artsbrief

Author: Melissa Marshall

The few, the proud are wearing their brown "Commons Crawl" T-shirts in the dining hall this week, showcasing their support for student music and the cultivation of short attention spans. And while most were not able to brand themselves with five different marker strokes representing the five bands who played this weekend, the hippies and the hipsters found common ground in this surprisingly well-attended Commons event.

From the the innocous pop-rock of Alex Ayres to the crowd-pleasing 80s covers of Yuzimi to the further intoxicating mixes of DJ Alfredo Ramirex in the infamous Bunker, students came out in support of undergraduate art and revived commaderie between the commons. Tommy Kreschevski and the Touchy Subjects, an International Dance Party with Sarri Al-Nashashibi' 08 and the Dead Jettsons rounded out an impressive line-up that demanded dancing and set a shock through the Friday night social scene.

In face of the dismal support of the Sunday Night Coffee House Series and the loyal yet spare clique that dapples the Gamut Room on Thursday nights, the Commons Crawl proved that students do, occasionally, prefer live bands to their roommate's iPod on Friday nights.