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...ROCKS A little more than most crooners and croons a little more than most rockers, so Merritt never stood much of a chance in the straightforward Best Country Album category. Like all genre crossers, she uses whatever works--an R&B horn section, the crisp guitar of Heartbreaker Mike Campbell--to create an effortlessly seductive record that swings from the cool influence of Dusty Springfield to the complicated warmth of Nanci Griffith...
...fuzzed-out masterpiece don't stack up to the rounding errors on Nevermind, but its influence on Beck, Blur, Radiohead and countless other musicians of the '90s is incalculable. Lead singer and former Whitney Museum of Art security guard Stephen Malkmus expressed alienation with the same lo-fi guitar grit of Kurt Cobain, but his lyrics and vocals were models of cryptic passion. Somehow his word salads communicated both the ennui of a suburban smart-ass and an awareness that ennui isn't tragic...
...along geographic lines: Nintendo dominates Japan, Sony fares well in Europe and Microsoft racks up its strongest sales in North America. That means fewer must-have titles for one platform, an ominous sign for Sony with the priciest box on the shelves. Moreover, games such as Brain Age and Guitar Hero, which attract the mainstream audience, often don't require the most advanced hardware-it's their novelty, storytelling and fun factor that count...
...kidding—an improvised jam about buying some soul food.The live tracks aren’t much better. The band ruins an early performance of “Fight This Generation” by playing two slide whistles throughout the cut. Malkmus wastes our time by tuning his guitar for nearly a minute before a mediocre rendition of “Unfair.”And yet, upon finishing this bloated set, one can’t help the feeling that it’s revealed some deep realities about our heroes and especially about that most enigmatic...
...emerged, crowd noise reached its peak. Auerbach riffed his way colossally into “Thickfreakness,” the title track of their 2003 release, Carney beat furiously on his spare drum kit, and the tone was set for the rest of the night. Auerbach, if not a guitar god then surely a demi-god, let loose even more than on the band’s four full-length albums, taking the unchained punch of the band’s songs to a whole new level. Classic favorites like “Set You Free?...