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...Paradise concert coincided with the release of the group's third LP, a self-titled album that follows the previous albums' tradition of combining catchy yet earthy music with mesa-moving beats. The set list consisted of songs from all three albums, but those from Rusted Root got prime play time. Glabicki's open-hearted voice on the surprisingly sincere "Rising Sun" stood out as a pleasant change from the rest of the folk-rock repertoire. "Magenta Radio" was good clean funky fun, and "Kill You Dead" brought to mind a good old-fashioned hoe-down with a Southwestern flavor...
...people who witnessed the show could argue with the fact that the numbers from When I Woke, Rusted Root's first LP, brought out more joy and enthusiasm than anything else that night. "Virtual Reality," from the album Remember and the soundtrack to the movie Twister, got the crowd moving as the first song of the evening, but the slower, funkier rhythms of "Cat Turned Blue" from When I Woke elicited a lot more screams of approval and subsequent groovings. "Laugh as the Sun," the deliciously hypnotic song that followed, proved a little too intense to dance to, but that...
...between, the show was impressive: liverock in the afternoon could've been awkward, butShellac's energy and enthusiasm (for the music, ifnot the crowd) carried the day. Unfortunately, asthe concert wore on, I remembered why I didn'thaul out the ol' Shellac LP that often; theirsongs are too long on record, and played live,they often stretched out to unfortunate lengths.Too, the songs tend to be remarkably similar toone another, especially when they're all reallyloud. Shellac played for about an hour and a half;I was bored silly by the end, but I'd gotten myfive bucks worth. Shellac...
Nashville Pussy was kind enough to supply The Harvard Crimson with its special "bonus disc of rare tracks," creatively titled Eat More Pussy. It's pretty much more of the same, but perhaps a tad more musical than the tracks on the LP. Sometimes they even allow Cartwright to sing something resembling an audible melody. Not to worry, however; Suys always takes over with her guitar before he can get too much out. She especially shines in "Milk Cow Blues" with some truly jaw-dropping guitar solos...
...Talib Kweli are Black Star dropped, and the praise continues. One of my boys wrote me an e-mail message from upstate Massachussetts specifically to confess his amazement: "Yo this LP is ridiculous. Every track is plain dope. The beats are phat, the lyrics are intelligent, and yet it still has the feel of a demo." To this day I wonder how he managed to italicize using Pine...