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...electro” element in electroclash doesn’t signal a return to the jittery rhythms of “Planet Rock?? and its progeny, but rather to Kraftwerk and the cool futurisms of synth-pop. Herein lies the problem; the profound inhumanity of machine music was central to the latter group’s ethos and appeal. With the radio often sounding more deranged and metallic than those early experiments, this late revival really comprises some of the oldest sounding new music around...
Back in New Zealand they started as Shihad. Then they got big and moved to Melbourne, Australia. Fans went crazy for their good old melodic and metallic rock??n’roll. Rocking harder than The Datsuns and more grown-up than The Vines, Pacifier were the real deal—that old breed of true rockers that makes crowds get up and headbang like they’re in middle school again...
...display. “Have these geeks never actually been in a bar before?” he asked as John R. Quentin ’03 vomited into a urinal and Gertrude R. Cartwright ’03 ordered “rum and tonic on a rock??…The desperation of senior girls is becoming almost tangible. Lisa K. Cho ’03 got engaged Friday night to a Hong Kong bouncer known only as “Tank”…A piss-drunk Jackson C. Chinitz...
...Rock??s gift is the largest donation directed towards a single academic program since HBS’ founding in 1908 and builds on a historic strength...
...well-respected label 4AD (Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Throwing Muses). While the sound on Tallahassee may be much more polished than any prior Mountain Goats release, all of their strengths are plainly apparent. Frontman and only permanent Goat John Darnielle bolsters his claim to the title of indie-rock??s poet laureate with witty and insightful lyrics about a doomed-from-the-start marriage lying stagnantly in Tallahassee, Florida. His furious strumming is matched by his nasal voice, passionate and confident, making lyrics that other artists would be hard-pressed to pull off sound beautiful and perfectly fitting...