![]() ![]() Bands like Sure Sure, Coin, White Reaper - bands like that on a larger scale. ZS: Well first of all, we have so many creative friends around the country who we’re lucky to call our friends. Just vibin’ out here.īM: With the vibe that you’re conveying, who’s an artist you would love or you think would work really well with Hippo Campus in a collab? ![]() ZS: I don’t know, it’s kind of like, good vibes. ![]() When we started the band we had this really stellar idea of having our catch phrase/slogan be “we’re more of a party than a band,” but we quickly abandoned that idea and had to be reminded by our fans that we said that a couple weeks later. Indie rock/pop would probably be the genre name. ZS: Well first of all, thanks for being a fan. Now, I personally am a huge fan of your music, but for people who are new to Hippo Campus, what’s the sound - or, rather the name that you would give the sound - you’re producing? So he thought, hippocampus is a part of the brain, let’s do it! And bang bang boom, we’re stuck with it.īM: Hell yeah. But, there was this band called the Limbic System, and they’re from the south west and actually a really good band, so Nathan took a lot of influence from them. ZS: Well, obviously in psychology class we learned it’s the center for memory and emotion, so I’m sure that had some connotation to the name. Would you say it’s more for a catchy phrase, or does it have an actual meaning or relation to the music? What if we just put a space in the middle?” You know the meme where there’s this group of kids and one kid is looking at the camera and everyone around him is freaking out? That’s exactly what happened when he put the space in hippocampus.īM: That’s great. Our guitar player Nathan was in psychology class in high school and he went, “Okay, now hold on. ZS: You pretty much got the nail in the head. ![]() Now I’m sure you get this question a lot, but how did the name Hippo Campus come to be? Because you would think it’s referring to the part of the brain, but it’s two separate words. It’s this really supportive scene and we owe pretty much everything we have to their support when we started out.īM: Nice. It’s self contained and the art there is super grassroots and local. Geographically, there’s nowhere to go if you’re going to Minneapolis. ZS: Minneopolis has this really cool rising scene, independent from everything else. We’re a band from Minneapolis, Minnesota.īM: How is the music scene in Minneapolis? How would you compare it to the rest of the world and SLO? ZS: I’m Zach from Hippo Campus and I play bass. I was fortunate enough to interview Zach Sutton, the bass player and professional viber of Hippo Campus, over the phone.īM: Hi, this is Brian from KCPR and I’m here with Zach from Hippo Campus.īM: Could you introduce yourself and tell me a little about Hippo Campus. Names such as Beans, Stitches, and Espos were played around with until finally settling with Hippo Campus, a name thought out by lead-guitarist Nathan Stocker while in his psychology class. Releasing their first EP, Tarzan Rejects, in 2013, the Minnesota-based band experimented with various band names, Tarzan Rejects being one of the first in reference to the leopard print shorts one of the members was wearing at the time. The five-piece group met at Saint Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists, and the members, after having been through a number of bands, united as Hippo Campus. We'd have to see the context to know for sure what 'passing the vibe check' means in this context.In 2013, the internet brought a multitude of gems, from “swag” to the Harlem Shake, but one that has prevailed into the new decade is Hippo Campus. It's the disconnect between the expected method of doing a vibe check (saying 'hmm, you give off bad vibes today', or whatever) and the 'method' that ends up being used in the memes (bludgeoning the other person, implicitly to correct their bad vibes). It doesn't have anything to do with vibes. The phrase became super popular, though, with the advent of a meme where one person declares 'vibe check' and then beats the other person up. The original, literal meaning is getting a reading on someone's 'vibe', or the aura/feeling they give off. It's very hard to explain because it's sort of an absurdist, surreal internet meme that, by now, is used more often ironically than genuinely. ![]()
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