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...disc set of 43 original tracks, all of which Gill wrote or co-wrote, is downright Garthian in its ambition--and it changes everything. Each disc covers different musical terrain--bluegrass, jazz, Southern rock, country--has well-cast guests (Bonnie Raitt shines) and reveals Gill as an astonishingly dexterous guitar player and singer. A few songs miss, but more than enough hit to make this collection, priced with characteristic humility at $29.95, one of the best of the year...
...with a trip to a grave), but she's really a hybrid of folk and adult pop: equal parts Patty Griffin and Norah Jones. For lyrics, this native New Yorker leans on just a few evocative nouns, and her melodies grow in the wide open spaces between delicately played guitar chords. Her singing on the standouts You Just Forgot and Please Stay is cool and restrained--not from an absence of feeling but from an excess...
...Fogg Art Museum hosted an unusual crowd last night, when its Italian Renaissance sculptures and 19th century French paintings were surrounded by undergraduates with greasy Felipe’s burritos and giant pizzas in hand bopping to a rock guitar tune. The occasion was the first of three “Night at the Fogg” events held by the Organization of Undergraduate Representatives of Harvard Art Museums (OUR HUAM), aimed at encouraging more undergraduates to take advantage of Harvard’s art collection, sixth largest in the country according to the museum’s Director...
...doesn’t always leave Grime behind. The genre’s sonic thumbprints–oozing bass, hollowed-out synths, electronic squeaks, and punchy guitar doodles–are all over a few tracks...
...objects] were created for is not present,” says Reyes. “You see a document that is a record of that performance.” One of the videos in the series, entitled “Instant Rock Star,” features several prop guitars of varying shapes and sizes which become active pieces of art when Reyes invites passersby to use them and perform to a song of their choosing. Each performance concludes with the smashing of the guitar.“They are meant to be destroyed,” Reyes says about...