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...since their last studio album and 72 live albums later, Pearl Jam is back with its seventh studio album, Riot Act. Going on 40 now, these dogs are not very interested in new tricks and so much the better for all concerned. Riot Act plays to all of Pearl Jam??s strengths, in particular Ed Vedder’s majestic voice, which goes from leonine rumble on the lead single “I Am Mine” to vulpine howl on “Save You.” Matt Cameron, the longest standing drummer Pearl...
Unsurprisingly, given Pearl Jam??s steadfastly political stance and Vedder’s recent Mohawk, the album includes one or two jabs at the prevailing political wind. “He’s not a leader, he’s a Texas leaguer / Swinging for the fence. Got lucky with a strike / Drilling for fear. Makes the job simple / Born on third. Thinks he got a triple,” Vedder sardonically intones on “Bushleager.” But the rest of the album is some of the most personal, intimate material that Pearl...
...primetime exposé on hip hop music last month, it was tempting to lose faith in the mainstream media all over again. True to the sensationalist American “news,” the show blasted mainstream hip hop’s depravity, even admonishing Russell Simmons (Def Jam??s founder) in a comically stern interview for promoting hip hop music in spite of poor literacy levels among black children...
...Baldwins are proud to display the rampant eclecticism that is widely accepted as the hallmark of talent. They wind between genres with sinuous ease, never entirely shedding the lithe upright bass lines and high-hat/scratch duels that are their signature sound. “The Bionic Jam?? verges on techno, with its driving samples and “Better, faster, stronger/ We have the technology” sloganeering. The Baldwins then swerve into the appropriately kitschily titled “Lava lamp,” which playfully flirts with the sound of elevator muzak in its psychedelic...
...could be any van ride with a bunch of Harvard students. Up front a couple guys are debating the merits of different types of urinals, while in the back the question is whether or not to nickname some guy Bruce. Jam??n 94.5 dominates the stereo. But this is not an excursion to a Red Sox game or the Museum of Fine Arts...