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...Sexuality is everywhere. The flowers. Birds and bees and flowers??they’re all doing it. It’s like birth and death...

Author: By Michelle B. Timmerman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Annie M. Sprinkle and Elizabeth M. Stephens | 11/19/2009 | See Source »

...expects listeners to aspire to the music. Submerged in a seamless ocean of arpeggiated electronic sound, the album affects a reoccurring cycle of freak-pop whose contours range from low-end love songs to psychedelic-dance.The album’s ambitious opener sets the tone. “In The Flowers?? seems to emerge from outer space, with Portner’s vocals fading in and out over various layers of keyboard sound, before blossoming all at once into a percussive, anthemic epiphany. Portner’s vocal harmonies with Lennox have never sounded better, while the former?...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Animal Collective | 2/5/2009 | See Source »

When the Killers debuted with “Hot Fuss” in 2004, it was no secret that the band was trying to be different. An amalgamation of frontman Brandon Flowers??s flamboyant personality, his flashy wardrobe, and the influence of bands like the Cure and Duran Duran set the group apart from contemporaries who opted more toward revival than integration. With their third studio album, “Day & Age,” the Killers once again try to push the boundaries of mainstream music by stretching beyond their already idiosyncratic repertoire of sound...

Author: By Tiffany Chi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Killers | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...during the final press run, the events fell short of my lofty expectations. And when I finally returned to Cambridge to start the second term, I began to do a few things on my list—going to the Fogg, taking an art history class, seeing the glass flowers??and while I enjoyed myself, checking an item off that list was not the capstone experience I had hoped it would be. Even when my successors as editorial chairs were kind enough to let me lead one final editorial meeting, I gained a sense of closure...

Author: By Adam M. Guren | Title: The Senior List | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...posit a solution. To give you an idea of their sound: if African chanteuse Angélique Kidjo produced a mash-up cover of Paul Simon’s “Graceland” and the Talking Heads’ “(Anything But) Flowers?? that was performed by The Cars and The Talking Heads, their self-titled debut album would be it. They call their sound ‘Upper West Side Soweto.” I call it Afro-twee.What the foursome has figured out though, is that music doesn’t need...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rock Struggles to Say Something New | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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