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...album to stand on. With its major scale runs and predictable hooks, I wasn’t wowed. The record is also plagued by trite and uninspired lyrics, but the overall quality and diversity of the music makes this fact forgivable. Patrick Wolf is a competent musician, and there is some great songwriting and technical virtuosity happening here. One might view this album as the schizophrenic creation of a deeply sad man trying desperately to be happy, and there are even some moments that foreshadow a move toward the darkness of industrial music. “The Stars...
...face, her legs, and her dancing (basically everything but her singing). But she just doesn’t have that je ne sais quoi that makes her interesting to watch. She’s not an actress, not a performer, and she’s barely a musician, and this video isn’t distracting enough to carry her along with it. On the upside, she sure is pretty and flexible, and goddamn is she toned. And there is one inspired instant when she sings the words “I love you” and the dancers?...
...Marsalis has used music to foster social discussion. “Blood on the Fields,” his 1997 Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio, explored the history of slavery and his 1999 chamber work “A Fiddler’s Tale” leveled biting sarcasm at musicians who “sell their soul” to the corporate “devil” that is the music industry. But none of this history can prepare listeners for the vicious social and political criticism of “From the Plantation to the Penitentiary...
When filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker hit the road with Bob Dylan in 1965 to shoot a documentary of the musician's tour of England, he was unaware that he would make history. For one, Pennebaker barely knew who Dylan was. In addition, he couldn't have predicted that his Spartan black-and-white documentary, which eschews traditional storytelling techniques such as narration and interviews, would be hailed as the greatest rock documentary of all time. Forty years after its debut, Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back has been lovingly remastered and will be released this week as a two-disc...
Composer Aaron Copland once said, “To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” But in the poor, remote areas of Russia and Ukraine, becoming a musician, even for talented children, is closer to the unrealizable than Copland would have thought. Enter the Guzik Foundation, a million-dollar scholarship program founded in Palo Alto, California by Russian-born industrialist Nahum Guzik. The foundation supports the artistic endeavors of a small group of talented musicians selected by competition. The best of these become Guzik Foundation Award Winners...