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...band's new CD, A Thousand Leaves (Geffen), is one of its best. The quartet--singer-bassist Kim Gordon, drummer Steve Shelley and singer-guitarists Lee Ranaldo and Moore (who is married to Gordon)--has always been given to experimentation, but on this CD the Sonics bring it off with new vigor and maturity...
...pair say they're happier as a duo than as part of a megagroup (neither of them talks to Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones very much, and drummer John Bonham died in 1980). "This is what we like," says Plant. "It doesn't attract the same attention. It suits my years and my ambition." Plant also says that although "the best place to find us is in a bar," they don't party as hard on tour as they once did. "We control it now," says Plant. "Before, it was rather amorphous--we couldn't stop it." Walking into...
...wave twist. Unlike the first track, it's got an actual melody, and the track itself wouldn't sound out of place on a Porno for Pyros CD. Given Weiland's voracious propensity for aping other musical artists, it then comes as no surprise that Porno for Pyros bassist Martyn LeNoble plays bass on most of the tracks, including this...
Still, Imbruglia will probably never be mistaken for a singer-songwriter. Although she's credited with co-writing most of Left's songs, the album was born with a battery of producers in attendance, including Nigel Godrich of Radiohead, and former Cure bassist Phil Thornalley. Nor will Imbruglia score points for originality. Most of the album's songs sound as if they had been ripped right out of Morissette's songbook. A few do hit the pop bull's-eye. Intuition and Torn start off sweetly and gather into cloudbursts of righteous rage, touching on jealousy, infatuation...
Since making his first recording at the age of 22, Ma has released more than 50 albums, winning 12 Grammys in the process and enjoying a number of crossover hits, including Hush with vocalist Bobby McFerrin and Appalachia Waltz with bassist Edgar Meyer and violinist-fiddler Mark O'Connor (the latter CD has been a fixture on the classical charts for 76 weeks). But life as an elite musician has its dreary side. Ma has a grueling concert schedule that keeps him on the road roughly half the year. Ax's comments notwithstanding, Ma practices where he can--in hotels...