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Preparation begins long before the boys leave for the Matrix, the downtown Boston club where the magic will happen. At 7 p.m., Flynn, Lannon, Welch and Melvin struggle to polish themselves up for the night amidst a choir of cell phone calls from friends acting as ticket-selling “foot soldiers...
...music department at Harvard is often criticized for its rigid curriculum, based largely on classical music. Amidst myriad courses on bygone musical genres, the twelve-student class Music 167r, “Electroacoustic Composition,” seems slightly out of place...
...their brightest moments, Drums and Tuba’s underproduced sound and musical incongruities are refreshing amidst today’s overproduced music. But the album never rises beyond a live jam session, its repetition and lack of balance making it just like the demo from the rocker boys next door. —Rebecca M. Milzoff
Most poignant is Dykehouse’s “Wire” cover, which resurrects “My Bloody Valentine” but somehow makes the guitars even more amorphous and suffocating. The track’s shoegazer leanings sound out of place amidst the album’s bloops and beats at first, but they reflect the slowly, surely dissolving boundaries in marginal music...
...winding wooden staircase, the upstairs area has been restored and converted into three private dining rooms that each feature authentic period detail, working fireplaces, wide pine floors and distinctive decorative elements. Downstairs the building was expanded to accommodate a new kitchen, main dining room and full fireside bar. Amidst the wood-paneled walls and simple table settings, the dining room’s main attraction is the central, lantern-rimmed skylight that makes for a night of indoor stargazing. The adjacent fireside bar recalls a ski lodge at wintertime, and those who feel more claustrophobic under low ceilings...