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...while in Paris, Runga's father died. The confluence of events helped her focus on what mattered with her music: the unvarnished truth of performing live. And for the recording of Birds, Runga gathered around her a band of like-minded souls - from Neil Finn on piano and bass guitarist Conrad Standish, of The Devastations, to The Boxcar Guitars' Benny Maitland on harmonica - to capture the intimacy of her stage shows. Through this haunted house of sounds, creaking and echoing with bouzouki-style guitar and harp, her voice weaves its silky web. "I know you have laid a trap...
...itself makes no great claims to originality. The Arctic Monkeys' lo-fi guitar jags are cribbed from the Strokes and Franz Ferdinand (who cribbed them from Lou Reed and Television and so on), and the band's ska rhythms and martial drums come courtesy of the Clash. But singer-guitarist Alex Turner, guitarist Jamie Cook, drummer Matt Helders and bassist Andy Nicholson play with a swagger that obliterates any trace of ancestor worship. They aren't referencing anything as they fly through tunes like The View from the Afternoon; they're just playing as many hooks as possible, as fast...
...rendition of ?I Want to Take You Higher,? and then exited the stage abruptly after just a few verses. Sly?s head was bowed during the performance and he wore a cast on his right hand, but ?he?s healthy,? says his brother Freddie, the band?s guitarist. ?Everything felt right tonight...
...known, consisted of eight Harvard, Berklee, and Northeastern students—two MCs and a six-piece live band. Alan J. Wilkis ’04, former guitarist for the band, characterized their sound as “Bob Dylan meets...
...through the clunkers, such as “To Be Myself Completely,” whose vague lyrics and generic melody drag down the last third of the album. This is most likely because it’s the album’s one song on which guitarist Stevie Jackson replaces Murdoch on lead vocals. Unfortunately, Jackson just isn’t a lead singer; where Murdoch is silky-smooth, Jackson’s singing sounds distractingly strained. “The Life Pursuit” probably isn’t the big-time hit that Belle and Sebastian deserve...