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According to drummer Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07, when student musicians from other colleges come to play at Harvard, they are often surprised to find its rock-and-roll scene so “repressed.”“Maybe not ‘repressed,’” Hufstedler says after a moment’s pause. “Maybe ‘absent’ is the right word.”The impression that Harvard lacks a strong alternative music scene is something that Hufstedler is working to debunk...
...tracks here unfold at a tempered pace; the songs take their time, but the process is by no means leisurely. Instead, tension builds as the sound expands, often reaching pitches of dizzying intensity. “Auto Rock,” the album’s opener, constructs a steady crescendo around a spare piano melody, adding fuzzy distortion and a heavy, insistent beat. The result may be melodramatic, but it’s also nothing less than beautiful...
...book editor (Amy Madigan, “Pollock”) has offered her $100,000 for the love letters her famous father wrote her equally famous and recently deceased mother. There Reese meets an English grad student (Amelia Warner, “Aeon Flux”) and wannabe Christian-rock musician (Will Ferrell), both of whom help Reese to reconnect with her reclusive father. And all of this to the tunes of indie faves like Azure Ray and—wait for it—the Shins...
...more just uninteresting. There are a couple of keepers here—both parts of “Kyberneticka Babicka,” for example, are fun, up-tempo odes to multi-track layering. “Plastic Mile” has an appealingly vintage funk-rock beat under a schizophrenic self-duet from lead singer Laetitia Sadier, and “Whisper Pitch” is a more-successful-than-usual foray into psychedelic syncopation that morphs into a pretty ballad. In these songs, though, are just about the only musical moments that manage to separate themselves from...
...Cantabrigians alike flock to Church Street hotspots like Fire & Ice and Cambridge 1 for weekend revelry, but one piece of not-so-prime real estate seems unable to find a long-term tenant. When Phatt Boys opened last summer in the 50 Church St. space vacated by failed restaurant Rock Bottom, Harvard kids were ecstatic to find a new haunt for live music, good food, and cheap drinks. Many frequented Phatt Boys throughout first semester, and the cavernous eatery earned a rep for fun (read: lax carding). Yet today, nearly all remnants of Phatt Boys’s existence have...