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...their own direction with their own instrument.Drummer Phil Selway gets to play the funky beats he’s kept in the woodshed in recent years, as he does over the warm bass synth and bright glockenspiel of spacy “All I Need.” Guitarist Jonny Greenwood uses the propulsive “Bodysnatchers” to rock out like it’s 1995 and Radiohead’s an arena band again. And Yorke still gets in his savant touches. There are the classical fluorishes on the delicate, “White Album?...
...riders can look forward to the program expanding to all subway stations. With expanded service, however, comes a price: eight to ten minutes of commercials per hour. On Saturday evening at South Station, the radio station didn’t seem to be much cause for attention. A lone guitarist was playing for the crowds, and his music effectively drowned out the T-Radio. Songs played include “The Reason” by Hoobastank, “Every Breath You Take” by the Police, and “Before He Cheats” by Carrie Underwood...
Instruments were traded freely between the string players, with Padma Newsome rocking out along with guitarist-brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner. This gave Berninger time to shuffle away to gulp some fluids to repair his growled-out throat. Each song climaxed after the lyrics, escalating until, in a crashing crescendo, a deafening richness was achieved at the end of every song...
...short, squat and beak-nosed. The offspring of a London barber, he spoke all his life with a Cockney accent. Even after he started to make good money, which happened soon, his fingernails were caked with pigment, and he kept one of them long, like a blues guitarist does, so that he could use it to scratch directly into the paint. Like Billy Joel or Elton John, he was a commoner who made good...
...instead go elsewhere.According to these performers, there was a time when the area surrounding Harvard was the place to be for the young and hip, and, therefore, for street musicians. For these people, the present-day Harvard Square pales in comparison to its past self.Manny Mederos, a Portuguese guitarist who enjoys covering the likes of Simon and Garfunkel and Neil Young, recalls the overcrowding of Harvard Square in years gone by.“I used to play here a lot, before, when it used to be really busy, but I stopped coming down here, because it?...