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Between spreading his messages of peace and love for the rap community, Puff Daddy performed some of his more popular songs, most of which are remakes of earlier '80s rap or rock songs, including "I'll Be Missing You," a remake of the Police's "Every Breath You Take," "Mo Money Mo Problems," "It's All About the Benjamins" and "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down." The audience itself, primarily teenagers dressed up as Puff Daddy look-alikes, only showed enthusiasm for Puff's sampled songs (the majority of his works) over his original ones from...
Starting in the late '80s with the seminal Boston indie-pop band Blake Babies, Hatfield has built a career around her girlish, often straining voice and simple, pop driven song structures. The recent release of Please Do Not Disturb, however, marked a sharp departure for the Boston-based artist. With its hollow, often menacing production, heavily distorted bass guitar and aggressive, direct lyrics, the EP opened up for her a whole new arena of musical possibilities. Hatfield's show reflected all of the strengths and weaknesses of the new approach...
...girls, the '80s babysitter represented the teen ideal--boys, painted fingernails, high school, boys and BFF (Best Friends Forever). For boys, the '80s babysitter held the promise of adolescent back-seat gropings and the suburban equivalent to the Robert Palmer girl. Let the memories flow.FM
...Roll, located in Porter Square at 1908 Mass Avenue, is Chinese food and not much more. The atmosphere is about as rockin' as the Boston Philharmonic--the only audible music is the dull drone of '80s tunes from the shop next door. However, even this music is drowned out by the sounds of the sizzling wok in the open kitchen...
...Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney has been the brand name for animation. Its chief rivals in the '40s and '50s, Warner Bros. and MGM, which were besting Disney in the quality and appeal of their animated shorts, never produced a feature-length cartoon. Only in the mid-'80s, when the studio taken over by Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg had yet to hint at a renaissance, did Disney lose its animation pre-eminence. An American Tail, produced in 1986 by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, took in $47 million at the North American box office, equal to the grosses...