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Music | Thursday, July 28,2005
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Lincoln Land hosts Little Feat on Saturday
Little Feat may be best remembered, if it’s
remembered much at all, as a kind of proto-jam band, a bunch of competent
West Coast session players combining smooth, laid-back New Orleans
Music | Thursday, July 21,2005
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Balancing contrary forces
For the past decade, Joe Pernice has
practiced the art of pop chiaroscuro, crafting sunny songs with
sudden shadows and dark songs that dazzle. With its buoyant hooks,
Music | Thursday, July 21,2005
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In 1990, two average groups from the Boulder,
Colo., area joined forces, and ended up creating one of the most
popular jam bands to fill the void left by the decomposition of
Music | Thursday, July 14,2005
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Son Volt’s back, with new urgency
The first new Son Volt full-length
in seven years, Okemah and the Melody
of Riot boasts exactly one original
member: Jay Farrar, the band’s founder, frontm
Music | Thursday, July 14,2005
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What makes for a great death-metal band? The
vocals — guttural roars and growls — are savage. The
lyrics are painfully dark. The tempo is abrupt, the guitar-play
Music | Thursday, July 7,2005
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Ying Yang’s misogynist harangue
It’s hard to hate the Ying Yang Twins as
much as I should, but it’s equally hard to defend them. In
the interest of full disclosure, I was ushered into puberty by
Music | Thursday, June 30,2005
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A bumpy journey, in the Fog
Writing about Gertrude Stein’s long and
difficult The Making of Americans, literary critic Richard Bridgman likened the
author’s technique to that of a novice dri
Music | Thursday, June 30,2005
A circus of soul
Victor Wooten picked up the bass at the age
of 3 and never looked back.
“Back then, it was a chance to be like
my brothers,” Wooten says. “All my brothers
Music | Thursday, June 23,2005
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Meet the Redwalls
On De Nova, their second album (and major-label debut),
the Redwalls deliver ’60s-era blues-based Brit rock with an
audacity peculiar to the very young and the not-so-t
Music | Thursday, June 16,2005
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An odd pairing and 10 stunning tracks
At first blush,
the pairing seems odd: abrasive American indie-rock idol and
whimsical French soundtrack doyen. Like horseradish and marzipan,
they’re two
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