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wall, obstacle course and human foosball game, along with the standard row of ven-dors. Additionally, according to Bramwell, student-organization booths will have a stron-ger presence on the field than they have in the past.

Festival coordinators eliminated last years Loft on the Lawn tent, as well as the noon-time Price Center concerts leading up to the event. However, Gupta was able to schedule the Junkyard Derby on Friday this year by paying for it using council funds; in 2009, administra-tors pressured the council to stage the derby the week after the festival.

Event co-coordinator Jeanette Ordonez said this years festivities are spaced through-out the week including a silent rave, a mini Sun God Carnival and an A.S.-sponsored water slide. In addition, student radio sta-tion KSDT will hold indie music festival Radiology today at 6 p.m.; last year, it was known as Shun God, and was held on the same day as the main festival.

KSDT Manager Meredith Wong said the radio station could not hold the event on Friday because all Student Center space was already reserved by the administration, which she said would be detrimental to the turnout of the event.

I think there are definitely differences on who will be coming, Wong said. On Sun God, it would be a bunch of students who were roaming around campus. On Thursday, I think its students who are housed in the Student Center, and people who just heard about it.

She said she though the administration had pressured the station to hold the event on a different day because it wished to continue caging the festival.

Some of [the administrators] were nice, but some of the admin. would try to pit us against A.S. students, telling us that were betraying

them, Wong said. I think the admin. is really afraid of peoples safety on Sun God, and thats why theyre restricting us. They want to be able to have police manage everything, and when everything is spread out, they have that fear.

Director of University Centers Paul Terzino said the university tried to give more freedom to the student council this year.

We are reserving all of our facilities that is, the Price Center and Student Center holding that for A.S., so that they can have freedom in managing the day, he said.

However, Bramwell said the council does not have any specific plans for the Student Center on the day of the festival.

We never placed any holds any reserva-tions with KSDT, Bramwell said. We had no reason to block them from doing their show on Friday.

Marshall College senior Alice Nash said she preferred the atmosphere of the all-campus festival.

I just liked how things were spread out over campus first year, but now things are just in RIMAC, Nash said. Its kind of very cen-tralized, and I like the all-inclusive thing.

Both Bramwell and UCSD Police Chief Orville King refused to provide the cost of security or number of Staff Pro employees and police officers that will be patrolling the campus today and tomorrow. Bramwell said the cost of security on Friday would be roughly equal to past years, but that additional security would be required for the wristband line on Thursday. In 2007-08, the police bill was $15,000. That figure grew to $35,000 in 2008-09.

Students can pick up wristbands Thursday from noon to 6 p.m. and Friday starting at 9 p.m. at a box office on Marshall Field.

Additional reporting by Ruba Akel, Ayelet Bitton, Regina Ip.

Readers can contact Angela Chen at shchen@ucsd.edu.

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2007Three years back, the annual music festival

was an all-campusaffair. It featured

student org booths on both Library Walk and

Sun God Lawn, live bands in Price Center and a thinner security guard staff along

with an increase in injuries and arrests.

2008The rst Sun God Festival conned to RIMAC Field is best remembered for a 19-year-old Sean Kingston failing to make it through the end of his set. Other musical highlights included a high-energy show from rockers Coheed and Cambria and Matt Costa. The no re-entry policy was blamed for a higher occurance of binge drinking.

2009Last years Sun God Festival featured hip-hop group

N.E.R.D., laid-back crooner Iron and Wine, and a brand-new Dance Tent for mashup guru Girl Talk and a

slew of other deejays. Based on the resoundingsuccess of a multiple-tent format, festival planners

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whether hes attending an isolated concert or an all-campus bash, it will always happen. (By the way, if you want to ensure people will stay sober, you should give them a lineup thats worth staying conscious for.)

Most importantly, we must remember that the Sun God Festival earned its best-day-of-the-year repu-tation with a rare ability to unite bio-obsessed wallflowers and brawny Greek bros under a common goal of turning our institution of learning into one giant playground.

