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...appeals tribunal upheld a ruling made by regulators against two retailers fined for fixing prices in conjunction with the toy firm Hasbro. The regulators say their earlier decision lowered the price of the board game Monopoly by about $8 a set. One retailer, Argos, said it might roll the dice and file a further appeal...
...side of the family, but so far her efforts have failed, and so have other attempts at moderation. One year, her family agreed to limit gift purchases to $15, but everyone panicked, and some overstepped the limit. Another year, they all brought generic gifts and played a dice game to determine who got what--a disaster. This year, for the first time, there will be no gifts among the adults, with one exception. Just as she did last Christmas, Hawton plans to give her parents membership to "Noelle's Soup of the Month Club." Each month, she'll invite them...
Starting the show was Charlestown-based Sunburned Hand of the Man, an improvisational experimental acoustic-noise group comprised of ten members playing an impressive array of instruments. After announcing to the crowd, “We’re the Black Dice!,” the band members, who slowly crowded onto the stage in waves, and took turns exchanging domain over four or five guitars, a number of tambourines and rattles, a trumpet, two saxophones, a number of keyboards, a bullhorn, a stage full of pedals, cords, and oscillators, various noisemakers, and the emblematic drum kit with the outline...
...such “classics” as Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” and Devo’s “Whip It;” the other remixes of bands such as Black Dice, the Rapture, and DFA’s house band LCD Soundsystem. One of these CDs was deemed relevant to today’s rock soundscape; the other found its content position in the throw-away bin without much fanfare. Needless to say, the youth brigade...
Familiar names don the tracklist of this recent compilation. The Rapture’s profile has boomed after the DFA-produced Echoes, and the Black Dice have long been favorites in the art-rock subgenres. The DFA’s own group, LCD Soundsystem joins these bands and the Juan McLean for the lion’s share of the three-CD set, but the shine of the duo’s production gleams over all of the 30 tracks. Their trademark sound of funky bass with skronky guitars, ’80s keyboards, and subtle synthesizer unites these discs...