Word: bandness
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...before taking the snap. Dropping back, he bounces slightly on his toes, poised, balanced, alert. Then, like tires hitting the pavement, he takes off downfield. He zigs toward the sideline, zags back to the middle of the field, dances past the secondary, and cartwheels into the end zone. The band trumpets his glory as he sashays back to the bench where he assumes his seat...
...frontman, Kevin Shields. “We’re big fans of My Bloody Valentine and whatever [Kevin] does outside of that as well,” Hogan says of his organization. So when Shields mentioned about a year ago that he was thinking of getting the band back together, Hogan worked to make it a reality.After putting together My Bloody Valentine’s UK tour, Hogan and Shields decided that the New York festival would be the right place to showcase the band’s stateside return. “[Kevin] was born in New York...
Since their breakthrough album, “Separation Sunday,” The Hold Steady have become one of the most polarizing bands in indie rock. To some, they’re the new standard-bearers of the classic rock revival. Others consider them derivative and label them as the poster children of Pitchfork-induced hype. Their devotees praise their energy and earnestness, but their detractors ridicule the drugged-out, sex-crazed disillusionment that permeates their lyrics and sends hipster students into a swoon. On “Stay Positive,” the Brooklyn band presents some of their...
...dull pain of disappointment, as if catching the show this year, its sixth, was too late and the festival is now past its prime.I first heard of Bonnaroo in high school when one of my friends attended. He returned wearing tie-dye, telling tales of old hippies and jam bands, masses of acid-trippers and topless peace lovers. I waited patiently until I too had the opportunity to make the pilgrimage to what I had hoped might be one of the few true lovefests still in existence. The chance presented itself this summer. My boyfriend and I packed into...
...line like, “You’re never gonna stop all the teenage leather and booze,” you wouldn’t need to know that it’s from a song called “Teenage Riot,” by a band called Sonic Youth.It seems to follow that we—that is me, you, and everyone we know—are keyed into this cultural endemism in large part because people—a lot of people—bothered to make art about it.For three months this summer I lived...