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...most sauce with their bread and fill their triple-sized shot glasses from the bottles of Maker's Mark that line the tables, to see who can toss down the most boilermakers. This meal is not for wimps. As we tear and chew and slurp, the band segues to jazz and then to old pop favorites like 'A Bicycle Built for Two.' In a moment we are all on our feet together, singing 'God Bless America...
Most people wouldn't mix the rhymes of Notorious B.I.G. with the melody of Elton John's Tiny Dancer and expect an ear-pleasing result. But then again, most people don't have an ear like Pittsburgh native Gregg Gillis, better known as the one-man band, Girl Talk. The musical misfit and laptop magician broke into the mainstream with his 2006 hit album Night Ripper, whose 16 tracks sampled more than 150 artists, from Abba to 2 Live Crew to Aerosmith. His latest album, Feed the Animals, is already available online; the CD is out November 3rd. TIME spoke...
...community. I thought a lot of those people were recycling a lot of ideas, like playing noise and feedback and having some name like X_R2. So I kind of picked the name Girl Talk because it was so glossy and sounds like a 10-year-old girl's band name. I just thought it would be the most inappropriate name for the music community that I was involved with. And some people really hated it. I was playing with some really serious academic laptop musician, and he'd play first and sit there and stare at his screen...
...punk rock can a coffee-table book possibly be? The Clash, a band that embodied the rebellious, DIY ethic of the late-'70s scene - and that proclaimed louder than anyone else a social and political purpose to punk's nihilism - have a book out. A big, pink, glossy, coffee-table book. In good time for Christmas...
...orchestra fails to transmit the Romantic power of Weber’s music. The musicians, under the baton of Gil Rose, played with confounding restraint, not giving the fortissimo passages of the score their due fortitude. In the final minute of the overture, when the strings should be a band of sprinting hunters, they were instead a flock of pigeons flying languidly overhead. The absurd onstage pantomime that accompanied the music did not help matters, either.The singers, like the pit, also suffered from want of robustness and intensity. In a season-opener—and with an opera that...