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If you didn't fastforward through the credits, you would have seen that the show's composer is a Penn alum (and DT favorite!)
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This Musician Wrote the Jingle for ABC's "Modern Family" (VIDEO)
Thursday, September 24, 2009If you didn't fastforward through the credits, you would have seen that the show's composer is a Penn alum (and DT favorite!)
Find out who!
Real Jobs Are Not My Forte: "Don't Get Trapped" (Episode 2)
Monday, September 21, 2009
This month Ben Naecker (C'09, Water Polo) and Blake West (W'09, Jazz Combos) talk about:
- their move to Austin
- their new day-to-day life
- their plans for how they're gonna keep eating and living (and how much that costs...).
- What sorts of gigs don't make financial sense for musicians like themselves.
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He's Serving Up "Some Quality Rock and Roll Music" on the East Coast This Week!
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Okay, while this isn't necessarily a "Penn Foodie" related post, musician Gabriel Mann (C'95, Off the Beat), is holding a spoon in the video above and tells us he and his band The Rescues are serving up some quality rock and roll music. Good enough.
I briefly interrupt our Foodie series this week because I wanted to post this so all of you on the east coast are aware that Gabe and his band The Rescues are touring the east coast this week. And if you remember from my DT posts, Gabe's band's infectiously addicting music has been featured on "Grey's Anatomy" three times this past year!
If you're in Philly, note below that they're playing at the World Cafe Live this Thursday night (8/20)!
Aug 19 2009 7:00P Club Passim- Boston, MA
Aug 20 2009 8:00P World Cafe Live Downstairs- Philadelphia, PA
Aug 21 2009 8:00P Canal Room-New York, NY
Aug 22 2009 8:00P Rams Head Tavern- Annapolis, MD
Aug 26 2009 8:00P Eddie’s Attic- Decatur, GA
Aug 27 2009 7:00P Merry Band Farm- Silk Hope, NC
Aug 28 2009 8:00P Evening Muse- Charlotte, NC
Aug 29 2009 7:00P Pour House- Raleigh, NC
Aug 30 2009 7:00P IOTA Club and Cafe-Arlington, VA
Click HERE for ticket information
Listen to The Rescues' music that was featured on "Grey's Anatomy" this year below:
Get the songs on iTunes:
My past posts about Gabe HERE
Other Penn musicians HERE
30 Hot Girls Are Lip Syncing to this Penn Musician's Song
Monday, June 22, 2009
Sheri Miller (C'99, English/Poetry Major) just released her new music video for her song "Waste My Breath", featuring 30 girls lip-syncing lyrics to the song. It was filmed in NYC on Prince Street in Soho and South Street Seaport. Sheri is the one on guitar.
Sheri has got a great voice! She's like Sheryl Crow meets KT Tunstall meets Fiona Apple. Check it out in the video above!
Sheri's road in music started as an undergrad at Penn. While still an English Major undergrad, singing in a local blues bands and writing songs secretly in her bedroom, an incredible coincidence happened to Sheri. She began dreaming of a Casio Keyboard over many months, to help her write songs in her bedroom, instead of walking 20 minutes to the jazz piano practice room downtown. One dreamy Sunday morning, after an especially vivid keyboard dream, Sheri took an alternate scenic path to the library, down Locust Walk, instead of her usual straight path on Walnut Street. She passed by a 1-day church sale. To her amazement, she saw and bought the exact same buzzing Casio keyboard she had dreamt of the night before, for $20. This “gentle push” and “tiny miracle” naturally opened Sheri to writing songs on her new keyboard everyday, awakening her artistry.
Sheri further polished her artistry and songwriting voice by playing famous venues in New York, Nashville and LA like Rockwood Music Hall, The Canal Room, Joe’s Pub, Bowery Ballroom, Bluebird Café, World Café Live, and Hotel Cafe.
Upon releasing her critically-acclaimed debut EP, "Mantra", Sheri was asked to join a 4-part vocal harmony group, which signed to Sony Records in Nashville. Since leaving the group, Sheri has opened a sold-out show for Shawn Mullins, headlined a show at The Canal Room, wrote with legendary writer J.D. Souther of The Eagles, Marcus Hummon, Kim Richey, Lauren Christy of The Matrix, as well as other Grammy-Award winning songwriters. Sheri is now deep in the process of writing of songs for her next full-length record.
Get Sheri's album "Mantra" HERE
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Is this Penn Undergrad the Next John Legend? (VIDEO)
Monday, June 1, 2009
While he's still an undergrad, Malik Smith (C'10) is a musician we should all be looking out for. With his new single “Crazy” from his debut EP, "Before Dawn", already becoming a fan favorite on Reverbnation and drawing comparisons to last summer’s smash hit “Closer” by Ne-Yo; Malik is only a brush stroke away from success.
Per Malik,
“I am a musician for the people…I write songs that connect to the simple yet universal things in life: happiness, love, lust, family, hardship, courage and triumph. I love music because I know there is a song for every moment”.Check out the smooth stylings of Malik in his video above for his new single "Crazy" and look out for more about him on DT in the future!
