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Last Friday’s spunky debut of “Thirteen”—a new collaborative group combining Harvard musicians, dancers, actors and technicians—turned the Rieman Center for the Performing Arts into an improvisational showcase for what performers hope will be the future of the arts at Harvard...
It’s hard, though, to advance beyond perfection, which was The Sea And Cake’s self-titled 1994 debut. That is, the band hasn’t changed much at all. Those who liked the formula The Sea And Cake have used from the beginning will probably enjoy One Bedroom—particularly the opening track “Four Corners” and its wonderfully tight instrumental, as well as John McEntire’s impressive drumming on “Hotel Tell...
...pays homage to Boston’s hip-hop roots on his 2000 debut EP Enters the Colossus—a bare-bones affair featuring old-school beats and some cocksure rhyming. On the album’s closing track, he names the influences, collaborators and contemporaries who jumpstarted his career, name-dropping several Boston colleges before mentioning Harvard radio...
Lif’s long-awaited full-length debut I Phantom hit stores in 2002 to substantial critical acclaim (including in The Crimson). He says he worried that the album, which traces a central character’s struggle for success and happiness amidst the banality of modern life, was “too heady” for a listening public focused on catchy singles and fly but air-headed rhymes...
...with Akrobatik, a talented emcee who traded rhymes and freestyles with Lif at both of his last two shows in Boston and will release his debut album early this year...