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...day’s events concluded with the Grand Public Bookish Ball, featuring a literary costume contest sponsored by the Harvard Independent, literary-themed confections, and the soul music of the ’60s-revivalist band the Sweet Divines...
...It’s also important for fans to open their ears and fill venues like the Middle East. Find absolution from your music stealing by seeing the band in person rather than watching grainy music videos on YouTube...
...Campesinos! really like exclamation marks. Not only do they have one in their name, but all seven band members have one at the end of their adopted monikers—plus they have a song title featuring no fewer than three of them (“You! Me! Dancing!”). Bearing this in mind, it’s not surprising that every moment of the Welsh band’s debut album, “Hold on Now, Youngster,” feels like it’s punctuated with extra emphasis. The band has been building...
...Accelerate” is what its title suggests: a return to speed for R.E.M., the godfathers of alternative rock. Given the lukewarm responses to their last three decidedly-subdued albums, the band should be commended for cranking up the volume, letting loose, and creating their shortest album ever. But the results, though promising, aren’t immune to R.E.M.’s recent strains of mediocrity. The single greatest aspect of this album is the triumphant return of Mike Mills’ musicianship. As R.E.M.’s trusty bassist, Mills has been criminally overlooked for decades...
...trappings of a sonic leap forward. While it never satisfies as fully nor succeeds as thrillingly as the band’s earlier work did, the album explores a fuller, more dimensional sound that only promises greater things from the Keys in the future. It certainly shows that the band could have used the help of a producer like Danger Mouse during their holding pattern, 2006’s “Modern Times.” While that album was a self-conscious retreat from the more accessible pop architecture of “Rubber Factory...