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Charles Spearin is the tallest member of Broken Social Scene, a Canadian indie-rock band. He’s also one of its founders, playing primarily bass but dabbling in other instruments on each of the band??s four full length albums. His own band, Do Make Say Think, a post-rock band whose long, intricate compositions recall Godspeed You Black Emperor, has also been rapidly gaining fans by touring with Broken Social Scene. On a rainy night before a concert in Providence, Spearin sat down for an interview with The Harvard Crimson, but one which he stipulated...
...free performances. Perhaps the most exciting of these appearances took place in the Boston Museum of Science’s Charles Hayden Planetarium and included a multimedia spectacle in the vein of a vintage laser Pink Floyd show. The planetarium was an appropriate venue given the title of the band??s new album, “Ganging Up on the Sun,” which features the single “Satellite.” Having vacillated between the mellow late-’90s rock of Third Eye Blind and Dashboard Confessional and the New England pseudo...
...video for “A Great Big Sled,” a song recently released by The Killers as a very special (and very catchy) holiday charity single. The song manages to combine everything about the band that we know and hate and love, building on the band??s pseudo-post-punk sound to incorporate a totally ass-kicking new component—sleigh bells...
...song that can do that and still allow you to rock out is definitely worthy of becoming a holiday classic. Lead singer Brandon Flowers is in top form, maintaining the band??s characteristic ’80s rock feel, backgrounding the fact that this is a Christmas song. Until, that is, you see the video...
...production, so don’t expect any character development or thinly disguised Moulin Rouge references as in other Killers music videos. You shouldn’t expect anything beyond cheesy costumes and fuzzy shots of randomly assorted holiday decorations, which is quite a relief in light of the band??s previous, overwrought videos...