Word: rocks
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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...
...Saturday night, singer Julian Casablancas, normally the picture of detached cool, showed some emotion. He mumbled “All these nights have been good, but you guys have been the best,” and the crowd roared back. Six years after being proclaimed the next saviors of rock, the group proved as worthy of that title as ever.Touring in support of their third album, “First Impressions of Earth,” Manhattan’s favorite sons looked confident and sounded enormous. Dressed mostly in black, the Strokes concluded a three-night stand...