![]() They formed a group that consisted of Angelakos, Hultquist, Ayad Al Adhamy, Thom Plasse (bass), and Adam Lavinsky (drums). After one of his solo shows in the Boston area, Ian Hultquist, who was attending Berklee at the time, approached Angelakos and expressed interest in creating and playing music collaboratively. At first, he wrote and performed all his material alone using a laptop. The first Passion Pit songs, which would later become the Chunk of Change EP, were written by Angelakos as a belated Valentine's Day gift to his then-girlfriend. Members of the band say they have been asked repeatedly if that film is what inspired their name but they weren't even aware of its existence until the year after their formation. The band shares its name with a pornographic film made in the 1980s, starring Traci Lords. The magazine used the term to refer to drive-in theatres, because of their privacy and romantic allure for teenagers. The band culled their name from the Variety Slanguage Dictionary, a glossary of Variety's frequently-used slang, which was provided by the Hollywood Insider publication to help not-so-savvy readers decipher its content. All of the band members, with the exception of Angelakos, attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. The band consists of Michael Angelakos (lead vocals, keyboards), Ian Hultquist (keyboards, guitar), Ayad Al Adhamy (synthesizer, samples), Jeff Apruzzese (bass, synth bass), and Nate Donmoyer (drums). Peace forever - forever, ever.Passion Pit are an American electropop band from Cambridge, Massachusetts, formed in 2007. Finally, big ups to the people who influenced most, if not all, of the grooves listed on this page:Īll the best in 2010. Hats off to the unsung - the folk who write the words those who put the music they dream onto paper and, those who hear the sounds, snippets, and beats that make it on tape - who make it possible for the songs we like to have meaning. Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up) performed by Florence + the Machine Now We are Free by Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard Spaceman performed by our own Dear Abbeys Say Hey (I Love You) by Michael Franti & Spearhead Get Dancinin’ by Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettesīone Thugs-N-Harmony’s Listen and I Tried Sweet Summer’s Night on Hammer Hill by Jens Lekman Live performance by the Forest City Lovers of Orphans Sara Bareilles’ performance of Many the Miles The Way I am performed by Ingrid Michaelson Smooth & Pete Rock’s They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)Īdele’s Chasing Pavements (also an amazing music video) ![]() The Original Cast of Rent performing 525,600Ĭ.L. The Old Forever New Things by The Most Serene RepublicĪmadou & Mariam’s Africa(featuring K’naan) The Aeroplane Remix of Grace Jones’ Williams’ Blood ![]() Walk with the Devil performed by Immortal TechniqueĪl Green’s performance of Let’s Stay TogetherĪ Change is Gonna Come performed by Sam CookeĪmerican Skin (41 Shots) by Bruce Springsteenĭashboard Confessional’s performance of Alter the Ending Ksenia Lanin is all about I’ll Go Crazy If I Don’t Go Crazy Tonight performed by U2 What’s the tune – that jam, sweet piece of music – that you heard this year that made a difference that you have to share with someone else that everyone must hear? Here’s our answer: And, we came to blows talking about music and whether Hip-Hop is dead (again).ĭiscussions about music always get us hyped. We argued about the proper role of sport in colleges and our collective lives, and had no idea how to stop violence and killings in America, Afghanistan, or Iraq. We struggled to create rules for when to allow a person to drink a beer or enjoy a glass of wine. We were both hopeful and dismayed about America’s political and social life – contradictions over campaign promises and actions in elected office the current role of race in our lives and decision-making trust of young people’s voices in the future and American life prisons in Cuba abuses of human liberties and, corrupting influences in government. We’re concerned about thousands of American troops heading around the world to build up other nations and to chase criminals. We talked about what was current – race, Afghanistan, fear, politics, Iraq, and music. We talked and talked and talked – it was joyous. ![]()
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