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Best way for a guy/girl to get your attention: Orchids or serenading me with acoustic guitar...
...discovery of competitive air guitar, a deliciously addictive niche of pop culture, came unexpectedly at the 2006 South by Southwest Film festival in Austin, Texas. It was there that I stumbled across a film proclaiming to be the “Official Story of America’s Unofficial Pastime.” The film, a documentary feature called “Air Guitar Nation,” follows the determined 2002 search for the first U.S. air guitar champion. While vying for this title, national contenders David “C-Diddy” Jung...
...June…fifteen-minute fame.” Oberst eventually asks, “Would you agree times have changed?” The next song, “Four Winds,” busts through with a welcome energy, cheerful violin riffs, and driving guitar chords. He sings, again, of the crises of modernity and the start of a journey “back.” And though he does so poetically (“And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps / In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east?...
...Despite the fact that all four members are in their early 20s, this is not a band that lacks confidence, and the chief difference between their first two records is that this one is even louder and faster. D Is for Dangerous and Fluorescent Adolescent swagger by on ferocious guitar swells, but they also swing, with unpredictable pace shifts perfect for dancing and allowing singer Alex Turner to show off his wit. "Do the bad thing/ Take off your wedding ring," he snarls, reminding you that in rock the bad thing can still feel pretty damned good...
...says Boyd. “It’s difficult to describe how different things were, how wide open things were. The music world was just being developed. The ’60s were a time that educated, middle-class people started to pick up the guitar and play from the roots. There was a huge sense that anything was possible. They could do anything and they’d be the first to do it.”Boyd recounted the easygoing nature of society to the gathered students. “Nobody worried that they might miss...