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...Vermont band features a full drum kit. And a cowbell player in a Santa...
...Healing of the Nations,” a jazz piece in tribute to the victims and survivors of Sept. 11. As part of the OFA-sponsored program, Allen participated in a “Musical Conversation” moderated by Tom Everett, the director of Harvard Jazz Bands. Her residency culminates Saturday in a concert with the Harvard Jazz Bands in tribute to famed swing composer Mary Lou Williams. As Everett puts it, “We are sort of piggyback riding on a Music Department program here.” Serving as the musical director of the Mary...
...video immediately fits the dark and disturbing music. Half-lit figures and faces shrouded in mist create an unnatural, drugged-out feeling, making the whole thing feels like a séance. Killers frontman Brandon Flowers, wanders around seemingly deserted rooms and communes with the rest of the band. He looks pretty messed up, an impression that’s only reinforced by his hazy surroundings. Bizarrely, the video features a piano-playing Lou Reed, whose gravelly voice and wrinkled face offer an interesting counterpart to the boyish Flowers. A choir of children cuts in and occasionally appears...
...collaboration, but this album takes that impulse to extremes. Often, the biggest stars do the least for the songs. Serj Tankian of System of a Down opens up “Riot” with angsty screams and a guitar riff that recalls the work of his own band. When Tankian returns for some weak white rock star rapping, we wonder why Wyclef bothered. Shakira appears on “King and Queen,” inspiring hope that the duo will recapture the “Hips Don’t Lie” magic, but her chorus disappoints...
...much attendance. And it's here that the McCain campaign feels like it has the advantage. At a town hall that McCain and Curt Schilling held here on Wednesday, for example, 400 people packed in, and fire marshals turned latecomers away. The opening music was from Irish punk band the Dropkick Murphys. There were lots of children and questions about A-Rod in addition to the usual ones about Iraq...