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...specific romance that caught Barlow’s ear. This came from the same part of the audience that had been yelling about Barlow and Loewenstein’s frequent breaks to retune—many of the songs were in alternate tunings—and their absent human drummer. Barlow, the king of cool, brushed off these comments (and those about Mascis made during and after “The Freed Pig”) with a simple statement: “These are songs. They are written to entertain an audience. The people and situations are irrelevant. Take them...
After sound check, the band lounges about the venue in the hours before they take the stage. A few break for the door to enjoy a cigarette. “This smoking ban,” drummer James Butcher proposes, “is forcing people to be more social. No one likes not being able to smoke a fag indoors, but outside the smokers have their own little community.” He pauses. “In New York it was nice, we got to meet all these nice fans outside the club.” The band...
...later and later every morning. They told me to take off for two days, but I got a doctor's certificate to extend it. The guy threatened to fire me. He said, 'You know what's going to happen!' I said, 'No! What?' It was funny." A decent drummer, Gondry was in a band called Oui Oui and started making videos for the group. These caught the eye of other artists, and launched a career creating visual accompaniments to music by Björk and the Rolling Stones, and more recently, Beck and the White Stripes. He "doesn't rely...
...broken band, from a broken land,” announces Jason Stollsteimer, the singer with a broken face. As ubiquitous as Stollsteimer’s battered image became following his thrashing at the hands of former mentor Jack White, the stars on this album are bassist Carrie Smith and drummer Don Blum. Their powerful playing breathes new urgency into a blues-rock formula that’s already starting to grow stale on the edges...
Franz Ferdinand combine intelligent innovation with instant accessibility in a way few bands can. For this they owe a good deal to their buoyant rhythm section, comprising bassist Bob Hardy and drummer Paul Thomson, and their stated aim to “make records that girls can dance to, and to cut through postured crap.” Franz Ferdinand leaves the lasting impression of a band with more good ideas and enthusiasm than it knows what to do with...