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Folds came first came into prominence in 1995 as the pianist, singer and primary songwriter for the ironically named Chapel Hill trio Ben Folds Five. With Darren Jessee on drums and Robert Sledge on bass, the group soon found a niche in the indie-rock scene. Their self-titled debut album betrayed the band’s powerful combination of Folds’s reckless piano playing, angst-ridden, intelligent lyrics and uncanny ability to write addictive hooks. Wading through the cliché-filled waters of lost love, self-loathing and rejection with a raw originality, Folds quickly proved...
...fairly touching tribute to his bandmates as he played three songs from his BFF days by himself. After the first song, the crowd began to catch on, clapping in time to cover Jessee’s missing drums, humming along in the spots where Sledge’s bass should have been and singing all of the back up “Ooohh-la-lala’s” for “Kate.” The band then came back out for two last songs, finishing with a new version of “Song...
...regular arrangement wasn’t close enough, local band Eloe Omoe (consisting of a drummer and bassist hailing from Charlestown) played smack-dab in the middle of the crowd, so that the closest spectators were standing literally inches away from a cymbal or bass amp. Despite not being quite as physically close as Eloe Omoe, the featured Chicago bands, My Name is Rar Rar and Lozenge, were able to eradicate any sense of distance that playing on stage would have normally produced...
...most often that way in the Bush family. Just when the media and political power schemers figure the father and son have their heads together in some shadowy corner dividing up the world's leaders for telephone pleas, they talk family, dogs and how the bass are doing in the Crawford pond. Thursday night, No. 41 was off in Canada hunting pheasants with friends, including former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, a deliberate response to No. 43's national call to keep life as normal as possible. Bush and son are both hunters, yet another bond of sorts between these...
...People’s Party (Red Alert)” starts to layer the horns over a groovy, yet still camp bassline. One has to admire the talent of the Money man: Although he does recruit various friends on drums and suchlike (including Sean Lennon on electric bass), almost everything is played by himself, from flute to nylon guitar. The album might have benefited from the presence of some words (perhaps even delivered by a Beastie?) but that would have detracted from the monolithic simplicity of the groove, in which the keyboard (or Korg Triton, or arp odyssey synth...