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It’s Victory for Close Your Eyes

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By Paul Knettel Close Your Eyes, an Abilene-based hardcore band, made its Victory Records debut Saturday night in a concert at the Rose Park Activity Center in Abilene. Victory Records, which touts bands such as A Day to Remember, Bayside and Hawthorne Heights, officially signed Close Your Eyes just a week ago on Nov. 2. Brett Callaway, who ... [Read More…]

Local Christian rock act signs with Chicago label

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Victory Records gave the local band, Close Your Eyes, an opportunity to record an album when they signed them Oct. 30. Brett Callaway, lead guitarist for Close Your Eyes, said the band was talking to other labels before Victory called, asking the band to play a show in Chicago. Soon after the show, Close Your Eyes and Victory started negotiating ... [Read More…]

Concert to spotlight jazz pioneer

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Jeff Coffin, touring saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, will visit ACU to conduct a jazz clinic and perform with the student Jazz Ensemble in a free fall jazz concert in Cullen Auditorium on Monday and Tuesday. Coffin is a three-time Grammy award winning musician and composer and has embarked on a variety of musical endeavors. Most ... [Read More…]

Performance to benefit villagers without water

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Wishing Well and Eternal Threads are raising money for water during a benefit concert featuring the Revolution orchestra and Nashville's Randall Goodgame on Friday. All proceeds from the event, which will take place in the Hunter Welcome Center ballroom, will be used to dig a well for nomadic Afghan women who are suffering from a lack of clean ... [Read More…]

A ‘Thoroughly Modern’ Musical

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By Lydia Melby There is a time and a place for everything - Prohibition, bobbing your hair, tapping your way up to the twelfth floor and the fantastically campy Homecoming musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie. Millie is a giddy piece of work that celebrates the modernism, the extravagance and the flappers of the roaring twenties, while poking fun at ... [Read More…]

Roller-derby film a heartwarming first effort

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If you describe a movie with the words Ellen Page, roller-derby racing and Drew Barrymore, everyone will automatically think, "Chick flick." Don't be too quick to judge. Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It, is a heartwarming success that surpasses girly and touches on young adulthood dreams and romance. Released this week, Whip It is an ... [Read More…]

ACU’s annual JamFest rolling in to rock campus

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Homecoming Steering Committee members promised JamFest 2009 will be nothing but four hours of good solid music, complete with 80s sunglasses and fireworks. Twelve bands were chosen for the event, including highlight performers, Swing the Lead and Dan and The Stage Bang. Student bands were selected to perform after auditions last week. Each act ... [Read More…]

Student fashion show draws crowd

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By Rebecca Hamilton Fashion lovers gathered under strings of lights and canopies of tulle for the student-organized Equilibrium Fashion Show in the Shore Art Gallery on Friday night. The event, which was intended to raise awareness of student groups including Wishing Well, 25 Cloth and Handbangs of Hope, featured student models dressed to reflect ... [Read More…]

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