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...comp plays a large role in nurturing and maintaining Harvard’s small group of DIY devotees. Largely based around punk and hardcore music, the intensive comp process involves weekly lectures about different genres as well as a weekly listening assignment of about 10 albums. “You learn about this from a very historical perspective,” former RH director Baris C. Ercal ’10 says. “It’s all contextualized. Everything is just put together in a way that’s very interesting, and I feel like...
Saying that the DIY community is centered on hardcore music can be misleading, because it masks the diversity of bands within the scene. Asked to describe his band’s sound, Bogan calls it “post-hardcore art-rock jazz indie.” “I think it’s best keeping it to punk,” St. Claire interjects. “It’s punk. It’s loud...
...intricate, feedback-heavy compositions of Life Partners. Exusamwa combined manic punk with a performance art aesthetic—Sawyer spent the entire set in a wheelchair, her face bandaged and her voice howling, while her bandmates all wore red-stained OR scrubs—and Quits played experimental noise music. Daniel Striped Tiger played a cleaner, jazz-infused brand of post-hardcore, while L’Antietam’s heavier, more distorted songs featured complex tempo changes and polyrhythms. The audience had no difficulty moshing during the sludge hardcore of Connecticut’s Iron Hand before sitting down...
...spent the set moshing with and leaping on a local punk rocker, but afterwards, the two patted each other on the back and introduced themselves. “It’s not necessarily overtly violent in nature, even though it’s this really aggressive music,” Augenstern says...
...word-of-mouth by individuals who are already involved in the scene. “It depends on the people you know and who can hook you up,” Shaket says.For Shaket, one of these people is Daniel J. Thorn ’11, a DJ and music director of TDS (The Darker Side), WHRB’s hip-hop department. In the past, Thorn has arranged for Shaket to battle with local and traveling rappers who have contacted the station in search of competition. Though there is no official organization for rappers at Harvard...