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...handed the reins over to DJ Premier and Nas, rap entered what many call its “golden age,” wedding abstract lyricism to street-level relevance over complex beats. With the efforts of producers like Luny Tunes and artists like Calle 13 (whose new album “Residente O Visitante” dropped on Tuesday), reggaeton seems poised to do the same. —Staff writer Will B. Payne can be reached at payne@fas.harvard.edu...
...were sort of punk and we played around campus.”It wasn’t until after graduation that Rice and Rudder began a recording project in their Central Square apartment and Bishop Allen was born. Over the next two years, they recorded and released their debut album Charm School, which Rolling Stone called “charmed harmonic bliss” in a four-star review in 2003.EXTENDED PLAYERSAfter that, their sophomore slump set in. “We had been trying to record a full-length record and we were kind of lost and frustrated...
...tragedy is that that hope will never be realized; she’s now a well fed, moronic relic. What makes her new album of cover songs, “Twelve,” so damned upsetting is just how ignorant she’s become...
...seminal 1975 album, “Horses,” Smith appropriated Van Morrison’s “Gloria” and soul classic “Land of a Thousand Dances” for her own revolutionary purposes. Those two songs were no more than 15 years old when she reinvented them. But now, Smith has lost all touch with the present. Like her fellow Green Party yes-men (and yes-women), she lives in a frozen world, and she’s happily ignorant of what’s around...
...matter how outdated her sources, however, at least this album isn’t comprised of her own songs. Her recent offerings have been awful, bland screeds against Guantánamo Bay and the War on Terror. Instead, what we get on “Twelve” are songs that are at best irrelevant, and at worst nonsensical...