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...novelty. If that's true, it would have to be a novelty twice over, since the Bacon brothers already have one album under their belt, 1997's Forosoco. But just as some musicians can act, some actors can also make pretty decent music. On Getting There, the duo's mix of country-folk and rock is never embarrassing and mostly quite solid. Actor Kevin has a surprisingly convincing singing voice that, although at times strained, is appreciably energetic nonetheless. At their best the duo is charming and even their bad moments are easily dismissed as signs of inexperience. Perhaps...
Digweed was discovered after many years of obscurity, but he's currently one of the top DJs in Britain and indeed in the world, notably collaborating with Sasha both at their monthly co-residency at New York's Twilo club and on their successful mix albums Renaissance and Northern Exposure. As a solo artist, he's fared just as well. Under the Bedrock recording name, he released "For What You Dream Of" from the Trainspotting soundtrack and "Heaven Scent," both of which were hit singles in the U.K., while his mix albums under the Global Underground label were both commercial...
That a DJ of such global stature as Digweed attracted only this fairly average crowd is indicative of the difficulties of DJ stardom. He may have flown here to promote his latest double mix album, Bedrock (and indeed, quite a few songs from the night found their way onto his playlist), but listening to the album is nowhere near as fun as hearing him live, even if it's a good recording. Perhaps what the night proved was that DJs--more than any other kind of musician, perhaps--are not suitable to export by compact disc. Lucky thing they...
...Both are outstanding lecturers and will be outstanding teachers," he said. "They will teach a mixture of undergraduate and graduate classes and a mix of lectures and seminars...
Clearly this goes beyond picking classes. Regardless of the logic involved, decisions of allegiance (which class to take, which group to support, which opinion to have) are largely intuitive, a strange mix of thinking for ourselves and absorbing other thinking we trust. It's innocuous enough on the level of which Lit and Arts B core you eventually take, but the ways in which reputations are acquired become much more serious with more serious consequences...