Photo courtesy of Meghan Collinge
This Day & Age
Two touring indie rock bands will be playing at Hillsdale College tonight, thanks to senior Meghan Collinge and the Student Activities Board.
This Day & Age and The Spill Canvas, both of whom are on the One Eleven Records label, will be playing on the snack bar patio tonight from 7-9 p.m.
Collinge said she discovered TSC and TDA on Absolutepunk.net, a Web site she frequents. Then, last June, she attended a TSC and TDA show at an American Legion Hall in Northville, MI., where she met and befriended Jeff Martin, the lead singer of TDA.
Collinge, who interned for Universal Music Group last semester and last summer, said the Student Activities Board was "always telling" her to book some bands at Hillsdale.
"So I finally went for it," she said. "At first I was nervous that [the Student Activities Board] wouldn't be able to help me out so I was just going to have the band play [at] my house and pay them myself."
The Student Activities Board is providing equipment and taking care of the costs.
Collinge said she plans to bring more bands to campus.
TDA and TSC are currently on a Midwest tour and Hillsdale will be one of their final stops.
Both bands have produced albums with One Eleven Records.
TSC's first album, Sunsets and Car Crashes , is pending release.
TSC originally began with just 20-year-old Nick Thomas soloing under his own name on stage with his acoustic guitar. This year he added a full band to his act and changed the name to The Spill Canvas.
Thomas is from Sioux Falls, S.D.
This Day & Age, which formed in 2001 and joined One Eleven Records in 2003, is from Buffalo, N.Y. It is comprised of guitarist/lead vocalist Jeff Martin, lead guitarist Mike Carroll, bassist Kenny Campbell and drummer Steve Padin.
They released an album called ...Always Leave the Ground on Sept. 7. It has been on Smartpunk.com's "Top 100 CDs for the Past 3 Weeks" chart. TDA has one other full length album called Start Over on Monday ; it was released in 2003
Collinge said Martin would "classif[y] his band as 'melodic rock and roll.'"Collinge said she would classify TSC the same, "although there is a bit more acoustic guitar with TSC."