Word: groupe
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...thing the Crimson Key is right about is that "your social life at Harvard is what you make of it." So go out and make something of it. Join a group of random pre-frosh and see a show. After lunch the next day, take a stroll along the Charles River. On your way back to the Yard, make sure you listen to the eight-year-old drummer boy prodigy in Harvard Square (he does an amazing version of "Wild Thing"). Drop by the North End for some authentic Italian Food. Basically, fit as much into this weekend...
Although Mark Linkous, lead singer of Sparklehorse, lives in a secluded farmhouse in Virginia and has a penchant for wearing white Stetsons onstage, the group is considerably better known in Europe than in the U.S. Portuguese, French, German and British web sites lauding the band's first album Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot and its latest effort, Good Morning Spider, attest to this. They have toured Europe successfully, and Spider has been rated album of the year for 1998 by The London Sunday Times, also muscling its way into Top Ten lists of various magazines. The show last weekend was part of the band...
...compared to past tour-mate Radiohead, and indeed their music shares with that of the British band a pervasive mood of alienation and apathy as well as layers of sheer melodic beauty. Moreover, Linkous fiddles with synthesizers onstage almost as much as Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead does. However, the group acknowledges significant folk and country elements. This blending of styles makes for a crop of inventive songs wrapped around haunted, absorbing melodies which set Sparklehorse aside...
King Tone, the leader of the movement, acknowledged his group's past but emphasized his hopes for its future...
King Mission, one of the group's representatives who traveled to Boston for the screening, spoke after the film about the group's need to focus on the future...