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...hard to pinpoint exactly where this gleam comes from. Frontman Halstead’s vocals are as whisperingly fragile as on his recent solo album, Sleeping on Roads. The instrumentation is a sort of chamber country affair, with pedal steel and keyboards filling out the central piano and guitar. The key may be the inspired use of space—the music never builds to more than a jaunty bounce (as on “Billy Oddity”). A plangent line like “It’s hard to miss you,” sung repeatedly over...
...blond wigs rocking out in a 21/2-minute glam-rock stomp. "We wanted to write a head-banging tune. You enjoy an incredible sense of freedom when you head-bang," says Rhys. "And a headache," offers drummer Dafydd Ieuan. Their tank is long gone - it was sold to Eagles frontman Don Henley - but Phantom Power shows the Super Furries haven't let up. The band even spent a day firing AK-47s and Uzis in a field just to get the right effects. Says Rhys, "We had to phone the police so they didn't think the Taliban had landed...
While Stephen Malkmus’s self-titled solo debut may have frightened fans into thinking he had become sedate in his middle age, Pig Lib is a welcome return to form. The new full-length from the former Pavement frontman assures listeners that Malkmus is still the fractured slacker god that made Pavement’s 1992 Slanted And Enchanted the Nevermind for a different Generation...
...musical shift is understandable, considering the less than amicable departure of stalwart guitarist Graham Coxon (the band cited “antisocial behavior”). Fortunately for listeners, Coxon’s absence leaves Albarn free to incorporate influences from recent collaborators Gorillaz, for whom Albarn served as frontman, and Massive Attack...
DIED. HANK BALLARD, 75, rhythm-and-blues man whose soulful, often raunchy songs helped set the stage for Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry; of throat cancer; in Los Angeles. As frontman for the Midnighters, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer won teen adulation, if not radio play, for such racy hits as 1954's Work with Me Annie. In 1958 he wrote and recorded The Twist as the b side of the sappy Teardrops on Your Letter. After Chubby Checker recorded Twist a year later, the song launched a dance craze and became one of rock's seminal hits...