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...addition to being serenaded by the Wu Tang Clan and Gavin DeGraw at Yardfest tomorrow, Harvard students will get the chance to see former Dispatch band member Brad Corrigan perform at the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub next Thursday. Brad Corrigan will be playing with his band Braddigan, which he formed in 2003 after Dispatch disbanded. Braddigan members, who are performing for Harvard Concert Committee’s (HCC) “Rock for a Reason,” are set to take the stage at 9pm on Thursday, April 24. The night’s repertoire will...
...existence, few devote substantial time or serious attention to either its study or its performance. But the quote is not a description of the current jazz scene: it comes from a 1974 article by Jim Cramer ’77 in these pages, reviewing a Harvard Jazz Band concert with trombonists Phil Wilson and Carl Fontana. And although Cramer, who would be come The Crimson’s president, expressed hope that “Monday night’s concert will signal the beginning of Harvard’s sprint to overtake the rest of the collegiate runners...
...bright, and explosive. The listener can’t help but cringe at the brief, shamelessly emo spoken-word digression of the Graveyard Girl herself, but it’s forgiven by the time “found sounds” and computer whirrs lead it out. For a band named after another galaxy, “We Own The Sky” seems like an appropriate Reagan-era boast. The track shimmers with hedonistic abandon, flying high on echoing keyboards and the indulgently meaningless mantra, “It’s coming / It’s coming...
...Many Mariachi Veritas members are also classical, jazz, and rock musicians who are involved in other musical groups on campus such as BachSoc and Kuumba. Only a few of the current group members had previous mariachi experience when they joined Mariachi Veritas. In fact, despite being a Mexican band, there are only three Mexican-American members in the group. For the Mexican-American members, Mariachi Veritas is “a way to share our culture with the other members of the group and the Harvard community,” according to David Garcia ’09, who plays...
...mankind.” Later in the same song, he presents himself as a mere puppet of his soul, thereby attributing his music to an expression of this deeper source. “My Bloody Underground” isn’t just exploring the styles of seminal rock bands; it appears to be hunting the roots of all humankind. As is typical of BJM, a wide range of musical tricks—from sitars to African drums to classical piano—gets featured on various tracks. BJM also culls their lyrics from a diverse linguistic spectrum, even composing...