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...toads are freaking sweet. I damn near hallucinated over the fact that Toad charges no cover, yet books musicians who rock. I arrived during the set of some obscure, yet awesome, New Haven-based band whose name escapes me. It featured a guy in his fifties playing some mean bass, an early twenty-something on guitar and vocals, and a drummer who I didn’t really pay any attention to. They played thoroughly entertaining alt-rock. Toad boasts great live sound, especially given its miniature scale. The volume is fine-tuned such that you can still talk with...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hotspot: Toad | 4/5/2006 | See Source »

...Strivers Row,” Baker describes Lionel Hampton’s band at the Savoy: “Tripping on out to the floor as the tempo built, the drum pounding atop the bass line, then the trombones circling back to the theme again and again in long, dizzying loops, working the dancers harder and harder...

Author: By Jessica M. Righthand, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Baker Imagines a Vibrant 1940s Harlem | 4/4/2006 | See Source »

...teach courses focused on their particular subtopics of interest. The biggest hurdle for these Courses in General Education will be finding faculty with the necessary interest and breadth to teach such wide-sweeping curricula.That’s not to say such faculty don’t exist. Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel’s Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice,” is the textbook example. But in many cases, students end up with team teaching—for example, Biological Sciences 56, which boasts four professors on top of a full staff...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Reinventing Harvard’s Teachers | 4/3/2006 | See Source »

...gift for making you infatuated with every character she plays,” wrote Bass Professor of English and American Literature Louis Menand, a self-proclaimed “big fan” of Streep...

Author: By Lindsay A. Maizel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Streep Gets Coolidge Award | 3/24/2006 | See Source »

...These are zealots and they're out to convert you to the worship of the ukelele. Ask why one of the lineup, Jonty Bankes, appears to be playing a bass guitar, and Hinchcliffe explodes: "How many strings does a bass guitar have? Four. A guitar has six. So, who is to say that what is labeled a bass guitar isn't a bass ukulele? Bill Wyman, Paul McCartney, it's time you admitted what you truly are." So next time you mime to a track, bass cranked up high, remember?it's air ukelele you're playing. www.ukuleleorchestra.com

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Plucked in Their Prime | 3/20/2006 | See Source »

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