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These bouncy indie rockers are getting all sorts of bizarre Strokes comparisons, but they’re much more closely related to the Stills school of bass-driven Morrissey cribbing. A year after the release of their record, Sunlight Makes Me Paranoid, they’re finally getting some wider attention due to heavy touring and radio play for the tune “Misfit.” Seachange and Lockgroove open. $10 in advance, $12 day of show. 18+. 8 p.m. Middle East Downstairs, 472 Massachusetts...
...high quality music with public acceptance.” The group aggressively promotes its website, www.chesterfrench.com, and plans on freely distributing a seven song EP (tentatively scheduled to be out by reading period). They’re all but desperate to expose their music to a wider market, but their biggest promotional technique is their live shows. On stage, Chester French welcomes the chance to break out of the gentlemanly mold they have created for themselves and “rock out” in a more spontaneous...
...bank governor Zhu Rongji choked off bank loans to cool runaway borrowing and spending. The subsequent slowdown threw millions of mainlanders out of work, but because China was relatively isolated from the global economy, few other countries shared the pain. Today, a sharp contraction in China would have much wider impact. The mainland is one of the world's largest manufacturing bases and is now its fourth largest trading nation. Last year, China accounted for approximately 70% of Japan's total export growth, 40% of South Korea's and 90% of Taiwan's, according to Morgan Stanley...
...photographers, trailing far behind, cannot hope to capture this briefest of off-guard moments. But away from the crowds and the press and the party meetings, as Sonia Gandhi stands alone in a field, hugging the poorest of India's poor, it is difficult to tell whose grin is wider...
...hoped-for elections. A knowledgeable State Department official says Brahimi will probably endorse the idea that the interim government should retain at least some members of the Governing Council, despite their limited legitimacy in the eyes of Iraqis. But Brahimi also "appreciates that you have to have a wider political representation than you have now," says the official. Selecting those representatives will take time, however, and Brahimi is off to a slow start. The State Department official acknowledges that the continuing military conflict "will put off, for a time, Brahimi's work...