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Veritas founder and president Dan J. Zaccagnino ’05 is a musician himself and has experience working for Blue Note Record Company, the Chief Executive Officer of Virgin Records and music lawyers. He says that these experiences have taught him that many perfectly talented bands lack the practical knowledge needed for industry success. Among other things, Veritas offers help to groups who might lack the resources to promote themselves...
...asleep? Are you asleep?' No answer. I think I would have actually been less lonely by myself in my own room." Don't get the wrong idea - Gondry's youth in Versailles, France, was happy, richly colored by the creative ethos of his computer-programmer dad and his musician mom. Fascinated by geometry and pattern, Gondry went to art school. At 22, he was working for a calendar printer - "Boring!" - when he figured out he wasn't born to be anyone's employee. "So I did everything I could to get fired," he says, "coming in later and later every...
...door in Quincy, the antique Fender Mustang (my first guitar, and the one famously endorsed by Cobain) my guitar teacher found for me in a used guitar shop in Greenwich Village, and my outdated, less than tidy fashion sense, I wonder whether my refusal to consider any contemporary pop musician his equal is just a premature case of longing for the good old days, like a parent complaining about his kid’s music. A small dose of MTV or listening to the radio usually relieves such concerns pretty quickly, though, and I’m convinced that...
When he was a teenager, Cobain told friends, “I’m going to be a superstar musician, kill myself and go out in a flame of glory.” These words suggest that Cobain was not always the humble, reluctant star that the media portrayed. Yet, whatever narcissism may have driven his rise to stardom, and perhaps even the timing of his suicide, both Cobain and his music possessed a level of authenticity so rare in pop music that they overshadow such flaws...
...great game. For a 28-year-old, A-Rod comes off as a guy who's lying to impress a date's dad. He collects art (Chagall, Picasso, Monet and Renoir are favorites because "I don't like contemporary art"), can't dance, lists Frank Sinatra as his favorite musician and takes a break every night with friends and family for Breyers Cookies & Cream in the living room. Clay Aiken would get bored of this guy. Teammate Jason Giambi describes Rodriguez in a way that makes him seem programmed. "I've worked out with Tiger Woods in rehab...