Jan 16th: *TONIGHT* Listening Party 7PM-10PM @ Your Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center!
Submitted by blah on January 13, 2008 - 11:51am
Hey All,
Tired of only listening to what the herd thinks is best? Tonight and every 3rd Wednesday of the month from 7PM to 10PM your local Independent Media Center located at 202 S. Broadway Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 (the old downtown Post Office) will help you break from the herd and invite you to bring a specially burned CD or custom iPod mix (carefully chosen beforehand) and either something outstanding to drink or something rather delicious to eat. We will provide the outstanding audiophile-grade speakers that, when played at high volume, will shake the walls and rattle the windows and peel back your skin without getting all distorted and annoying, loud enough that the sound they produce will easily prevent all discussion until the given song has ended and everyone can breathe again and grab another drink and say, Wow, what the hell was that?
It is called a listening party. It is a loosely directed but passionately devised gathering held purely for the love and discovery of music. New music. Old music. Loud music. It is about quality. It is about range. It is, perhaps more than anything else, about surprise. In other words, you do not bring some common hit song to the listening party, some standard tune that everyone's heard a million times by an artist that makes most people wince. In other words, you bring something interesting, unexpected. It can be a mainstream band, but the song should be sonically fascinating, well recorded, and somehow unique.
The event is free and open to all ages. We ask that you give a donation when we pass the hat/jar/cup/whatever around each night (and promise not to give you crap if you don't), bring an open mind, bring music, and if you are bringing children know they may get some exposure. Drinks and food may or may not be present depending on if we (that includes you) bring any. Be prepared to socialize and network with people with a passion for music, art, culture, and our local community.
See you there,
Dan
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