Taylor Colvin and Martha Harrison’s performance for the Blue Jay Take-Away is now available for download on Bandcamp

Taylor Colvin and Martha Harrison perform their own version of Passion Pit’s Sleeping Head.

We shot a take-away with STADIUM today. Video will be up soon.

Take-Away alum, Alex Duncan will be performing at our Ottobar event on October 26th along with DIIV, Trust and Fiar Medico.

          For the last Take-Away of the Spring semester we caught up with the Avant Gardeners on the Gilman steps. Though it was that odd time on a Saturday morning when campus seems to be populated only by dog-walkers and over-achieving library dwellers, the band had a small audience to perform for, as one member’s fraternity brothers came out to lounge on Keyser Quad and support their brother.

          The Avant Gardeners is made up of four freshmen: Alex Hurowitz (Guitar/Bass), Matt Small (drums), Quinn McFee (bass/guitar), and Jerald Lui (piano). Alex and Matt met before coming to Hopkins, at a pre-frosh event in NYC. Once on campus, they met Quinn and Jerald. The four of them jammed together and realized they had a good sound. Having seen them perform, we agree.

           They cite influences from major rock acts to indie folk artists; the condensed list includes Radiohead, Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, My Bloody Valentine, Tallest Man on Earth, John Bonham, and Sonic Youth.

            For the Take-Away, they performed two of their original tracks, “Mirror,” and “Weights Are for Weighing,” as well as a cover of Herbie Hancock’s “Chameleon.” They hope to continue writing and recording new material and we certainly hope that happens. Check out their Take-Away, and be sure to look for music from them in the future!

by Leanne Gossels

The highlight for me is definitely Los Campesinos! and Yellow Ostrich on the 26th of June. But take your pick.

-Richard K

We’ve been quiet for a while, but expect a lot soon. This is a video of a song I’ll be reviewing soon for WJHU’s blog. This is the take-away naturally so we’re only concerned with how good they are live and by the looks of this video, I think we can safely say that they’re great.

-Richard

For those who missed our take-away on the Gilman Quad last week. We’re going to put up the all the pictures soon. We experiencing problems with the video but we are currently exploring our options. The Avant-Gardeners were great and I want their take-away to do them justice

Great weather, quiet campus, it was a great day to have a take-away. We were fortunate to have the Avant-Gardeners perform right in front of a small crowd on the Keyser Quad. We also got to catch up with Nik Barbera, a take-away alum

We’ve got one with the Avant-Gardeners tomorrow, should be fun

We here at the Blue Jay Take-Away would love to feature to your music on our website and there are many ways to make us aware of your music.

You can send an e-mail to bjtakeaway@gmail.com or you can send it to us directly from this website. Go to our SUBMIT PAGE and send us pictures/articles or even music that you want us to check out.

APRIL’S A REALLY FUN TIME FOR WJHU. We’ve got a busy month ahead of us.

WJHU, Baltimore by Hand and Writers in Baltimore Schools are coming together to host a rager at the Ottobar on April 5th. This party will help support Baltimore By Hand’s valiant effort teaching writing skills in Baltimore public schools. We’ve got live bands from 8-12 and WJHU’s own DJ Fiar Medico will close out the rager. 

For more details check out the Facebook Page

Don’t forget that we’ve also got our spring showcase on April 13th with the 8 x 10 and Baltimore Curators has put together a great line up for the JHU Spring Fair. And we’re somehow supposed to fit video recordings between that.

We don’t usually do this(although we totally should) RA Scion’s BEG x BORROW x STEAL -EP is now available for download for free from his website www.rascion.com. It’s definitely worth a listen!

Sometimes we forget how ridiculous student schedules are, but we are trying to sort out all of our schedules to bring these videos out to you. Spring break here at Hopkins is in two weeks and after that expect a steady flow of videos.

Last Sunday, Leanne and I were fortunate enough to witness a good show down at the Ottobar. The personal highlight for me was finally getting to meet The Baby Grand and their management. We’ve been talking to them for some time trying to get them to be at our showcase. Unfortunately they’ll be on the road but we are really dedicated to get them to at least show up on campus for a take-away. 

They’ve got a new album coming out in a couple of months and if it’s anything like their Ottobar set, then it should be a great listen.

Click here to find out more about The Baby Grand

MARCH IS UPON US - IT’S TIME TO SHOOT SOME TAKE-AWAYS

In true blue jay take-away fashion, it took us a while to get rolling but we are finally are and that’s all that really matters. Next week we’re going to shoot Pat Hampton and Chris Skoff on the Northway 11th floor balcony.

Hopefully we won’t have to migrate to a “rain location” 

WJHU IS BACK ON THE AIR

The Hopkins student-run radio station is back on the air. Click here to listen in

You can listen in by going to www.wjhuradio.com

Or checking iTunes radio, we’re under the college section!

JHU Alumnus and former member of the take-away team Josh Gleason is starting a new project entitled June/July. He needs our help to make this project a reality. 

We just donated so feel free to do the same. It’ll be money well spent!

http://www.indiegogo.com/JUNEJULY-1

AS IF WE ALREADY DIDN’T HAVE A RIDICULOUS SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORK ECOSYSTEM

We decided to add a Facebook page to it.

THE BLUE JAY TAKE-AWAY ANNOUNCES ITS SPRING SHOWCASE

Our first showcase The Young Villains Live in Arellano Theatre was such a success that we’ve decided to do another one. You can mark down your calendars, it’s going to be on the Friday the 13th of April on the Homewood Campus of the Johns Hopkins University. Naturally as we draw closer to event we will reveal more details about it. 

However right now we are looking for bands to fill up the showcase. If you are a band based in Hopkins, or a band based in Baltimore, or you know you’ll be available and are interested. Please let us know on bjtakeaway@gmail.com

Leanne is giving her all to make sure that this event is successful. Help her out