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Some rules: Rock concerts don’t start on time, on-stage collaborations can’t work and never should the opening band upstage the headliner. But neither the Flaming Lips nor Beck, who passed through the Orpheum Monday night on their joint alt-pop-rock tour, are known for adhering to standards. The Lips emerged in an ecstatic parade of video, smoke, exploding confetti and zebra costumes and indeed, right on time too. Their charge was to warm up the crowd and make way for the Magical Wizard of Rhythm himself. They had to hurry...
...Jesse Alt, spokesperson for the club, denounced Horowitz as a “racist ideologue...
SOiL’s major label debut, Scars, explodes from the Windy City with a hard-rock radio blend of melodic hooks and crunching riffs. This nu-metal outfit manages to temper the simplicity of drop-d tuned chunk metal with alt-rock and cock-rock attitude. The band keeps it simple. They don’t blend hip-hop, they don’t dose tracks with techno-loops, but stick to simple meat and potatoes rock-metal power, with an occasional decrease in distortion for a few seconds of sensitivity. Catapulted by their debut single...
...Mansony. And besides, if Jolie is going to continue to serve as the goodwill ambassador for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and Thornton is really going to have a shot at winning the best-actor Oscar in addition to being a respected indie writer-director who makes moody alt-country albums, they need to make sure people know they don't have a dungeon in their basement and he doesn't eat only orange-colored food and doesn't think he's the reincarnation of Benjamin Franklin. This is going to take him a while...
...back to their trademark blend of guitars, electronic-influenced beats and lead singer Shirley Manson’s cynical musings. Led by Manson’s rock-vixen vocals, the quartet’s 1995 debut, Garbage, saw the Madison, Wis.-based band rise quickly amidst the then-decaying alt-rock universe. Fueled by producer/drummer/founder Butch Vig, a veteran of the alternative scene from work with Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins, the band showed considerable maturity and greater refinement in 2.0 while still breaking out a slew of radio-friendly singles, among them “Special?...