Word: frontman
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...Weezer’s frontman more of an assman? According to his thefacebook.com profile, Harvard undergrad-cum-rock star-cum-Harvard undergrad Rivers Cuomo is an officer of the group Harvard Ghetto Booties, currently holding the title of “bootie holly” (yuk yuk). The group’s first-year founder provided Gadfly with some, er, backstory...
...famous names who have passed through Harvard’s ivied halls, a few rockers sneak in among the Supreme Court justices, laurelled writers and high-ranking politicians: Bonnie L. Raitt ’72, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello ’86 and Weezer frontman and sometime Harvard student Rivers Cuomo all did time by the Charles. But few would likely mention Jacob H. Slichter ’83-’84, whose years in the music industry have left him far from a household name—and yet, as the drummer for power...
Sebadoh formed in 1989 and went through a series of drummers with Barlow and Loewenstein at the songwriting core. Barlow had just been kicked out of Dinosaur Jr. after a nasty feud with Dinosaur Jr. frontman J. Mascis, whom Barlow then trashed on their 1991 album III on the song “The Freed Pig,” played mid-set at their Sunday night concert at T.T. the Bear’s Place. “Self-righteous but never right / so laid-back but so uptight.” The feud between the two has been among...
Former Soul Coughing frontman has long abandoned the days of semi-successful alt-rock Bon Bons, relying instead on a single acoustic guitar to entertain. His last work was last year’s Rockity Roll EP, and he’s currently preparing a full-length with a complete band and Semisonic’s Dan Wilson. Performance will likely include some of the new material and perhaps some classics from his former band’s glory days. Tickets $12. 9 p.m. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...
...more effective was the authentically anthemic “Almost Crimes,” which had Haines and pseudo-frontman Kevin Drew singing together in waves of mounting energy, leading the audience to rewarding sections of frantic improvisation. This song, with its impromptu guitar solos and impassioned finale, truly stole the show and the audience. “Cause=Time” was another highlight—a steadily chugging offbeat propelled the more restrained, but just as powerful number, its potential voltage crackling under a metronomic progression...