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Among the things you will not find in Jhumpa Lahiri's fiction are: humor, suspense, cleverness, profound observations about life, vocabulary above the 10th-grade level, footnotes and typographical experiments. It is debatable whether her keyboard even has an exclamation point...
...benefit of the doubt). As for Wu-Tang, it’s not just that they’re artists with a powerful legacy of cultural and artistic relevance—as hip-hop’s uber-group (along with perhaps the Roots, for which Scott Storch played keyboard), they are the spring from which countless fountains of Five-Percenter slang-throwing rappers and chess-playing b-boys flow, not to mention the beginning of my own interest in hip-hop.I spent my first semester at Harvard slightly unmoored, thanks to ill-matched roommates and general freshman-year...
...poetic economy, and trusted that the tremors in his voice would convey the feelings. But the success of 1992's Everybody Hurts led to some bad habits; soon after, his every wounded thought became explicit and Stipe became kind of a drag. So when Hollow Man's melancholy keyboard and opening lyric--"I've been lost inside my head/echoes fall off me"--drip into the air, there's an understandable temptation to scream. But before Stipe can indulge his mopey impulses, Buck's guitar rises out of the mix with a propulsive riff that picks up song and singer...
...melodic or satiric heights of the Fields’ magnum opus, it presents an innovative new context for Merritt’s smirking brand of indie pop.Album-opener “Three-Way” jumps off with jangling fury, bursting to life with a shimmering lead keyboard and dueling guitars on a fuzzed-out new-wave riff. The instrumental din is completed by the echo of a toxic chromium scrape at the back of the mix, interrupted only by the chorus, a gregarious proclamation of the title.On previous albums, Merritt’s lyrics poked fun at contemporary conceptions...
...have acquired some of his famed precision from the rough-hewn lessons of his father, who was known to beat him when he hit a wrong note, but Canadian Oscar Peterson's technical skills were only part of his genius. Peterson, whom Duke Ellington called the Maharaja of the Keyboard, took the piano to new heights as soloist; sideman (for Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie); composer; and leader of the Oscar Peterson Trio, which some call jazz's finest. He could hold back, then rip down the keyboard at lightning speed; he was a hard-swinging, dizzying improvisor on technically...