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Brotherhood, burnout and belief: How Greta Van Fleet took on the world – and won
Greta Van Fleet’s rise to rock’s big leagues felt, to its four young members, like “being shot out of a cannon”. So when burnout and a global pandemic brought them back down to Earth, how did they not only keep the train on the tracks, but return with an album of epic proportions and ambition? Josh and Sam Kiszka take us inside The Battle At Garden’s Gate, and the fight to block out the world…
Words: Nick Ruskell
Photos: Alysse Gafkjen
Here’s how much Greta Van Fleet need to lead a life on the road: last summer, they packed themselves into a motor home and headed west on a 2,000-mile drive from Nashville to Los Angeles. Half a year after the curtain fell on their last show on December 30, 2019, the closing gig of a three-night run at Detroit’s Fox Theatre, and with a season of broken festival appointments to no longer look forward to, even if they couldn’t play a gig, the
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Well, whether you know it or not, the “racial sympathy index” is a thing. Is it a good thing? Take a wild guess.
Jennifer Chudy is an assistant professor of political science and the Knafel Assistant Professor of the Social Sciences at Wellesley. Chudy’s a biracial Asian, which don’t make no never mind to me, but since she’s really big on race, no harm starting off by pointing out hers (her Asian mom and white dad are also in academia).
She’s married to a Hindu named Kumar, which is totally irrelevant but kinda funny.
While it seems impossible that there are more than a few dozen people around the world who legitimately enjoy listening to Barenaked Ladies’ 1998 single “One Week,” there’s still a lot of love for the snotty pop-punk stylings of Blink-182. Thus, Alex Melton’s recent Barenaked Ladies cover, titled “If Blink 182 Wrote ‘One Week,” offers a sort of litmus test for when, exactly, a song that combines these two influences crosses the line from unremarkable or even enjoyable to the sonic equivalent of having fire ants nest in your ears.
There’s no shortageof Blink-182coversout there already, but Melton’s decision to invert the usual process and instead channel their essence through one of Barenaked Ladies’ wretchedest tracks creates something unique: A test that determines your tolerance for bouncy pop punk, Barenaked Ladies lyrics, and the intersection of these two polarizing sounds.
Hoping for a news broadcast that doesn t feature lockdowns? You should be so lucky
In the elegant hall, the rustle of taffeta is masked by the sound of a Strauss waltz, as ladies of a certain age dance cheek-to-cheek with their younger instructors, whirling around the floor. Suddenly, the double doors to the room are flung open. Dozens of police officers in full PPE swoop, as dancers proffer smartphones bearing digital details of their vaccinations. All are led away for flouting the hyperlocal lockdown, facing fines in the thousands. Repeat offenders may even be heading to jail.
Welcome to Britain a year from now – a world where sporadic outbreaks of Covid-19 still erupt, vaccine or no, and are ruthlessly stamped upon by authorities backed by voters who know it is the price to pay to avoid much wider restrictions.