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They declare World Championships, not the number of rivalry games won. You feel like this could be some sort of rap lyric...
...band name, the Barenaked Ladies. Let’s hope that the kind of good karma that has won the Barenaked Ladies worldwide acclaim will rub off on their stellar follower in the future. This smooth guitar rhythms reminiscent of the old South mixed with contemporary–styled rap featured on the band’s new release, Learn Yourself, should win the Beautiful Girls a spot as the new favorite among hip hop, rock and possibly even bluegrass fans...
With rolling acoustic guitar rhythms and soft vocals, the music of the Beautiful Girls could pass for something in the genre of mellow rockers like the Dave Matthews Band, David Gray or the famed college band, Dispatch. But it is with the addition of cunning rap solos to gentle melodies and smooth crooning that the Beautiful Girls make their unique mark. Unlike many contemporary rap songs, those of the Beautiful Girls do not replace any sense of musicality with redundancy or a booming bass. A surprisingly high standard of music is maintained throughout this album, and the emotional lyrics sung...
...tour across the United States, Japan and Australia, the boys of this band were most recently praised by Jack Johnson during a performance on the Jack Johnson, G. Love, Donovan concert tour circuit. If you like to listen to just about every kind of music—from rap and hip hop to blues and roots music to rock and pop, you are sure to enjoy this avant-garde blend of hip hop and soft rock. Think of the Dido—Eminem, Jay-Z-Beatles (The Grey Album), or Ben Harper and other acoustic rock rhythms mingling with modern...
...anchor is the basis for a PBS series that starts Nov. 8. America is superbly written and thoroughly researched. Yet its power draws from the commonalities it finds between, say, Isaac Merritt Singer, whose sewing-machine firm was the first U.S. multinational in the 1860s, and Russell Simmons, the rap producer who took hip-hop global in the 1990s...