But it seems the administra-tion along with wet blankets like Bramwell have successfully tamed that unique phenomenon into just another music festival. Theyve

squashed the possibility of maintain-ing the original Sun God spirit at an institutional level a sobering fact for the small population of us who still remember what it was like, and what it could be with support in the right places.

It will only get worse as time goes on, and the memory fades. In fact, according to Bramwell, the administration will continue to push harder and harder for the festival to take place on a Saturday and lord knows it will only take are a few spineless councilmembers to let that happen.

Our only advice to you, the stu-dent, is to adopt the role of campus-wide party-planner on Friday. Every year even before administrators

put a damper on our favorite rager its the grassroots efforts of a few pioneering drunks that make this all-campus dance party special. Get creative and impulsive: Cover your-self in body paint, get see-through in the Price Center Fountain, start a spontaneous rave in your local din-ing hall and ignore any and every authority figure who tries to stand in your way but you might consider running if you see a security officer fast approaching with some cuffs.

Were begging you to help make it happen: Prove were not the cold and introspective nerd herd our fellow UC campuses think we are. Were willing to do our part, too. Just meet us at the fountain and dont forget your game face.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Editor,On April 28, the A.S. Council

began debating a motion to divest from companies that do business with Israel. The resolution was peppered with various accusations of recent Israeli abuse of Palestinians, specifi-cally citing the fighting in Gaza last year and the areas present blockade.

The particular accusations, however, were window-dressing excuses for the resolution. Resolutions nearly identical to these have been debated in various forums in Europe and North America since 2006, long before the present block-ade and the Hamas-Israel war in January 2009.

Indeed, the resolutions sponsors knew very well that, if passed, any such resolution would have no con-crete effect. The chairmen of General Electric and United Technologies would lose no sleep over the resolu-tion because the university no longer holds investments in either company. The point was solely symbolic: It is part of a larger attempt to delegiti-mize the state of Israel. By passing such a resolution, especially in a campus not known for having strong views on the subject, its proponents hoped the larger effort to boycott Israel would gain more momentum, with similar resolutions attempted elsewhere.

At a certain point, readers must ask themselves: Why does Israel alone face such resolutions? Perhaps Israels occupation of the West Bank and Golan Heights justifies the councils attempt to delegitimize it.

Such claims are riddled with flaws. For instance, although generally ignored by the media, Israel is not the only country to occupy disputed ter-

ritory. Critics of Israel ignore Turkeys occupation of Northern Cyprus since the 1970s (and its treatment of its Kurdish population), and were never heard arguing for sanctions against Syria during its 29-year occupation of Lebanon (or its assassinations of anti-Syrian politicians since its with-drawal). Indonesias occupation of East Timor (1975-99, during which 200,000 died) went almost unnoticed in the Western media.

Divestment critics might counter that it is Israels particular actions that demand action. Yet compared to other similar conflicts, the death tolls are paltry. Palestinians and Arabs decry Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Compare this to other conflicts: In the past five years, the Janjaweed, a violent militant group, has killed 400,000 black Muslims in Darfur. In Rwanda, 800,000 people (more than 10 percent of the total population) were butchered in three months in 1994. In three years, Serbians killed 200,000 Bosnian Muslims (10 percent of the total population).

Realizing that the resolution failed to reflect reality, the A.S. Council moved to indefinitely table the mea-sure last week. In doing so, the coun-cil kept itself from becoming pawns of those seeking to delegitimize the state of Israel at any opportunity.

Cameron BrownPhD student, political science

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to Aubrey Drake Graham as the paralyzed ex-b-baller Jimmy on Degrassi: The Next Genera-tion. Since then, the Canadian has graduated the teen-soap gig for songwriting sessions with Lil Wayne, rumored romantic exploits with Rihanna and a Grammy nomination not a bad upgrade.

You might think the kid is hip-hop royalty already, but he hasnt actually released a proper album: Major-label debut Thank Me Later doesnt drop until June 15. All Drake has to prove that hes worthy of Jay-Z and Eminems love is hit single Best I Ever Had, his spot on Forever and a few forgettable (if promising) mixtapes.

