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...great thing about being a musician in an age of digital communications, though, is that local obscurity is no barrier to international recognition. Indonesians don't give them a second look, but a buzz about the band - whose sultry, slow-burning trip-hop invites comparisons with Goldfrapp or Portishead - has gently percolated around the region, thanks to a well-tended MySpace presence, Channel V airplay and the fact that Yohanna mostly sings in English...
...Their second album, On Second Thought, I Might Wanna Change Some Things, signals an intention to build on this base by being considerably more accessible than the band's melancholy 2006 debut album, The Very First Thing You Must Learn About Flying Is Gravity. Over 10 slinky tracks, listeners will find evidence of a broadened musical vocabulary and Yohanna's growing confidence. As a vocalist, this Irene is far more dynamic than the neophyte who hesitantly warbled her way through Gravity. There is plenty to love about her and about the current Indonesian music underground. For sheer style...
...Young at Heart Thanks heaps for the story on the jonas Brothers [Sept. 15]. They are my favorite band ever. Your magazine caters for a younger audience than I thought (I'm 14). Rock on, TIME! Aira Abarra, Melbourne...
Wright taught himself how to play piano (and several other instruments) as a jazz-mad child growing up in London, and brought a sense of improvisation to the R&B group he formed with school friends Roger Waters and Nick Mason. When Syd Barrett joined in 1965, the band was renamed and redirected, matching Barrett's weirdness and whimsy with orchestral swells and experimentalism. After Barrett left the group because of mental instability and was replaced by Gilmour, the cohesiveness at the core was never quite the same. Waters seized creative control and reportedly threatened not to release...
...Harvard girls” to bear their souls and bodies for his new magazine, Diamond. Well, now we know him better. Seven months later, the first issue of Diamond has hit the shelves and the results are astounding. Diamond is something like a journalistic version of the one-man-band: In this drama, di Pasquale is judge, jury, executioner, and the man on trial for indecent exposure. While the magazine contains a (fully-clothed) interview with a recent graduate named Fiona, a slightly outdated “look ahead” at summer blockbusters like The Dark Knight, and other...