Word: alt
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...with lines like “I will pick you up, like you for I, I thought this thing, I can’t replace.” Or at least he would, if Angels and Airwaves weren’t too busy boldly going where no angst-ridden alt-rockers have gone before. They are on a mission of the utmost importance: to play their song on a spaceship. A planet looms impressively off to one side. The whole thing only goes to show that, contrary to popular wisdom, adding “…in SPACE...
When he arrived on campus, he was bearded, 25, and his band, Weezer, had scored a pair of sizable alt-rock hits—“Undone (The Sweater Song)” and the anthemic “Buddy Holly...
...some obscure, yet awesome, New Haven-based band whose name escapes me. It featured a guy in his fifties playing some mean bass, an early twenty-something on guitar and vocals, and a drummer who I didn’t really pay any attention to. They played thoroughly entertaining alt-rock. Toad boasts great live sound, especially given its miniature scale. The volume is fine-tuned such that you can still talk with your friends, though you may have to raise your voice. The bass is just strong enough to give you a little kick in the pants...
Most students know about Harvard’s resident alt-rocker, Rivers Cuomo ’99-’06. But chances are they haven’t heard of another emerging rock star in their midst. Marc Phillipe Eskenazi ’06-’08 is taking the first steps towards stardom as the new guitarist in alt-rock band The Mooney Suzuki, which has toured with bands like The Hives, The Strokes, and Kings of Leon. After taking time off from college to tour with his high school band, The Sexy Magazines, Eskenazi recently joined...
Whether sitting in with pop-punk group the New Pornographers or standing on her own as an alt-country princess, Case has always had a voice that lingers like a train whistle. What she hasn't had is an album worthy of her talent. The lyrics on this collection of gothic outsider tales feel a little reductive (Star Witness and A Widow's Toast are like under-grad verse about Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County), but with excellent backing from Calexico and Garth Hudson of the Band and flawless singing, Case sells them as undeniably haunting and catchy mood pieces...