Word: sell-out
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...They’re gonna kick us all out for the disco show,” apologized Matt Berninger, lead singer of The National, at the Roxy in Boston. With the sell-out crowd laughing despite the statement’s painful truth, he and his band then wrapped up their set just as it had begun: with layered guitars, a strong beat, and enough energy to fill the room...
...arrived at the event held in Harvard Square’s First Parish Church, I was startled to find that scores of seats were empty. Even in the most liberal state in the Union’s most liberal city, John Kerry was unable to draw anywhere near a sell-out crowd...
...right on the money. And at the time of his death in 1999 aged 48, there were no limits to what he seemed capable of achieving. His color-saturated screens of suburban living rooms unfolded triumphantly around the Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale; just opened was his first sell-out show in Los Angeles; and a new series of freeway paintings was in the works, suggesting infinite possible directions for his art. Then came Arkley's drug overdose in his Melbourne studio. And in the intervening years, the emotions left by his tragic death - as well as the usual...
...would,” the Notorious B.I.G. rapped on the classic track, “Juicy.” “Call the crib, same number, same hood / It’s all good.” Biggie knew that he would only be seen as a sell-out if he didn’t give back to the community he came from. You may think comparing Harvard students to hard-knock cases from Brooklyn is like comparing apples and oranges, but many members of Harvard’s artistic elite face the same choice as the late Biggie...
...that this sort of conditional independence is anything new in the hardcore scene: Minor Threat’s Lyle Preslar became an A&R representative for Atlantic Records; Henry Rollins hosted a car-battling show on The Learning Channel, among countless other questionable endeavors. Not to play the sell-out card, but do these people really need any more attention, or money...