Last years So Far Gone is one such promise: Though Drakes lyrics are often ridiculous I really cant complain, every-things kosher/ Two thumbs up, Ebert and Roeper theyre never boring, and his beats are always made by the best.

Drake has quickly become the model for a new school of popular hip-hop championed by the melodramatic Kanye West, who has chosen Drake as one of

his prodigies in which dance-able pacing is chucked for sincer-ity, synths are the new samples and hooks take precedence over rhymes. Lets call it post-rap.

Tracks leaked from his new album only amp the promise. Single Over an unabashed throwdown consumed by string and horn arrangements is utterly triumphant, while the Kanye-produced Find Your Love sounds a lot like, well, Kanye.

In the vein of Degrassi, Drake takes more from sweet indie-rock than R&B when it comes to singing and sampling. Mixtape highlights Lets Call It Off and Little Bit feature Peter Bjorn and John and Lykke Li, respectively. (And with Lil Wayne on his side, Drake can pretty much do whatever he wants.)

Unfortunately, all that pret-tiness probably wont shine through his bumbling live show. Drake is a studio technician, not a performer, and his reliance on more successful artists wont get him anywhere, seeing as Weezy cant exactly fly the coop for a night of science-nerd debauch-ery. Plus, its hard to take Drakes swag seriously when all were asking ourselves is, Since when was Jimmy cool?

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will be a familiar female voice taking you back to a bygone era. No matter how dramatically your taste in music has evolved since singer-songwriter Michelle Branch clogged radio waves half a lifetime ago, shes the irrefut-able soundtrack to your middle-school memories. Try as you may, you cant not sing along.

Of course, her modern-day irrelevance has raised specula-tion as to why an artist best known for a single released 10 years ago is headlining the big-gest event of the year. Turns out, shes still touring, and

after a seven-year hiatus due mostly to pregnancy released new album Everything Comes and Goes. Its her third solo effort, her second attempt at exploring the country genre and a tragically far cry from our nos-talgic kick.

Branch first rode into the spotlight on a wave of alt-rock females that shunned the party-pop image forged by Britney and Christina in favor of sen-sitive guitars and diary-style songwriting.

Still, breakout single Everywhere put Branch on top of the charts with the blondes, riding a simple power-pop riff and relatedly ambiguous lyrics (people frequently asked her if the song was about god). Three years later, she released Hotel Paper, a low-key sophomore effort that garnered moder-ate success with Since U Been Gone foreshadower Are You Happy Now.

From there, the trail grows cold. Following Paper, Branch

he godfather of the mashup might just be old enough after 42 years and half a lifetime behind the tables for

Sun God-goers to write him off as stale sliced bread from yesterdays toaster. Especially when compared to last years Dance Tent headliner: electro-age peoples hero Girl Talk.

As Zach Sciacca better known as DJ Z-Trip put it, I might be on mix on the blender, and hes on chop. Girl Talk morphs Top-40 hits into space-age eight-legged beasts, stimulating enough to placate the new generation of digital multitask-ers. (After all, if you cant have us dancing within five seconds, well move on to the next guy.)

So Girl Talk took Z-Trips con-cept and ran with it an admirable evolution. But theres something to be said for the more careful weave of the veteran, who usually sticks to two tracks at a time and delivers vocal and melody lines uninjured (but for some expert flourishes). His respect for the originals usually trumps any itch in his quick fingers.

[Girl Talk says] Yeah, Im not a deejay. Well, kind of you are, man, Sciacca said. Anyone who plays other peoples music, to a degree, is a deejay. Thats where my whole cultures from. What am I, going to shit on everyone before me? Be like, Im not one of them. Youre an extension of that. Accept it.

Z-Trip is a natural crate digger, making for a repertoire that requires heavy listening best enjoyed on a subtle high and a pair of good

headphones. And this element of the unfamiliar (laced into the old favorite, of course; no one can resist the Beatles) is what keeps him com-petitive among NOW! samplers like Girl Talk especially since his Motown and B-boy gems are always ones we wish wed found ourselves.

