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...viewed, in the years to come, as the finest of Radiohead’s first six albums. With Thief, the band take a brief pause from their constant experimental momentum to release their version of a greatest hits record. “2+2=5” recalls the guitar-driven bravado of The Bends and the standout “We Suck Young Blood” envelops a classic Amnesiac sound with pleading anxiety. But the updated aesthetic of the band guarantees no simple hook is left untangled and no sterile melody left emotionless. Speaking of Bush, Yorke...
...Flannery O’Connor to the Drive-By Truckers, who distill a murky Southern legacy of incest, murder and generational family feuds. Decoration Day is less ambitious but ultimately more satisfying than their patchy double-disc breakthrough Southern Rock Opera, as the band better weaves their shotgun triple-guitar formula and continue to deliver their moonshine-soaked tales with equal bouts of irony and reverence. With no less than three capable songwriters at their disposal, the songs occasionally sound better off the lyric sheet than through speakers. But when the band get their pedal steel and acoustic drawls...
Indra Nooyi's bulldog determination is already the stuff of musical legend--a friend once rewrote Black Sabbath's Iron Man in honor of the electric guitar-loving PepsiCo president and chief financial officer. ("Driving them up the wall/Iron Woman rules them all.") Nooyi, 48, plays a mean power chord herself. In 1997 she prodded Roger Enrico, then CEO, to spin off PepsiCo's fast-food business. She later pushed Enrico to buy Quaker Oats and Tropicana, two bold acquisitions that kept the company squarely in snack foods while adding healthier fare to the mix. Strategic vision has always been...
Peter Podobry, known to many Harvard Square pedestrians for his amplified guitar stylings in front of Au Bon Pain during warm summer evenings, shakes his head while talking with another musician in his native Russian. He fears the new regulations may force him into another career...
Jonathan Fixler, who plays the electric guitar in the Alewife Station, says he has been contending with prejudice for years. He blames unfair accusations for the MBTA’s new policy banning electronic instruments on the belief that they prevent passengers from hearing P.A. announcements in the subway stations...