This year's Bacchanal artists are well-known on campus, but many are familiar with only their most played hits. (Let's face it---it's hard to build a set with only a few wildly popular songs.) The cheers when a song you know comes on, the excitement when you’re expecting that beat to drop---this familiarity comes only after a few listens.
So get out your tanktop and shades and get ready to wake up early voluntarily. Here are deeper cuts of the artists' work than “Thrift Shop” and “Original Don Remix” to listen to before Saturday (the concert starts at 11!).
1. "Irish Celebration"---Macklemore and Ryan Lewis: This song uses one of my favorite tracks (Beirut’s second take of "Scenic World") as part of its sick beat. One of the great things about Macklemore is that each of his songs contains a focused, unique story. This one is about his pride in his Irish roots. At his concert in New York, he took out a giant Irish flag for this song.
