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...keep witnessing how slyly the market promotes our liberation through consumer goods. The commercialism of 1970s counter-culture, for example, has been analyzed by Bass Professor of English Louis Menand. A more recent example of the way advertising makes kitsch out of genuine languages of self-definition is the grievous use of the motto of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”—“I am what I am”—to sell sneakers. Pseudo-sociological categories such as the “metrosexual man?...
...personal experience and a lot of it is observation. Cat’s new album “What They Will Find” was released in the U.S. on Nov. 15. They’re all original songs except for one, which is a cover of the Montel Bass song “Rescue Me.” It’s an upbeat, Motown kind of song, so we did a slower, more sultry jazz version. A couple of the tracks are from the first album I recorded that was an independently released album. I was 16 when...
...newest pomp-rock mashup by the Strokes, those loveably trendsetters widely known as the saviors of indie swagger. And let me tell you, my friends, the “Juicebox” video has enough bravado to fill a bathtub or two. Over a pilfered bass riff, the video bounces between the requisite studio shots and semi-randomized staged hook-up hijinks. Really, “bounces” is an understatement: the slew of sexual scenarios trotted out before our eyes are enough to dizzy the hardiest of fans. Images of a B-movie shot atop an apartment building...
...Bean.” Having danced around precariously to “I Turn My Camera On” in the confines of my car this summer, I was used to enjoying Spoon’s energy in a relatively small space, letting the driving drum and bass fill in and envelop me. The Avalon’s cavernous ceilings and multiple levels allowed some of this intimate power to escape up to the rafters, rendering some songs, especially anxiously sparse songs like “The Infinite Pet,” a little less soulful than they seem from...
Directed by James MangoldTwentieth Century Fox4 1/2 stars1968. Folsom Prison. The walls are gray, the guards are getting worried, and the inmates are pounding the floor with lace-less boots. Onstage, the band is playing a thrumming bass line, glancing nervously at each other. In the back room, Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) is staring at a table saw. On this day, he will record his hit album, “At Folsom Prison.” Before the show, though, we need to know how he got there.James Mangold’s Cash biopic, “Walk the Line?...