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...bassists and two drummers, adding an extra dose of raw power to Collins’s original compositions, and their wide catalog of cover songs ranges from punk to funk. “We Have You Surrounded” finds the Dirtbombs combining all their musical strengths onto one disc. Soulful second track “Ever Lovin’ Man,” with its Motown-esque background vocals, harkens back to their widely-praised 2001 covers album, “Ultraglide In Black.” Elsewhere, the gritty “I Hear The Sirens?...
When you peel off the cellophane and pry open the plastic case of a new CD, you’re always hopeful that the disc will deliver something special. Maybe it will introduce you to an artist who’s trying to break with tradition and create something new. Or maybe, if the artist doesn’t push the boundaries of music, the product will still boast some diversity. At the very least, said artist should present songs that are distinguishable from one another. Unfortunately, Jason Collett seems hopelessly incapable of doing any of these things. The folk...
...That, in genetic terms, is what Venter has done. Working with only the four basic nucleotides that make up all DNA - adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine - he has assembled an entirely new chromosome for an entirely new one-celled creature. Insert that genome into a cell - like inserting a disc into a computer - and a new species of living thing will be booted up. Venter hasn't done that yet, which is why even he won't say that he has technically invented life. He has, however, already shown that a genome transplanted from an existing cell to another will...
...Clan found itself playing second fiddle to its best-known artist’s seventh solo album. Ghostface Killah, whose new album, “The Big Doe Rehab,” was slated to be released the same day as the Wu-Tang Clan’s latest disc apparently forced the Killa Bees to push their album back by one week so that it wouldn’t conflict with his initial sales. One can only hope that the best is yet to come, and that the Wu‘s much anticipated reunion will blow...
...quite make it happen. His poignant frustration with the state of the world leads to touching insight at times, but it gets lost in the frantic cultural sampling of “Memoirs.” Wyclef told New York Magazine this fall that he sees the disc as something of a magnum opus. “This album means so much to me—it’s like Bob Marley’s ‘Exodus’ or Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going...