Live, though, Z-Trips obscure samples and awkward pacing can form a thick smoothie for a pleasure-seeking mob to swallow. For this reason, Sciacca said his best crowds come with an open mind.

Its up and down, he said. Ebb and flow, like a sin wave. Theres moments where people are crazy. Theres moments where its more cerebral. Theres moments to focus on a technical thing me scratch-ing or on a political statement versus, OK, now were just going to smash our heads against the wall: Heres some Metallica.

Thats not to say Z-Trip cant make you dance.

I do think thats one good thing Girl Talk does: totally incorporate the crowd, he said. Theres other things I dont necessarily care for, but he can get people up there and dancing, and thats the whole fuck-ing point of it anyway. Its about coming out and shaking your ass and getting down. Thats a huge part of why the fuck I do this.

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Relient Katering to the traditional rock-band backstory, Relient K was founded by a pack of 15-year-olds screwing around in their mothers garage. Though they began as

a niche Christian-rock band, the group eventually broke into the mainstream, soon peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Top 200. The Guardian spoke with lead singer Matt Thiessen about bad breakups, playing Warped Tour and hitting the beach before Sun God.

G: Why a Christian rock band? Matt Thiessen: When we were 15 to 16 years old, Matt Hoop the other guitar player and I grew up in the church, and we went to youth group. Theres a bunch of punk-rock groups in the smaller scene in that youth-group culture that we really admire. We wanted to start opening for them, and the songs were about positive things and that was really appealing to us as well. And we knew that we werent going to bum out our parents by having lyrics they didnt approve of. Matts mom wouldnt have let him in the band otherwise. G: Was it difficult to break into the mainstream music industry? MT: When you start out as a Christian band and other people dont share your beliefs, you can kind of get stuck being perceived as that. Fortunately, weve been able to talk about things in a way thats not preachy. Weve never been in peoples faces about things. If you dont share our beliefs, just listen to our songs and take what you want from them. And thats kind of the beauty of music. We decided that we really wanted to start to try opening for bands that werent only associated with Christian music, and that led

Crash Kingsike a sandwich without bread, Crash Kings is a rock band without guitars. A sharper, heavier version of the Fray with a beefed-up bass section and some weird contrap-tion called a clavinet, the band generates enough noise for us to forget the key ingredient is nowhere to be heard.

While the clavi-what plus toe-tapping keyboard make up their trademark sound, its Tony Beliveaus well-trained pipes that steal the show, channeling hits like Mountain Man with an assertive, folksy swag reminiscent of Cage the Elephants Aint No Rest for the Wicked.

Granted, only the most musically attuned (and sober) of Sun Gods masses will appreciate the bands avant-garde rejection of rock n rolls bottlenecked centerpiece. The rest will slur their way through the Kings crystal-clear lyrics while waiting for the heavy-weights to take the stage, wondering why the guitar is missing two strings.

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Thriceor all those hardcore alt-rock heads out there (including Associate Vice President of Concerts and Events Alex Bramwell, the festivals coor-dinator), Thrices performance at Sun God will be the beacon of a long day filled with hip-hop,

girl-pop and under-the-radar indie acts. But theres cause for skepticism when it comes the head-banging potential of the festivals only big-name rock performance: Though their latest LP has all the angst of Thrice past, its missing the catchy, subversive optimism that made cuts like Stare at the Sun so appealing.

With lyrics like Darkness brings terrible things/ The sun is gone, new single All the World Is Mad is a case for outlawing overdramatic emo-rock in the 21st century or at least at Sun God.

As far as Thrices live performance goes, what you see is what you get. There arent a whole lot of theatrics involved, but thankfully theres also not a huge disconnect between the bands work in the recording studio and what they do onstage. And in the end, every feel-good, carefree day of festivities has room for an angry mosh-pit sesh to force our hair down.

Its not saying much, but at least Thrice will provide a punky contrast to Michelle Branchs newfound country influence and Relient Ks more happy-go-lucky Christian rock. The rest of us can hide out in the dance tent.

