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...George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan formed The Travelling Wilburys, a popular but unremarkable super-group with no cultural legacy to speak of. Likewise, Monsters of Folk??a super-group comprised of My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, and M. Ward—are stacked with talent, but even after several years of live collaboration and half a year’s worth of hype, their self-titled debut lacks coherence and originality.“Monsters of Folk?? oscillates between Oberst?...
Like many, I find so much of that certain kind of folk??songs of unrealized or unrealizable ideas, only appreciated by the sexagenarians who penned them and the sophomore liberal art students longing for their own Old World Underground—so beguilingly and simultaneously naïve, distant, square, and off-putting...
...Jacoby is an especially devoted example, and is open to the entire Harvard community, regardless of previous experience or house affiliation. Participating in the B&A takes as little effort as simply walking in during open nights (Thursdays 7-10pm). The Press provides the paper and the Press Folk??students well-versed in the art—provide the instruction. According to Zachary C. Sifuentes, the Adams tutor in charge of the Bow & Arrow Press, “The Press is where any student’s imagination can materialize.” Now, for the first...
...reaction, as The Primary Source—Tufts’ conservative journal—published a parody of the song “O Come All Ye Faithful.” The Tufts’ editors said that their version, called “O Come All Ye Black Folk?? was aimed at criticizing the school’s affirmative action policies. After the article provoked outrage, the journal retracted the piece and issued an apology.“This was not my intention; it is not the opinion of The Primary Source that there are no qualified...
Matt Ward stood in the back corner of the Somerville Theatre last Sunday night, sipping a drink and smiling in the dark. Dressed, like those around him who would soon be his audience, in the requisite apparel of the nebulous “indie-folk?? genre (flannel, baseball caps), he clapped politely as Oakley Hall, the opening act, crooned and clapped their way through an enjoyable, if overly loud, 40 minute...