Like the roller coaster concoction, Four Loko, a mixture of spastic lo-fi and coffeehouse acoustic filled the dungeon-esque walls of Chronic Town last night. Buzz-band, Emperor X, and ambient singer-songwriter, Annalisa Barron, took to the stage for a show tri-sponsored by the Lion 90.7 FM, Roustabout! and Students Organizing the Multiple Arts.
Maybach Music Group's (*Rick Ross grunt*) Wale will be PSU chillin' on Friday, October 21, according to his official website. As part of the Ambition tour, Wale will be rocking Penn State along side Black Cobain and Turntable.fm. Learn more after the jump.
Like the Pitchfork junkie who is always showing you awesome new jams, Check This Track (@checkthistrack) is an independent music blog created by two Penn State students to share their love of music while giving shout outs to today's hottest artists. Learn more about this grass-roots venture after the jump.
Penn State is ditching the traditional blue and white for a full rainbow in observance of National Coming Out Week. The LGBTA student society has a packed schedule of events this week to not only celebrate with the nation's gay community but to spread the word about the gay community here in Happy Valley.
You may know Sam Richards from being one of the over 400,000 people who watched his "radical experiment in empathy" on TED. Or you may have heard of Sam Richards from the book "The Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America" by the modern day right-wing McCarthyist, David Horowitz.
But each year some 725 students get to know Sam Richards as that eccentric SOC 119 professor who stands up on tables to deliver inspiring out-of-the-box perspectives on racial issues every Tuesday and Thursday in 100 Thomas. Learn more about the world-renown sociologist and race relations professor after the jump.
After almost a year and a half of brain storming, Penn State future innovators have a physical address at the newly opened Innoblue Garage. Check out the details of this entrepreneurial work-space after the jump.