Word: bandness
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...when the first of Bolaño's major novels, The Savage Detectives, a massive, bizarre epic about a band of avant-garde Mexican poets, was published in the U.S. last year, it instantly became a cult hit among readers and practically a fetish object to critics. Bolaño's second (and last) major novel is titled 2666, and if anything, it is even more massive and more bizarre. It is also a masterpiece, the electrifying literary event of the year. With its publication by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this week - adding to an oeuvre that includes several collections...
...high school to pursue his obsession with poetry full-time. After a brief and not very successful return to Chile - he was imprisoned by Pinochet as a radical, then released when it turned out that he had gone to school with his guards - he fell in with a band of antiestablishment poets called the infrarealistas, who specialized in showing up at the readings of better-known poets and yelling at them...
...keeps on getting sharper and sharper.” “She sells out Passim pretty easily,” he said, describing Pauley as a folk-based act with a rock sensibility. “She can pull it off with or without a band. When she’s solo, it’s just as powerful...
...Columbia band is just loving being President-elect Barack Obama's alma mater...
...slow song on this album. Who knows? This may be Adams’ tip-off to the fans that his old ways are over and that, as the album’s title implies, he’s no longer focused on his solo career, but rather on the band. As evidenced throughout the album, the Cardinals have chemistry, and while Adams is indisputably the band’s frontman, the harmonies and control of dynamics mastered by the Cardinals reveal Adams and the Cardinals as a cohesive unit. “Cardinology” will become a defining moment...