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...Everything All the Time” was released in March of 2006 and quickly became a surprise summer success, pitting lead singer Ben Bridwell’s high-pitched voice and catchy lyrics against guitar riffs that bordered on being folky. The effect was crisp and emotional, spooky but enjoyable...
...spot anything offensive about the following scenes from Syndromes and a Century, the dreamy new $1.1 million movie by Thai director and Cannes 2004 Prix du Jury winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul: a Buddhist monk strums a battered guitar; two monks play with a remote-controlled flying saucer in a park; a doctor kisses his girlfriend in a locker room; a group of doctors share a bottle of whiskey in a hospital basement...
...presence on Harvard’s campus. Greenbaum, a magician by trade who was later bitten by the stand-up bug, performed at Harvard’s Demon ComedyFest his freshman year. Greenbaum returned his sophomore year, where co-founder Ingber entertained viewers with comedy songs strummed on his guitar. “I thought his stuff was unbelievable,” Greenbaum says of Ingber’s act. The two talked afterward. “Why do we have to wait one year to do a stand-up show? It sells out every year. It?...
Merle Haggard has always had his guitar hardwired to the gutbucket pulse of Middle America. Back in the Vietnam era, he seemed the essence of a historic political migration: white males fleeing the feminized, antiwar, politically correct Democratic Party. He was your basic Reagan Democrat, fully loaded with a resonant, iron-edged voice and the ability to write razor lyrics that stuck in the mind and the craw. His brilliant anthem-Okie from Muskogee-became a rallying cry for those who were disgusted by the "hippies out in San Francisco" smoking marijuana and burning draft cards. His next patriotic volley...
...While “Random Spirit Lover” is a valiant attempt to live up to them, it doesn’t quite make it. Opener “The Mending of the Gown” flicks and flutters at hummingbird speeds, with verses punctuated by a stabbing guitar riff and frenetic piano accompaniment. Krug’s eccentric wail reverberates somewhere on the spectrum between the New Pornographers’ A.C. Newman and Polyphonic Spree’s Tim DeLaughter, sharing the latter’s unabashed enthusiasm and strange habit of lengthening his vowels. The track?...