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Common Ground schedule Tuesday Auto Value Main Stage Circa Survive, 8 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Brand New, 9:30 p.m. - 11 p.m.

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Back home on a big stage

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The Hold Steady, 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.

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Local band Squirrel Shaped Fish one of many acts to perform in 2014 Common Ground Music Festival

GM Pavilion Stage So So Glos, 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. The Front Bottoms, 7:15 p.m. - 8 p.m. Say Anything, 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Dinosaur Pile Up, 11 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. Sparrow Stage You Blew It, 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Braid, 7:15 p.m. - 8 p.m. Kevin Devine and the Goddamn Band, 8:45 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Seahaven, 11 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. Wednesday Auto Value Main Stage The Wailers, 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Violent Femmes, 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. 311, 9:30 p.m. - 11 p.m. GM Pavilion Stage The 4onthefloor, 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Flobots, 7:15 p.m. - 8 p.m. OPM, 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Sparrow Stage Squirrel Shaped Fish, 5:45 p.m.- 6:30 p.m. The Weeks, 7:15 p.m. - 8 p.m. Radical Something, 8:45 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Ben Kenney, 11 p.m.- 12 a.m. Thursday Auto Value Main Stage Gord Bamford, 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. David Nail, 7:45 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Justin Moore, 9:30 p.m.- 11 p.m. GM Pavilion Stage Julia Sheer, 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Gunnar & The Grizzly Boys, 7 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. Jacob Powell, 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Sparrow Stage Chelsey Danfield, 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Hugh Bob & the Hustle, 8:45 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Shane Lee, 8:45 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Friday Auto Value Main Stage Ace Hood, 6:45 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Juicy J, 7:45 p.m.- 8:45 p.m. Big Sean, 9:30 p.m. - 10:45 p.m. GM Pavilion Stage Berner, 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Chevy Woods, 7 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. Machine Gun Kelly, 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. Tay Rhodes, 10:45 p.m. - 11:15 p.m. cyRus, 11:15 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. Sparrow Stage Hitman and DJ Klaverflav, 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Ill Natured, 7 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. L Soul, 8:45 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. James Gardin & the Full Respect, 10:45 p.m.- 11:45 p.m. Saturday Auto Value Main StagE Jukebox the Ghost, 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Dr. Dog, 7:45 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Fitz and The Tantrums,9:30 p.m. - 11 p.m.

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Squirrel Shaped Fish keyboardist Tong Kupatavetin, left, and guitarist and vocalist Drew Irwin perform an acoustic set with the band Thursday at a house in Lansing. The Lansing-based band performed for the first time at The Loft in November 2013 and will be performing at Common Ground Music Festival.

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The lineup of Lansing-based band Squirrel Shaped Fish consists of the usual components of any band — guitar, vocals, bass, keyboard, drums — but the Friday before their debut at Common Ground Music Festival, they traded in their drums for pots and pans. With the Festival just around the corner, Squirrel Shaped Fish made the most of practice time before their big performance. The band recorded songs in Lansing resident Dom Korzecki’s living room as part of a series of performances he calls “The Spaghetti Sessions.” During the sessions, Korzecki

invited local bands into his home for a pasta dinner, followed by a recording session on the cookware before interviewing them during his radio show “The Basement ” on WDBM (88.9 FM), MSU’s student radio station. Even though the indie rock band is preparing for their first performance before such a large audience, the band has deep roots in the local scene. Building a following Squirrel Shaped Fish formed in the summer of 2013, recorded their first EP in August and debuted live at The Loft in Lansing that November. Communications senior Drew Irwin, who mans guitars and vocals in the band, said since

then, the band has been playing shows at venues such as Mac’s Bar in addition to venues in Kalamazoo and Chicago, while trying to get their music out to the public. “(We’ve been) trying to build momentum and sharing our CD with everyone that we meet and so far people have liked it and we’ve been getting on more shows,” Irwin said. He said he met Lansing resident Caleb Knight, the band’s other vocalist and drummer, through mutual friends at MSU and the pair decided to begin writing music together. Chicago resident Parker Langvardt, who plays bass, said he met Knight through their different high school bands playing in shows together. DeWitt res-

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Bomb threat casts light on discretionary MSU alerts By Colleen Otte cotte@statenews.com THE STATE NEWS nn

Sparrow Stage Action Item, 1 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. Ryan Beatty, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Chappo, 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Royal Teeth, 7 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. X Ambassadors, 8:45 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

The People’s Temple, 11 p.m. - 11:45 p.m. Sunday Auto Value Main Stage Ahsan, 6:30 p.m. - 7:15 p.m. Daley, 8 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. Earth Wind & Fire, 9:30 p.m. - 11 p.m.

Sparrow Stage Dee Hibbert & Company, 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Tyrone Foster, 7:15 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Picking a band name Coming from musical back-

grounds, Knight and Irwin a re t he ba nd’s pr incipa l songwriters. Irwin said his grandfather and uncle played bluegrass music and he was inspired to play so his mother bought him a guitar when he was younger. Knight said when he was a kid, he was only allowed to listen to Christian music. Then, one of his friends gave him a few classic rock CDs — Rush, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. “He basically said, ‘Listen to this and come back to me and let me know how that goes for you’ and immediately I was like, I would like to learn how to play drum set,” Knight said. The name for the band

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GM Pavilion Stage Empires, 5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. The Orwells, 7 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

GM Pavilion Stage Joe Hertler & the Rainbow Seekers, 7 p.m. - 8 p.m. Robert Glasper Experiment 8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

ident Tong Kupatavetin, who is the band’s keyboardist, said he started off as casually playing with the group and filling in if a keyboardist was needed. Langvardt said he didn’t meet Kupatavetin until the band began practicing for their show at The Loft. He said he has been in bands before where conflict happens often, but the energy between the members of Squirrel Shaped Fish is more relaxed. “(In other bands) even the songwriting process would be us all digging in at the same time where with this — we just show up and play,” Langvardt said.

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Haslett, Mich., residents Layla Hendrix, 8, and Abby Krause, 7, not pictured, hold up a flag as the parade passes them near the Capitol building in downtown Lansing. The annual Fourth of July Parade featured various groups and circled the Capitol Building. See PARADE on page 3

When a false bomb threat was reported at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday at Spartan Stadium, the offices in the stadium and surrounding buildings were evacuated. But despite the stadium’s location at the heart of campus, MSU police did not send out an alert. MSU spokesman Jason Cody said in an email that MSU police assess threats to campus safety and determine on a “case-by-case basis” whether to issue an alert. “In this case, the individuals who needed to take action — faculty, staff and students in the stadium complex — were evacuated by police immediately after the threat was made,” Cody said. “Police then set up a perimeter so others

could not get close. Thus, an alert to the entire campus community was not needed.” But after the evacuation order was given and the search was underway, employees and other pedestrians could be seen strolling past the stadium’s exterior. And not everyone heard the evacuation order. Recent graduate and MSU Museum employee Riley Ravary was working in the Central Services building which sits in the shadow of the stadium’s east end. As other university employees dispersed, Ravary and a colleague were walking around the stadium toward Munn field. “We were supposed to evacuate, but we didn’t hear about it,” Ravary said in a previous See ALERTS on page 2 u


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