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...show is the last thing the Prime Minister needs. Celentano and Berlusconi both rose to fame from the outskirts of Milan, where in the late 1950s each wooed audiences with song. Berlusconi was a part-time crooner, singing French ballads for tips on Mediterranean cruise liners. Celentano was a guitar-plucking rebel in blue jeans who all but invented Italian rock 'n' roll. He went on to launch a successful film career, later rediscovered his Roman Catholic faith, and reached iconic status in part thanks to his periodic returns to television, where he mixes cabaret, celebrity chat...
...Feels” is still marked by the serendipitous noises that adorn all of the Collective’s albums, but they are invariably the icing on a tortuous pop cake. “Did You See the Words” starts the album with energized guitar riffs, driving drum rhythms, and a twinkling piano that surge into place like watch gears...
...music if it leaves me poor and homeless. There’s always a job, but my career and love will always be music.”While it’s common for an alienated teenager with a guitar to dream of selling out shows at Madison Square Garden, studying at Harvard tends to temper dreams of rock stardom. More young men here have their hopes set on being the next JFK than being the next Mick Jagger, but Carbone’s ambition still burns. It helps to have the right fuel. Called and Careless?...
...Ironically, the only cut on the album that doesn’t quite work is “The Farmer’s Hotel”: the sole song attributed to both Berman and Malkmus. The track suffers from both songwriters’ characteristic excesses: Malkmus’ directionless guitar noodling and Berman’s oppressive verbosity. Luckily, the band is stacked with enough talent to keep these two honest, and missteps are few and far between. “Tanglewood” is a focused, energetic, and ambitious work, one that rewards revisitation just like a well-worn...
...Mati Klarwein, painted panels crawling with multicolored figures form a small room that glows like stained glass. Richard Lindner, a genuine product of '20s Germany whose style influenced the animated Beatles film Yellow Submarine (1968), is represented by one oil painting of a striped-jerseyed rock star with a guitar against a sunburst (Rock-Rock...