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...other Lampoon-related news, former staff writer Nick B. Sylvester ’04 was suspended from a top editorial position at the Village Voice and removed from the Pitchfork Media masthead for fabricating part of a Voice cover story about dating in New York; gossip site Gawker.com reports that most of Sylvester’s quotes/anecdotes were attributed to former Lampoon members...
...Hearts to perform at the Spee, an all-male Mt. Auburn Street final club.“I’ve heard a lot of people had mixed feelings about him,” said Evan L. Hanlon ’08, who said he knew of Sylvester through Pitchfork and friends. “But generally, he was well-received...energetic and eccentric. It just seems like he took a really bad turn,” Hanlon said.In his story, Sylvester cited “Dolly,” author of cocksanddolls.blogspot.com, as an example of women catching onto...
...fortuitously responded to an ad. The band gelled immediately. The Go! Team’s success since then is a classic blog-buzz success story like that of Brooklyn’s Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or Montreal’s Arcade Fire. The influential online music site Pitchfork put The Go! Team’s album in its Top 10 Albums of 2004 list. The buzz about The Go! Team spread so fast at this spring’s South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, that a line two blocks long formed to see the band...
...Doherty (9 p.m.), Charles Bissell of the Wrens (10 p.m.), and The Minus Story (11 p.m.). The New York Times praised Okkervil River’s newest album, Black Sheep Boy, as “marvelous…full of elegant phrases and unexpected images” and Pitchfork described the CD as “the most sustained and startling collection of songs yet, throughout which the band makes Sheff’s private madness starkly public.” T.T. The Bear’s Place. 12 a.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster or at the door...
...young indie rock band from Montreal heralded by the collective orgasm of Pitchfork Media and the alternative music press. Been there, bought the t-shirt. But this year’s Canadian sensation Wolf Parade is not merely a new incarnation of the Arcade Fire, as their performance at TT the Bear’s last Thursday showed. For those unacquainted with the Central Square locale, TT’s was designed by Maytag as the world’s most efficient toaster oven. Its sweltering smallness makes it a good concert venue by other measures, though; you can pretty...