Word: bandness
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...Built to Spill have approached a comeback with “You In Reverse,” their latest release. Formed in 1992 by prodigious guitarist and singer Doug Martsch, Built to Spill’s deeply melodic, spiraling rock compositions were so well-received as to make the band one of the most popular indie rock acts in the 90’s. The group gained prominence throughout the decade, peaking with 1999’s stellar “Keep It Like a Secret,” generally considered to be their finest studio effort. As an outsider...
...Hair When We’re Gone?” Songs like “Jellybones” and “Sea Ghost” cast them as inventive, attractive indie popsters, no more and no less. Despite the album’s initial success, the band broke up shortly thereafter. Now, former Unicorns Nicholas Diamonds and Jaime T’ambour are recording as Islands, attempting with “Return to the Sea” to exchange the previous band’s levity for something closer to gravity. While fans may cringe upon hearing that...
...spun a wicked techno remix of Sting & the Police’s “Message in a Bottle.” An anonymous sophomore girl described the party as “bizzleboring,” but hey, it beats Stein Club. FRIDAY Despite an enjoyable cover band and all the free chicken wings you could eat, Pub Night was sparsely populated. The VH1 crowd (read: seniors) got their cards stamped and sipped Smirnoff Ice. Post-crumping/crunking/whatever you kids are calling it these days, the hip-hop crew rubbed up against each other at the Expressions party...
...Earth. As Persephone, he steals the emotional show from the more demonstrative Orpheus and Eurydice. The form of the play resembles an opera re-imagined by a Beat poet: sung and spoken dialogue alternates, often bleeding into each other and usually backed by the cacophonous melodies of a band on one side of the stage. Virtually each line is delivered with breathtaking intensity, which contributes to the tone but occasionally leads to some unintentionally amusing moments, as when Eurydice dramatically sings about the mug of pens on her writing desk. Most of the time, however, they’re singing...
...easy to see why: the results are immediate and measurable. "For the advertiser, it really turns out-of-home into a direct-response mechanism," says Alasdair Scott of Filter in London, the firm that developed BlueCasting, the Bluetooth-based system used in the Absolut campaign. The rock band Coldplay used BlueCasting last summer to launch its album X&Y. During a two-week period, 20,000 people downloaded video clips and sample tracks directly from posters in London's main rail terminals. Fifty bus-shelter ads in Britain for the movie Alien vs. Predator prompted 500,000 riders to vote...