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...contrast to the whizzing machinery and artifice of Digital Ash, Wide Awake features Bright Eyes’ signature folk-country ballads. Oberst cashes in on his heartland roots to deliver ten tracks of white boy blues, twanging along to song titles like “Old Soul Song” and “Another Travelin’ Song.” While the album is much more singer-songwriter oriented than Digital Ash, many of the songs include a fair amount of accompaniment from the mandolin, the harmonica or the organ. Country legend Emmylou Harris sings back-up vocals...
Let’s play a game of name-that-indie-act. Stop me when you know who I’m talking about: They’re a Brooklyn-based duo, recording fuzzy, repetitive psych-folk that sounds like it’s made to be sung and strummed by a slightly stoned campfire. Need a hint? The band is named after a large, hibernatory forest dweller. Those who paid close attention to 2004’s underground hype would probably buzz in within picoseconds. “This is obviously another spinoff from Animal Collective?...
...band in question is actually Grizzly Bear, an un-Collective-affiliated act led by Edward Droste. The Watertown native, who wrote and performed almost all of Grizzly Bear’s debut Horn of Plenty, grew up listening to the Pixies and his mother’s Scottish folk records, not the Brian Wilson symphonies that other, trendier loopy psychedelic duo always seem to be pining...
Blacks don’t have a monopoly on poverty and suffering, but suffering and poverty have a near-complete monopoly on black folk everywhere. In his famous “Handwriting on the Wall” speech, Garvey declared, “Whether it is Africa, or America or Europe, the world is cold and indifferent to the Negro.” In light of the global community’s refusal to forgive the debts of predominantly black developing nations, to fulfill its promised contributions to fighting AIDS, to meet or even seriously consider the millennium development goals...
...which explores the life of an old rabbi and his daughter in an Algerian town that is home to both Jews and Muslims--all through the eyes of his irreverent, scrawny cat. "What I wanted to do is use humor and irony to explore the daily lives of religious folk," says Sfar, "which is a change from the rather militant antireligion sentiment in France today." An English translation is due in the U.S. in August...