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...Tweaking accepted conceptions of musical and cultural identity has been a Taha trademark for more than 20 years. He's focused on merging the influences of his native Algeria with the European idioms he encountered after emigrating to France when he was 10. A native of Oran, a culturally rich northwestern port city, Taha came of age displaced from his Algerian roots but without being accepted by French society either. In 1980, after a series of drudge jobs, including a stint in a heater factory, Taha hooked up with a quartet - three of whom were fellow ethnic Arabs...
Though Harvard pulled in $24.3 million in licensing revenues through its Office of Technology and Trademark Licensing (OTTL) in fiscal year 2003, some rival research universities have been able to make far more money off technology transfer. The MIT Technology Licensing Office announced gross revenues of $31.7 million that year, and Columbia University’s Science and Technology Ventures unit saw total licensing revenue of $178.4 million for fiscal 2003. According to Columbia, that number represents the highest technology licensing revenue of any U.S. research university for the fifth year running...
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...
...rock subgenres. The DFA’s own group, LCD Soundsystem joins these bands and the Juan McLean for the lion’s share of the three-CD set, but the shine of the duo’s production gleams over all of the 30 tracks. Their trademark sound of funky bass with skronky guitars, ’80s keyboards, and subtle synthesizer unites these discs to such an extent that the artists themselves are in a definitive back seat: this is all about drawing out the songs and flaunting their skill behind the dials. No song lasts less...
...11th overall release, their fifth on ATO and their first with new bassist Andy Hess and keyboardist Danny Louis, doesn’t attempt to reinvent the band’s hard rock-based sound, still emphasizing razor-edged riffing, slower rock numbers and Haynes’ trademark voice. This album is less jam-oriented than The Deepest End, although Haynes’ love of power riffs (“Lola Leave Your Light On”) is clearly still alive and well. Unfortunately, blues number “My Separate Reality” sounds so much like the Allman...