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Bonnie ‘Prince?? BillyThe Letting Go(Drag City)4.5 of 5 StarsBy ABE J. RIESMANCRIMSON STAFF WRITER Will Oldham, whether singing as Bonnie ‘Prince?? Billy, Palace Music, or his own Christian name, likes his songs to exist outside of time.So, anyone familiar with his voluminous catalog—equal parts confounding and transcendent—will know that something strange is afoot in the opening line of his new album.“When the numbers / get so high / of the dead / flying through the sky,” he mumble...
With a few of his fellow FAP participants, Drake formed Blanks., a rock band. Eight days after getting together, the group performed Prince??s “When Doves Cry” at the freshman talent show. Drake remains the band’s drummer and manager...
...creative apogee in the late eighties with his landmark double album, “Sign ‘O’ the Times”, and each of his subsequent releases has struggled to recreate that recording’s effortless songcraft, crack musicianship, and irrepressible joie de vivre. Prince??s high-profile disputes with the label executives at Warner Brothers Records, and his failed bid for release from his multi-album contract, are usually blamed for the precipitous drop in quality of his early nineties recordings. But the truth is, the Purple One just wasn?...
...Harvard Salient, which is funded by the “conservative” lobby and eschews journalistic neutrality, mocks the stated purpose of the gift to promote better understanding of Islam as “blithe and childish,” saying, “If Harvard shares the Prince??s vision, then the House of Saud, the Iranian ayatollahs, and Moslem extremists of all stripes can breathe easily, knowing that academia’s strict definition of understanding precludes any sort of critical evaluation or the issuing of any value judgments” (Feb. 6). The Salient?...
Funding for that improvement has arrived in the form of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud’s $20 million gift announced this past November. The Saudi Arabian prince??also the world’s fifth richest man—designated the donation specifically for Islamic Studies. However, despite the improvement the gift guaranteed, critics inside and outside the Harvard community—still reeling from the events of Sept. 11, 2001—said they were suspicious of his background and presumed intentions and questioned whether or not the University should accept the donation...