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...collection by Heaney, perhaps the world's greatest living poet, is an event. And this one is a killer - literally. District and Circle (the title suggests the London Underground and, surely, its 2005 terror bombings) throbs with anxiety, foreboding and half-suppressed violence. Heaney's language is a symphony of sounds, surprises and look-'em-up words, like his barber's "cold smooth creeping steel and snicking scissors." You'll want to sing his lines out loud - until you realize how deadly serious the post-9/11 Heaney can be. "Anything can happen," he warns, "the tallest towers/ Be overturned...
...country gets, 1776 or Beauty and the Beast or whatever will always chirp happily along, preaching a message of nice neat endings and nice harmony. They don’t care about anything. That’s really punk. 5. “Sister Ray” by Velvet Underground. Much as hipsters will hate to admit it: everyone’s kind of tired of irony. But what was great about the Velvets (and Andy Warhol) is that they were so fantastically good at being ironic about irony. Is it meta? Sure it is. Is it the only route...
When I looked to Felton for confirmation, he grinned and shrugged off his familiarity with the underground hip-hop scene, even though he has been tirelessly improving TDS—and consequently hip-hop accessibility at Harvard—since he joined WHRB his freshman year...
...bands competition in Boston. They perform about three times a month, and their biggest single, “Stormtroopers” (“I am a stormtrooper, I’m not a robot”), has helped to propel their fame in Boston’s underground indie-rock world. But Dern’s performamces have also brought him notoriety around Harvard, too. The Leverettite is well known around campus for having more than 300 Facebook.com groups devoted to him (with such gems as “Nate Dern Loves Primal Scream, Eight of His Toes...
...that there was no drum kit. There actually were, but...Harvard couldn’t point me to them.” Instead, Hufstedler decided to create a community for musicians who did not play “Harvard traditional fare.” She joined Record Hospital, the underground rock department of WHRB, and focused on playing alternative music and female artists. It was through radio that Hufstedler joined Plan B for the Type As, Harvard’s only non-boy punk band, with fellow radio compers Amy R. Klein ’07, the founder...