Word: label
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most Democrats with a national reputation are radioactive in Oklahoma. Despite Carson's declared support for gun rights, tax cuts, the Iraq war and a constitutional ban on gay marriage, Coburn managed to paint him as a liberal. Once he gets to Washington, Coburn may apply the same label to some of his fellow Republicans: budget deficits drive him crazy, a lonely cause in a Congress that these days winks at trillions in red ink. Given that Coburn entered-- and won-- the Senate primary after state G.O.P. leaders had already endorsed someone else, don't expect...
...song of exile that takes on a roguish air with Taha's rough vocal. Despite some commercial success, Taha's mix of traditional and electronic instrumentation and beats, and his habit of singing in Arabic, has often led critics to classify his records as fusion or world music, a label that confounds him. Taha makes lavish use of traditional Arab instruments like the oud lute, and string and wind sections, driven forward by electric bass and guitars, rock backbeats, and even the odd hip-hop influence. "When the Beatles or Led Zep used Eastern influences or instruments, it was said...
...intimate portrait. “Distinguish between what we know based on facts, what we think we know based on reports, and what we infer from our general knowledge of a man’s character,” he says. “Support your arguments [and] label speculative what is speculative...
...canonized Galaxie 500 didn’t receive much press during their rather brief existence, perhaps because the label that released their three excellent LPs between 1988 and 1990, U.K. press Rough Trade, went bankrupt at almost the same time Wareham announced that he was quitting the group. This left all of Galaxie 500’s music, albums as well as performances, virtually impossible to find...
...compilations of distinctly different bents. One was a Warner Bros. compilation of popular songs from their back catalog remixed by current artists called What is Hip?; the other was a three-CD package called DFA Compilation #2, containing remixed tracks from the New York’s independent DFA label. One of these two label-oriented discs held remixes of such “classics” as Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” and Devo’s “Whip...