Word: bandness
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...Penn and Princeton fans that make the trip to Cambridge. The visitors to Lavietes Pavilion can often turn the arena into a road- or neutral-site environment.“The only thing that’s upsetting to me is how other schools come here and they have bands and we don’t have a band,” Beal said. “That’s the thing that annoys me.”According to the Harvard University Band, two years ago the athletic department asked the band to choose between hockey and basketball...
...forced on the musicians by someone else. The album has its moments, however, and they tend to be those that are, ironically, a little less brave and bold. ‘Daniel,’ perhaps the best of them, is a dreamy cooperation between the two sounds, neither band pushing too far beyond its limits, Tortoise swelling up and down while Oldham’s falsetto peaks out through layers of effects. ‘Daniel,’ ‘Pancho,’ and ‘The Calvary Cross’ all allow Oldham?...
...Greatest” will be remembered as her abdication—a movement into happier, if less fruitful, territory. The genre has traditionally espoused an ethic of independence, but for this dishonestly named album, she sought out help, moving to Memphis to record with a backing band filled with some of country music’s old-hands. Unfortunately, the transplant doesn’t take. It appears that Ms. Marshall was meant to be a city kitty, not a country cousin. Instead of her previous idiosyncratic and intensely appealing emotional girl-chants, here she turns in some faceless performances...
...former with instantly-catchy songs and goofy lyrics, their new LP, “The Life Pursuit,” has more gravity to match its sober title. Through the first four listens, I was disappointed with the album; by the seventh, I had fallen in love with the band again. Part of that reaction has to do with the fact that “The Life Pursuit,” unlike previous work, was recorded in more or less live sessions rather than as layers of separately recorded instrumental tracks. The harmonies are less layered, the arrangements simpler. Instead...
Walking into “Frank Stella 1958,” the special exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, reminded me of the surprise I got when I heard one of my friends, who plays guitar in a punk band, playing Mozart on a violin. It wasn’t that the delicate strains of the violin concerto were completely unrelated to the straight-up, snarling chords of his punk songs, nor even that one was necessarily better than the other. It was just that, man, I didn’t know he could do that...