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...Team’s sunny indie-pop-cum-hip-hop sound and on-stage dynamism got Boston’s Paradise Rock Club jumping like a joyous street party. As the audience sang along to a sonic hodgepodge mixing rocked-up Moby with early 1990s rap, The Go! Team exuded infectious energy and joy. On the tail end of their three-week tour across the US, The Go! Team are swimming in fresh acclaim. Though their current line-up is only a year old, The Go! Team found themselves nominated for this year’s prestigious Mercury Prize...
...group of ten African musicians and dancers. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222, with a limit of two free tickets per person. (LAM)Digable Planets, Project Move, and the Eclectic Collective. Digable Planets, Project Move, and Eclectic Collective mix up rap, hip-hop, and jazz. Will present sets by DJ Special Blend. The Middle East Downstairs. 8 p.m. 18+. Tickets available at The Middle East box office or from Ticketmaster, (617) 931-2000, $23 in advance, $25 at the door. (ABW)Okkervil River. The folk-indie band from Austin is performing...
...conversation with a girl, when suddenly she froze as if we were playing a game of Dr. Pepper at a third cousin’s bat mitzvah. I looked at her as I would at an epileptic Hmong child (very curiously, that is), and she proceeded to rap every word of the entire song. I immediately felt the symptoms of “quab dab peg” (Hmong for “The spirit catches you and you fall down.”) Wow, “Gold Digger” must be some song, right? It must...
...Dreddy Kruger Presents Think Differently Music: Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture,” listeners may be forced to admit that despite momentarily flashes of brilliance, the Wu will never return. The compilation comes off as a soulless, unfocused mixtape, scraping the bottom of the underground rap barrel.Why does this release deserve the Wu-Tang logo? It isn’t the flat, lifeless tracks. Could it be the absurd (not Ghostface-nonsensical, just incoherent) lyrics, or the half-hearted Nation of Islam references? Other genuine Wu members GZA and U-God show up, but their contributions are forgettable...
...Indeed, censorship remains pervasive. After the school's musicians put on a stirring performance, belting out rousing odes to school and country backed by electric guitars, Rhee Jin Hyuk, a spiky haired drummer, mentions that he owns an MP3 player. But he claims not to have heard of rap music, or even the Beatles. The only tunes he plays are North Korea's version of pop, a chirpy, heavily synthesized sort of muzak that sounds like it was composed in the 1950s. "I want to be a musician in a military propaganda unit," he tells us. Choe, our minder, says...