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...Marion is in relatively good shape-compared with Mansfield, a town the governor and I visited earlier that morning. Strickland is a former minister, and we began our day at the United Methodist Church, a lovely place with a guitar-playing preacher. Back in the 1960s, Mansfield had been home to famous American brand names like Westinghouse and Tappan. Now the town was shriveling slowly, the young people moving away. "I'm the only one I know who went to a four-year college and came back home to live," Ben Stauffer, a young high school teacher, told me later...
...captures truth. If you closely study the structural skeletons of Darnielle’s songs, you can hear the echoes of a decade’s worth of Mountain Goats tracks. But instead of the intimate string arrangements and piano parts which now accompany Darnielle’s acoustic guitar, the production values of older albums were quite different. Most of Darnielle’s back catalog finds him alone, strumming his guitar furiously, his voice passionate and raw. The tracks were frequently accompanied by an overwhelming low-fidelity hiss, courtesy of the cheap Panasonic boom box with which Darnielle...
...Walk With Me,” it’s clear that the tight, swinger style of 2005’s “Pretty in Black” is a thing of the past. Although Foo and Wagner have tossed aside the vampy guitar licks and punchy percussiveness of earlier albums, the Raveonettes don’t compromise their catchiness in favor of edge. And while their music now sounds less like a Velvet Underground re-release and more like The Jesus and Mary Chain, echoes of the Raveonettes’ pop sensibilities are still audible, most noticeably...
...summer to think about it, maybe bungee jumping in New Zealand or writing poetry? At the very least, your summer adventures will supply interesting chat for your first-round interview and help fill that pesky bottom line on your resume that currently reads: “Interests: reading, sleeping, Guitar Hero...
...right side. It was 3:06 p.m. and the intruder walked onto the stage, startling the professor, Joseph Peterson. The unannounced visitor bore several weapons, including a 12-gauge shotgun, a 9-mm Glock pistol and two other pistols. He wore jeans and a t-shirt and carried a guitar case. The 150 or so students in the introductory geology class thought it was all just a joke. That is, until the gunfire started. The first body down was the professor...