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Completing the experience of this CD is its release with one of three hundred one-of-a-kind hand-painted disc sleeves. Artist Jeremiah Maddock, who has also done work on the cover of albums by Rumah Sakit and Howard Hello, has used the music on Like Trees as inspiration for the works on each individual sleeve. It is this type of collaboration of life experience, poetry, melody and artwork that adds to the unique allure of this unique record...
...stage, Scottish songstress Angela McCluskey opened at their Friday night FleetCenter show, a venue much more capacious and comfortable in the brisk autumn than their outdoor show last year at the Tweeter Center. McCluskey showed off her smooth and powerful voice on a handful of tracks from her debut CD Things We Do, and her band provided lush backing to her slightly raspy, occasionally soulful vocals. The performance set the stage for the rest of the night: behind the ethereal music and her slightly quirky vocals, the band rocked out, with her guitarist seeming even to borrow some moves from...
...band opened with “Around the Sun,” from their new CD of the same title. While the album on the whole is a bit tired, in concert the title song sounded more immediate right off the bat—the guitars shimmered, Stipe’s voice grounded but not bored...
...more songs from Around the Sun. With the strong presence of Mike Mills’s gorgeous, sweeping vocals on “Boy in the Well,” the song sounded powerful and sophisticated, and Buck’s melodic solo, which seemed routine on the CD, was a rousing climax in concert...
...great detail recounting how, soon after Summers took over as University President in Oct. 2001, he requested a meeting with West in which he allegedly criticized the then-University Professor’s academic integrity and told him to make better use of his time than making a rap CD and working on Bill Bradley’s 2000 Presidential campaign. Summers also allegedly criticized West for allowing grade inflation in his class which, the New York Times would later report, gave A or A- grades to 50% of students...