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Shark Attack

e prepared for an oscillating wave of build-ups, breakdowns and midday sway in the Dance Tent on Friday, courtesy of local deejay duo Shark Attack. Coronado duo Patrick Heaney and Mike Delgado got

their start with residency at the Beauty Bar in San Diego, every time Shark Attack Tuesday cam around. (The name stuck.)

Working their way up the club ladder, the pair soon began to spin alongside giants like Steve Aoki, LA Riots and the Bloody Beetroots in addition to driving massive, sweaty crowds into hysteria all on their own at venues like Voyeur and our very own Loft.

Heaney and Delgado will likely be performing stuff from 2009 EP Shooting Judas, a lightning set packed with diverse beats that mimic ambulance sirens and car alarms. Most tracks are fast and danceable, but beware of buzz-killing slow moments: They will either come as welcome breathers or simply piss you off.

Shark Attack is a heavy and throbbing pick for a sunlit 2 p.m. canopy slot, but your Cap Mo-spiked brain cells probably wont know the difference anyway.

Amanda MartinekStaff Writer

Robbed By Robots

ising out of the Long Beach electronic scene, Robbed By Robots is a nu-disco deejay who spins house and radio pop into a cotton-candy lather. Most importantly: Its danceable enough to get us moving, even before the

ecstasy kicks in.This club guru will keep the crowd hopping with hands in the

air, throwing down a hyperactive setlist of original production and upbeat remixes of 90s pop favorites. For those of us who see Sun God as another excuse to break out the outrageous rave attire and bathe ourselves in lasers, Robbed By Robots is the perfect Dance Tent escape from the weak beats of this years mainstream pop-rock and hip-hop.

Gretchen WegrichStaff Writer

DiversionSound

he Tuesday before Diversion Sound won the April 3 Battle of the Bands at the Loft earning a slot on the Sun God Festivals Main Stage the trio did something theyd never done before: They played their first show together.

Well, sort of. To be fair, it wasnt the first time non-student Andrew Charlton and Marshall College seniors Derek Lau and Kellen Steffen had jammed together. Hailing from Silicon Valley myself, Ive known all three band members since middle school, and have witnessed many a Diversion Sound performance minus Steffen, plus a bunch of other kids in Charltons garage.

Back then, drummer Lau and bassist-turned-singer Charlton were two Incubus fanboys who loved epic instrumental interludes and were admittedly clueless as to how to mesh meaningful vocals with their desire to wig out.

I wouldnt sing, Charlton said. Id just turn up the music.Since then, the group has undergone a few changes, both in

sound and membership. They ran through a couple of fringe gui-tarist and lead singers and tried their hand at local venues then broke up when it came time for Lau to leave for college.

After Charlton who had battled addictions with drugs and alcohol throughout high school was released from rehab, he decided to move down to San Diego for a DS reunion. Thats when he and Lau asked their friend Steffen to fill the role of bassist.

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ichael Vincent Patrick, one half of electronic duo Designer Drugs, spends a lot of time flying coast to coast. After performing in San Diego last Thurs-

day, Patrick flew home to New York prior to his slated appearance at Sun God. Back on his native coast, Patrick spoke with the Guardian about the future of DD, his friendship with bandmate Theodore Paul Nelson and his thoughts on West Coast living.

The Guardian: Do you like the West Coast?Patrick: Yeah.G: Have you had In-N-Out yet?MP: [Laughs] I have, yeah. Im not a huge fan. Though it is pretty good the first time I had it I loved it. G: When did you start making music?MP: When I was like 13 years old, I started toying around. I wanted to be in a punk-rock band. G: What made you decide to move away from that genre of music?MP: I started getting into the stuff that was coming out at the time a lot of new electronic music that was surfacing, like stuff that was getting mainstream. Thats how I got exposed to it, once stuff started getting popular on TV.G: When did you and Theodore meet? MP: When we were like 15 or 16. We both had [an] interest in similar music, so we both sort of messed around, trying to make music. But between then and now, weve done a lot of stuff. Weve gone our separate ways several times. But weve always stayed in touch. Once we decided to do the Designer Drugs project, we were both stoked on it, and both put forth the effort.G: Is he still in medical school right now?MP: He has to take some big exams this summer, and I think hes studying for uh some big test or some-thing. I dont know. I kind of dont pay attention. So I dont know how much touring hes going to d,o or how much studio work hes going to do.

