Word: bandness
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...currently have singles whose videos are on steady rotation on all of the MTV channels. Furthermore, I’m sure every single name on this “no name” list is as famous (if not more) than the council’s first semester band pick, Guster...
Julian Marley, son of reggae impresario Bob, tours with his Uprising Band. He is one of the many Marley’s—including Ziggy, Stephen and Damian—attempting to use his talent and family name to get some recognition in the notoriously cutthroat reggae community. In order to show “dread cred” as it’s known in reggae circles, Julian has spent years learning under Aston “Family Man” Barrett, Earl “Wire” Lindo, Tyrone Downie and Earl “Chinna?...
Grunge-hangover band Tantric’s second album After We Go gives brooding discontent the perfect sheen of corporate rock. Ironic, given that their record company sent them back to the studio for a second and third shot at the album...
...Coral need to stop writing songs and convert to a mid-60s folk-rock cover band. There’s a substantial baby-boomer nostalgia circuit—my friend’s dad played bass for “The Grateful Dads”—and the Coral could own it. Seriously, the band has some fine musicians and competent vocalists, and they come across as very polished. I bet they’d do a rockin’ rendition of “The House of the Rising Sun,” but there?...
...social commentary. Think “A Day in the Life” as written by a first-grader. For its finale, the Coral give us the 6-minute “Confessions of A.D.D.D.” I guess this is their tribute to jam-rock; unfortunately, the band members are in no position to improvise. The result is a two-minute guitar solo based entirely on five notes. “Liezah” and “Secret Kiss” present some more memorable, if bland, tunes evoking the Byrds, but they don?...