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After delivering The Glow, Pt. 2, an off-kilter pop album that topped many “Best of 2001” lists, critical darlings The Microphones have promptly returned with their follow-up. A considerably darker affair, Mount Eerie is a challenging five-song concept album of meditations on death. Central Microphone Phil Elvrum sculpts an appropriately chaotic mélange with his frail, wavering voice, delicate guitar acoustics and haunting background vocals provided by labelmates Mirah and Calvin Johnson. Most prominent, however, are the constantly booming percussion and out-of-sync drum loops, which evoke (respectively) Mount Eerie...
...pays homage to Boston’s hip-hop roots on his 2000 debut EP Enters the Colossus—a bare-bones affair featuring old-school beats and some cocksure rhyming. On the album’s closing track, he names the influences, collaborators and contemporaries who jumpstarted his career, name-dropping several Boston colleges before mentioning Harvard radio...
Professors say New was careful to insulate her public involvement in the affair from her relationship with the president. But the “perception of the possibility” still colored the discourse. “Some people were nervous about all this,” says Kiely, “nervous that she might tell him what goes on in our meetings.” At the full department meeting called to decide what to do about Paulin, according to a senior professor who was present, the suspicion boiled over. Reid Professor of English Philip J. Fisher asked...
...Russian tabloids in 1999 for would-be pop stars. From the 500 hopefuls he found Lena Katina, then 15, and Julia Volkova, then 14. In late 2000 they were introduced to Russia with the single I've Lost My Mind. The song and video told of a lesbian love affair between two teenagers, and with mTV-Russia showing their video 35 times a week, domestic success came quickly. The titillation of their videos - as well as the criticism and publicity it was designed to generate - helped secure success abroad, too. One shows Lena's face as she apparently masturbates, while...
...Karachi police working on the Pearl case notice a distinct cooling in their superiors' interest these days. For them, the affair is closed; Saeed will hang for the crime. If they pursue clues provided by self-confessed kidnappers Karim and Bukhari, the Supreme Court might conceivably overturn Saeed's conviction, and nobody wants that. Khawaja Naveed Ahmed, a lawyer for one of Saeed's co-defendants, says, "Everyone involved got promotions. And now, there is no attempt to arrest the remaining suspects...