Skeet Skeete may have a flash-in-the-pan stage name and a style he brushes off as electro indie party shit, but killer deejay Skeet Skeet keeps the drunks swaying and the trippers tripping to a timeless groove.

His mixes are delicate little webs spun from a gener-ous sampling of songs from Nirvana, Queen, Jay-Z, Whitney Houston and treated with dirty beats and out-of-nowhere manipulations. The dance-pop chorus of Katy Perrys Hot N Cold evolves into a psychedelic trip-hop experience before melding into a Janet Jackson track. Hell, he even makes Ke$has Tik Tok listenable.

His samples mix, mash and collide, but they never lose their bounce or sense of humor mostly because Skeet himself radiates likeability, winning over his audi-ence just as effortlessly as the artists he samples.

Though Skeet is one of the lesser-known names on the bill, hes sure to rack up some reccommendations from those of us coherent enough to make our way to Rimac Field before the sun sets.

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G: Would you like to collaborate with other artists in the future?MP: I think what I would really like to do is write music you know, pop songs for like, Britney Spears just because it seems like it would be really fun to do. We just dont have the time right now; but that would be cool. But right now, Im not too interested in collaborating Id like to just work on our own originals. We just wrote an album; its going to come out in September. The first one was such a learning experience that Im even more ex-cited to do the second one, because I think we have a better idea of what we need to do.G: Is the new album youre coming out with mostly original tracks or remixes?MP: Its going to be all original songs like 12 songs, 13 songs. Maybe a few remixes for our fans.G: Do you enjoy making remixes more, or original tracks?MP: I think originals, yeah. You have more of a blank canvas with originals. G: Whats your favorite Designer Drugs song?MP: Thats a tough one. Drop Down is probably my favorite original. G: Any pre-show rituals?MP: Not really. I just normally do shots, and thats about it. Sometimes Ill take a nap or watch Full Metal Jacket or something get pumped up. G: Whats your alcohol of choice?MP: We used to drink Jameson. Now we drink Patron or some sort of tequila before the show. I switched just recently from whiskey to tequila, just to stay out of trouble. [Laughs.]G: Pretty fitting for where we are.MP: Yeah, definitely. Itll be good after my San Diego tacos.

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to another thing and another thing, and eventually were on Warped Tour, touring with bands like Good Charlotte.G: How have your fans reacted to your new album?MT: You know, its been really great, because if we put out an album that people expected, I definitely dont think wed be on tour with Paramore right now; I dont think that Jive would have picked up the record. Changing our sound and making a record were proud of was a big part of keeping this band around, and Im really glad that we did it. I feel like our fans are really growing with us, and do really like the new record. Weve been playing mostly new stuff live, and the reactions been great. G: How do you feel about your new album being marketed as a breakup album? MT: There are songs from our earlier record that were really brutally hon-est ... but [our fans] just dont know. But this time around, its on the Internet: Matt broke up with his girl. Everyone kinda knows that thats what this record is about. Its a little bit embarrassing being so honest and forthcoming with your feelings ... but I think if I can go through something and put into songs how I deal with it ... maybe some people can learn to get over things and learn from what Ive gone through. G: How excited are you for Sun God? MT: Were really excited for Thrice. We just played with Drake at Bam-boozle. Im supposed to write songs with [Michelle Branch], and I look forward to hanging out with her. G: Can we expect to see you guys at the beach this weekend? MT: Surfing is on my short list of things to do; I dont know if Ill get out there the day of the show, but Ill definitely try sometime that weekend.

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calm still earning its keep among flashy updates to the sound.

Z-Trip spent the next half-decade evading copyright law, honing his live show and posting all his work online for free, years before the Radiohead publicity stunt (www.djztrip.com/down-loads. html). Even the self-built beats on 2005s Shifting Gears are tailored mostly to the zippy indie raps on top.

