Word: melodicism
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Since the release of 1992's In Search of Manny and 1999's Electric Honey, featuring the melodic single "Ladyfinger," Luscious Jackson has been a force within the music industry. This all-female band continues to redefine its sound, which ranges from hip-hop rap to melancholy grunge ballads, in...
Shifting between full rhythm sections and just bass and drums throughout the album, Turner waxes introspective with the breathy tone and plodding rhythm of the standard "Stardust." The album would be easily dismissible were it not for Turner's flights of interpretational fancy, which soar to great melodic heights yet...
Of the Queensbridge, N.Y.'s rap supergroup Screwball's "Who Shot Rudy?", New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani had this to say: "I do not consider it one of the better songs of the year." Not surprising, as the song centers around a fictionalized assassination of a certain iron...
Soon after I discovered these guitar heroes, I realized that I wanted the powerful ability to play windmill guitar like Townshend on a turnthatracketdown classic like "My Generation," and I wanted the versatility to coax the most melodic notes out of my axe like Clapton on "Layla."
Metheny's melodic side is also in evidence throughout his haunting score for the film version of Jane Hamilton's novel A Map of the World (Warner Bros.). Its spacious, Coplandesque lyricism is clearly the work of a composer who grew up on the prairie's edge (he comes from...