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...stick-breaking powerhouse like contemporaries Keith Moon and John Bonham, Mitchell nevertheless helped revolutionize rock drumming with his finesse. As journalist and musician Felix Contreras noted, Mitchell held his sticks like a jazz player, lightly between his thumb and two fingers, sometimes losing them during performances, to little negative effect. Still, he could propel a song: on tracks like "Fire" and "Manic Depression" he proved a perfect match for Hendrix's guitar. Even after the band split, the two performed together at Woodstock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mitch Mitchell | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...audience gives the group its due of applause, Lily Pad owner Gill Aharon comments, “You’re lucky you’re getting it while it’s still free.” MUSICIAN Campbell has been a player in the Harvard jazz scene since first arriving on campus. But this year marks Campbell’s emergence as a prominent Harvard jazz musician in his own right. He coordinates and plays his own shows about four times a month. His Facebook group, “Malcolm Campbell Performs,” currently boasts...

Author: By Maria Y. Xia, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Campbell Composes, Crowd Swoons | 11/19/2008 | See Source »

...most annoyingly repetitive song on the album, mourns J. Smith’s isolation, how no one will pick up the phone when he calls (the title itself is a call to get up and answer the phone). “Friends” is a low-register, jazz-tinged ballad about the falsity of his friends. “Friends / Won’t ever desert you / Or turn against,” the chorus ironically reiterates.“Last Words,” chronicling J. Smith’s final utterances, reaches the melodic peaks of Travis?...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Travis | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...debut album, “Remind Me in 3 Days…” doesn’t necessarily change all this, but it tries to. In the process, the album also introduces a new and ambitious kind of hipster hip-hop—a repackaging of techno, jazz, rock, dance, indie, and rap into one, complete with Gym Class Heroes’ cheekiness and the soulfulness of OutKast’s “Ms. Jackson.” The Knux is a group made up of two brothers—called Al Millio and Krispy?...

Author: By Jenny J. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Knux | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...GAME LittleBigPlanet There aren't a ton of games that make buying the PS3 worth the money, but LittleBigPlanet is one of them. It's a game/creativity tool in which you play a little fabric doll that wanders through a rich, dreamy toyscape to the soothing sounds of light jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short List | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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