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They don't call it the Final Two. If you're looking for magic, for an American spectacle akin to the Super Bowl or the Oscars, please direct your attention to the doubleheader semi-final orgy of college basketball known as the Final Four...
...album kicks off with the bombastic alarm-like bass-line and trance keyboard effects of the album’s single, “Nothing at All.” It is a rebirth anthem more akin to the dazzling electronics of Madonna’s “Ray of Light” than to the Chemical Brothers. The wondrous textures Slater crafts on “Stars and Heroes” and “Searchin’ for a Dream” are slices of the finest future techno, the sort of stuff one might listen...
...powerful and secretive (or at least anonymous) network executive, Nightline does have a relevance problem. Television has changed significantly since the show debuted during the Iranian hostage crisis 22 years ago. Cable news provides a 24-hour outlet for wonky debate, and the Internet brings headlines home in something akin to real time. Koppel and his producers have wisely adjusted the show's format, shifting from headline news to more in-depth, prerecorded pieces. "The result has been a set of brilliant programs," raves Iger...
...layered upon it. McComb shows off his ability to dynamically shift vocal tone, without stretching his overall range. His thick-throated melody is reminiscent of Creed’s Scott Stapp with a lot less Jesus and a lot more animosity, while his more aggressive growls and screams are akin to Pantera’s Phil Anselmo...
...eerie tone, then a flickering and sweetly sad bridge ushers in a memorable chorus. Crooning “Everything is right here/ Color me unsold/ Everything is right here inside,” McCombs forges his own sound, though some listeners might find his softer timbre akin to Alice in Chains’s Layne Staley...