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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...drugs and rock ’n roll in earnest, backed by a motley crew of influences ranging from 50s jangle pop to British Invasion rock to New Wave. The songs, save some masterful use of modulation showcased in tracks like “Soma,” are simplistic??no fancy drumming, straightforward guitar chords in a verse-chorus-verse matrix. Still, good, catchy music doesn’t have to be cerebral or complex—Is This It hits the listener on a gut level and gets under his skin until he?...

Author: By Thalia S. Field, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Strokes: This is It | 10/19/2001 | See Source »

Prior to the outbreak of civil war, Edgar lived what he describes as a “simplistic?? and “idyllic” life; his father, an attorney, and his mother, a school teacher, had settled his family in a beautiful part of Freetown nestled between coastline to the west and mountains to the east. Although much of Sierra Leone had been in the grips of civil war since 1991, the Edgar family never felt particularly threatened because they were reassured that Freetown was “as safe as can be” because...

Author: By Amelia E. Lester and Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Flight From Freetown | 9/27/2001 | See Source »

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