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Arctic Monkeys don’t bring anything especially new to the crowded garage-band potluck, but they’ve done a good job of sampling from the genre??s different tastes. Their guitars rattle and scream like those of the Hives, Turner occasionally shout-sings à la Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, and many of the pseudo-poppy melodies sound like a super-charged version of the Kaiser Chiefs...
...jazz idiom. Rosenwinkel earned his stripes by gigging with other young lions such as pianist Brad Mehldau and bassist Larry Grenadier, who would both go on to explore pop and rock compositions through jazz. Rosenwinkel hasn’t been as overtly subversive, but he has certainly expanded his genre??s outer limits. On each of his six albums as a leader, he has proved himself a more than capable composer, and his arrangements of standards shine as some of the most original modern treatments of age-old material. Rosenwinkel’s playing is similarly elaborate...
...grime compilation “Run The Road, Vol. 2” had me warily approaching it from a distance. But in this case, it didn’t take long for me to warm up to the music. Despite the low-to-the-ground implications of the genre??s name, this “grime”— a genre rooted in hip-hop and electronica that developed in London—can absolutely soar with a fun, funky fluidity. Just listen to opener “Get Set” by Low Deep...
Naturally, “Rocky Horror” differed from other productions Jackson has choreographed, and according to her, its “fun genre?? provided a welcome change from her experience on the more traditional “Carousel” last year. Yet a show like “Rocky Horror” also presented its own unique new challenges, among them “getting guys to practice in heels...
...pretty enduring one, and I don’t think it’s unfair for a band like Oasis whose self-admitted mission is to reinvent a genre for the modern era (and I mean era) to occasionally use a subject which was absolutely fundamental to that original genre??s ethos, and which determined a lot of the aural vocabulary still in play today...