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...rock music by fostering community among student musicians, launched its first major event last night: an intercollegiate “Battle of the Bands” to showcase rock ensembles.Spanning three nights at Tommy Doyle’s Pub and Restaurant at 96 Winthrop St., the Battle of the Bands features five Harvard groups (Blanks., Linus, Major Major, Plan B for the Type A’s, and Maya) and four bands from nearby Boston colleges. Four of the nine acts performed last night, while the rest will take the stage on Tuesday. Two bands from each night will advance...
Mogwai has always played a brand of music—brooding, instrumental post-rock—that their fans might call “challenging.” And challenging it is—not only for the listener, but for the band as well. It’s challenging to work in a genre that has become nearly synonymous with pretension. It’s challenging to maintain interest in sprawling, nine-minute epics. It’s challenging to acknowledge your influences without being labeled yet another Slint or Rodan copy...
...lane blacktop crosses a cattle guard into a wild expanse of golden scrub grass. A few trailers and prefab houses, a collection of junked cars and a gas station that sells Spam and soda pop--such is the homeland of the Native American tribe known as the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes. At their peak, the Goshutes numbered 20,000. Today only a dozen of the band's 121 members live on the 18,000-acre reservation; the rest have scattered across the West in search of a better life...
...stored at nuclear power plants nationwide. For utilities, it could solve what has been a vexing problem. For tribal officials, the advantages are tangible: as much as $100 million in fees to be paid over 40 years by a Wisconsin-based consortium of utilities, Private Fuel Storage (PFS). The band hopes to use the money to finance a health clinic, a police force and new businesses that could lure scattered tribal members back home. "People say this will destroy the land," says tribal chairman Leon Bear, who brokered the deal. "But how can you poison what is already poisoned...
...tougher than I actually am. 2) “My Father’s Eyes”—Eric Clapton. Clapton is sick at guitar, but this song is a little emo. 3) “Say Goodbye”—Dave Matthews Band. This is just Dave being his drunken, pot-smoking, sex-fiend self. 4) “Jigga What”—Jay-Z. No seriously… Jigga what? 5) “Am I Missing”—Dashboard Confessional. Some girl really messed with this dude?...