitch Engage

Feb. 21

Jack’s Mannequin

Feb. 24

The Emerson

Get Carried Away

Feb. 5

Conseco Fieldhouse

Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall, Larry the Cable Guy

Feb. 6

Cirque de Soleil: Alegria

Feb. 11-14

Northside News Cafe

Pholly

Feb. 13

School Events

ACT Testing

Feb. 6

ISSMA
Feb. 6

Academic Success Night

Feb. 12

Winter Formal

Feb. 20

Faculty Night Live

Feb. 25

Orchestra Concert

March 16

Improv team X-etra entertains students, public

The Improv team, X-etra, performed March 20 in front of a crowd of students and community members in their third show of the year. Skits ranging from “Columns” to “Dr. Know-It-All” entertained the audience for a great Friday evening of improv. Members performing included seniors Christian Fleming, Anna Buck, Andrew Hogg, Taryn Parker, and Tyler Anderson, as well as juniors Shannon Lavis and Ashley Galloway, and sophomore Nik Haney.

Ear to the Ground: The Mountain Goats

Tweed blazer, woolen sweater.  Black, thick-rimmed glasses, khaki slacks.  Leather shoes, matching socks.  A college professor?  Hardly.  He’s an indie rock star.

A self-proclaimed “diva”, John Darnielle, the heart and soul of The Mountain Goats, has influenced faithful followers of low-fi indie music for more than 15 years with little more than his voice, a guitar, and a steady rotation of back-up musicians.

His first widely released album, Zopilote Machine, was released in 1994, and his next 10 albums, each progressively more high-quality, have earned The Mountain Goats an undoubtedly permanent position in the hearts of snarky, lit-minded fans.

Darnielle’s songs are anti-establishment, anti-society, and essentially anti-life. “I hope I lie and tell everyone you were a good wife, and I hope you die, I hope we both die,” he belts in what is perhaps the band’s best-known song, “No Children.”  Despite being painfully morbid,  Darnielle has a certain unmistakable ability to capture reality in a few sparse lyrics.

Darnielle and collaborator John Vanderslice recently wrapped up their tour with a performance at Bloomington’s Buskirk-Chumley Theater on April 6th.