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Not a traditional four or five piece band, Slipknot are a nine-man unit comprised of two guitarists, one drummer, two “custom percussionists” (who bash kegs, tin drums and each other at various points), a bassist, a DJ, a sampler and a vocalist. The result...
These themes have been treated elsewhere—most flamboyantly, by Salman Rushdie in East, West and The Satanic Verses. In Naipaul’s younger days, he had a sense of humor as sharp as Rushdie’s, but always muted by wry restraint. By now this restraint...
From then on, the album gets more complex. The best expression of Ozo’s no-passport-needed, pan-global style is the groovy “1234,” on which De La Soul slides in perfectly amongst the brass stabs and chunky guitar. The rhythm section...
So far, that backlash has been fairly muted:
With optimism about the job market of recent years now muted, Harvard students said they are noticing the slowed economy’s effects on their own career prospects.