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Arab Strap's sound is a mix of programming and instrumentation, and the result has often been spare beats and a repeated chord that crescendos in silence, or sudden musical murk. This format is not at all abandoned on The Red Thread, but it is supplemented with strings and piano. In "Haunt Me," Arab Strap has perhaps their most crowd-pleasing song to date, a melodic work built around a few spare lyrics: "So haunt me / Cause I know / You'll keep me / In to," a double rhyme with gory details...
...clever film, made for less than $1 million in a digital format, consists entirely of "episodes" from The Contenders, complete with tacky titling and an unctuous, booming narrator. The minor miracle of Minahan's work is that it somehow encourages us to form a sympathetic bond with his main character, Dawn, whose ferocity is touched with a poignant longing for a kinder, gentler life by the splendid Brooke Smith. She is pregnant. She is back in the hometown she left in disgrace some years before. One of the people she is supposed to kill is the only boy she ever...
...past 77 years, the Photo Marketing Association has met annually to gawk at the latest high-tech cameras. Among the standouts this year was Kodak's mc3, a digital camera that takes pictures, records video and plays back up to 1 1/2 hours' worth of music in the MP3 format. The mc3 will retail for $299 and will be available in mid-March. Also on display was a nifty thing called (e)film. Load this electronic film into (most) old-fashioned 35-mm cameras and--click--take digital pictures...
Barry's world was until recently a happy place. With its impressively easy-to-use format for sharing free music files, and with more than 50 million enthusiastic users, Napster was clearly one of the most important things to happen on the Internet. When it joined forces with German media giant Bertelsmann last year, Napster seemed to be headed toward respectability--and profits. But there has always been a catch: the music industry, and many performers, insist that what Napster calls music "sharing" is in fact nothing more than music stealing...
Even if guitar-band rock is a niche market now, supplanted by hip-hop as the reigning format of pop music, it still qualifies as the lingua franca of pop culture. Roughly a half-century after Elvis recorded Heartbreak Hotel, nearly everybody under 70 has some emotional attachment to electrified music with a beat. As a consequence, pop music is no longer mostly a way that one generation defines itself against its elders. The baby boomers' own parents grew up with Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney and Nat "King" Cole. Rock was such an unmistakable break with that creamy tradition that...