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It’s good to see Bejar return to the formula that endeared him to legions of depressed hipsters. In recent years, he’s been moonlighting with some of his Canadian compatriots in the decidedly more upbeat indie-rock supergroup known as The New Pornographers...
...recalls). The more tempered, thoughtful songs of the Galaxie 500 project emerged after college, in the broader Boston scene. “We gravitated toward a sound that was based on more American bands…Velvet Underground, Jonathan Richman, Modern Lovers…there was a punk rock ethic to it, but it was no longer loud and fast. Which we were just bad at.” The band grew in the bar by North Station where anyone could play; in the underground network that was, at the time, “just a bunch of misfit...
It’s a common enough story in the music world: an aging artist loudly insults the current style, sending waves through the whole scene. But this time, the feuding parties aren’t Nas and Benzino.Barry Burns, the guitarist for Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, called recent BRIT Award winners James Blunt and Coldplay’s Chris Martin a “twat” and a “fuckface,” respectively. MCs have been capped for much less.But given all the news coverage and corresponding hype—and increased record sales?...
...years later, in the peace treaty of Nanjing, China did agree to open four more ports; to stationing foreign consuls at each port; and to treat British and Chinese officials as equals. The Chinese would also pay a sizeable indemnity; and the British would get the (then) barren rock of Hong Kong to maintain merchants and their own magistrates.The treaty did not mention opium.Even then, the Chinese saw opium as the true cause of strife. Eventually, it became just one entry in a long catalogue of Western sins that made China an innocent victim of foreign aggression and exploitation...
...something completely different: this Friday, Harvard’s own Din & Tonics and Opportunes—two of the more popular a cappella groups on campus—will fill Sanders Theatre with vocal iterations of rock, jazz, and pop standards from the past century...