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...words comes out in the phrasing. "How does it feel?" Dylan famously asked on Like a Rolling Stone. We may not have known exactly what he meant, but we knew how it felt. Today's musicians have taken that lesson to heart. Thom Yorke of the British band Radiohead wrote some songs for his album Kid A by cutting up lyric sheets and pulling lines out of a top hat. The Icelandic band Sigur Ros sings some songs in a made-up tongue it calls Hopelandic...
...tinge, like the Cowboy Junkies on a bad trip. Yet despite the unremitting, minor-key downbeatness of it all, the album never reaches the depths of claustrophobia and despair that gives Cave his unique edge, and makes him so hard to stomach for most; instead it occasionally wanders into Radiohead territory. Her voice truly is an experience in itself—a gloriously wrecked set of pipes from the desolation of the moon, that at times has the gravely timbre of a suicidal Peter Gabriel. The lyrics are all of a piece with the music: “You?...
...just three years Benveniste built an army of more than 30,000 kids who distribute swag to their pals in what he calls "hand-to-hand promotion." Clients included Rage Against the Machine, Radiohead and Limp Bizkit. Next: hip-hop, electronics, films, fashion and, perhaps someday, even politics. "We want to become the voice of today's kids," says Benveniste, "empowering them to bond together and giving them something to belong to." But giving them some free stuff first...
...have to be superhuman, or at least George W. Bush. Most people aren't willing to follow rock stars' orders anymore, and that might explain the burgeoning popularity of mellow British groups, such as the Beta Band, who demand only quiet appreciation from listeners. Like fellow Brits Radiohead, Coldplay and Travis, the Beta Band write lyrics too vague to impart specific messages, make music too gossamer to get bodies flailing -nodding is the only appropriate response to their work...
...addition to the albums of Radiohead, with whom the Beta Band is touring the United States this summer, 'Hot Shots II' recalls the aesthetic of a dramatically different set of rockers: the unknown English psychedelic bands of the mid- to late-'60s who appear on the compilation 'Nuggets II' (Rhino, June 19), a follow up to 1998's 'Nuggets', which featured American bands of the same era. With obscure titles like "I Can Hear the Grass Grow" by the Move, and "Father's Name Was Dad," by Fire, the four-CD box set excavates a forgotten musical civilization in which...