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...There's no beating the system at Abercrombie. Day after day, a manager puts the same CD on repeat and cranks it to a set ear-blasting store volume. Nationwide, Abercrombie plays pumping bass to whet customers' appetites for flared khakis. "After a while you don't notice [the volume]," says MIT senior Hans Yang, an employee at the Harvard Square branch. "But the music is supposed to make us seem like we are all having fun," he adds, swiveling his head back and forth to look for shoplifters. Yang does not seem to be having much fun, however...
...Bloody Valentine. Their newest release presents four new compositions and two tracks previously released on the import-only No Education = No Future (F**k the Curfew). A more restrained, ambient Mogwai emerges here: on four of the tracks, percussion is barely apparent. Chiming guitars and a somber bass make for an elegiac sound on "Stanley Kubrick" and "Burn Girl Prom Queen," while a piano provides the melody for "Christmas Song." The band's primary strength is its sense of tension: they have an ability to balance melody with noise akin to the Velvet Underground. On this release, as on their...
...those of you who care deeply for the Spice Girls at least)--can any of the individual Spices create a (respectable?) singing career outside of the multi-colored, in-your-face, garish persona of the past? Melanie C makes a decent attempt on Northern Star--the opening drum and bass notes of the first song "Go," are exciting and unexpected, and the rest of the album too, with its pop/R&B influences is surprisingly listenable, especially on Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes (of TLC fame) rapping on "Never Be the Same Again." Look out for the genuinely haunting title track...
Judging from Ween's stage setup Sunday night, you'd expect them to be a skinhead hardcore band; distributed across the stage of the Somerville Theater were a bass drum with a flipped bird painted on the front, a party bottle of Jack Daniels and a riot gear-looking bullhorn. The fans that packed Davis Square's venerable fountain of obscurity know the truth about alt-rock's satirical brats, though: Ween is just kidding...
...know we have already wiped out--and by that I mean driven nearly to commercial extinction or, in a few cases, the brink of biological extinction--more than 100 popular species of food fish, including Nassau groupers, Chilean sea bass, orange roughy and cod. What we don't know, what we'll never know, is how many undiscovered species have been eradicated along the way. What creatures, great and small, might have contained genetic or chemical secrets that could have saved lives or improved them, conquered diseases or averted them...