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DIED. LOU HARRISON, 85, influential innovator of classical music, characterized by what composer Ned Rorem called "infectiously beautiful" melody; of an apparent heart attack, while traveling to a festival of his music; in Lafayette, Ind. Celebrated for promoting the gamelan--an Indonesian percussion orchestra--in the U.S., Harrison relied on...
On his 16th birthday, Bayarsakhan was given this guitar by his own father, a renowned singer in Gobi-Altai. Now, almost 15 years later and hundreds of kilometers away from that stark idyll, Bayarsakhan starts to play one of his father's songs. The tune is rough, but the melody...
No weak or uninteresting tracks are found on the album; they’re all good. On the particularly outstanding “Bandages,” singer/keyboardist Steve Bays leads the melody with one of the best uses of keyboard in recent rock while his pointed voice jostles the...
Miss Peggy Lee, they always called her. If the honorific was meant to elevate a plain stage name (she was born Norma Deloris Egstrom), the effort was redundant; for Lee, vocally and visually, was class and sass in one platinum package. Statue-still onstage, whispering her lyrics like postcoital pillow...
The Donnas’ fifth full-length effort, Spend the Night, raises a question: just how much more of the band’s jailbait, piss-and-estrogen rock can one palate? The algorithm for their records has always been fairly obvious, drawing its vivacity from the Beach Boys, melody...