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...category to put us in—would be a jazz group,” says The Bad Plus drummer, David King. “But a more accurate description, if you really wanted to get pompous, is that we do music of novelty.” The band, which incorporates various techniques and multiple genres into its musical selection, transcends the classification of being simply a jazz group. Comprised of King, bassist Reid Anderson, and pianist Ethan Iverson, The Bad Plus will be performing at the Berklee Performance Center this evening as a part of a national tour promoting...
...freedom to wear their own clothes, receive one visit a week from a family member, and organize recreational activities amongst themselves. Though the inmates first attempted a “no wash” strike, their demands were not met until Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender, “Band of Brothers”) led a hunger strike in 1981, ending successfully seven months later after the deaths of 10 men. The film has three major movements: scenes of the prisoners’ daily lives in the Maze, a long conversation between Sands and a priest, and the slow deterioration...
...drums on the dirge “4 out of 5,” the band’s meticulous attention to texture is evident in each of the twelve songs on “Living Thing.” Kanye’s caps-locked infatuation with the band is perhaps most understandable in the context of this new preoccupation with aural textures. However, “PB&J” often seems to mistake inventive production for good material. Every song on the album has interesting stylistic touches, but they frequently lack the melody and songwriting to come...
...compelling as they are thought-provoking. If music is to be harnessed for its pharmacological powers, might it not hold the potential for dangerous interactions? Remember the crying waitress? Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” is good to write to, and the electronic band MSTRKRFT quite great to run to, but such selections would certainly have deleterious effects on performance if poorly prescribed. Last year, Harvard students downed the strange cocktail of the Wu-Tang Clan, Gavin DeGraw, Joey DeGraw (sigh), and whatever other substances they chose to introduce into their systems that...
...overshadowing her bandmates—guitarist Nick Zinner and drummer Brian Chase—the massive shift that she directed for “It’s Blitz!” the band’s third album, would certainly not suggest so. On her orders, the band has dispensed with the frenetic guitar work that defined its first two LPs. Instead, Zinner, one of the most inventive guitarists of this decade, is reduced to playing mostly synthesizers in an attempt to create the dance music that O has demanded.Although it may seem surprising, “It?...