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...Control, who, throughout the 90s, had—along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel—served as a pillar of the Elephant Six Recording Co., a sprawling collective of indie rock bands based in Athens, Ga. With two of that decade’s finest albums—1996’s “Dusk at Cubist Castle” and 1999’s “Black Foliage”—under their belt, co-songwriters Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss parted ways. Doss went on to pursue solo...
...Young,” he reassures us, “When the director yells ‘Cut,’ I’ll be fine, I’m forever young.” In an increasingly commercialized genre that’s lost some of its finest lyricists in the glow of their youth, a living legend’s promise to stick around is certainly well-received. While a true retirement is inevitably in the works for Jay-Z at some point in the future, his latest effort is less a vain attempt at new heights...
...extremes: “A Ghost is Born” was spiked with experimental guitar noise and studio tricks, and “Sky Blue Sky” was a return to old-fashioned laid-back songwriting. In the vein of Wilco’s finest works, “Wilco (the Album)” combines the traditional and experimental. While past triumphs like 2002’s “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” made each song a fusion of the two styles, The Album alternates experimental songs with stripped-down ones. “Bullet Black...
...World War II raged, Adolf Hitler retained an ambition to build the world's finest museum in his hometown of Linz, Austria. He planned to call it the Führermuseum and hoped to stock it with the greatest works of art from around the globe - which he would obtain by looting collections and museums in occupied territories and hiding them until the war ended. (See a brief history of World War II movies...
...Chinese buy tea as an investment, much like Europeans buy wines. In the early part of the decade, thousands of cash-rich urbanites poured their savings into the Puer, causing prices to double, then triple. "People were buying anything," says David Lee Hoffman, a California collector. By 2007, the finest aged Puer was - quite literally - worth its weight in gold. As demand soared, however, quality suffered, fakes flooded the market and prices fell...