Word: bandness
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When the Counting Crows didn’t win the Oscar for Best Song in 2005 for “Accidentally in Love” from the movie “Shrek,” I was ambivalent. While I would have loved to see one of my favorite bands recognized for their talent, I didn’t want it to be for a song so purely “pop” that it betrayed the honesty and rawness of their best work. I felt a similar ambivalence toward “Hard Candy...
...Congleton doesn’t see the problems of TVT Records, the band's label, as unique. “I don’t think [my label] is really different than any of the other labels that are going under; they are all hurt by the internet, by file sharing,” says Congleton. And he’s right: music sales are continually dropping, illegal downloading is a persistent problem, and government crackdowns only seem to add to the problems...
...think to myself, “Wow, the acoustics are horrible, but this is actually a respectable venue.” The room is characteristically half-full of the same thirty-somethings and sixteen-year-olds, clutching Stella Artois in their sweaty, underage hands. You can meet the headlining band at the merchandise table while the openers screech their way to an agonizing and glorious halt. The acts are not always well known, but they’re often surprisingly good. This underground scene seems an appropriate sanctuary for the last dying breaths of rock-n-roll creativity...
...crowd reluctantly shuffled out, my curiosity was piqued. I wondered how a band with such a good sound as evidenced through admirable new material could be floating around in indie purgatory. I decided to investigate, and what I found didn’t exactly surprise...
...agree with Tyrangiel that R.E.M.'s new album is terrific. But to me, the three preceding albums represent the work of a band that was still growing and maturing. To compare the R.E.M. of a quarter-century ago with the R.E.M. of today makes no more sense than saying the Beatles' Strawberry Fields is inferior to I Want to Hold Your Hand. I admire artists who have the courage to evolve. Debbie Gilbert, Cleveland, Georgia