Word: rockstardom
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...forth album—but it seems as though his words are beginning to be reflective of the contemporary creative condition. Today’s music scene is one in which belief in the revolutionary potential of a song is viewed as an anachronistic pipedream and faith in rockstardom as a transcendent force is regarded as both naïve and haplessly nostalgic. This thoroughly postmodern sentiment is both the fate and the challenge of the up-and-coming artist. How can today’s artist feel comfortable being creative knowing that their music will inevitably fall short...
...insane,” he says of the tour. “I remember being in a place called Japan, but I didn’t know if I was actually in Japan.” This winter, Harvard has taken a backseat to Eskenazi’s nascent rockstardom. He has been bussing it to New York each weekend to rehearse new tracks. “He’s only around Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,” his roommate Magnus Grimeland ’07 reports. “But this is the stuff he loves. He always...
...Torniamo all antico e sara un progresso”—loosely translates to “Let us return to old times and that will be progress.” For now, Cuomo wishes to return to old times—that is, until wannabe rockstardom comes calling again...
...tight guitar riffs of Albert Hammond Jr. and Nick Valensi, the bouncy bass of Nikolai Fraiture and the aggressive drumming of Fabrizio Moretti. Even the band members’ names have a novel quality and are strangely fatalistic, as if they had already been written into the canon of rockstardom. Once on stage, they wasted no time opening with “The Modern Age.” Casablancas did forward rolls with a beer in his hand while the band raucously played the introduction. He then spent the rest of the show staggering around the stage shaking beer bottles...
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