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...with surprising soul, and Nick Valensi and Albert Hammond Jr. form one of the most complementary guitar duos in rock. Best of all, no one hogs the spotlight. Each player has the skills to stand out, but mostly you come away remembering their seamlessness. Room on Fire reaches its peak with the tender mid-tempo ballad Under Control. It opens with Moretti's Zeppelin trick, takes off on Hammond's buoyant lead strumming and moves with the melodic sashay of a Bob Marley hit. Over the top of it all is Casablancas, going on about a relationship, of course...
Here the grave-robbing limits itself to a single era, the early 80s and the peak of new wave. But without Beck’s consistent songwriting behind Ima Robot, the results are far more mixed. The band’s revival of choice is not as fresh as it might have been four or five years ago. By now, The Rapture and their fellow hipsters have pilfered the 80s in much more innovative ways, with considerably more sincerity. Hysterical, high-pitched vocals, stinging guitar lines and echoing Duran Duran synths are old hats in late...
Nowhere is this clearer than in “The Sound of Settling,” undoubtedly a peak of the album. As its title suggests, the song’s subject matter is gloomy—but in a beautiful irony, it employs a cheerful, anthemic pop melody that imbues the song with an energy completely belied by the lyrics...
With boomers having babies later and Gen Xers having them sooner, the market could be enormous. There are 44 million tweens and teens, ages 8 to 18, in the U.S. today--a historic peak surpassing even the baby-boomer generation. Teens alone have a whopping $170 billion to spend annually, thanks to allowances, gifts, odd jobs and part-time employment, according to Michael Wood, vice president of Illinois-based Teen Research Unlimited. "Parents are the No. 1 source of their money, but it's the kids who are choosing what to buy," says Wood. What they mainly buy, of course...
...month-long vacation would give students more freedom during their time off, intersession currently provides freedom of its own. Since it is often at the end of January, intersession offers students a unique opportunity to travel for a week or more after the holiday rush. Traveling on non-peak flights allows cash-strapped students to see parts of the world that would otherwise be out of their price range...