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...legendary composer’s parents were gamblers who moved the family in and out of 28 different apartments before he was 18. By any standards, Gershwin had a “gigantic” behavioral problem, says Kogan—he was in a gang, stole, fought, cut school, and lost his virginity at the age of nine. But in a way, Kogan says, Gershwin stumbled upon a way to self-medicate: musical composition. In that story, Kogan sees a perfect example of the “transformative healing effects of music”—Gershwin...
...signed to RoHo Records NYC and have just released their eponymous debut album. Also playing that night are The Luxury, Tremulant, and Thick as Thieves. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. $10. (JSA)We Are Wolves, Controller Controller, On Fire, and Drab. Self-described as “a gang of three, four including rock,” We Are Wolves’ midnight performance caps a show that also includes Drab at 9 p.m, On Fire at 10, and Controller Controller at 11. T.T. The Bear’s Place. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. $7. (MFK)PerformancesRuddigore...
Some believe that Black Thought, ?uestlove and their gang represent “real” hip-hop that stretches back to, well, their roots. This camp points to the old-school, I’m-the-best-on-the-mic lyrics of Black Thought, and the influence of jazz, deep soul, and even blues on their live-instrument grooves, which they use instead of studio-crafted beats...
...that this is a bad thing. Most golden-age hip-hop, from LL Cool J to Gang Starr, has been based around that b-boy aesthetic. Rakim perfected it, the other greats of the era all brought their own individual twists to the formula. Big Daddy Kane was the smooth-talking pimp, Kool G Rap had the street edge, KRS-ONE had the social awareness, and the Ultramagnetic MC’s had, in Kool Keith, um, a crazy-ass frontman...
...stories of five-year-old African boys being “slaughtered like animals” or thrown into burning tents by the Janjaweed, Arab militia of armed horsemen sponsored by the Sudanese government. He said locals rape women as they leave the refugee camps to gather firewood, sometimes gang-raping up to 60 women at a time with animal whips.“When you hear about this, you have a visceral reaction. You feel it in your gut,” said Sabine J. Ronc ’07, president of the Harvard Darfur Action Group.Later that evening...