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...AIN’T COLE PORTER 108 Tongues, New Haven’s premiere pack of over-privileged, questionably talented, college-age rappers, is at it again. After sticking it to Harvard with their pigskin anthem “The Game 2004” (“Fuck with us, we’ll leave you limpin’, you know Yalies stay pimpin’”), the sextet of ballin’ Bulldogs shifted their playa-hating focus onto less lofty targets: namely, nubile newlywed singers. In “Toxic Prophet,” group member...
...Paradise Rock Club is the perfect size for Sunderland, U.K.’s Futureheads: an ambitious pick, the club can certainly pack more than the Middle East or TT’s (where they played last November shortly after the release of their album), but at the same time it doesn’t approach Avalon or Roxy-like sizes either. That’s just the right size for the band who dropped a self-titled debut late last October jam-packed with angular hooks and shout-outs to the last twenty years of alternative music. While there...
...real muscle behind the resolution. Without the broad backing of Europe, Washington has little leverage of its own over Syria. The Administration imposed punitive economic sanctions in May 2004 and could ratchet up the bans a notch or two. But international sanctions from Syria's main trading partners would pack a lot more punch. Although the U.S. has recalled its ambassador to Damascus in a symbolic show of displeasure at Hariri's murder, European nations that prefer to engage with enemies rather than isolate them seem unlikely to follow suit...
Delayed? Get Repaid Heading off to the airport? Don't forget to pack a copy of the E.U.'s latest rules on compensation for jilted passengers. A regulation introduced last week increases compensation for flyers involuntarily bumped from their journeys; on longer routes, they can now get as much as €600. In force on all flights taking off from E.U. airports, the law also grants passengers hit by late...
Wallach explains, “You can pop in a CD if you just want to hear people play music.” Thus, the band always aims to pack something extra into their live performances. They assure that, as with all of their performances, Friday’s event will be chockful of improvisational antics, including some “crazy instrumental stuff that is not on the record...