2008 Woodie Awards
Junior lives for Indie rock bands
By: Caitlin Foyt
Issue date: 11/14/07 Section: Lifeline
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Corey Densmore sells his blood to get into rock concerts.
The Jackson junior's face is a blend of both pride and shame as he humbly admits to donating his blood plasma to Biolife Plasma Services, 4279 E. Bluegrass Road, twice a week to support his addiction to obscure Indie rock music.
"It was hard to find a job here and so I saw that the only way I was going to be able to go to this concert was to donate plasma, which sounds bad," he said.
The $55 weekly cashout is enough to shuttle him across the state of Michigan to see live performances by musicians most people have never heard of.
"People give me a hard time," he said. "My friend gave me a (Internet) link to a shirt that says 'I listen to bands that don't even exist yet.'"
Densmore likes musicians who create songs that are "original" and are more interested creating and performing their music for reasons other than the prospect of making money. It's at the live show where he is able to better understand what the musicians are trying to convey to listeners.
"The live show is what music's all about," he said. "That's where you get the passion from. You don't always get it translated through on a recording."
Densmore first became entranced by the new age, progressive rock movement during his freshman year when he discovered his first underground band, Finch.
"The first time I heard Finch, I thought, 'wow, they sound like some of these bands that are on the radio, but they're way better and are way easier to relate to.'"
Since then, the music genre has flooded his life.
He always is wearing a form-fitted T-shirt, commercializing a band usually supported by a tiny record label. Nearby, Densmore's laptop computer is blanketed with a rainbow of stickers also advertising several unheard of musicians. It's unusual for him not to be listening to one of his 23,000 music files.
He spends his Thursday nights broadcasting the music of unsigned rock bands on his weekly show, "Diamonds in the Rough," on WMHW 91.5 FM.
The Jackson junior's face is a blend of both pride and shame as he humbly admits to donating his blood plasma to Biolife Plasma Services, 4279 E. Bluegrass Road, twice a week to support his addiction to obscure Indie rock music.
"It was hard to find a job here and so I saw that the only way I was going to be able to go to this concert was to donate plasma, which sounds bad," he said.
The $55 weekly cashout is enough to shuttle him across the state of Michigan to see live performances by musicians most people have never heard of.
"People give me a hard time," he said. "My friend gave me a (Internet) link to a shirt that says 'I listen to bands that don't even exist yet.'"
Densmore likes musicians who create songs that are "original" and are more interested creating and performing their music for reasons other than the prospect of making money. It's at the live show where he is able to better understand what the musicians are trying to convey to listeners.
"The live show is what music's all about," he said. "That's where you get the passion from. You don't always get it translated through on a recording."
Densmore first became entranced by the new age, progressive rock movement during his freshman year when he discovered his first underground band, Finch.
"The first time I heard Finch, I thought, 'wow, they sound like some of these bands that are on the radio, but they're way better and are way easier to relate to.'"
Since then, the music genre has flooded his life.
He always is wearing a form-fitted T-shirt, commercializing a band usually supported by a tiny record label. Nearby, Densmore's laptop computer is blanketed with a rainbow of stickers also advertising several unheard of musicians. It's unusual for him not to be listening to one of his 23,000 music files.
He spends his Thursday nights broadcasting the music of unsigned rock bands on his weekly show, "Diamonds in the Rough," on WMHW 91.5 FM.
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Corey
posted 11/14/07 @ 1:46 AM EST
The concert on thursday is with Action Action and starts at 5:30, Envy on the Coast is coming, on Sunday evening at 5:30
Nick Smith
posted 11/14/07 @ 9:39 PM EST
Kinda curious...does the campus station still have that metal/death metal show The Furnace? That was basically the show I loved listening to my final year at CMU last year. (Continued…)
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