Word: bandness
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...with a sine-wave oscillator called “Fantastic Glissando.” My roommate Josh thinks it sounds like a plane taking off. Table of the Elements has also released a 2-CD set of Tony Conrad’s 1972 collaboration with the Krautrock band Faust called “Outside the Dream Syndicate,” and it’s incredible. It’s really interesting to see how Faust’s stripped-down art-rock and Conrad’s avant-classically-influenced drone intersect, especially since Conrad was involved with other...
...reference, while just under 600 Harvard students list the band Radiohead among their “favorite music” on thefacebook.com, Mozart and Beethoven each show up fewer than 200 times...
...purchased The Police’s “Outlandos D’amour” the other day, without knowing why. I’d never been particularly fond of the band; in fact, I’ve always had a strong personal distaste for Sting in particular. And yet, there I was in my room, peeling the shrink-wrap off the English lads’ animated faces...
Some of the most intriguing moments came after the band had left the stage, only to return for the increasingly requisite encore performance (the second encore is the new encore, after all). The finale was begun with a cover of “Inside of You,” by the similarly outlandish countryish troubadour named Tom Jans. The song reflected a lot of Oldham’s own tendencies, including his bizarrely overt and yet endearing tendency to inject sexual references into otherwise Platonic enough songs of love lost and found (well, mostly lost). The group followed this cover...
...spring, around the time of the tenth Celebration, seven of the 10 past presidents—the “Honorables”—gathered from all around the country to shoot the breeze and discuss the organization. Busy in their careers as doctors, i-bankers, and band leaders, the Honorables still care about the brotherhood. Filled with wistful pride, the alums could not hide their amazement at how far the BMF had grown in the last 10 years. But it’s what’s coming that the alums have their eyes...