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...Pop Chart": I don't think it was the least bit "predictable" that Jennifer Hudson sang the national anthem at the Super Bowl [Feb. 2]. Given what she's been through in the past six months, it showed remarkable fortitude for her to manage to perform yet at all. Jennifer Fisher, TUCSON, ARIZ...
Manhattan in the '60s was afizz with folk rock, Pop art and Abstract Expressionism. Soon it was afizz with Barthelme too--the New Yorker picked up on his strange genius and provided a very conventional venue for his very unconventional fiction. Barthelme wasn't interested in plots or characters. He confabulated his stories out of different strains of language--philosophy, psychology, scientific jargon, advertising, adventure stories--which he then crashed into one another, demolition-derby style, to demonstrate how hilariously inadequate they were for describing the world around us. In "Paraguay," for example, he employs the language of industrial production...
...full-length albums since their debut, “The Big Come Up,” in 2002, hardly altering their spare, heavy blues between their first album and their latest, “Attack & Release.” Too unprocessed and deferential to have any place in the pop world; too no-nonsense and slow to really belong in the world of indie rock; and lacking a “Seven Nation Army”-style breakthrough hit, the Keys have been making their music for a scattered and diverse audience devoted to their remarkably consistent output...
...full album, the encouraging success of her earlier work—earning her a BMI songwriting award and a double-platinum record—has given Allen enough confidence to explore and experiment here. It’s refreshing to hear ska, jazz, and techno influences slipping into her pop beats. In one track on the new album, “Never Gonna Happen,” Allen uses folksy strings and an accordion, along with a handclap slowly building in tempo, to drill her message of rejection into the clueless head of an unwanted suitor. At the same time...
...intrigue. Indie lovers have shown affinity for foreign acts in the past, but relatively few bands gain fame without singing at least partially in English. This is not entirely unexpected, as lyrical sophistication often functions as a draw to lesser-known music, giving listeners more than the mindless, bubblegum pop dribble heard on the radio. Malajube, however, have achieved surprising success all while being incomprehensible to a majority of American listeners. For those who don’t speak French, Malajube’s disinterest with singing in English may have removed one of the oft analyzed and praised portions...