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POSTED ON March 15 AT 03:59 PM BY Stefania

Spring Break 2K10 in Bloomington

Jealous of everyone on vacay in Panama City- getting burnt by the sun, paying well over the normal price for a motel by the beach and living out some MTV wet t-shirt fantasy? NO! [...]

POSTED ON February 27 AT 06:17 PM BY Stefania

Interview with Cursive

Go back 15 years and you have the birth of Cursive, an indie rock band from Omaha, Nebraska.  This mid-western city may seem like an odd place for bands to get their start, but [...]

POSTED ON February 24 AT 01:09 PM BY Stefania

Hip Hop Awareness Week!

Monday’s Caucus Bus Tour kick-started the 10th annual Hip-Hop Awareness Week, run by the IU Hip Hop Congress chapter and derived from its international grassroots [...]

POSTED ON February 22 AT 10:18 PM BY Stefania

Q&A with Balmorhea

*Due to a family emergency, Balmorhea has canceled some tour dates including Bloomington. But you should still read all about ‘em (Pronounced Bal-Moray) In 2009, acoustic [...]

POSTED ON February 22 AT 11:30 AM BY Stefania

TODAY! Hip Hop Caucus Bus tour on campus

I wish that I knew about this event earlier. Hip Hop Caucus and Repower America have come together to bring you The Hip Hop Caucus Bus Tour, and Bloomington is one of six [...]

POSTED ON February 15 AT 12:12 AM BY rayd

Surfer Blood – Astro Coast Review

Surfer Blood is a band of four dudes (who don’t surf) from Florida that have done a good job cultivating the laid back party/drug/cool kid image that is catching on these [...]

POSTED ON February 08 AT 10:19 PM BY Stefania

The week in shows (February 9-17)

Sanka’s Redemption, Sports and Jackalantern Tues., Feb. 9 The Bishop (18+) $1 Facebook’d NO! MTV Raps Showcase feat. Jet One and Stakzilla, Sony Bamboo, Remnent and DJ [...]

POSTED ON January 24 AT 08:20 PM BY Stefania

Pit Stop Music Marathon March 6-13

Ladies and germs, For an entire week, Bloomington will be hosting Pit Stop Music Marathon, in which 20+ acts will perform at The Bishop and the Video Saloon(21+). The official Web [...]

POSTED ON January 24 AT 08:10 PM BY Stefania

Jens Lekman Surprise Show 12/30/09

Jens at the Secretly Canadian headquarters, photo via the label’s twitter I first found out that I couldn’t attend Jens Lekman’s New Year’s Eve show in Chicago,  [...]

POSTED ON January 20 AT 08:20 PM BY Stefania

Landlocked Top 5 1/11-17

Landlocked Music Top 5 Sellers For the week of 1/11-1/17/10: 1. Vampire Weekend- Contra 2. Yeasayer- Odd Blood 3. The xx- The xx (coming to Bloomington April 6 at the [...]

POSTED ON March 16 AT 10:56 PM BY Cory Barker

TV Recap: ‘Lost,’ “Recon”

Image courtesy of ABC and TVOvermind.com After a string of simply fantastic episodes from “The Substitute” through last week’s “Dr. Linus,” I felt [...]

POSTED ON March 16 AT 10:52 PM BY Cory Barker

TV Recap: ‘The Pacific,’ “Part One”

Let me preface my thoughts on hour one of HBO’s sure-to-be-freaking-amazing Pacific by noting that I haven’t seen all of Band of Brothers. Or I have, but it was a [...]

POSTED ON March 16 AT 10:52 PM BY Cory Barker

TV Recap: ‘House,’ “Black Hole”

Image courtesy of the AV CLUB. Well, after a string of mostly solid episodes, “Black Hole” brought House back down to earth a bit, at least in terms of the quality of [...]

POSTED ON March 16 AT 08:46 PM BY Alex Rast

TV Recap: ‘Greek,’ “Camp Buy me [...]

Photo courtesy of tv.com Cappie’s parents show up for the first time this season and stir things up for Cappie and Casey. Casey spends most of the show trying to convince [...]

POSTED ON March 16 AT 07:58 PM BY Cory Barker

TV Recap: ‘How to Make It in America,’ [...]

Alright. Again, nothing too exciting on the How to Make It in America front, but what can I say, I like the show. I don’t know how to explain it or really put it in words, [...]

POSTED ON March 16 AT 04:44 PM BY Brett Eppley

TV Recaps: ‘90210,’ “Rats and [...]

Yes, 90210 returned a little over a week ago. However, thanks to some technical difficulties, we’re going to try this recap one more time. (And by the way, this zipcode is [...]

POSTED ON March 15 AT 11:03 PM BY Cory Barker

NOTE: Issues uploading photos

Hey folks – Cory Barker, Watchers editor here. Just stopping by to say we are having trouble uploading photos to posts currently, and hopefully we can get that fixed as soon [...]

POSTED ON March 15 AT 09:16 PM BY Samantha Kirby

TV Recap: ‘White Collar,” “Out of the [...]

So yea, explosive ending for White Collar. I’ve been waiting since Tuesday to watch it, and might I say that I wish I could have seen it sooner. The suspense was killing me! [...]

POSTED ON March 13 AT 10:56 PM BY Brian Welk

TV Recap: “24″ ‘2:00 a.m. – 3:00 [...]

When we last left our heroes, Jack had figured out how to communicate with the young, American born terrorist Marcos inside the giant air compressor MacGuffin, and in a sinister [...]

POSTED ON March 13 AT 06:59 PM BY jbarrar

TV Recaps: “Grey’s Anatomy,” [...]

Finally something worth talking about. There’s steam back in Seattle, to say the least. “We push ourselves because we have to, not because we like it.” And yes, [...]