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HIV/AIDS research at Harvard is, currently, a lot like your favorite rock supergroup. Individually, it’s rich, talented, and prolific; together, it’s a bit dysfunctional...
...surprisingly, it's the big-name, big-scale events that bring in the biggest bucks. One gig by U.S. supergroup R.E.M. in London's Hyde Park last year grossed over $4.5 million, while Irish giants U2 generated ticket sales of around $300 million from the 110 dates they played in 2005 ensuring, even after hefty production costs, a healthy cut for the promoters, management and venues. For the mega-acts, concerts are now the horse driving the CD cart. In a paper by Princeton economist Alan Krueger and grad student Marie Connolly called Rockonomics: The Economics of Popular Music...
...Most Canadian Non-Canadian to Live Outside of Canada.) While at art school in Vancouver in the 1990s, Case played drums in a couple punk outfits. Her upbeat alter ego from those days still surfaces regularly when she sings with the New Pornographers, Vancouver's indie pop-rock supergroup. And Case has also been in cahoots lately with Toronto twang-rockers, the Sadies, who share song-writing credit on a few Fox Confessor tracks and add instruments on a few more. Case's musical wanderings are no doubt part of what makes her talents so appealing to so many...
It’s good to see Bejar return to the formula that endeared him to legions of depressed hipsters. In recent years, he’s been moonlighting with some of his Canadian compatriots in the decidedly more upbeat indie-rock supergroup known as The New Pornographers...
...deceptively-named band is a power-pop supergroup from Canada. A.C. Newman of Zumpano, Dan Bejar of Destroyer, and alt-country siren Neko Case share bandleader duties, and a formidable roster of musicians from their respective array of side projects back them up, including director Blaine Thurier...