![I survived the grunge era: introduction to a screening of "Hype!" I survived the grunge era: introduction to a screening of "Hype!"](https://pages.vassar.edu/musicalurbanism/files/2015/02/1931217_43692958250_4595_n-290x290.jpg)
I survived the grunge era: introduction to a screening of “Hype!”
Welcome to the first of a series of “lab sessions” this semester in conjunction with the Musical Urbanism seminar. Tonight we’re screening Hype!, a 1996 documentary that’s currently out of print. This means the version you’re watching was torrented by your professors. Although as we heard it’s also available on YouTube, I promised our students...
![what could be cooler than Brooklyn? latest findings from Census data what could be cooler than Brooklyn? latest findings from Census data](https://pages.vassar.edu/musicalurbanism/files/2013/03/flowsMapper-290x290.jpg)
what could be cooler than Brooklyn? latest findings from Census data
[Update 12 hours after originally publishing this essay: Well, this is interesting… and a little bit embarrassing: I seem to have misread the Census Flows Mapper data entirely incorrectly. So much for the “test drive”; it’s like I pulled out of the car lot and onto the highway with the emergency brake on the whole...
![swimming in the music ecosystem: an interview with Scott Reitherman of Throw Me The Statue swimming in the music ecosystem: an interview with Scott Reitherman of Throw Me The Statue](https://pages.vassar.edu/musicalurbanism/files/2012/04/10-290x290.jpg)
swimming in the music ecosystem: an interview with Scott Reitherman of Throw Me The Statue
Scott Reitherman is the singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and main guy behind Throw Me The Statue, an indie-pop band based in Seattle. They have two albums out on Secretly Canadian, an independent label based out of Bloomington, Indiana, and are currently in the studio recording a third one. Their 2007 debut Moonbeams got a warm reception...