Word: melodicism
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The greatest spectacle of the night, both visually and aurally, was Sonny Rollins himself. An imposing figure clad in black (with the exception of his red Converse sneakers), Rollins stalked the stage throughout the performance, pouncing out toward the audience at one moment, bouncing back toward his drummer at the...
DJ compilations like Rewind, mixed by leading garage producers Artful Dodger, aim to provide an introduction to the garage sound. The opener, Artful Dodger's own "Woman Trouble," is enormously convincing: if listeners are initially thrown off by its weird, shuffling beats, even the most funk-deprived booties will succumb...
Blind Blake, however, provides a much more substantial link to the direction the guitar would take. Blake played in the more sophisticated ragtime style, laying down syncopated bass lines with his thumb while picking out complex melodic patterns with his fingers, and anyone interested in the fingerpicking styles of Ry...
However, surprisingly, on their debut album, Wasting Time, Mest's derivitative punk-ska style works. Their music, despite a cookie-cutter resemblance to other punk-ska outfits such as Blink 182, still shares the same exuberance of a life preoccupied with drinking and chasing after girls. Thus, the quartet plays...
Francine's debut album Forty on a Fall Day is sadly just another indie album, falling into the typical pattern of pop-melody followed by loud verse-chorus-verse. But at least it's a good indie album. Guitarist/lead singer Clayton Scoble, once an Aimee Mann backup, fills the sarcastic...