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Don’t lie: some of you are amped for Yardfest. You can’t wait to relive your days of Stephan Jenkins admiration and rocking out in your rooms to “Semi-Charmed Life.” But for the rest of you, maybe it’s time for a road-trip: If you’re pissed because your inner- indie snob is offended, head over to Brown. Performers there include The Roots, The Flaming Lips, Mission of Burma and Yo La Tengo. “A band that less people have heard...
...With Yardfest right around the corner, FM decided to sit down with the social programming gurus themselves, College Events Board (CEB) Chair S. Adam Goldenberg ’08 and Vice-Chair C. Kai Wu ’09.1. Fifteen Minutes: What are the most significant difference between this year’s and last year’s Yardfest?S. Adam Goldenberg: The most significant difference is that this year the organization is much more student driven. Last year it was organized by administrators and students that called the Yard Fest committee, it was an ad hoc committee brought...
When the College Events Board recently announced that Third Eye Blind would be headlining Yardfest, you probably thought, “Well, I guess people would have been psyched about that 10 years ago.” You’d be wrong. The band, whose crystal meth-tinged mega-hit “Semi-Charmed Life” blasted across college dorms in 1997, failed to elicit any major enthusiasm among a group of Harvard College ’98 alums polled by FM. “Who are they, again?” asks Christine Folch...
...heavy hearts of Harvard’s Class of 1997, snowed under by winter and steamrolled by midterms, will finally find reprieve at the Yardfest performance of today’s hottest band: Third Eye Blind. Move over, Oasis; 3EB is here to stay. With bouncy but thoughtful gems like “Semi-Charmed Life” and “Jumper,” the San Francisco quartet has struck a chord with college students riding high: Clinton is president, “Ally McBeal” is on at nine, and things are looking...
CORRECTION: The April 5 news article "Third Eye Blind To Headline Yardfest" wrongly stated that 7,000 undergraduates attended last year's Yardfest. In fact, the College said the event had a total attendance...