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...this year, the non-believers have been proven wrong. Barack Obama, the prophetic voice of hope crying in the partisan political wilderness, has reinvigorated Americans’ interest and engagement in the electoral process and especially inspired the once-lukewarm faith of the youth. And, like many converts, these youth??especially at Harvard—have expressed their new-found creed with an excess of zeal...
...perhaps owes its existence—My Bloody Valentine’s “Isn’t Anything,” Pixies’ “Surfer Rosa,” Fugazi’s “13 Songs,” and Sonic Youth??s “Daydream Nation.” But while those albums all self-consciously operated around or even subverted the tropes and conventions of “pop” music in their own different ways, today’s independent music seems to be working deliberately...
...without a little elbow grease, though. Team Crawford had been running damage control for more than a decade, trying to keep a long youth??marked chiefly by a drunk-driving arrest and a 2.35 grade point average—from interfering with political destiny. To quote the president himself, at his question-begging best: “When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible...
...thumping.“We were sort of flat in the first two periods and came out and played our game in the third, but at that point it was too late,” head coach Katey Stone said following the game.But despite its youth??the roster boasted 13 freshmen and sophomores—the Crimson came back in January and set out to accomplish the unthinkable.“We definitely exceeded all expectations that the outside hockey world had in place for us, but our own expectations were pretty lofty even though we lost...
...most of the tracks in beds of tonal allusion to the transatlantic dance pop of the mid-80s. In fact, most of the album’s tracks reek so heavily of excess that, after a first listen, it’s difficult to discern whether “Youth?? proposes homage or parody. Gonzales clearly understands the nostalgia associated with such eagerly retrospective arrangements, but in trying to plug listeners into that same nostalgia, he also recalls the vapidity and gross superficiality that followed in its wake. As a portrait of the West’s last...