Five local bands, all with ties to the Harvard community, competed last night in a Battle of the Bands.
The Humming, a group of two Harvard students teamed with childhood friends from Vermont, and FinkFankFunk, a 10-piece funk cover band, shared the first-place prize of $500.
Stovepipe #9, whose lead singer works as a security guard at the Science Center, walked off with a second place check for $100.
The Dudley House Committee organized and promoted the event, which was staged at Lehman Hall in the southwest corner of Harvard Yard.
Robert Paluzzi, lead singer for Stovepipe #9, said he was excited to have the opportunity to perform at an event with such an eclectic mix of musical styles.
"We were like a mudslide coming in after a bunch of concrete. I felt like we brought an organic element into the mixture," Paluzzi said.
UsagiPop, the band that performed immediately before Stovepipe's set, featured an electric guitar, bass, keyboards and a DJ with turntables and a drum machine.
W. David Marx '01, UsagiPop's guitar-playing lead vocalist, said the band has gotten much of its influence from ambient and electronic backbeat sounds currently coming out of Japan.
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