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Sometimes, it helps to roll into the Olympics utterly oblivious to the Games' gravitas, a weight largely manufactured by sponsors and NBC. Sometimes, it helps to just chill. And have a wicked good time. Case in point: the U.S. Olympic snowboarding team, rad and rippin', which bagged three titles last week in the pristine Alpine town of Bardonecchia, 60 miles northwest of Torino. It was a dominating performance that accounted for nearly half the country's total golden hardware...
...start their debut album (2002's masterful "Hold Your Horse Is") with an 8-bit intro, before launching into their more familiar noise-rock stylings. Even Beck released an EP of 8-bit style remixes of his 2005 "Guero" album, borrowing the Nintendocolor aesthetic of underground video artists Paper Rad for his "GHETTOCHIP MALFUNCTION (Hell Yes)" music video.So what is this "Nintendo music," really? Who were these mysterious video game composers, who determined the sonic environment of millionsof American teenagers from the other side of the world?At the dawn of the home console era, technicians and engineers were finally...
...reminds us that opening up and showing pain is a good thing, abstractly speaking. The track’s only real revelation comes at the beginning, when she proclaims: “I like when people talk in the beginning of songs/I think it’s kind of rad.” “Rad” indeed, Lindsay…rad, indeed. More disappointingly, the vast majority of the tracks on “Personal” seem interchangeable. “Black Hole” is a song about not being loved enough...
...mistake of calling her “Liz.” I rue the day. Somewhere in the added “E,” the awkward nickname “Eliz,” we ended up with a tenacious reporter and I ended up with a rad friend. Her provenance is the debate on gender politics, the purported existence of “Alabama” as a concept, the merits of the Harvard non-meritocracy, the enzymes involved in the digestion of gluten, the wearing of dangly earrings, the psychosomatic benefits of drinking Diet Coke. She?...
Saturday, April 23. Paper-Rad presents “P-Unit Mixtape.” The Harvard Advocate. 3 p.m. Admission free...