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...Arctic Monkeys. "I listen to what shows up, really out of curiosity more than anything else," he says. "It's not often that something really gets to me." He goes to concerts only rarely--for the Stones when they tour and an occasional experiment like Oasis (a "brilliant songwriting band"). "I'm a very boring person," he insists. He doesn't go to movies, he says (though he writes plenty of them; see box), and spends most of his spare time reading--most recently Janet Malcolm's biography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. His chief recreational passion...
...realist, I know I can never be President, will never be part of the American hairistocracy. The presidency is not one of those high-profile jobs in which you can sneak by with a paisley head scarf (think Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band) or a pompadour wig (think Steven Van Zandt of The Sopranos...
Music videos from everyone’s favorite Canadian indie supergroup used to involve drag queens, bulldozers, jerky dance moves, or David Cross cameos. Nothing so exciting drops by in this clip: Two kids (real-life couple Sam and Andrea from Brooklyn art punk band Courtier) sit on a dilapidated loveseat and gaze into each other’s eyes for a bit. She looks like she’s going to eat him; he blinks a lot. On-and-off ensemble member Neko Case perches wistfully on an antique chair and belts out to no one in particular, tapping...
Ween—for those uninitiated into their somewhat cultish following—is a band that writes the kind of songs you might have written when you were 12, adopting various musical styles and rigging them up with lyrics that walk the line between juvenile and crass. Only they do it surprisingly well—most of the time, anyway. Now, on their 11th full-length album, Ween seems to have lost some of the magic that earned them a name in the alternative music genre. “La Cucaracha” focuses heavily on satirizing various musical...
...which is a very beautiful instrument, is the ability to make ornaments. The string goes the length of the instrument and you can pluck with your right hand and create ornaments with your left.”“It’s almost like playing a rubber band,” she elaborates. “The tighter you hold it, the higher the pitch. The looser you tune it, the lower the pitch. You can manipulate the string on the left side. It’s very expressive.”Wednesday’s performance...