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...Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to help design a program to finance reductions in carbon emissions. Sandor remembers the time fondly. "It reminded me of my days at Berkeley," he says. "There was more tie-dye than at a Grateful Dead concert. I was sitting on the beach and having a caipirinha, and I said, 'We could do this...
...enough to carry fans through “Sixes & Sevens.” He is consistently smart-mouthed, with more sting than the Magnetic Fields and some serious comedic variety. He puts his chameleonic quality to good use, managing to mock the sensibilities of Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, the Beach Boys, and Broadway musicals without sacrificing any part of his characteristic wit. Keeping in mind what they say about imitation and flattery, however, Green’s irreverence can only goes so far. He mimics these styles in jest but also, just slightly, in earnest. Adam Green can pretty much...
...fiction of the land’s most famous novelist, Albert Camus. It’s highly unlikely that a $3.50 croissant even exists in France, let alone in a former colony, and paying $9.95 for a ham sandwich is as ridiculous as shooting a stranger on the beach for no reason at all. Even so, we’ll always be willing to shell out $4.25 for thick coffee in the most relaxed atmosphere this side of the Atlantic to remind us of our own break in Istanbul.Fire & IceAlthough few students took advantage of the opportunity to time travel...
...When I heard the New York band’s eponymous 2004 LP in the summer of 2006, it sounded positively Californian, except edgier than the Beach Boys and possibly more harmonic than The Mamas and the Papas. I was ashamed to be two years late in my discovery, yet at the same time, excited—I figured that their second album was imminent...
...without the “time I had some time alone” backing refrain).After 12 long years hidden beneath unnecessary over-production and forgettable songs, Mills’ vocals burst to the forefront and enliven much of “Accelerate.” Whether channeling the Beach Boys (“Man-Sized Wreath”) or Neil Young’s Crazy Horse (“Supernatural Superserious”), Mills’ sing-a-long harmonies, present on nearly every track, make the solid songs great and the mediocre songs good.Stipe, too, sounds reinvigorated...