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...Harvard's Spring Best" (College, April 20): I was actually at Brown this weekend, visiting a friend. While the article was correct in that Sonic Youth did play at Brown, it neglected to mention that tickets to the event cost $13 for Brown students and $16 for everyone else. Not to mention that much of the campus was blocked off, meaning that even if you weren't going to the concert you couldn't just hang out. My friend and I decided we weren't going to pay that much to hang out on the lawn for a couple...
Friday night's festivities were sandwiched between a rapfest Thursday night--KRS-ONE, Grandmaster Flash, and Rakim--and an unmelodic alternative assault Saturday, opened by Luna, followed by Yo La Tengo, with Sonic Youth as a headliner...
...need Chumbawamba or Sister Hazel and a beer in tow to enjoy themselves. Each band tapped into something different but always something visceral. There were hands clapping along to the grassroots rock of the Voodoo Crabs, chuckles and pointed fingers abundant during Depeche Mode, limits tested by the dense sonic experimentation of This Is My Rifle, emotions wrangled by the sugary-sour pop treat offered up by Blue Wail. The winner of the friendly compe- tition, the extraordinary B-Side, got the crowdon its feet with smart, effortless freestyle rapand a tight groove bound to get anyone withinhearing distance excited...
...audience clapped and hooted at the short-winded announcement despite Unwound's apparent unwillingness to crank out an hour of its revered gangly rock. All-too-willing fans were complacently standing by ready to accept whatever sonic sludge was dealt out to them, no matter how unfeeling or unresponsive. "That's right," Trosper smugly responded to the shouts under his breath. Members of Unwound were masters of manipulation for the evening as the audience played right into the scheme...
...head of the record label--the aptly named Maverick--that released last year's band of the moment, the electronica-charged act the Prodigy (Maverick is part of Time Warner, the company that owns TIME). It makes sense, then, that Ray of Light draws on electronica for sonic inspiration. Madonna '98 is also a new mother (her daughter Lourdes is 17 months old); she has also been studying the Cabala (a form of Jewish mysticism), practicing yoga and learning Sanskrit...