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...picking through records at a sale of the belongings of a person who has just died. There’s a setting of “The Girl from Ipanema.” And my first impression of a poem in the Boston Review was that it had a hip-hop feel...
...metal is the moniker for today’s second generation of metal stars who were raised on 80s mainstays like Slayer, Anthrax and Metallica (although not so much their last two albums), and have blended those influences with slices of hip-hop and hardcore: Korn, Linkin Park, POD and Limp Bizkit serve as the most commercial (and hence recognizable and successful) of this crew. Both System and Slipknot have carved a niche for themselves in this emerging genre...
...custom percussionists” (who bash kegs, tin drums and each other at various points), a bassist, a DJ, a sampler and a vocalist. The result of this strange amalgamation of participants is that one moment the guitars are muted and pulsing, vocals slickly rapped over with a mild hip-hop scratching, and the next a double bass drum is rumbling, the guitars are screeching, and the lead vocalist is screaming as if his lungs were on fire...
When you tune your radio to 88.9 FM, you might hear hip-hop, or reggae, or folk, or show tunes, maybe even some Raffi. WERS is not a typical college radio station. Live, in-station performances, professional-quality breaks and a far-reaching signal make Emerson College radio stand out among college stations around the country and even among commercial stations in Boston. Student-run but professionally managed, WERS is known by listeners in Boston as the place to hear new sounds and music that won’t be played anywhere else...
...operation, especially with 17 shows that each have their own personality. Weekdays, the schedule remains the same but switches DJs every day. Early mornings are home to the Coffeehouse, a haven for acoustic folk and rock. The rest of each weekday features world music, jazz, reggae, rock and hip-hop. Weekends are home to even more varied programming, ranging from kids’ music on “The Playground” to metal and hardcore on “Nasty Habits...