Matthew Grant Anson

LaFaro is a flirtatious band. Even just one go-through of the Irish four piece’s second album, Easy Meat, reveals LaFaro to be a band that unashamedly hand picks their influences and wears those sounds on their sleeves. Easy Meat sees the band scurrying down several different musical paths at once, resulting in the aural name checking of everything from Smashing Pumpkins to Motorhead, with shades of Clutch tossed in for flavor.

The follow-up to 2010’s self-titled debut record, Easy Meat is an 18-track affair of quick ditties all clocking in under five minutes.

Matthew Grant Anson - Thu, 2012-04-12 02:40

A lot can happen in a year—just ask deafheaven. The last time the Quaker Campus reviewed a deafheaven show, one year ago this week, the San Francisco black metal act was an obscure band opening up for obscurer bands in Canoga Park at the Cobalt Café. They played in front of no more than 15 pairs of confused eyes belonging to owners that were more interested in sulking with crossed arms than opening their ears to a band that smashes the raw violence of black metal with the subtle ambience of shoegaze.

Matthew Grant Anson - Thu, 2012-03-15 02:25

The Office of Leadership, Experience and Programs (LEAP) has lost another member this year. Interim Assistant Director of LEAP Glen Peterson stepped down on March 5 to accept the position of Field Office Director for Southern California at World Relief. Peterson will be the third administrator that has left LEAP within in the past year.

World Relief is a non-profit organization that works to empower local churches both in the United States and around the world so that they can help the vulnerable within their communities. Peterson will be working out of the World Relief office in Garden Grove, Calif.

This office helps refugees settle into their new environment and helps with immigration concerns. Peterson’s first day at World Relief was March 6.

Katie Jenkins-Moses - Thu, 2012-03-08 05:38

Any accounting student knows sometimes a zero goes missing, only to be rediscovered after, hopefully, just a moment of panic. But contrary to on-campus rumors, the Associated Students of Whittier College (ASWC) Senate’s sudden access to tens of thousands of previously unavailable dollars is not because of a vanishing zero. “We did not misplace a zero,” ASWC president sophomore Duncan Ketel said. “We started out the beginning of the year with an estimated [budget], and it was estimated intentionally low. The reason why is so we don’t exceed our funds, because we don’t want to be in the red. We did not get our true numbers until this past week.”

Matthew Grant Anson - Thu, 2012-03-01 03:47

Senator George Mitchell, Jr. served as Senate Majority Leader in the United States Congress, led peace talks in Northern Ireland and Israel, was chairman of Disney and investigated the use of performance enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball. But on Tuesday, Feb. 28, Mitchell found himself in a slightly less illustrious place; the Ruth B. Shannon Center at Whittier College, where he was brought in as this year’s Feinberg Lecturer to talk about the Arab Spring and the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians.

“I was invited by the college,” Mitchell said. “Contact was made through [Vice President for Advancement] Elizabeth Power Robison, as I’ve known for many years her father-in-law, and I was invited and pleased to accept.”

Matthew Grant Anson - Thu, 2012-03-01 03:43

When I was a baby, my mother held me to her dripping teat and pressed her nozzle of sustenance against my mouth. But I did not suckle. No, I turned my rosebud mouth up to her and asked politely, “Does this have any growth hormone in it?” She said no, and, mind at ease, I set about nursing so I could raise my I.Q. and increase my disease fighting abilities with her liquid bosom gold.

Grace Battista - Thu, 2012-03-01 02:54

My ears are ringing. Actually, it’s even more intense than that. My ears are moshing away from reality into the chaotic inner recesses of my brain, a place that has just undergone great trauma: my first ever hardcore show.

I don’t really know what defines the collection of grating noises that is called hardcore. And within the genre there is a dizzying number of subgenres which are each really similar but apparently also completely different, which I find confusing. But I don’t care about that stuff because it’s all about the music, man.

The show I attended, the one that broke my hardcore hymen, was a benefit show featuring ACxDC, Xibalba, Sleepwalkers, Theories and Lack of Interest. Their cause was righteous: one of the singers’ baby daughters needs heart surgery.

Grace Battista - Thu, 2012-02-23 03:11

1)You’re Wearing a White T-Shirt
Wearing a white T-shirt in the rain can be a double-edged sword, depending on the kind of person you are. Enough of a downpour might leave you a little bit exposed, but who knows: the new friends you’ll make in the process of selling your dignity to Mother Nature may be worth it.

2) Woolly Guacomole
When wool and water meet, the union is less than holy. The smell of wet wool brings to mind a rotting dog carcass. Although gray rainy days make you want to pull on a wool sweater, resist the urge. Spare others’ nostrils. Your toasty warmth is not worth the nasal pain we must endure.

3) Electrically Heated Jacket

Matthew Grant Anson - Thu, 2012-02-16 03:23