Indie Music Fest at CMU
Shale,
by Tim Holsopple
Asst. Entertainment Editor
If you're hankerin' for a hunk of
booming bands and wicked fun, the
Tompkins Square Riot Gathering
might be just what you're looking
for.
The festival is taking place next
weekend, March 28 and 29, at
Carnegie Mellon University in
Pittsburgh. Bands from near and far
will converge on the site at
approximately 5 PM on Friday.
The fest will continue on into
Saturday.
The fee is minimal. It's five
bucks for Friday night and nine
bucks for all day Saturday, or ten
bucks for both days. Like MAD
says, "Cheap!"
I have to admit that I have only
heard of four of the bands attending,
but the fest will be a great way to
become familiar with tight local
bands from all around.
The two bands that I had the
privilege to witness before am
Shale and Jumbo, both from the
Pittsburgh area. They both came to
my hometown of Latrobe, PA
(home of Mister Rogers) to play
with Pensive, a band comprised of
some good friends of mine (I'm
working on getting them up here
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Jumbo two of more than 25 bands to play
at the end of April. Look for a
story about them next week.).
Before that particular show, I was
pretty much fed up with the local
music scene. I had gotten sick of
the monotony and the lack of
talent, and I was desperately seeking
a reason to remain involved.
I got two: Shale and Jumbo.
Pensive put on the quality show
they've always been capable of,
then Shale came out and saddled my
horse. I'd never seen anything like
it: a post-hardcore instrumental
band. David Blair wore his guitar
on his chest. He gritted his teeth as
he alternated riffing and skimming
the entire length of the guitar
strings with the base of his palm to
produce a weird "whirrrrnnnnnttt"
noise.
The bassist, Todd Ladner, was a
gangly youth who wore black emo
glasses and stood with his back to
the crowd while he manhandled his
thunderbroom.
A shirtless Scott Blair played
around the world on his drumset,
coming up with incredible driving
rhythms and off-beat, well, beats.
The other guitarist, Jeff Ellsworth,
filled in their thick sound
flawlessly, adding density to the
tight music.
Shale may have saddled my
horse, but Jumbo made me ride off
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One of their guitarists was one of
the tallest and goofiest musicians
I've ever seen, but he could play the
guitar like a mutha. In every song
he would re-invent his own style,
making songs short bursts of well
aimed firebombs and nailing target
after target.
The band rivaled Shale in the
tightness category, but in the pop
category Jumbo was king. The
band assembled Lincoln Logs of
noise into a homey cabin of pop
rock, giving shelter to all the
dancing villagers. Not only was
the music original, it
listenable. Those two things are
the key to a bands success
Besides Shale and Jumbo, over
25 other bands are playing the
festival. The guys who put the
show together are really sweet and
huggable, so take a weekend off and
go to Pittsburgh.
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