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...both the fate and the challenge of the up-and-coming artist. How can today’s artist feel comfortable being creative knowing that their music will inevitably fall short of the highs reached by a century’s worth of pop music?The title of Toronto band Metric’s second album does justice to this longing frustration: “Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?” The ’60s counterculture had Haight-Ashbury, the punks had the Bowery—so what do we get? The rise of irony...
...fell apart, though, during the awards for best British Live Act and British Single. In a misguided attempt at inclusiveness, the public votes for these, so instead of being a barometer of quality, the awards are all about the size of a band's fanbase. Which is how Take That - the '90s boy band that came back from oblivion a few years ago minus their most famous member, Robbie Williams - beat the likes of Muse and The Kaiser Chiefs for British Live Act and triumphed in the best British Single category. They may as well have called them "The Band...
...engage, not with Ronson, not with the audience and not with the song. Staring out into the middle-distance most of time, she was just phoning it in. But back on stage half an hour later was a whole other Winehouse. On a set stripped bare - just her, her band and a red velvet backdrop - she belted out Love is a Losing Game in that raw, smoky way she does, making eyes at the TV cameras and sucking the audience into her fragile, tortured world. She may not have picked up a Brit, but she was rewarded with the loudest...
Does this sound too good to be true? McCain is, as he often admits, a superstitious fellow who depends on talismans for good luck--the penny he carries in his pocket or that rubber band strapped around his left wrist. As it stands, he is still too busy attempting to convince his party and its conservative base that he is not to be feared. Witness his latest endorsement road show: Mitt Romney in Boston, George H.W. Bush in Houston and a bunch of big-name Republican Representatives in Washington. These are the moves of a man still speaking...
...laudable, the case against Bush has been made before, and more compellingly (not to mention more concisely). Although the company attempted an impressive integration of multiple media, the performance utterly lacked dramatic cohesion.As the audience filed in, a white-clad throng convulsed rhythmically to the energetic music of local band “The Second Line Social Aid & Pleasure Society Brass Band,” which would prove to be the highlight of the evening. The dancers this band accompanied composed the play’s ensemble of twenty; they ranged in age between their teens and seventies and were...