Word: bandness
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...quarter brings on the "Toast to Dear Old Penn" as Quaker fans are actually throwing pieces of bread at the Quaker mascot while the band plays the alma mater. There are some weird traditions out there and there is now a lot of bread on the track that someone's going to have to clean...
...Penn's band was just chanting DMX's "Rough Riders." That's just embarrassing...
...when Bolańo's novel The Savage Detectives--a massive, bizarre epic about a band of avant-garde Mexican poets--was published in the U.S. last year, it instantly became a cult hit among readers and practically a fetish object to critics. Bolańo's other major novel, 2666, is even more massive and more bizarre. It is also a masterpiece, and its publication in English translation by Farrar, Straus & Giroux on Nov. 11 is the most electrifying literary event of the year. With 2666, Bolańo's posthumous conquest of America is complete...
...humor to celebrate work that doesn’t quite live up to that standard. The “photographic explorations” of a teenage girl are just as at home as a monograph of paintings, as is a collection of biographical drawings, as are tracks from a band called Hooded Figures, whose founder and lead singer is a 10-year-old named Lula (great stuff, actually).It’s certainly odd, then, that in light of all of this, my mind turns once again to the words of Susan Sontag, who once wrote that the advent...
...words linger and haunt as he asks what went wrong: “In the days before you were young / We used to sit in the morning sun/ And turn the radio on / What happened?”And what did happen to Travis, the compatriots of Coldplay, the band of “Why Does It Always Rain On Me?” fame? The peak of Travis’s career coincided with the release of their sophomore and junior albums, “The Man Who” (1999) and “Invisible Band?...