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KAREN WANG

The summer in rock: A Manhattan music diary

Radiohead kicked off my summer by releasing “Amnesiac.” A return to their roots? Hardly. Thom Yorke and company still can’t keep their hands off the electronics, and we still have a few tracks that are, in all honesty, electronic gibberish. But unlike its predecessor, “Kid A,” the songcraft on

Manic Street Preachers, Stereophonics rule Welsh Britpop

But when you stop looking and start listening, this place does have something to offer the average American. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. Catatonia. Super Furry Animals. All bands that emerged from Wales in the ’90s and carved a decent niche for themselves in the world of Britpop. Yet they all

Campus Conversation

Legions of Amherst folk eagerly awaited Saturday night’s annual Computer Dating Tap, shunning old-fashioned fate for a night after spilling the contents of their inner psyches into a survey a week earlier. Some of those who came simply expecting a match made in Hamilton Heaven, however, found themselves in