Word: musical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sunday's performance really pointed out how similar their striking visual presence is to the striking aural presence of their songs. On the one hand there's Australian-born Hansen, the gamine, androgynous face behind Stereolab's characteristically sultry French vocals. (She's possibly the only person in music today who can make a complaint about faulty sound systems sexy: "Does anyone else hear that rumble?") Her look-but-don't-touch attitude makes her akin to the too-hip aunt of Bjork and Winona Ryder, a coy mistress of equally playful music...
...emblematic of the music as the band' s physical appearance may be, the thrill of actually seeing band members in person is transitory at best. Stereolab is no stranger to personnel changes. What hasn't changed is the thrill of hearing where Stereolab is going next, whether it's a casting out for funkier shores or spending a night in with Burt Bacharach and martinis. The next stop on their magical mystery tour? Soul. Not James-Brown-soul, although the drawn-out, reverb ad infinitum song endings the band took to performing at the Roxy do recall the virtuoso rock...
...lounge-lizard pop to gritty reverb rock (and most often are a synth-washed mix of both). Through it all, though, they manage to give you the cold shoulder. Morgane Lhote's Moog must have a special dial for "disaffected": a breath of chilling ennui blows through all their music, a vague sense of world-weary aloofness that has its heart somewhere in songwriter Sadier's low-mixed lyrics...
...Friday with another Crimson Arts editor and sit in on their highest rated show, Total Request Live, (TRL) hosted, of course, by the one, the only, Carson Daly. There's no denying it no matter how much you loathe the show Total Request Live is the arena to launch music (the American Bandstand of the '90s). If you crack the countdown, chances are you'll show up on the Billboard Hot 100 the next Thursday. Want proof? Remember, TRL was the show that first flaunted Britney Spears' assets (all two of them) with the schoolgirl-themed Baby One More Time...
...What luck! I spotted the next big music phenomenon when two girls and two boys took to the stage as the opening act at a recent pop extravaganza. Critics will argue that they've got it that vaguely-defined, over-emphasized star quality which makes success inevitable. But I'm pretty sure that they'll launch hit after hit because they've got the five ingredients to be a pop culture phenomenon...