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What made Lou Reed famous was the work he did with Velvet Underground, the music that's influenced almost every single band that now goes under the "alternative" label. And even after the band put away the instruments, Reed continued writing songs that were relevant, more penetrating than broken glass, and so very dangerously subversive. Too bad that the subversion doesn't work here. The drugs and sex lyrics just aren't shocking any more, and they aren't sharp, either. They're just the stuff Lou Reed used to do well. "I do Lou Reed better than anybody...
...NEMO, New England annual's music conference, takes place this weekend at various clubs and bars around Boston and it's a good chance to catch quality underground music, not just from New England but from as far afield as Australia and Los Angeles (which is arguably another foreign country...
...scientists have stumbled on several ways to do just that. When the lake behind the Hoover Dam was first filled, it triggered quakes in a region that had been seismically inactive. Nuclear-weapons designers found that they were also generating quakes at the Nevada Test Site when they detonated underground blasts. But the real breakthrough came when the U.S. Army began pumping liquid wastes into the ground near Denver at their Rocky Mountain Arsenal and discovered that the pumping was setting off tiny artificial quakes. Scientists studying the phenomenon found that the fluids were lubricating the fault boundaries, allowing them...
...practitioner of Muay Thai kick-boxing and would like to challenge Adam M. Taub to mortal combat. Anytime he wants to enter my traditional underground octagonal arena and fight to the bitter death, he is more than welcome. Bring...
Windsor, Ont., just across the Canadian border from Detroit, has always been a refuge for Americans whose proclivities run counter to the prevailing laws of the U.S. In the mid-1800s, runaway slaves made their way to freedom there via the Underground Railroad. During Prohibition, Al Capone's boys smuggled rum from Windsor. And rebels are still attracted to Windsor. These days, though, they come not for liberty or libations but to buy toilets...