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...tolerated by the agents of paternalism. Of course it follows that the trooper already conjured is predisposed to feel very differently about the speed limit. He likely has some incentive to racking up a certain number of dollars in traffic violations, reaching into the pockets of those very libertines??modern-day Patrick-Henries, all—whose tax-averse lifestyle the Granite State so loudly pretends to endorse. Perhaps this individual only likes seeing road-trip bonheur melt into something worse. There’s really no way of knowing. The point is that the power dynamic...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Against Speed Traps | 9/14/2008 | See Source »

...Thing” according to NME—flooding the music scene? Remember how the Libertines, fronted by Pete Doherty, set themselves apart from the Strokes and the Vines and the Hives with an exquisite sense of rock history, harmonic sophistication, and fantastically nihilistic lyrics? Remember how both the Libertines?? albums—first “Up the Bracket” and then their eponymous “The Libertines??—offered Americans a raw, exciting view into a drug-addled cockney underground where Sid Vicious still swaggered? If you do, you better...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Down in Albion | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

You’ve probably never heard of them, and neither has America. They’ve been mentioned in passing in the same breath as the Strokes and the Libertines??occasionally. Pillars of the rock renaissance—kind of. An exciting new band—if you’re into that scene—raising hairs and eyebrows and taking the country by storm—if they can get away with...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Concert Review | 10/17/2003 | See Source »

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