Lewis "DJ Beard" Mundt

Lewis is a communication studies major at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

He has no training as a musician and is for all real purposes completely tone-deaf, which lends itself to a high tolerance for new material and an extensive, varied music library.  It’s this library that he’ll occasionally delve into for Empty Cabinet segments, when he has nothing new on his radar.  With 13,000 songs as of the end of 2009, he can probably come up with something.

Coupled with his library is his impressive collection of ticket stubs, which is only growing.  He is an avid concert-goer, knocking down 150+ shows in only five years of attending them at all, and has seen acts from Van Halen to Dog Fashion Disco; from Regina Spektor to Jherek Bischoff; from Incubus to Sage Francis.  He’s a proud attendee of Jason Webley’s Elevanniversary show in Seattle, Washington, flying 1,600 miles for the evening.

The eco-friendly kicker is that he will bike to most shows within a ten mile radius of his campus.

Wednesday nights from 8 to 10 p.m. Central Time he takes up the reins of a student-led radio program called The Mid-Morning Drive!, joining a close campus friend for two hours of “shenanigans,” as you might best put it.  He also hosts his own show, Studio Solo with DJ Beard, at 11:30 p.m. on Monday nights, a practical grab-bag of everything from punctuation-mark-themed shows to in-studio performances that run as late as 2 a.m.  There will you find DJ Beard in his finest two hours a week.  You can listen to it by going to the Hamline Radio link during broadcast times.

Non-musical hobbies include creative writing, editing, networking, photography, urban and indoor climbing, and spoken word poetry.

Lewis also serves as Publicity Chair of the Hamline University Women’s Resource Center, treasurer of Hamline University Radio, a worker in the box office of the campus theater, and a member of the campus’ art group, MamaDada.

He speaks English to the utmost degree ( he “digs” things, calls people “folks” and “chaps,” and uses the word “lovely” too much ), conversational German, and a word or two of French and Czech.  The language barrier doesn’t exist in his reviews; if he likes that new Swedish hip-hop artist (Promoe, he’s lookin’ at you), he’ll have a word with it.