Word: bandness
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Harvard has never been a paradise for rock and roll. Look at any bulletin board: around here, cellos are preferable to guitars, bhangra has a greater following than any one campus band, and a cappella concerts fill Sanders Theatre on a regular basis.Is this because we, as a student body, possess an innate inability to rock out? Or is there some precondition for rock missing that, if present, would reverse the bulldozers’ direction and convert Harvard into an extension of rock-friendly Allston?Intuition makes the former seem unlikely, as Harvard has produced its fair share of successful...
...Night at the Hip-Hopera” and ccc’s “Revolved.” Otherwise, I just put iTunes on party shuffle and see what comes up: obscure musicals (“Blood Brothers”), Patsy Cline, the Yonder Mountain String Band, a Brazilian band called Skank, the Pillows, the Notre Dame Glee Club, the fabulousness that is 80s pop, a gay country duo called Y’ALL... My aunt and uncle are musicians (my aunt Kristi Rose started out in the New York rockabilly scene in the mid-80s; my uncle Fats...
...catch her opponent’s, stinging like a glove against his cheek.He (in white, shoulders shrugged and feet kicking) responded with appropriate late-’90s finesse to the ska-laced beat of “Frenchy, I’m Faking.” With big band grandeur, two trombones from the band crossed slides, hurling more syncopated grace at the dancer. With sudden fear, his feet were not his own but those of another, less laden with curiosity and daring. A missed beat turned into a shuffle, a pause, and then a failed pitch at recovery.No...
...Bear’s Place 10 Brookline Pl., Cambridge $3-15, 21+ So, youngster, you want to be hip. Whenever someone mentions their new favorite band, you want to sigh and say that they were awesome both times you saw them onstage. And you want to do this despite your sub-21 age. Unfortunately, Boston’s small venues aren’t underage-friendly and your choices here are limited. Most Harvard students limit themselves to the Central Square standby everyone knows about, that four-stage indie palace curiously named after a geographic region. Next time, though, turn...
...Ethan Gray ‘05-’06 While each person is allowed their opinion, the article on the video for “The Ghost Of You” by My Chemical Romance, was seemingly unresearched. They didn’t even bother to learn the band members’ names nor anything else about the band before going and attacking their music video. They are musicians, not directors and unable to spend millions of dollars on a music video. The video in itself, is very well done and put together, not getting wrapped up in special...