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...sworn in as President. Though the pretext for the uprising was Sánchez's $5 billion plan to pipe natural gas to the export market via Bolivia's historical enemy, Chile, its real cause was Sánchez's apparent indifference to the country's misery. Bolivia (pop. 8.8 million) is South America's poorest country, and job losses resulting from industrial privatization have forced an estimated two-thirds of its work force into the underground economy. Indigenous farmers have seen their fields of coca - Bolivia's most lucrative crop, used to make cocaine and herbal medicines - eradicated...
Kris Delmhorst celebrates the release of his new CD “Five Stories” with guest acoustic guitarist Peter Mulvey. Delmhorst is a singer-songwriter and artist from Brooklyn whose warm folk-pop style is influenced by country, gospel, and jazz. 8 p.m. $19.50. Somerville Theater, 55 Davis Square, Somerville...
Toronto’s Barenaked Ladies, best known for their fusion of rap and catchy pop in the cleverly written single “One Week,” will open their new headlining tour in Boston on the day their new CD, Everything for Everyone, is released. The Ladies will foster an intimate setting at the Orpheum by promoting the audience’s interaction with the band through a mid-concert Q&A session. 7:30 p.m. $40. Orpheum Theater, 1 Hamilton Pl., Boston...
...come to Harvard, their hip-hop stylings giving undergraduates a better reason to get caffeinated (or inebriated) than thousands of pages of tutorial reading ever did. That night, Harvard almost seemed like a normal college campus—with rowdy students and the floor-shaking bass of live pop music. In an exciting break from the mundane, some of the University’s most beloved professors even moshed with the best of them. All this really did happen. Except Outkast never actually came to Harvard. And nobody put down their coursepacks. And no undergraduates went across the River. Indeed...
Secondly, Radiohead recently released one of the finest albums of their career. I have never been bitten by classical music the way I am bitten every day by pop music. But in the darkest crannies of my soul I know that classical music has a depth and a complexity to it that pop music, alas, cannot. This is something that rock music snobs try to obscure by knowing tens of thousands of different indie bands, and by endlessly dividing similar guitar music into different categories and genealogies. But for the prophet, there is a simpler solution: just listen to Radiohead...