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...Martha Wainwright’s new album “I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too,” the singer/songwriter immediately begins her unapologetic expression of a woman’s emotion. Over syncopated drums and her own rhythmic guitar playing, Wainwright’s voice, by no means rich or soothing, is like a mezzo-soprano Lucinda Williams. She achingly describes how “there are days when the cage doesn’t seem to open very wide at all,” referring...
...most esteemed living movie actors, play a duo of disgruntled, aging homocide detectives on the NYPD in the midst of a serial killer investigation. The movie kicks off hard and fast, introducing our protagonists as they fire guns at targets to the sensory assault of pounding guitar riffs and flashy credits. You would think it was an action film, right? Instead, the movie descends into a plodding suspense thriller with eerie pseudo-philosophical voiceovers, hints of love triangle, and stylish cuts from scene to scene, all while still managing to evade any morsel of complexity or implied action. Soon...
...their critics. At the very least, they’ve crafted one of the most enjoyable albums of the summer. The Hold Steady have built up and filled out their sound with varying levels of success. “Sequestered in Memphis” thrives on fuzzed-out guitar and stuttering horns, and “Slapped Actress” succeeds through the dichotomy of delicate piano and a massive guitar line. In contrast, “Navy Sheets” suffers under the weight of up-front New Wave keyboards and “Both Crosses” sounds...
...You’ve performed on the guitar, piano, synthesizers, and all kinds of other instruments with Incubus. Do you feel like you could be teaching some of these music classes? As a Harvard student myself, I have to ask: are you trying to throw off the curve for the other students...
...long way from the band's roots in the hard-scrabble streets of Glasgow's East End. Allan, his cousin Rab (guitar), Paul Donoghue (bass) and Caroline McKay (drums) hail from Dalmarnock, a gritty neighborhood where male life expectancy is just 58 years, almost two decades below the British average. The hardest gig, Allan says, was his first, in front of his mother. "Picking up a guitar in the first place was braver than any of the songs that I wrote," says Allan, a semiprofessional footballer until the band took off. "When you're a kid, drinking, playing football...