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Eons ago—way back in the ’80s and ’90s—a band called Dinosaur Jr. roamed the earth. It was the master of its domain, known primarily for the ferocious noise it produced and grunge, the movement it helped spark. Yet in a move right out of “Jurassic Park,” Dinosaur Jr. has been revived ten years after the band’s last album with its original lineup. And just like that movie’s earthshaking, jeep-terrorizing T-rex, their new album...
...Roses!” Says Jenkins excitedly. “Will you answer my phone if I call you back and not screen my call?” He asks his famous caller. “K. Brotherhood.”Indeed, Jenkins sees his band as the latest in the “brotherhood” of rock. “We’re really more of an indie rock band,” he says. “An underground band, that happens to have fancy tunes.” And, according to Jenkins, a band that...
...stop,” Collins says, laughing. Since then, his creative juices haven’t stopped flowing, finding outlets in every shape, size, and color. Growing up in New York, Collins continued percussion lessons at Julliard, playing with the New York Youth Symphony as well as a rock band. When the group got serious, he decided to defer coming to Harvard for a year in order to record an album with the band and tour around the Northeast. Although he was already musically involved in high school, this gap year was largely responsible for focusing Collins?...
...learned harmony by listening to the Beatles and John Coltrane, then playing,” Adams recalls. He vividly remembers the day in early June of 1967 when the Beatles released their seminal album, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”“I remember waiting in a long line in front of the Coop for the record store to open,” he says. “We all hurried back to our dorms to play it then to parse through it like it was the Rosetta Stone...
...always been banging on stuff, banging on tables, the sink, legs, or even somebody else when I was younger,” he says, drumming his fingers on a bench in Lowell House’s courtyard.Though he played bass guitar in a blues band in addition to studying piano for eight years, Ogunnaike’s true passion, drumming, developed by chance during his freshman year.“One of my friends dragged me to a West African dance class, and I was hesitant because I thought it would be for girls, but the instructor was also...