Indeed, after 20 years on the scene, Z-Trip remains the most trustworthy of matchmakers, whether finding a bed of bass for Barry Manilow or the right groove for whoever is staring up at him. He may not bring Girl Talks balloons and toilet paper, but Z-Trips half-improv live mix proves that noth-ing can make our chests swell like a long-forgotten hook from left field. At Coachella, he overlaid a rollicking dubstep with John Lennons Taxman vocals, sending the crowd into a hissy fit of low-end nostalgia. (I got raped on my taxes this year, he said. So I was like Fuck it, Im pissed.)

The exploding dubstep movement particularly in LA, where he lives exemplifies the tsunami of bedroom deejays Z-Trip is up against.

Its just the quantity the sheer amount is building, and Im notic-ing that the really good stuff is getting harder to find within all of it, he said. You have a lot kids who are just jumping on the bandwagon, which slows things down a little bit.

As for this Friday, Z-Trip said his setlist will have everything to do with the vibe he gets from the crowd.

At this point, I dont really have anything really planned, but that could change, he said. Im a big fan of the impromptu. If theres somebody there at the festival I havent seen in a while, I dont know, maybe we could collabo-rate on some shit. Theres always that wild card that Id like to keep open. I can jam with anybody. I love that.

Simone WilsonEditor in Chief

DS kept their ambitions modest at first, performing at churches and boba shops, always with eager tagalongs on other instruments. Soon enough, though, they recognized a need to make their four-minute riffs more audience-friendly and, after some coaxing from Lau, Charlton signed up for singing lessons.

Just in time for their universitys biggest gig, DS finished recording their first EP and whittled down their mem-bership to the core three. Charlton shaped his voice into a Creed-esque blanket that flows over the grand drum/bass marathon of Steffen and Lau caught in a perpetual near-tears serenade about how life is bad but always gets better.

If I Dont Mind, a meditative piece sprinkled with handclaps and driven by a catchy chorus, is the groove to listen for come Sun God. Their other tracks stray into long clouds of atmospheric jam, topped with vocal cheese courtesy of Charlton (hes also the author of a Christian childrens book). Still, even the most jaded literature major will find it refreshing to hear Charlton belt, If you believe in what youre doing/ It shouldnt matter what they say and know he actually lives by it.

Though the band is nervous as hell for this Friday, Lau said theyre not expecting much of a turnout.

I honestly dont think theres going to be that many people there, Lau said. Maybe 150.

Including workers, Charlton said. And Michelle Branch and

Drake, Steffen added.Whatever the size of the audi-

ence, the trio plans to throw it down.We have this motto, right?

Charlton said. Its like: Play every show like its the most important show because most of the time it is the most important show.

Alyssa BereznakManaging Editor

dropped into relative obscurity, marrying her bass player and giving birth to a baby girl in 2006.

Now, on Everything, Branch seems determined to prove that her career still has legs.

The new stuff is not entirely ter-rible, in Country Music Television context its just not what we want. Though Branch retains the same straightforward honesty, guitar-driven melodies and lovelorn lyrics from previous albums on lead single Sooner Or Later, its too plucky and twangy to picture it blasting from Moms 4-Runner, like in the good old days.

Still, This Way finds Branch channeling the Delta Spirit with throaty vocals that slide up and down a sparse steel. The whimsical number features a hypnotic chorus on which Branch does what she does best, alter-nating emphasis on every other word and hanging on the line Too many times I have told you. Like all her hits, it reverberates in our minds long after the last string has ceased to echo.

Now that the pop charts have wisened to artier spectacles like Lady Gaga, Branchs strategic move away from the desolate girl-rock trend and toward the more specialized niche of popular country (with an easier-to-please fan base) is a smart commercial move. But heres to hoping that, come tomorrow, she wont spend her whole set vetting her new album and swag instead rocking the ripped jeans to revisit some old favorites. To us, her appeal isnt necessarily as a composer, or even a singer. Branchs true value lies in the memory of what we were doing when we first heard her, in an age when every MySpace Top-Eight demote was worthy of a good, hard cry, and a smile from that blond boy in third period was enough to make any day our birthday.

