Peter Blais


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Performances at coffeehouse preview CD

It's 6:30 p.m. in the Duke Coffeehouse, and the student band Makeshift is on stage. Unlike usual performances, however, saxophonist Chauncey Nartey, a junior, is facing the back wall as he releases...


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Belle & Sebastian

"I don't know what they're thinking. They're really talented, and they've done amazing things, and I don't like to jump too quickly to damning things like this when they've made stuff I've really...


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sufjan

The Sufjan Stevens ethos may seem presumptuous to many: recording a concept album dedicated to one of the 50 states, inundating it with unambiguous references to his Christian faith and directing...


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The darkness

The Darkness' Delorean must have been hit by that train on the album cover, as they've apparently been stuck in 1981 since 2003's Permission To Land.


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Bombadil plays happy funk

While Duke seniors Bryan Rahija (guitar), Daniel Michalak (bass), and Stuart Robinson (keyboard) might not have had visions of Tolkien's murky forests, trickling brooks or a small fat mule named...


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Fiona Apple

It's been six years since Fiona Apple's last commercial release and almost two years since an earlier version of Extraordinary Machine was leaked to the public.


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