Word: drums
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...What do we want? Equal rights. When do we want them? Now,” gay-marriage supporters chanted over a thumping drum beat...
...Association (HASA) kicked off their first annual “Africa Week” with a panel discussion in Adams House followed by the Gumboots workshop, taught by members of the troupe. The next four days will offer events ranging from a film screening to a class on African drum construction...
...really kindred spirits with early rave anthems, whose chipmunk voices were pilfered and used for the same naively uplifting ends. (Charmingly ironic is the vocoder-led house number that bursts out of “The New Workout Plan”—work that drum machine, Kanye.) In contrast to the “faded photograph” echo in much of hip-hop’s sampled melodies, Kanye is relentlessly optimistic even when he’s down...
Leaving out the low end, naturally, was a wise move for a band whose best trait has always been its lightning quick rhythm section, and now that it’s all smoky drum machines and forest imagery, shit’s just so much fun you wouldn’t even believe. Indeed, the fastest song on the whole record is “Hold And It Will Happen Anyway” and even that crawls like a dying, epileptic tortoise...
...grrrl and Kill Rock Star scene have come together to form the Casual Dots, whose self-titled debut is filled with primitive pounding, noodling guitar lines and lovely sweet-and-sour vocals from Christina Billotte, a former member of Bikini Kill. The band is only two guitars and a drum set, so the arrangements are simple and usually rely on battling guitar lines over simple drum patterns. Considering this, it’s surprising how much of the 30-minute album is devoted to instrumental—the first song is entirely free of vocals, and on several others, Billotte?...