Word: folk-rock
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...addition, Rockwell Church’s melodies are complex and incredibly diverse, making it difficult to pigeon-hole them as pure acoustic folk-rock: “Steady, Ready, Strong” could be Ben Folds Five tune, while a bridge of “I See Alice” is reminiscent of the Beatles...
Mmmmmhmmmm, just what the doctor ordered: lesbian-transsexual folk-rock from the goddess Ani Difranco’s Righteous Babe stables. Except…well. Bitch and Animal come across occasionally as ukelele-brandishing, homosexual takes on Blink-182, with songs about “The Best Cock on the Block,” a moving tribute to the wonders of dildos, and “Sparkly Queen Areola;” the songs are, according to the liner notes, “mainly ramblings on our cereal box of life, the sparkly sparkly pussy.” Only instead...
DIED. JOHN PHILLIPS, 65, singer-songwriter who founded '60s folk-rock band the Mamas and the Papas and wrote its biggest hits, including California Dreamin' and Monday, Monday; in Los Angeles. Formed in 1965, the group had six Top 10 hits in three years. Phillips, right, who died of heart failure, had overcome years of drug and alcohol abuse. DIED. DAVID MCTAGGART, 69, who co-founded the environmental pressure group Greenpeace and built it into a worldwide movement, killed in a car crash; in Castiglione del Lago, Italy. DIED. WILLIAM HANNA, 90, animation pioneer whose 50-year partnership with Joseph...
Jakob Dylan looks like a guy who's finally comfortable in his own skin. As he walks into the restaurant in the lobby of the Four Seasons Hotel in New York City, the 30-year-old frontman for the folk-rock band the Wallflowers, whose lyrics are often dour, even has a slight smile on his face. His black hair is lightly tousled. As he sits down, he removes his wraparound dark glasses to reveal wide, soulful eyes that seem to beg for music-video closeups. He admits freely that he used to have a reputation for being difficult ("People...
Together for the first time in more than two decades, the four warriors of this onetime supergroup are nearly old enough to collect Social Security. Yet their crystal vocal harmonies and politically conscious folk-rock remain surprisingly affecting. With a couple of superb contributions by Young, they've come up with something more than mere deja vu. But in the age of the Backstreet Boys, you wonder: Will anyone pay attention...