Search Details

Word: guitar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...roadside motels. And, love ’em or hate ’em, there are certain things everyone must know about the never-ending rides. First off, unlike in every movie that has ever depicted minor league baseball, there is no guy in the back strumming a guitar or playing a harmonica. Fortunately for the hearing-impaired, there is always some kind of slapstick comedy playing at a volume between blaring and deafening. Secondly, trying to navigate your way through the human minefield to the bathroom located in the back of the bus is more difficult than finding...

Author: By Frank Herrmann, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: In Minors, Big Wheels Keep on Turnin’ | 5/3/2006 | See Source »

WOLFMOTHER DIMENSION There's a 2006 copyright on the back, but you can be forgiven for thinking this Aussie trio's debut is a misplaced artifact from an early Led Zeppelin session. Not only are the members of Wolfmother blissfully unaware that some people now find the monster guitar solo passé, but they also write Wiccan-ish songs with titles like Joker & the Thief, Witchcraft and White Unicorn ("With the white unicorn across her shoulder/ Makes you think that she might have been someone who's older") that are no less fun for being totally incomprehensible. What raises their unironic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Best Albums of May | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

This Norwegian girl with a guitar has a whiff of the coffeehouse about her, but it's a good coffeehouse. Her depressing songs are monumentally mordant (many are about breakups, one's about death), but she also flashes a sense of humor ("My friend, you left me in the end/ I can't believe I'm writing a song where friend rhymes with end") and really comes out of her shell on Song No. 6, a sweet, stomping duet with fellow melancholic Ron Sexsmith. Most compelling of all is her voice--a mix of Bjork's unpredictability and Joni Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Best Albums of May | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

Snow, who plays flute, sax and guitar in a seven-man band, will need similar versatility in his new role. It comes with the promise of a seat at the table in key meetings as well as access to the aides he needs to do his job. Presidential advisers say Snow will get more latitude than his predecessors, since Bush needs a better-armed advocate in tough times. "He understands, like I understand, that the press is vital to our democracy," Bush said in the briefing room. Snow plans to start briefing in mid-May dodging rocks instead of throwing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fox-y New Spokesman | 4/30/2006 | See Source »

...Well, I think one thing I got out of the class…was maybe an even greater attention to counterpoint. A lot of rock music doesn’t pay much attention to that—a lot of times, the guitar line and the vocal line move together. I was really into that on “Pinkerton...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rivers' End | 4/26/2006 | See Source »

Previous | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | 131 | 132 | 133 | 134 | 135 | 136 | 137 | 138 | Next