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...very retro. Unlike, say, the anti-World Trade Organization protests in Seattle in 1999, the protests against the 34-nation Summit of the Americas taking place in this coastal city have a decidedly leftist feel from another era. That much was clear from the Che Guevara banners flying at the "counter summit" rally Friday. Folk singers crooned in Spanish, and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave an hours-long speech of Castro-style invective against the United States and George W. Bush. Fidel Castro may not have been invited to the summit, but protestors carried his image on banners all over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin American Flashbacks | 11/5/2005 | See Source »

...Campfire,” BoC has yet again succeeded in adding warmth to the traditionally sterile genre of electronica. Recordings of the brothers playing ‘real instruments,’ electronicized beyond recognition, form the foundation of the tracks. Friends’ voices, birds chirping, and retro audio clips are mixed into the electronic medley. The result? An organic-electronic fusion of past and future, rural and urban, earthy and space-age. Tape-decks in hand, the Sandison brothers are forging the next era of electronica...

Author: By Natasha M. Platt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Campfire Headphase | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...half-baked Cosmopolitan column. She artfully weaves together facts, studies, and thoughts from friends and celebrities. She scathingly mocks women who bow to the cult of plastic surgeons, men who cannot admit to themselves that they are intimidated by powerful women, and anything and everything “retro.” Behind the catty banter and constant references to “The Stepford Wives” and “Sex and the City,” Dowd is posing a more serious sociological question: What is progress? And have we achieved equality only to throw...

Author: By Rebecca D. O’brien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

...1970s and '80s kids' TV shows - ambling Charlie Brown-style piano and cop-show car-chase music - with more conventional pop influences. Guitars owe a debt to U.S. alternative legends Sonic Youth, the strings to Bollywood, and rhythms recall Motown and break beats. "I've always quite liked that [retro kids' TV] feel, but I'd always want to make it more dirty in some way," says Parton. "If you are going to have recorders, make them distorted." It's a potentially disastrous mix, but one that somehow ends up triumphant every time. Parton assembled his team after small independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Systems Are Go! | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...example, are visceral but disappointingly derivative of Coldplay, flawlessly executed but too slickly produced. “What a Wonderful Man” is boring, candyfloss pop that acknowledges Wilco’s “Summerteeth” in its forcedly peppy instrumentation and retro harmonies. But while Wilco vocalist Jeff Tweedy always sounds too dire to make any of his poppier efforts irritating, James sounds cloyingly precious. “Off The Record,” while awe-inspiring in concert, sounds paradoxically forced on the record. Still, the band retains its flair for the redeeming musical moment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Morning Jacket | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

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