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...band, which has combined rock and rap on past releases, hopes to pioneer a more sophisticated blend of the genres. Says Thompson: "[The Rolling Stones'] Exile on Main St. is my blueprint." The plan is to invite other musicians--John Mayer, Macy Gray and Nas are on the wish list--to drop by for jam sessions out of which, they trust, songs will emerge. The Roots' Philadelphia studio has even been tricked out with a whole bunch of amenities so the band can play host to longer, later jam sessions. "We definitely want a darker, murkier texture," says Thompson...
Music being the most abstract of the popular arts, it is hard to know exactly why some bands succeed and others fail. This much we do know: Spoon was once a band teetering toward failure. It was the late '90s, and Spoon was playing competent post-punk in the tradition of Wire and the Pixies. And in the post-punk tradition, the group was widely ignored. After a two-month affiliation with a major label, Spoon had its contract revoked. The band was deemed not only hopelessly uncommercial but also hopelessly uninteresting...
Word spread, and 2002's equally good Kill the Moonlight enlarged the cult. As with R.E.M. in the late '80s, one senses that Spoon could be not just a distinctive band but the rare distinctive band that is also popular. Daniel is sequestered at home in Austin, Texas, adhering to a strict writing regimen in order to get a new album, Captured to Be Cooked, out by spring 2004. "I try to get up early, have some cereal, have a run and then don't talk to anybody for eight hours," he says. "It's really hard." Daniel has written...
...first time on film, Takeshi Kitano looks harmless. He's sitting on a rock in a rural Japanese nowhere, eyes shut. A band of thieves enters the frame and sees what the audience sees: an old blind man, easy pickings. Two swaggering ruffians approach with swords drawn. Kitano pricks an ear?and faster than a whirring Cuisinart, they're in pieces on the ground, and Kitano is wiping the blood from his blade. The lesson is clear: whether he's blind or not, you don't tug on Superman's cape...
Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard Glee Club and Harvard Band performed throughout the exercises...