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That is why, despite all the pomp and gloss, rock star displays and true-to-the-album reenactment, The Calling, is still credible as a rock band. Frontman Band’s melodrama only intensifies the band’s presence. The defeated to-the-knee collapses amidst power ballads and Top 40 hit “Wherever You Will Go” conveyed an unearthly burden, as if The Calling were sent from heaven to deliver redemption. The beyond-cool ’60s swagger and spasms during the fervidly-charged “Nothing’s Changed?...
That is why, despite all the pomp and gloss, rock star displays and true-to-the-album reenactment, The Calling, is still credible as a rock band. Frontman Band’s melodrama only intensifies the band’s presence. The defeated to-the-knee collapses amidst power ballads and Top 40 hit “Wherever You Will Go” conveyed an unearthly burden, as if The Calling were sent from heaven to deliver redemption. The beyond-cool ’60s swagger and spasms during the fervidly-charged “Nothing’s Changed?...
...Tonight we are going to show absolutely no restraint whatsoever! None!” exclaimed Great Big Sea frontman Alan Doyle as the band took the stage. Doyle remained true to his word. While Great Big Sea’s studio recordings are popular especially in Canada, the foursome has always been best known for their live performances. Last Saturday was no exception. From the first few chords of their opening song “Ordinary Day” to their final song, “Rant and Roar,” which concluded their third encore, the band...
...single category in the record store, and have created neverending subgenres to aid the process. Gorillaz, in contrast, straddle genres nearly as cockily as they bestride the Atlantic. Which is no surprise really: the band is the brainchild of, amongst others, the inimitable Damon Albarn. Frontman of the quintessentially British sounding band, Blur, he still managed to strap on some sneakers and make like a New York indie band with “Song 2” (aka the “Woohoo Song”). Together with Nakamura, Cibo Matto’s Miho Hatori and Bay-area rapper...
PUBLISHING NIRVANA: Daily Variety reports that Riverhead, a division of Penguin Putnam, has bought the rights to publish the notebooks of the late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain for close to $4 million. Publishers got a sneak peak at the journals last week, and insiders who have read excerpts from Cobain?s 23 notebooks (about 800 pages written over several years), tell TIME the early buzz is warranted...