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...these days few can keep the rock idiom alive without sounding dated. And now here’s a charm-filled album by the former frontman of New Zealand band The Verlaines, Graeme Downes. A lecturer in a rock degree program (can you imagine?: Speaking tonight, we have Professor Axl Rose, lecturing on “Teased Hair and Split Ends in Detroit Rock of the mid-1980’s: Hair today, Gone tomorrow?”), this is rock done just right, as the minute-count shows: Barely any of the 13 songs last much longer than...
While Kors has included an imposing pair of black men's britches in his lineup, it's still anyone's guess whether males will voluntarily don pants tight enough to give Axl Rose pause. Meanwhile, women can rejoice in the freedom of movement afforded by a silhouette that is as short on short skirts as it is on the spiky bracelets, studded handbags and other hard-edged accessories that were hot five minutes ago. Clotheshorses can get in touch with their inner sportswomen in sleek, graceful wools and leathers eminently practical for a brisk pony ride down Fifth Avenue...
...Elton John duets with infamously homophobic Axl Rose in a tribute to Freddie Mercury...
...rock night, featured not only Pato Fu, a promising local hard rock band, and Nacao Zumbi, a cool local electronica outfit, it also Guns N' Roses, and they're always interesting to make fun of (at 3 a.m. on Saturday, there were about a dozen kids waiting outside of Axl Rose's hotel, waiting for a glimpse...
...think we all agree that it's an interesting take-off of what was already established. What these guys are the bastard children of Axl Rose, taking his worst elements. They're cool bands and they control a different influence and create a really macho industry. I think, however, that they are typical and boring of that macho idea...