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Easily among the boldest and most refreshing voices in the underground, Slug, who performed at the Middle East last Friday, is helping to push independent hip hop firmly into the public consciousness. The renaissance at the fringes has been winning over critics and fans alike, ranging from the lo-fi sampler virtuosity of Madlib and MF Doom and seething electronic grime of El-P (the anti-Timbaland) to the obtuse bohemian leanings of the Anticon clique. Though he’s flexed his lyrical muscles with nearly all of them, Slug brandishes his own critic-approved designations...
...professor of economics at Keio University, Takenaka had been a longtime critic of the Japanese financial system and a vocal agitator for bank reform. In his new position, he quickly assembled an 11-member task force to formulate a rescue plan for the banks, whose inability to allocate capital to investment-worthy projects has hobbled the economy. Takenaka's outsider ways soon alienated the establishment. Critics charged that he was too secretive and too radical, that he sought American-style economic solutions to uniquely Japanese problems?or worse, that he was part of a devious American plot to buy Japanese...
Tina: Maybe Bombay Club? He looks like a food critic, very sure of himself...
...with almost waist-length dreadlocks might feel out of place next to an imposing marble fireplace with its giant bust of John Harvard, but Mitchell owned the room. Drawing the audience in with his incredible public speaking skills, funny jokes and anecdotes about the motion picture industry, the critic even prompted one audience member to tell him, “Not only are you a beautiful speaker, but a beautiful man and a proud representative of the African-American community...
Veteran music critic Robert Christgau said once of Sleater-Kinney that, “The reason that they are as important as they are is that they’re not a lesbian band in any kind of limiting or definitive way.” Referring to the fact that despite riot grrrl’s genesis as a way for girls to play guitar whether they were “good” at it or not, Sleater-Kinney’s musical virtuosity transcends politics. But the band contains multitudes, and predictably enough, refuses to choose among characterizations...