Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Fundraising Night
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
show with Murder by Death, May 7th
Poster says it. Here's the Facebook Event. Full text details after the jump.
Thursday, May 7th at Off Broadway. Murder by Death performing, The Hibernauts opening.
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Dr. Robitnik's Mean Bean Machine
Today I want to talk briefly about a topic that is long overdue: Sega Genesis's Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.
We've mentioned it a couple times, but I think this video game deserves its own post.
Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine is from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. However, Sonic never appears in the game, but we do see Dr. Robotnik, Sonic's arch-enemy.
Dr. Robotnik has hatched a plan to ensure that no music or fun remains on Mobius. To do this, he kidnaps the jolly citizens of Beanville and stuffs them into a giant robotising machine called the Mean Bean-Steaming Machine (hence the name, Mean Bean Machine), so that they become devious little robot slaves, as well as getting rid of them. The instruction manual states that the disappearing Beans are sent to the Mean Bean Machine, regardless of which character does this. The game ends after a face-off with Robotnik.At first blush the game looks like Tetris or Dr. Mario. Which is far from the truth. As Hibernaut Bill Vehige put it, comparing a Robotnik player's game to a Tetris match is one of the most scathing insults in the game. In Tetris, the goal is to clear lines of blocks. In DRMBM, clearing blocks is a method used to reach your goal to create chain reactions of bean clusters; each group's elimination contributing to a cascade of clusters of beans that disappear in tandem. Here's a video of gameplay (the concept is well-demonstrated around 1:22):
The game is based off of a puzzle game called Puyo Puyo. We began playing it when we set up the studio and have taken it very seriously, even keeping stats on wins and losses and records against each other. Anyone is welcome to challenge us in head-to-head competition, as we are the best band in the world at this game.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Bass tracking complete!
Good ole Bill finished up all of our bass tracking this week. It took him less time than it took for me to eat a J.J. Gargantuan from Jimmy John's. Check out a picture after the jump.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Hibernauts Recording and Radio Show
Well, things have been going pretty smoothly for us Hibernauts lately. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, drum tracks have been completed, and now Chad's bass tracks are now done. Being in an unusual position where we have two bass players, now we're about half done with bass. This weekend we should have all of the bass complete and the bulk of the next instrument (probably keyboard/synth).
Monday, March 30, 2009
Recording Drums Complete!
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Show This Saturday Feb 21
Monday, February 2, 2009
Show This Friday, Feb 6th
Laura Bush sure is Tall
Hibernaut multi-instrumentalist Bill Vehige was recently paid a visit by former First Lady Laura Bush. Check the picture out after the jump.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Sleeping in Space, on 90.3FM KWUR.COM Mondays from 2pm-3pm
Greetings Hibernauters!
Newest addition Chad Rogers here, tumbling through the blogosphere. So far the experience playing with the band has been really warm and fun. Jack, Tom, Brett, and Bill all give excellent hand massages, and the fans at the shows have been really fun to jam with.
So before I go ending any more sentences with prepositions, I wanted to let you know about a new project the Hibes are involved in. We are launching a radio show on KWUR 90.3FM, which is Washington University's college radio station. We are very excited to be breaking the ranks of the college charts, not by CMJ or any of that tom-foolery, but by actually hooliganizing the process by creating our own radio show!
The show runs from 2pm-3pm on Mondays on 90.3FM in Clayton. If you don't live/work/exist in the area around Forest Park Parkway from 2-3 on Mondays, I recommend you tune in by downloading the stream at kwur.com.
The show, entitled "Sleeping in Space," is a chronicling of the writing and recording process we're are currently undertaking. Tentatively, the title of the record is "The effects of priming and training on illusory audition in the elderly," which is striking because the PhD dissertation I'm working on has the same title. There will be jokes, new tunes, interviews with the band, general mischief, tales of Dr. Robotnix's Mean Bean machine, nerf guns, and ham sandwich Sunday. There will also be a podcast available for download, but I'll leave Mr. Brett Ramsey to divulge the details on that one.
So tune in, Mondays from 2-3pm on kwur.com, today we'll be spinning some old Periodic Fable classics, and some of the rough cuts we've been working on for "The effects of priming..."
Signing off,
C.Rogers
Friday, January 23, 2009
4050 Studios
Hello again, true believers. I hope this finds everyone enjoying their 2009 and new president.
Just wanted to give everyone an update on what kind of trouble we're getting into these days as a fivesome. With our new talent Chad Rogers and a bag of new songs, we decided some time ago to record our next album. In order to have full control over how the final product turns out, we've decided to take advantage of our collective skills and do the recording ourselves (which conveniently fits into our limited budget). After the jump take a look at some of the construction of the studio that is being erected just for this recording project...