Awesome! Been waiting for this for too long now. I knew about most of those, but didnt know about The National.

There should be a lot more announced too.

Saul Williams is also rumored to be here too.

and FYI, this is STUDENT ONLY. if its outdoors, non students have a better chance of getting in if they arrive early. if the weather is bad, it will be indoors, thus makeing it hard for non students to get in. they'll check ID's in that case. good luck.

I never knew it was moved indoors if it rained. If it outside, NON-Students should have no problem whatsoever getting in. I've gone the last 3 years in a row and I never had any trouble getting in.

I don't know for sure, but I'd bet that Brett is right. When I used to be on the concert committee at my college, our annual Springfest was held inside if there was a chance of rain and one year it was moved inside when it started to rain.

I know im right. Fortunatly, the past 3 or 4 years the weather has been beautiful. Hopefully that will continue. However, other smaller events, ie. Fall Fest, have been moved indoors to the student center (about 100 yards away). When this happens, the state police will check ID's. If it were outdoors, checking ID's would be nearly impossible.

That being said, good luck! Pray for sunshine!

Belle & Sebastian may also be playing this

Jenny Owen Youngs is truly amazing. She is a dear friend and I have been lucky enough to share the stage with her a few times. An extreme presence. She is going to blow up hugely any day now.

are you joking? non-students can come in and it's pretty hassle-free as things go with that. police never I.D and actually i hardly even remember seeing any police at last year's culture shock.

non students, it's pretty easy to get in, just walk in and enjoy.

belle & sebastian was a rumor. same goes for blackalicious

non-students can't get in? i had no problem getting in last year. i showed up one band before the walkmen and easily walked in.

Like i said, if the weather is nice, and the show is outside, you wont have a problem. If raining, the show will be moved indoors, thus they'll enforce ID's. take it or leave it.

any other rumored acts?

Dead Meadow cancelled. Prefuse 73 and World/Inferno are on for Friday. Saturday also includes Bit Shifter, Matt & Kim, and the Fu-Arkist-Ra, an Antibalas side project.

Non-students should come early, as there may be police at the gates in the evening.

Dead Meadow cancelled. Prefuse 73 and World/Inferno are on for Friday. Saturday also includes Bit Shifter, Matt & Kim, and the Fu-Arkist-Ra, an Antibalas side project.

Non-students should come early, as there may be police at the gates in the evening.

Dead Meadow cancelled. Prefuse 73 and World/Inferno are on for Friday. Saturday also includes Bit Shifter, Matt & Kim, and the Fu-Arkist-Ra, an Antibalas side project.

Non-students should come early, as there may be police at the gates in the evening.

wow this may be the worst line up in in the past 4 years ive been attending purchase college. If this is the entire line up, ill be very dissapointed. with dead meadow now out of the picture, the only band i really *want* to see is the national. i'll check out we are wolves and gospel but if i dont see them, i wont be too dissapointed. the same goes for Prefuse and Busdriver.

*crosses fingers for a few more decent acts.

also, are Adam Christgau and Jenny Owen Youngs playing together or seperate?

o, death! is playing, too

i agree, those are terrible bands and don't reflect the purchase college band scene at all actually
plus all of my friends and i have no clue who they are except for the national and the purchase college bands

Wait, what would reflect the "purchase college band scene"? It seems pretty dead this year.

o death is totally rad,and jenny owen youngs is very good too, and both expurchase which is cool. however i can see both of them play in the city... i need someone really good to be playing in order for me to bring my ass all the way up there from nyc. and by the way, i've been to the last 6 culture shocks, and getting in is a breeze, even when i wasn't a student anymore, and they dont move inside...thats why gwar never played.

Does anyone know what time the sets start. I really only want to see the national and would like to know what time there set would be and how long it would be for on friday.

yo i go to purchase, i am heated about this lineup, it fuckin BLOWS, there was supposed to be fuckin andrew wk and shit, this is awful

Guests, if you are not a student just get a guest pass, or have a friend on campus get you one. I think you're aloud x per semester, if you have a guest pass you have access to all the events the students have access to.

Uh, anyone remember the panic that ensued the year Cultureshock featured Kool Keith, Ween etc? It was 2003 and the city had just enforced the smoking ban; terrorism and general, all-around "evil" fears had been sufficiently stoked (and maybe it was raining, but I'm not sure that caused the indoorness, because the zeppole trucks were set up in the street next to the student center building, which was still called Butler Hall, I believe, and was just one huge open space at the time) so that Culture Shock was indoors, and the ID thing was enforced. State cops at the door of the student center checking ID and bugging out all the stoned or tripping kids or attempting-to-get-drunk indoor kids. I recall having to go to student life with my friend who was a student to get a guest pass. This was not that long ago.

