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Circa 2005 the Canadian music scene began to be stirred up and investigated by American indie lovers intrigued by discoveries of The Arcade Fire, The Dears, or Broken Social Scene, among others. Malajube has certainly benefited from the heightened interest, but unusually so, acquiring an international fan-base without catering to an English-speaking audience. Characterized by epic orchestration and multilayered instrumentation, Canadian indie rock bands have developed a cohesive sound that Malajube employs, but to an much brighter end overall. The band’s third release, “Labyrinthes,” is driven by poppy, upbeat...
...distortion of guitars and vocals. The sweetness of the melodies contrast, at times, with the subtle and the plaintively morose lyrics. “A Teenager in Love” would be at home in any John Hughes movie, a fitting soundtrack to Molly Ringwald eyeing a love interest across the gymnasium at a crowded school dance. It comes as a surprise, to say the least, when the affected, muttered lyrics become clear: “And if you made a stand / I’d stand with you ’til the end / But you don?...
...about people, about habits, about why people act the way they do. It’s a form of study, and I believe greatly not so much in creativity, but in finding the preconditions of creativity. So what Harvard is starting to do in the arts is a substantial interest. Obviously the administration is really behind it, and now it’s up to all of you to pick it up and get the ball rolling.THC: Do you think that a passion for the arts can really be taught here?YYM: It’s not about teaching, it?...
...spending, including more than $150 billion for infrastructure projects. The conferees removed $68 billion in business tax cuts that would have let companies write off recent losses, and a home-buyers' credit of $15,000 was reduced to $8,000. A provision to help car buyers write off their interest payments was also reduced, to $2 billion from $11 billion. The bill does include a $70 billion annual Alternative Minimum Tax relief patch to prevent millions of middle-class Americans from getting penalized by a measure that was originally targeted at the rich. Reid on Wednesday boasted that the measure...
...interviews with Congolese civilians living under FDLR control, I consistently heard one thing: they wanted the génocidaires out. But many believe the only lasting solution will be a military one - and no Western nation has shown much interest in shipping troops to central Africa...