Word: bandness
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...evil Haman’s plot to destroy all the Jews, which provides the perfect excuse to get smashed while sporting ridiculous outfits. Campus Rabbi and Orthodox Rabbinic Advisor Avi Poupko came dressed as the Pope in full regalia, complete with a guitar on his back. Former Jewish band member Raphael S.N. Nemes ’05 and his friend Joseph D. Tarkoff took a less religious approach, dressing up as Borat and Azumat, respectively. Miriam R. Hinman ’08 also veered away from a Jewish-inspired costume. She was dressed as Pippi Longstocking with long striped socks...
...painted “U-M-B-C” across their chests, and the pack of Binghamton students wearing identical green jerseys who stood and cheered the entire game.Schools pulled out all the stops to provide support for their teams, as seven teams had at least its band and cheerleaders. Most brought mascots and a dance team as well. The only school that brought none of these was fourth-seeded Maine, which was also the only higher-ranked team to lose. Are you listening, Harvard?After watching four straight quality games in a quality atmosphere, I really hope...
...subsequently made a sugary album with supermodel/siren/singer Nico, it would probably sound a lot like Dean and Britta’s debut album, “Back Numbers.” In “Back Numbers,” the married couple, formerly of the indie-rock band Luna, step away from their well-respected place in the music industry to explore a folksy, Mitch and Mickey sound. M. Dean Wareham ’85, who’s billed in the accompanying press material as “an architect of despair,” comes across...
...might already have Asobi Seksu—Japanese for “playful sex”—in your iTunes library, since Apple recently offered the song “Thursday” as a free download. The NYC band combines poppish rock and a moody pan-Asian sound with the voice of potentially attractive singer/keyboardist Yuki Chikudate, to produce a sugary ambient effect. The music video for “Goodbye” finds its influences not in the sexiness of the band’s name but rather in its Japanese background. The aesthetic scheme...
...land of freedom, in chains / In the land of freedom, insane,” she bellows. In the final song, “Where Y’all At?,” Marsalis himself delivers a poetic diatribe against modern American life. Under his shouts, the band lays into a bluesy New Orleans groove and a chorus echoes his lines as if he were preaching to a gospel church. “It can’t all be blamed on the party of Lincoln,” Marsalis howls. “The left and the right have...