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Make It, Work It, Do It: College A Capella Gets Viral

Once a semester, 600 or so students pile into an auditorium at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn., for a last-day-of-class concert by The Singing Knights, one of the school's seven a capella groups. With Carleton's student body barely clearing 2,000, that's an impressive crowd—until you consider that their live renditions of songs by Grizzly Bear, Sufjan Stevens and other indie-rock darlings have racked up over 4 million YouTube views. Their 2006 performance of Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" is the unequivocal "hit" with 3,135,148 views at press time, but more recent arrangements of Flight of the Conchords' "Sello Tape"...  read more

The Best of Online College A Capella

Thanks to the viral spread of videos of their performances of popular indie songs, Carleton College's Singing Knights are undoubtedly the Internet's most well-known college a capella group. But a slew of other ensembles have used YouTube to foster new audiences beyond the limited notoriety of campus showcases. And while no one's yet topped the Knights' live collaboration on Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" with "the Daft Hands guy" (also a Carleton student), there's no shortage of groups offering up videos of their unexpected, creative and, more often than not, mega-ironic arrangements. Here are six of our favorites. The...  read more

Daft Fame: More from the Carleton Singing Knights

In Issue 46, Tom Fry, Carleton senior and Singing Knights tenor, gave Paste a glimpse at the inner workings of the Internet's most popular college a capella ensemble. Here are some outtakes.On song selection: “It's a pretty democratic system: Each term, we all bring three or four songs to the table, and once everyone listens to them, we discuss which ones we'll sing and who should do the arranging. Democratic doesn't necessarily mean efficient-- this process usually takes a good 3-4 hour chunk out of our rehearsal time at the start of every term. Some of us are pretty picky.”...  read more