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With alumni bands ranging from hip-hop crews with live instruments to folk rock ensembles, to Argentinean polka-fusion beatboxers (okay, that last one probably doesn’t exist...yet), Harvard alums seem stubbornly resistant to futile pigeonholing attempts...
...Kinkopf ’04, says of his band The Indefinite Article’s: “We lie somewhere in between straight live hip-hop and crazy whacked-out rock-hop. Someone called us, ‘The Roots on crack, but in detox.’ That someone...
...thing about that makes Kinkopf proudest about his band “is that we are unapologetically off-center about our approach to hip-hop. Boston is actually a great place for this kind of music.” The Indefinite Article will be recording their debut EP this summer, as will Kinkopf, under the moniker Father Abraham. Check out www.indef-art.com for more info...
Combining white Harvard men and hip-hop is a formula destined to surprise at the least. Witness Protection Program (WPP), an eight-man band of ’03 and ’04 graduates, used their unique angle as a sucker punch to “work against the institutional forces of the university,” according to vocalist Jacob Rubin. Performing hip-hop with live instruments, WPP members included MC Jacob Rubin ’03, MC Benny Peterson, drummer Peter Kennedy ’03, keyboardist Nicholas Britell ’04, bass David Sherman, Alan...
...longer together but two of its members, Wilkis and Kennedy, have erected a new rock band from the WPP’s ashes known as A+P. Sherman is playing in the hip-hop band Audible Mainframe and Peterson is doing hip-hop in Boston as a solo artist...