Boston U Interview

Joey was recently interview by a Boston University student for a newspaper there. Here’s the transcript for anyone who cares!

Q: Why is collegiate acappella so popular?

A: Well, you have to separate that into two questions: Why do so many people want to SING in groups and why do are so many non-singers fans of collegiate a cappella.

For singers, that’s sort of like asking why people eat ice cream - it’s awesome by its very nature! I think a lot if a cappella singers are drawn to the music because of the way it FEELS to sing as a part of a group and to harmonize with one another - it’s very pleasurable. I watched a surfing movie the other day and one of the guys they interviewed talked about going through the ‘tube’ of the wave. He said it was the greatest experience in his life, a visceral thrill and ecstasy that he couldn’t match anywhere else. That’s a cappella singing to a lot of us. There’s also those who revel in being a rock star without having to be able to play an instrument. In fact, I have it on good authority that a large percentage of male singers do it for the chicks. Continue reading Boston U Interview…

Acappella U HD now up and running, is coolest thing ever.

Let me start out by saying that Acappella U HD is 100% FREE TO THE PUBLIC. We’ve taken some flak for charging for the Full-Time version of the Audio show, this is one way we’re trying to give back.

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Sometimes in life realized ideas come out as cool as they were when they were little baby ideas in your head, and after you’ve spent lots of time and money raising your idea through childhood and adolescence, it grows up and gets a Ph.D. in Biomedicalneuroscientifical Engineering from MIT and builds a really cool robot that restores sight to little blind orphans. It’s then that you stand back and say, ‘Well I guess that didn’t suck. In fact, I’d even say it was worth it.’

Today is that day for Acappella U HD. You COULD say that Acappella U HD was THE WHOLE POINT OF ACAPPELLA U FROM THE GET GO. To do something unprecedented: to put a kid who’d never seen a collegiate a cappella show into the front freaking row of an Off the Beat concert, or the ICCA Finals, or whatever, and say ‘Fuck, that was awesome.’ Or to have someone’s invalid grandma be able to see their little precious grand baby sing in 720 glorious lines of cataract-impeded resolution. You can’t do that on YouTube. Behold greatness:

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Episode 48

Live from Costa Rica. . . . it’s Acappella U! Even though Joey’s traveling abroad we’ve got some brand new a cappella hotness for you - specifiacall a few tracks from the smokin’ new release out of U Penn’s Off the Beat!
Here’s what we have tee’d up:

“Anna Molly” (Incubus / Off the Beat)
“Mercy on Me” (Christina Aguilera / Off the Beat)
“Sister Golden Hair” (America / Rochester Yellowjackets)
“Make Me Your Girl” (Brian McKnight / CSUN Acasoloa)
“Drive” (Incubus / UCB Artists in Resonance)
“The Kill” (30 Seconds to Mars / Off the Beat)

 

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Updated Links

The links page is being updated in large chunks. Soon enough we should have all (or at least most) of the groups that have been played on the show on there, as well as some other rather interesting a cappella websites. Go check out your favorite group’s website, or go to the forums and request a group to be put on there that’s not!