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...College’s concert-worth-going-to draught seems to be over, for the time being. The Undergraduate Council’s Concert Commission just announced that Guster, a mellow alternative rock band with local roots (the band formed at Tufts), is coming to play in the Gordon Track and Tennis Center on Nov. 2. It is about time...
...they surpass the most recent offering of The Verve Pipe who played Springfest in 2002. Guster’s muted tones and wistful lyrics lack a real energetic punch, but they will be more than enough to rouse Harvard’s live-music-deprived student body. And the band has something that The Verve Pipe didn’t have: it’s actually popular right now. The concert will also be the first to be held across the Charles—taking advantage of the University’s large venues in Allston—which means...
...around a room and tell who has also seen them play. There would be a secret handshake, or a sigil emblazoned on their forehead, invisible to all those without it and in the shape of that toothy demon from their album art. Because, you see, Radiohead are the best band in the world. And only those of us blessed to have seen them play live truly know...
Arena shows will kill any mediocre band that ends up playing them. The audience is an opaque mass and the tiny little stick figures with guitars are unable to reach beyond the footlights. But for the best bands, arenas are where they come into their own. On Friday night, the audience as a single body underwent a symbiotic connection to the band, rendering us one being. When Thom Yorke sang “We are accidents / Waiting to happen,” he was singing about all of us there, and we all knew it. When Yorke went ballistic, gyrating...
...don’t expect you to convert immediately. It took me about four years. But someday it may happen that the heavens will open, light will stream from the sky and you will realize that Radiohead is the only band in the world worth listening to. Possibly even, it will be another band. And you will remember these words, and gnash your teeth as you realize that you will never be able to make the others see what you mean when you say that this is the greatest music in the world. But look carefully and you may catch...