Word: debutants
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...home to college-friendly bands like the Cardigans, Liz Phair, Veruca Salt and Tahiti 80. "The band's music possesses a charm, melodicism and style that we fell in love with immediately," says label head Jim Powers, who signed White Shoes and re-released their self-titled 2005 debut album in the U.S. in September. What American listeners will make of White Shoes' fey and shimmering songs - mostly recorded in Indonesian, with one or two in English - remains to be seen however. Indonesia's biggest stars - platinum-selling bands such as Dewa and Gigi - have never had any impact...
...just possible, though, that White Shoes will be able to leverage its Internet buzz and get noticed by college trendsetters on the lookout for musical exotica. The debut album treads a daring line between cool and camp, filtering Paris of the 1960s, or swinging London, through an Asian prism. The tunes call to mind not only film soundtracks but also TV themes and tacky advertising jingles from consumerism's golden age. It's a deliciously anachronistic sound, underscored by the lack of digital instrumentation (the band's lineup includes three classically-trained musicians...
...palace bedroom. France's paparazzi have tailed the President for weeks in search of his mystery woman, and French television journalist Laurence Ferrari recently sued two gossip magazines for linking her romantically to Sarkozy. By Saturday, Sarkozy was apparently ready to end the mystery, though his public debut was hardly romantic: He and Bruni joined the heavy pre-Christmas crowds at Disneyland Paris, with their respective children, and posed for photographers...
...only is the motion picture produced by del Toro, but “The Orphanage” is also Spain’s 2007 Academy Awards nominee for Best Foreign Film. It commanded the biggest opening of the year in Spain as well as the second highest box office debut ever for a Spanish movie in the country. The film beings with Laura (Belén Rueda) returning to the eerie orphanage where she used to live in as a child along with her husband and son. As mysteries surface around the building and her seven-year-old son grows...
...Dirty Mind,” to obsess over “1999,” to worship “Purple Rain.” However, you can blame The-Dream for not looking beyond Prince—and a handful of other influences—on his lifeless debut, “Love Hate.” The purple presence becomes clear after a glance at the song titles. “Nikki,” “Fast Car,” “Purple Kisses”—they?...