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Perry David Rlickman died last month at age 51, and yesterday’s day-long memorial at Leo’s coincided with his “jazz funeral,” a parade through his New Orleans haunts with a jazz band and honking horns to celebrate his life...
When Jack White isn't singing, he may be the most thoroughly unendurable rock star since Sting. White insists that he and drummer Meg White are brother and sister (they're actually ex-husband and wife); he also considers himself a modern bluesman, wears his red band uniform offstage and uses the liner notes of his new album, Elephant, for a jeremiad on "the death of the sweetheart." He's like a vigilante grad student holding a highlighter pen to your throat--except when he sings. Jack White can really sing...
Musically, Elephant adheres to the band's simple formula. Meg plays drums, Jack sings over his alternately wailing and intimate guitar. There are a few bass chords and an organ thrown in, but it's minimalist rock with maximum thrust. Just skip the liner notes. --By Josh Tyrangiel
...holdout is group is a band of tribal gunmen who have barred the bridge across the Tigris that leads into the city center. They may be protecting the city against looters or they may be trying to prevent competing groups of marauders intruding on their turf. The first signs of looting are already clear, however. A new car with five self-styled Kurdish guerillas drove by, telling a stirring tale of gunfights and escape and pointing to a bullethole and a smashed window in the side of the car. The car plates, however, were covered over with mud - usually...
Vaux first started playing electric bass in middle school, but quickly progressed to more exotic musical endeavors. He now plays guitar for the Redundant Steaks, a band he started with Barrete and two other friends while they were undergraduates at the University of Chicago...