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Stefon Harris “African Tarantella: Dances With Duke” (Blue Note...
...words escaped my lips as though I were lost in a dream. As we intoned those sacred verses from R. Kelly’s 1993 hit, “Bump n’ Grind,” I dissolved into Beck’s baby-blue eyes. It felt as if, in the middle of the MTV studios, at the heart of New York City, with three cameras and countless PR agents looking on, Beck and I became one. My fingertips were numb with ecstasy...
...their latest album, “Sam’s Town,” lead singer Brandon Flowers and his Merry Bunch of Killers have turned musically and thematically towards New Jersey legend Bruce Springsteen, using his brand of proletarian songwriting to illuminate the plight of their blue-collar peers on the mean streets of Vegas...
...genre—calling New Jersey part of the “heartland” raises both geographic and normative issues—popular in the early to mid-1980s, is usually defined by down-home folks like Springsteen, Tom Petty, and John Cougar Mellencamp: artists who wrote tender blue-collar tales of broken American dreams and perseverance over folksy rock backings, not maudlin anecdotes over bubbling synth lines...
...that he could get involved in. It was after talking to other discouraged people that he “started brainstorming ideas,” and with a friend of his, an MIT graduate, he came up with the idea for ActBlue. Since its inception in June 2004, Act-Blue has raised nearly 15 million dollars Though Rahn’s own college years were not fraught with political protests and debates, he says that today’s students are much more plugged in. “Undergraduate engagment in international politics has really been on the rise...