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...more and no less. Despite the album’s initial success, the band broke up shortly thereafter. Now, former Unicorns Nicholas Diamonds and Jaime T’ambour are recording as Islands, attempting with “Return to the Sea” to exchange the previous band??s levity for something closer to gravity. While fans may cringe upon hearing that the album’s first track is nearly 10 minutes long, the truth is that Islands have pulled off their metamorphosis beautifully. “Return” chronicles human despair and those...
...changing costumes only remind us that the Chili Peppers have been stuck in the same musical-historical rut for the past 10 years. “Dani California” sounds like any of the flood of MTV-friendly, moderately funky, poppy singles that have come off of the band??s last three albums. And it’s too bad that the song’s so lousy, because the video’s concept and execution are solid. The Chili Peppers ham it up with enough self-deprecation to avoid looking too hubristic, even when thrusting...
...Bitter Tea” (Fat Possum) 4 Stars The press packet issued with “Bitter Tea,” the new album from art-rock sibling duo The Fiery Furnaces, contained a delightful little Easter egg: the transcript of an email written by Matthew Friedberger, the band??s lyricist and instrumentalist, to their publicist. The email contains the most pretentious bit of prose ever committed to the page (or monitor). Since no summary of mine could capture the unmitigated pompousness of the offending passage, I quote it for you here: “The record...
With a few of his fellow FAP participants, Drake formed Blanks., a rock band. Eight days after getting together, the group performed Prince’s “When Doves Cry” at the freshman talent show. Drake remains the band??s drummer and manager...
...characters of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and the rest of the Rolling Stones are peripheral in the film, appearing mainly in flashbacks to the band??s early days. They only appear once in the film’s present, when they arrive at Jones’ house to fire him for his unreliable and uncontrollable behavior...