Word: bandness
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...height of London Fashion Week. Yet Wintour, along with New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art's top brass, had an assignation there with the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. So entertaining was the performance that Wintour was even seen to remove her signature sunglasses. Indeed, the band is now penciled in to play a Vogue-sponsored benefit at the Met later this year. And who could blame her for succumbing to the strummings of the stringed septet? Just to say the word ukulele forces a smile. The name is almost certainly Hawaiian - it allegedly comes from the islanders...
...recent years, the band has caught a lot of flak in the local college media (including this very same space) and students continue to bad-mouth it. No, I’m not talking about the folk-rock legends who made a (confusing) capitalized name for themselves backing up Dylan before moving on to a brilliant solo career, but the Harvard University Band, the musical fixture at campus sporting events. So, as this winter comes to an end, and the teams whose games the band frequents conclude their seasons, allow me to submit a defense of the band...
...clever) have finally released their first CD, “The Back Room,” in the States, after several months of growing popularity in the United Kingdom. Joy Division comparisons are already tiresome—it seems that every melancholy vocalist in a post-punk band is compared to the late Ian Curtis—but inevitable with Editors, whose debut offers an uneven retread of the sound, style and lyrics of their legendary Manchester-based predecessors. When everything comes together, as on standout tracks like “Munich” and “Fingers...
Hard-Fi Stars of CCTV (Atlantic) 1.5 of 5 Stars Pop quiz: Hard-Fi, Kaiser Chiefs, and the Bravery—which of these bands is not like the others? Trick question: they’re all absolutely identical. While Hard-Fi may be the British buzz band of the moment, they don’t add anything new to an iPod that already contains the Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, and Franz Ferdinand. In fact, as the album progresses, it becomes clear that “Stars of CCTV” is nothing more than a catalogue of pre-fabricated...
Gorillaz “El Mañana” Dir. Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland Gorillaz are without a doubt my favorite virtual band comprised of animated apes, so it’s nice to see an interesting and dramatic video for the five thousandth (okay, fourth) single from “Demon Days.” It’s also nice to see that Gorillaz are all about teaching important life lessons: although it may seem cool to live in a windmill on an island floating through the clouds, the lifestyle has its drawbacks...