Pitchfork

Providence, Rhode Island's Brown University, as befits a school of its stature, is steeped in tradition. There's the legend of professor of psychoceramics Josiah S. Carberry, who simply never existed. There's the Naked Donut Run, which is exactly what it sounds like. And there's the annual Spring Weekend, a chance to cast off the pressures of the spring semester to the strains of some fine, fine music.

In recent years, the Spring Weekend has seen Brown play host to the likes of the Flaming Lips, Yo La Tengo, the Roots, Ted Leo, Common, Wilco, the Shins, and others. And this year's spring fling, taking place April 11-12, will once again pack a mighty wallop, with Vampire Weekend (representing Brown nemesis Columbia) joining Lupe Fiasco on Friday night, and M.I.A., Girl Talk, and jammy jammersons Umphrey's McGee doing their thing Saturday.

That's all well and good, but when will the future leaders of tomorrow do their homeworks?