Word: bandness
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...many push-ups as the male cadets, but they want to prove themselves as soldiers. It can feel like a dual life, slipping out of combat boots and into high heels—and back to boots again. These women still want to be part of the band of brothers. THE SERGEANT MAJOROn an outdoor track at MIT, the ROTC students, called cadets, stand in a four-row formation. Everyone is dressed identically—camouflage pants, camouflage jackets. One cadet comes forward to start physical training. This is the sergeant major, a senior responsible for the smooth functioning...
...today’s sorry state of hip-hop are atrocious and embarrassing to listen to, and they harness unneeded and negative emotions. Take the socially-aware hip-hop artist Will.I.Am—a member of the Black Eyed Peas—and the Pussycat Dolls, a girl band that is advertised as a paragon of the advancement of women, but is perhaps better known for scantily-clad dress and provocative dance movements. In their currently popular song “Beep,” Will.I.Am says, “It’s funny how a man only...
...Bands from Boston-area colleges faced off in front of a packed crowd Thursday night for a shot at victory in this year’s first intercollegiate Battle of the Bands. Two Harvard groups competed with acts from Berklee College of Music and Northeastern University to win over the audience that filled the upstairs of Tommy Doyle’s in Harvard Square. The Berklee indie group, Fly Upright Kite, came in first place with Harvard’s well-known Major Major tying with Northeastern’s Stolen Records for second. The all-girl Harvard rock band...
...thinks “such a lonely day should be banned.” At least he has the other members of System of a Down on the bus with him to keep him company. In the video for “Lonely Day,” the band members lounge mournfully around their tour bus, fiddling with a cunningly-product-placed iPod, playing chess, and gazing out the windows. They don’t seem terribly lonely, but they do seem rather bored. Why they thought people would be entertained by watching the band travel by luxury...
...release of their stripped-raw 2001 debut “Is This It.” Then, the skinny-tie-wearing partiers, barely beyond their teens, rejected million-dollar studio techniques for a bare, garage-rock sound. But the five subsequent years have witnessed a significant evolution for the band. They’ve developed a fuller sound, both on record and on stage, and perform more challenging instrumental parts and more expressive, emotional lyrics. What the Strokes have since lost in edge and youth they have gained in confidence.Despite their change in sound, the Strokes pulled their tried...