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...trying to make this a community event, something everyone can participate in to make sustainability a part of everyday life,” said Alexandra A. Mushegian ’10, one of the event coordinators. Moving from table to table, students listened to live music as they made jewelry beads out of old magazine paper and got recycling signs painted on their faces. Earth Day revelers completed a scavenger hunt for sustainability information at all of the student tables in order to get a free Earth Day Nalgene bottle. David A. Wax ’05 brought his band...
It’s not a new thing—quintessentially American types of music migrate to England and come back sexier and more palatable. Co-ed quintet The Heavy, from the suburbs of Bath, takes a page from this book on their new album “Great Vengeance and Furious Fire,” blending their sexy British sound with one steeped in the rich American heirlooms of blues and funk. With a mixture of gospel-infused vocals, R&B beats, and garage rock sounds, they manage to simultaneously call Sonic Youth and Prince to mind, swaying between...
...hope appears. If anyone can answer this daunting question, it’s “South Park” head animator Ryan Quincy. From this spark of genius comes the collaboration that is Les Savy Fav’s “What Would Wolves Do” music video. In Quincy’s vision of what wolves would do, an animated wolf/bear duo of intergalactic adventurers explore a planet inhabited by pouty-mouthed, bikini-clad creaturelings who love a good party. After a night of orgiastic cartoon excess, the plot takes a sharp turn into...
...room pulling heat, a geisha enters with the “merchandise.” Here, the symbolic function of the geisha emerges. The pale-faced woman, spinning a fan like a tape recorder while being showered with kilo upon kilo of white powder, unites sex, drugs, money, and music in a single image. The geisha, not the Wu-Tang Clan, is the focal point of this video: she is the ideal of a high-rolling hip-hop lifestyle, an ideal that will long outlive the rappers who made it famous. —Mark A. VanMiddlesworth
...were the main attraction during the festivities at Harvard Square’s Newbury Comics—a place Viglione described as “The Mecca of all things cool”—for the first annual Record Store Day last Saturday.Organized by an alliance of music stores, including greater Boston area chain Newbury Comics, Record Store Day was celebrated nationwide with in-store appearances from independent music artists as well as special vinyl-only releases from artists like R.E.M., Death Cab For Cutie, Built To Spill, and Stephen Malkmus. It was a day of tribute...