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Gerard Peter Hammond...
That’s a lot of guys. Are they all guys? This is preposterous. Be it noted that I couldn’t remember any of the girls, so I’ve gotta go with Gerard Hammond...
...band just released its first full-length CD, Is This It (RCA), a scrappy, old-school rock album with yowling vocals, jangling guitars and cool, carefree melodies that stay with you like tattoos. The New York City quintet--singer Julian Casablancas, bassist Nikolai Fraiture, guitarists Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. and drummer Fabrizio Moretti--has started drawing queries from journalists from as far away as Brazil, as well as advance raves from the U.S. press. "We try not to pay too much attention to things like that," says Valensi. "It could be a trap, to believe what people write...
From my work place on the Hill, I could see the Capitol. When I went to other offices, to meetings, to seminars, I would look out the window and there it would be—the Capitol. Not the fake image they stick behind Darryl Hammond or whoever happens to be playing the president now on “Saturday Night Live,” but the actual Capitol dome. And when I looked at it, from home or work, I felt lighter, happier, inspired. I know it sounds hackneyed, but the more I lived in Washington, and the more...
...their songs to the commercialized Woodstocks that have popped up across Europe recently. Promoters love festivals, which draw a broader, larger audience by mixing old and new acts. One example is the Paleo Festival in Nyon, Switzerland (July 24-29), which has old-timers (Kool and the Gang, John Hammond) and younger artists (Kelis, Ash) in the program. Also keep an ear out for emerging artists who use festivals as a chance to introduce themselves to new audiences. "We'll be playing music that thousands of people haven't ever heard," says Julian Casablancas, lead singer of the Strokes...