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...Breathing and alive.” The bouncy “I Got Something” is possibly the best cut on the album: It is bluesy and clearly owes a smidgen to Gottesman’s time in a funk band (though someone clearly managed to restrain the bassist). The understatement of the obligatory wah-wah pedal is characteristic of the album, and is one of its charms, allowing the most juicy elements (such as the finely wrought chorus on “Into the Morning”) stand out in the light they deserve. An album for sensitive...
...direct: “Soap and water / Wash the year from my life / Straighten all that we trampled and tore / Heal the cut we call husband and wife.” The music is subtly complex, often with the folky underpinnings of an acoustic guitar. Vega and longtime bassist Mike Visceglia shift easily from the breezily defiant “(I’ll Never Be) Your Maggie May,” to the lithe, staccato “Solitaire.” Yet the punch is all in her lyrics, full of extended metaphors and vivid imagery that catch...
Folds was backed by a solid band of Chapel Hill buddies: guitarist Snuzz, bassist Millard Powers, and former Sheryl Crow and Dixie Chicks drummer Jim Bogios. The concert began with “Not The Same,” the song with the strongest hook on the new album. “Same” tells the story of a girl who took acid and climbed a tree at a party hosted by (former BFF bassist) Robert Sledge before becoming a charismatic spiritual leader. From there, the band played an entire set of new material. During the show, Folds delivered...
...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...
...hopes to conquer its homeland. The band just released its first full-length CD, Is This It (RCA), a scrappy, old-school rock album with yowling vocals, jangling guitars and cool, carefree melodies that stay with you like tattoos. The New York City quintet--singer Julian Casablancas, bassist Nikolai Fraiture, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. and drummer Fabrizio Moretti--has started drawing queries from journalists from as far away as Brazil, as well as advance raves from the U.S. press. "We try not to pay too much attention to things like that," says Valensi. "It could...