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Robert Pollard is not your average prolific songwriter. Today, many artists are lauded for their fecundity if they’re in more than one band or release more than one album in a year. Pollard, though, makes the activity of people like Ryan Adams and Dan Bejar look part-time. Having released his last solo album on January 20th, Pollard, the former leader of 90s legends Guided By Voices, is back just a month later with “The Planets are Blasted,” the second album by his band Boston Spaceships.Pollard’s habit...
...Bejar is one prolific guy. Since the last Destroyer album, he has toured with the New Pornographers, collaborated with members of Wolf Parade and Frog Eyes to record the stunning debut of Swan Lake, started a band with his girlfriend, released their album, and managed to maintain the same lineup for more than one Destroyer release. These accomplishments make “Trouble in Dreams,” Destroyer’s polished eighth full-length LP, all the more impressive. “Destroyer’s Rubies,” the group’s critically lauded...
...turnout, according to Associate Director of Harvard Hillel Michael A. Simon. Elena C. Castañeda ’08, co-president of CAUSA who herself is one-eighth Jewish, noted the plethora of “non-traditional Hillel students eating here.” Susana Bejar ’08, CAUSA historian and a member of Harvard’s Sephardi Society, a club affiliated with Harvard Hillel, helped organize the event. A self-proclaimed “Juban,” Bejar expressed excitement at hearing the author’s perspective on their shared cultural identity...
...located. “I just feel kind of bad for the nerds that used to be here. Because where did they go?” Seo said. At least one enthusiastic attendee went even further to demonstrate her Oktoberfest spirit by dressing up. Susana Bejar ’08, clad in a light blue “Bavarian beer wench” costume with white stockings, held a glass stein of German beer which she described as “really good.” Perhaps the most surprising exhortation of the night came from a self-professed Yalie...
...reacted positively to Sorensen’s speech, noting that he had to hold back tears when speaking of his former boss. “How touched he still felt by the death of J.F.K. shows what kind of respect he had for him,” said Susana Bejar ‘08. Sorensen’s address also praised Kennedy’s resolve under pressure. “As a Cuban-American, I am glad that Kennedy took the steps to save the island because my dad lived there at the time,” said Elena...