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for a double on a hit to center field, putting two men on base with no outs for the Tritons. After junior outfielder Aaron Bauman grounded out, the Toros intentionally walked Gregorich to load the bases for junior third baseman Evan Kehoe. Kehoe then dropped a bunt that advanced the runners and scored Albitz for a 5-4 lead, with all run-ners safe on the play. Susdorf then blasted a base-clearing, three-run double, giving UCSD the 8-4 win.

With two games remaining in the series, all Triton hope for a con-ference title and regional playoff berth hinged on Saturdays high-pressure, double-elimination dou-bleheader.

In Game One, the UCSD offense had no answer to a Toro four-run fourth inning. Scoring just one run in both the fifth and sixth innings wasnt enough to even the score, and two more late-game Toro runs negated a Triton run in the seventh, seal-ing a 6-3 Toro victory. The loss left the Tritons in a high-stakes, one-game championship playoff with the Toros with the conference tournament title and a birth in the NCAA Western Regionals at stake.

As the teams national champi-onship ambitions hung in the bal-ance, OBrien entrusted senior start-ing right-hander Kirby St. John to start the championship game on the mound.

However, St. John said the pres-sure had little effect on his mental preparation and execution.

I just felt really relaxed and confident as I was warming up, St. John said. I did my best to maintain those feelings throughout the game.

He did not disappoint. Through nine innings, St. John held the Toros to just three earned runs on seven hits. He said his solid performance could be attributed to the run sup-port provided by the Triton offense.

The team did a great job of piling on runs and playing good defense, St. John said. [It] helped me focus on just minimizing any threats they posed.

The Triton hitters responded to the Game One loss by combining for 12 hits, eight runs, seven RBIs and two home runs in Game Two. Saul had three hits and three runs, Bauman finished three-for-five with two RBIs includ-ing his eighth home run of the year. In addition Gregorich had four hits, including a pair of dou-bles, and Kehoe went two-for-four with three RBIs and his eighth home run. With the 8-3 win, UCSD claimed its third CCAA Tournament champion-ship in school history.

Our pitchers did a great job holding the other teams offenses in check while our position play-ers did a great job putting runs up on the scoreboard, senior catcher Kellen Lee said. Kirby St. John one of our senior leaders threw a great game on Saturday in the final game. From the moment he took the mound, everyone knew that he was bringing his A game. That was a big-time performance in a big-time game.

The Sunday following their vic-tory in Stockton, the UCSD base-ball team was officially named the NCAA West Regionals No. 1 seed. The four-team NCAA West Regional, set to take place at the Major League Baseball Urban Youth Academy in Compton, Calif., from

May 13 to May 16, will cast the Tritons into a first-round region-al matchup against fourth-seed Hawaii Pacific the Pacific West Conference champions.

Susdorf said the Tritons wont be changing their practice routine even though they have no prior experi-ence playing against their upcoming opposition from Hawaii.

Im sure the way we will prepare for Hawaii Pacific is just by prac-ticing how we normally practice, Susdorf said. I mean, its been suc-cessful, so why change it up?

St. John said the teams prepara-tion will depend on what they learn about Hawaii Pacific in the days leading up to the May 13 game.

This week, with the short turn-around between CCAA and region-als, we are focusing on re-energizing ourselves and having a few really solid, detail-oriented practices, St. John said. We havent found out much about Hawaii Pacific yet, but Im sure we will be hearing more in the next couple of days.

The games first pitch will be thrown Thursday at 2 p.m. in Compton, Calif. Cal State Dominguez Hills faces No. 3-seeded Chico State in the second game of the double-elimination tournament.The winner of the NCAA West Regional will advance to Cary, N. Car., to participate in the eight-team NCAA National Finals.

We need to play our game the way we know how, and the result will take care of itself, Lee said. Throughout the entire season, we have realized that our biggest oppo-nent is ourself, and that when we are not successful, it is due to beat-ing ourselves. We just need to stay relaxed and composed on offense, defense and the mound because thats when we are at our best.

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