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Student band Sober Sinners out with debut LP

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I recently had the opportunity to talk to Garrity McOsker, singer for Sober Sinners, a student punk rock band. The band is composed of Garrity, Joe Ferguson on bass, Alex McDermick on electric guitar and Patrick Samuels on drums. McOsker, who is currently a junior in the Mendoza College of Business, said he met Joe on the first day of school and started the band together quickly after that. 


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What to expect at South By South Bend

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With spring finally gracing the Bend, we know two things for certain: summer is coming and so is festival season. As a self-regarded festival junkie, I cannot get enough of ‘em. Just ten days ago I was prancing along the Coachellan Polo Fields and a few weeks before, it was Claude Vonstroke who had my heart at Ultra during Miami Music Week. Now that I’ve confessed my trade, I’ll share a well-known secret: the festival of the season will be here in South Bend. 










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Eels, Not Too Electric

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Once called “the Kurt Vonnegut of Rock” by Rolling Stone Magazine, lead singer, songwriter and front man for the band Eels Mark Oliver Everett — known more commonly as MOE and even more commonly as E — has been delivering music racked with sardonic hope, cynical humanism, wit and dry humor to the indie rock community for just shy of 30 years, since before it was cool — since before it was cool to do things since before they were cool. With a long beard, raspy voice and worn-out strumming style, E has been telling youths of the 80s, 90s and today that although it’s really freakin’ hard, the good in life ultimately outweighs the bad.


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Goo Goo Dolls, Actually

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I unapologetically am absolutely not an expert music critic, and have never pretended to be anything of the sort, even in the rare album reviews I’ve done — I fear the five-shamrock rating I handed to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s “The Heist” will prevent me from ever being good friends with any self-important, “real” music fans for years to come. My defense to friends, colleagues and haters over the years has always been that I may not know what’s good, but I know what I like and don’t like, and that’s good enough for me.


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Jamie Lynn Spears: Country 101

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A hot new country music artist comes to Legends on Friday. Jokes. Jamie Lynn Spears comes to Legends on Friday at 10 p.m. She is young though, and she has recorded a country music song, so I was not being entirely facetious.


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Doubts About a Doubtfire Sequel

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This past week, it was announced that the 1993 slapstick comedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” was getting a sequel. Almost 21 years after the original was released to PG audiences worldwide, Robin Williams has signed on to reprise his role as the gender-bending dad.


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Sending Off Senior Standups

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Thursday night, the Student Standups will have its last, and most syllabically alliterated, performance of the year. The group boasts a loaded set list with slots from its officers and some of its longest-tenured members, many of whom will be celebrating their final show before graduation.  The comedians will perform in Legends at 10 p.m.  Profiles of the performing senior members follow: