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...nonet including viola and cello) begin the album auspiciously with pieces from Ellington and Billy Strayhorn’s 1970 “New Orleans Suite.” Here, Harris’ playing is at its bright-edged, percussive best, and his relentlessly-swinging approach pervades the whole band??s sound. Drummer Terreon Gully and bassist Derrick Hodge play with a bluesy intensity that recalls the hard-charging rhythm section of Dannie Richmond and Charles Mingus, and Steve Turre’s forceful trombone backgrounds make the ensemble sound twice its size...
...while, the fidel-capped bloggers weren’t sure about The Killers. But then Brandon Flowers, the band??s lead singer, announced that their 2006 LP would be among the best albums of the past twenty years. And then “Sam’s Town” finally dropped, and it turned out that by “best” Flowers meant “derivative” and “pompous.” Cue the indie backlash...
...Chemical Romance is perhaps the prototypical emo band??death figures prominently in most of their songs, and they use exclamation points with alarming frequency. So it is neither a surprise nor a disappointment that their latest release, “The Black Parade” features songs entitled “Cancer,” “Disenchanted,” and, yes, “Dead...
...guitar in dive bars, pining for the brawny riffs and throbbing bass lines they knew in their youths; as a band with a dude named Franz. But don’t be hasty. The video for lead single “Chips Ahoy!” plays up the band??s loserish appearances knowingly but not affectedly. And it’s hilarious—Finn plays a TV news anchorman unable to land an interview with his uninterested paramour—but it’s also heartbreaking, since every other member of the band gets with...
...Oland ’10, who met at a meeting of the Canadian Club. “At the first meeting [of the Canadian club], we were supposed to go around and say something interesting about ourselves so I said, ‘I want to start a rock band?? and then it turned out Chris wanted to do the same,” Marshall said. Marshall, a singer, and Oland, a guitarist, hope to find a bass player to join them. Other students, such as Nathan C. M. Leiby ’10, attended the event simply...