A Cappella Inspires Safe Sex.

Just watch it.

A Cappella on "Good Morning America: Weekend."

Folks, time to set your TiVOs. Or VCRs. Or whatever you record television with. Because the fine folks at ABC's Good Morning America Weekend are prepping a piece on the rise of collegiate a cappella, set to air tomorrow morning in the 8am hour.

GMA Weekend shot video of the Hullabahoos down at UVA and the Kingsmen (photo here courtesy of my camera phone) up at Columbia, and even solicited video from Divisi. A GMA producer interviewed me about Pitch Perfect, as well. And there's talk that the Tufts Beelzebubs will perform live.

Tune in tomorrow.

Who Sang It Better?

In this edition of "Who Sang It Better?" we've got Paramore doing "Misery Business" live at MTV's Video Music Awards...



...and the UVA Hullabahoos singing that same song last fall. Thoughts?

R&B. For Reals.

UVA's own R&B a cappella group, Remix, delivers first sign of credible rap in collegiate a cappella.

Rage Against the Machine.

Rage Against the Machine turned up at a Twin Cities festival promoting non-partisan politics—and the band was turned away. Rather than walk, they resorted to (yes) a cappella. With a megaphone.

Clip (and story) here. The music is three minutes in. Word.

A Cappella in 'Paste' magazine

The Carleton College Singing Knights—an a cappella group devoted to indie rock covers, a group which we mentioned on the blog back in March—get a shout out in the September issue of the hip music magazine Paste.

Check out the item here.

Hyannis Sound at Fenway.

Friday, August 29th. Fenway Park.