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...Harvard included a stint with the Veritones and guest performances with the Harvard Pops Orchestra in everything from jazz to pop to classical music. “I think he likes just being in front of people,” says Michael T. Drake ’08, drummer for “Tommy and the Tigers...
Coldplay should be commended for its ambition, but it's worth noting that X&Y has a serious problem-or rather a problem with seriousness. While Buckland, bassist Guy Berryman and drummer Will Champion took inspiration from the U2 of The Unforgettable Fire, lead singer Chris Martin appears to have made the terrible mistake of shooting for Bono circa Rattle and Hum. It's not Martin's choice of subject matter-he rarely digresses into politics while he's singing, although he's an advocate for fair trade when he's not-but his tone. He wants to teach...
Sayer's jazz drummer father, Gerry, and Betty, her frazzled mother, are bottle buddies who happen to have three small children. When her parents split, Sayer's freewheeling childhood descends into a grim saga: she moves from suburb to suburb, school to school, always at the mercy of Betty's genius for sabotaging her own security and picking up the wrong bloke at the pub. Amid this culture of poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, alcoholism and fear, Sayer blossoms. She finds ways to escape the misery, if only in bursts, through poetry, martial arts and music. Friends drop...
...glamorous Hotel St. Georges in Beirut, from which he followed the activities of diplomats, adventurers and spies even as he entertained, networked and gathered intelligence for the magazine. his generosity with guidance led John le Carr? to acknowledge his help in researching The Little Drummer Girl. Aburish's scoops for TIME, some of which involved the shadowy machinations of his friends, are innumerable?and at one point he was jailed for his foreknowledge of plots. He knew almost all the major players of the Middle East at the time, from King Feisal of Saudi Arabia to Yasser Arafat...
...Bloc Party Helicopter While aspiring to postpunk art-house dance music, Bloc Party wisely refuses to let its genre fixations get in the way of tunefulness. There's an actual melody here, and a good one, driven on by the manic playing of Matt Tong, rock's best new drummer in years. Bruce Springsteen Devils & Dust The title track from the Boss's new album starts with a gentle acoustic strum, gains steam on the backs of evocative nouns (blood, stone, bone) and peaks with a harmonica solo. It's nothing new, which is to say, it's very good...