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...tail end of their three-week tour across the US, The Go! Team are swimming in fresh acclaim. Though their current line-up is only a year old, The Go! Team found themselves nominated for this year’s prestigious Mercury Prize in England, competing against albums by Coldplay, Bloc Party, and eventual winners Antony and the Johnsons.The Go! Team’s current success is testament to the power of word of mouth that propelled a British group with a magnetic live show and hip sound to stardom across the Atlantic.FROM BEDROOM TO STARDOMThe Go! Team began...
...sensibility. But despite James’ voice and the enthusiasm that the band put into each track, several tracks on the album fall flat. “Gideon” and “Anytime,” for example, are visceral but disappointingly derivative of Coldplay, flawlessly executed but too slickly produced. “What a Wonderful Man” is boring, candyfloss pop that acknowledges Wilco’s “Summerteeth” in its forcedly peppy instrumentation and retro harmonies. But while Wilco vocalist Jeff Tweedy always sounds too dire to make...
...that you wouldn’t be mildly sketched out if you saw your picture prominently displayed on the unknown computer screen next to you in the library, or if a random classmate tapped you on the shoulder and said, “Your interests say you like Coldplay! I like Coldplay!.” Facebook stalking may be common and even socially acceptable—but it’s still creepy.On a less frightening but possibly more outrageous note, facebook.com is a mechanism with which to determine an individual’s coolness and popularity. Several methods...
...Someone once told me that we sounded like a cross between Coldplay and Beck, but with the seriousness of Spinal Tap,” says Ryan C. Hickox, lead singer and guitarist of local band The Franklin Kite. This comes from a man who himself is a cross of Carl Sagan and Gustavo S. Turner, as Hickox’s day job includes pursuing a PhD in Astronomy and acting as a resident physics tutor in Dunster House...
...latest album, In Between Dreams - it plays three of the tracks. On the main escalator at Tottenham Court Road, nearly half a million riders a month watch ads such as an overflowing bath - for home insurers Direct Line - cascade down a line of 33 LED screens. And when Coldplay launched their album X&Y in May, giant screens beamed invitations to every turned-on, Bluetooth mobile-phone user within 100 m to download exclusive freebies. For the moment, Britain's digital outdoor advertising market is tiny - just $38 million a year, according to outdoor ad agency Hyperspace - but appealing. Some...