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He Beatboxes In The Internet Symphony That Went Around The World (VIDEO)
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
On this happy Cinco de Mayo day, I have a fun, music filled, Penn related, celebration treat for all of you...Did you catch the Youtube Symphony project that was going around the web a couple of weeks ago?
If you watch closely in the video above, at minute 4:07, you would have found Adam Matta (C'96, Mask and Wig) beatboxing the "brake drum and snare" parts in the Mashup Video.
Adam has gone international with his beatboxing recently:
- He headlined the Human Beatbox Convention in London, at the Southbank Centre.
- Was in Austria the same week, rehearsing with Nihan Devecioglu, who will be a guest artist at the show at BAM Cafe in June. More info about the BAM gig HERE
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Gabriel Mann's Music Featured Again in GREY'S ANATOMY! (tonight & next week!)
Thursday, April 23, 2009
- "Break Me Out" will be heard in episode 19 (season 5), which airs this Thursday April 23rd at 9pm (TONIGHT) and will be the 3rd appearance of Rescues music on the show already this season. (the song is featured in minute 39:54 at abc.com)
- Next week, on Thursday April 30th, the show will debut the Rescues’ song "Stay Over" from the upcoming album "Let Loose The Horses." (the song is featured in minute 19:45 at abc.com)
Get a preview of the music below:
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My past posts about Gabe HERE
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Gabriel Mann's Music on GREY'S ANATOMY for Second Time!
Monday, October 20, 2008
Well, the producers must have loved this group's music because another song of theirs was featured in last Thursday's episode too! This one comes as a relief during a very funny and awkward moment during Callie and Dr. Hahn's first date as "new lesbians"! Check out minute :56 above and you'll see what I'm talking about!
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Did you hear Gabriel Mann (C'95, Off the Beat) and his group The Rescues acoustic version of their song "Crazy Ever After" on last Thursday night's 2 hour season premiere of Grey's Anatomy?His song was placed in the most emotionally pivotal scene of the show (pertaining to whether a patient's memory comes back.) Warning, if you haven't seen the episode yet, this scene is a spoiler.
Click here to watch the scene at abc.com (minute 25:55)
(after clicking above, on the resulting page, click "launch", click the "Episode 1, Part 2" box, click if you want to see the clip in "standard definition" or "HD streaming" and then you will be brought right to the scene)
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Friday, September 12, 2008
Lots of Penn Hollywood news happening recently in the movies, on TV, in music and on magazine covers...Click here for this week's scoopage.
Jon Avnet's (C'71) film Righteous Kill starring Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro comes out in theaters today.
Logline: "Two Veteran New York City Detectives hunt a vigilante who may be one of their own."
Check out the trailer below!
My past posts about Jon here
Executive Producer for Saturn Films, Norm Golightly (C'94, Mask and Wig) debuted Bangkok Dangerous in theater's last week.
Check out the trailer below.
My past posts about Norm here
Merv Griffin Executive Producer Roy Bank (C'94) will oversee Lifetime "Lisa Williams" show (working title). Per Variety, it will be "bringing the eponymous medium/clairvoyant back to the network for a week of half-hour episodes starting Oct. 27."
My past posts about Roy here
Elizabeth Banks (C'96) will be Women's Health's first-ever celebrity cover for the October 2008 issue. Click here to check it out
In a recent interview, it was revealed that it was Liz Banks' husband Max Handelman's (C'95, AEPi) idea for her to make THIS brilliant NSFW video:
My past posts about Liz here
Matt Kap's (C'97) band's (The Moving Picture Show) song "The Boy Who Lives Backwards" is featured in the season premiere of MTV's Road Rules Challenge: The Island. It was played at the end of the show when the cast decided to vote off one of their own. Check your local listings for the show's reairing.
Listen to "The Boy Who Lives Backwards" here:
The story behind the song? Per Matt:
"The Boy Who Lives Backwards" basically came out of a regret. I was going to take some summer classes at NYU and met a girl the first day in the dorm through a friend. She'd had a bad day and her friend wasn't around so I decided to try and cheer her up. We had a really incredible night but I was so shy at the time and thought she had a boyfriend so I didn't ask her out. Years later I thought of that while singing a melody and began thinking about regrets we have in life - the person we didn't kiss, the bully on the playground we didn't stand up to, the clever comebacks that we wished we'd said in an argument and that's what the song is about. It also really reminds me of New York City in the fall which is my favorite time of year."
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Gabriel Mann's Music Gets Supersized for the Olympics
Monday, August 18, 2008
Penn is being represented in the Olympics in more ways than one.
Yesterday, Susan Francia (C'04) was one of the eight who won the gold in rowing for the United States.
There's also news of another Penn alumnus who has been part of the Olympics stage as well.
If you've been watching the Olympics, chances are you've seen Gabriel Mann's (C'95, Off the Beat) work...or maybe tivo'd right through it.
Gabe wrote music for a big McDonald's Olympics commercial, which per Gabe is "the one with the breakfast chicken sandwich and a bunch of olympians talking about how awesome mcdonalds breakfast chicken sandwich is". Check out in the clip above!
Besides this, Gabe also shared with me that he produced Sara Bareilles' first album, "the one before the big one on the big label". It's called Careful Confessions, and it's being released by her label.
Check it out here
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