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Everyone loves a “rags to riches” tale. But what about a “rags to riches... and back to rags” tale? Unlike the charming fairytales of innocent childhood, Overnight shows, sudden success can be damning...
However, there are—sometimes, somewhere-—reasons not to lament our depressing mediocrity: the sudden appearance of cowboy or slouchy or moon boots, the occasional glimmer of jewel tones and some one-off cigarette-cut jeans. Closet fashionistas (pun intended) and savvy retailers conspire to save the student population from utter ugliness...
...choose, and we’ll make a highlight, and I really think there’ll be some interest,’” Murphy recalls. “But I said there’s absolutely no guarantees. And all of a sudden, immediately, there was interest...
...afternoons on the basketball court, scraping and searching for an identity. He used marijuana and tried cocaine. His grades slipped. He was acutely aware of the low expectations some white people had for him. "People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves," he wrote. "Such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry...
Despite their sudden disappearance from the landscape, their long-term importance has remained intact: the trademark sound of soaring, pedaled, yet restrained guitar and whining/majestic vocals over a solid foundation of simplistic drumming and basswork defined the style of the nth generation descendants of the Velvet Underground, and in turn helped to inspire the shoegaze and slowcore movements that were so fruitful in the early and mid ’90s. To this day they remain one of Boston’s most famous indie exports...