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...rowdy crowd, a frail stage, and miscommunication led to a short but memorable GirlTalk performance at last year’s Harvard-Yale pep rally. The event, which precedes the annual Harvard-Yale football game, was shut down by HUPD for safety reasons, and DJ GirlTalk was forced to exit the stage early as the crowd continued to push against the weak stage. It was the first time the College Events Board had brought in a big name artist for the pep rally, and it may well be the last. This year, CEB has wisely decided to return...
...that second, there’s a moment of connection. Somehow, somewhere, someone understands exactly how you feel right now. A DJ, sitting behind a desk with headphones firmly in place, chose that artist, picked that album, selected that track. And you, miles away, know exactly...
Founded in 1999 with Malawaian vocalist Esau Mwamwaya fronting the daring production of London-based DJ duo Radioclit, The Very Best released the critically acclaimed mixtape “Esau Mwamwaya and Radioclit are the Very Best” in 2008. The mixtape was equally indebted to traditional African musical traditions and their corresponding Western interpretations. The most bizarre example of this, perhaps, was seeing Mwamwaya sing in Chichewa over Vampire Weekend’s “Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa” in a bold, globally-minded move to transcend the African sound and enter the arena...
...friends parted ways for a few years to pursue other priorities. Øye packed his bottle-cap glasses and scruff aesthetic off to Berlin, where he turn-tabled, released a successful solo album, reworked old favorites into catchy dance tunes for Studio !K7’s DJ Kicks series, and recorded ’80s-influenced electro-pop with side project Whitest Boy Alive. Meanwhile, the more introverted Bøe played gigs with his own second band, Kommode, and spent time at home in Bergen with his wife. Their musical reunion this year—in Mexico...
This year's lineup includes punk act Blood Red Shoes and highbrow indie combo Los Campesinos, both from the U.K., as well as U.S. electronica duo YACHT, DJ Alexis Taylor and local favorites Chochukmo, perhaps the most charismatic band to have emerged in southern China in recent years. For details see clockenflap.com...