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...boys from Dispatch are no strangers to the Boston music scene. After getting their start at Vermont’s Middlebury College as One Fell Swoop, the three returned home to Boston and began gigging at local venues like the Middle East and Avalon. “We started out playing in these tiny little rooms in Brookline,” said Repete, “and it’s great because the fans in places like that are so receptive.” Dispatch has gained a local following on many college campuses and regional bars, a start...
...book reads like a pastoral of a child's suburban springtime. Jon, the focus of the book, spends his laconic, carefree schooldays fooling around with his best friend Bjorn, reading comic books, eating candy and telling jokes. He lives in a slightly odd, magical universe where a pterodactyl may swoop down and fly off with his kite to his mild surprise. Stilts are used instead of cars and sometimes Jon's father lets him "drive it to the garage." The characters all have the faces of animals, but not in any sort of realistic way. If anything they look like...
...this way, Lee achieves two biting critiques in one fell swoop-cutting at both the stereotyped and the stereotyper. We identify others and ourselves in purely visual terms. If Nikki Lee's "Projects" seems at first ridiculous, then, that's the whole point. They are ridiculous...
...latter has been praised for its veracity by no less an expert than Dave Grohl, of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, who contributes drumming on the record.) He also manages to parody a swath of celebrated musicians by incorporating their stylistic trademarks into his songs: Joni Mitchell's upward swoop, the keening harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash, and, on an slow, instructional song whose title is too crude to reproduce here, the dulcet phrasings of James Taylor. The listener has not acquired an intimacy with the soul of Jack Black after several spins of "Tenacious D," but that's beside...
...Michigan number used to move hearts and minds back in the spring, when a recession was constantly threatening to swoop down and savage our livestock. But it?s become sort of the default conventional wisdom that consumers? walletary outlook, while probably past its peak, is on the gentlest of downward slopes - and that business-centric numbers like inventory and production are the other shoe worth watching...