It was a hassle, but the highlight was Ween's performance to conclude the second (I think) day. People had by the end of the evening started to flaunt the smoking ban, and in fact one of the Ween "brothers" had lit up on stage while playing. Well, concertgoers will remember through their surreptiously-induced drug haze that an older, typically portly, state trooper got onstage in the middle of their playing to inform Dean (or Gene?) to cease and desist. What ensued just as soon as the guitarist complied should live on as a great moment in rock n'roll history.

The officer had unfortunately - for him - choosen to go onstage right before a rather huge and noisy rock-out section of some song. After he approached Gene (no, it was Dean,) he tried to find a way off the stage, but was somehow unable to smoothly do so (his unathletic frame surely did not help). Well just as he was lumbering around the small stage, the music roared to a ferocious volume and he found himself trapped by noise, ineptitude and a cheering packed house, looking on as rock n' roll and rebellion trumped authority for a brief, shining moment. The band memebers eyed each other, smiling wryly; even the trooper was smiling at the humor of his being stuck on stage, while the song finished out. I was not huge Ween fan, but this goes right up there with my first concert experience.

Anyone remember this?

this was the year before i went to purchase, but that is a GREAT story. thanks for sharing. wish i could have seen ween at my school. :/

Sometimes Campus Cops cut off entrance road, in that case go through woods along side roads, Arrowood Hotel, along King St etc, visit campus b-4 to familiarize with layout in case you have to sneak in.

RE: STUDENTS ONLY: F that, this should be open, if enough people show up, the campus cops would get flooded and go to damage control mode, invite your friends, the more the merrier, this thing rocks, the last non-commercialized event in the NY are....

Do not drive cause they may check id-s at entrance, take Metro North to White Plains, then car service to campus, if they check id's at entrance, get dropped off along King Street or Arrowood, like Gary said, and go through woods, this event is definatly 420 friendly.

Do not drive cause they may check id-s at entrance, take Metro North to White Plains, then car service to campus, if they check id's at entrance, get dropped off along King Street or Arrowood, like Gary said, and go through woods, this event is definatly 420 friendly.

Do not drive cause they may check id-s at entrance, take Metro North to White Plains, then car service to campus, if they check id's at entrance, get dropped off along King Street or Arrowood, like Gary said, and go through woods, this event is definatly 420 friendly.

Do not drive cause they may check id-s at entrance, take Metro North to White Plains, then car service to campus, if they check id's at entrance, get dropped off along King Street or Arrowood, like Gary said, and go through woods, this event is definatly 420 friendly.

Don't just come for the music, come for the "party", many studnets set up kegs in their apartments, a lot of free love etc......

Don't just come for the music, come for the "party", many studnets set up kegs in their apartments, a lot of free love etc......

Don't just come for the music, come for the "party", many studnets set up kegs in their apartments, a lot of free love etc......

Don't just come for the music, come for the "party", many studnets set up kegs in their apartments, a lot of free love etc......

Don't just come for the music, come for the "party", many studnets set up kegs in their apartments, a lot of free love etc......

Do not just come for the music, come for the party, the drink, food, many students open thier apartments, roam the dorms for brews and 420 etc, not to mention the free love aspect, just crash in a lounge or outside, will be warm.

i left purchase last semester. and i'm glad i did. this line up is terrible...what happened to MIA?

I suggest non-students visit campus, hook up w/ a student or just scope the area so if security closes entrance you can figure it out.

I suggest non-students visit campus, hook up w/ a student or just scope the area so if security closes entrance you can figure it out.

I suggest non-students visit campus, hook up w/ a student or just scope the area so if security closes entrance you can figure it out.

I suggest non-students visit campus, hook up w/ a student or just scope the area so if security closes entrance you can figure it out.

I suggest non-students visit campus, hook up w/ a student or just scope the area so if security closes entrance you can figure it out.

I suggest non-students visit campus, hook up w/ a student or just scope the area so if security closes entrance you can figure it out.

This would be prime cruising grounds to hook up, many gays and lesbians and lonely straight girls, cougar professors

This would be prime cruising grounds to hook up, many gays and lesbians and lonely straight girls, cougar professors

purchase culture shock memories you will not remember:
murphy's law
destiny's child
orange 9mm

punk ass

You can see the campus on google maps.

735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase NY

www.purchase.edu has a map of campus

is this event ptomoted anywhere else on net etc?

Can people emil their friends. Post this event on other boards, get radio and TV to announce it, this is my senior year, I do not want to see the same faces I see every dreary day on campus............

Can people emil their friends. Post this event on other boards, get radio and TV to announce it, this is my senior year, I do not want to see the same faces I see every dreary day on campus............

Anybody know the show for this year?