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Anti-Pop are hip hop’s Autechre, sounding far-out on first listen but making perfect sense on the fifth (appropriately, they’re also on the UK’s experimental Warp label). As former slam poets, emcees Priest, Beans and M. Sayyid rhyme multisyllables like androids possessed by funk, their unfathomable words sounding vaguely familiar at times—like lyrics about hip hop lyrics. They attack the mic with a coordinated fervor not seen since early Wu-Tang or Souls of Mischief, or even the Beastie Boys...
These guys get filed under "roots rock" because they have been known to sing like Byrds and rhyme 'n' strum like Dylan. Now they have thrown together every instrument and influence at their disposal, futuristic synthesizer atop old-fashioned piano, to prove they're no nostalgia act. The result is gorgeous. Half the songs are close to perfect: the melodies stick, the newfangled keyboards breeze in and out with supernatural grace, the words submerge the listener in both sadness and blissed-out reverie. The band has lost its "roots" and found its voice...
...waiting for the analysis of the literary critics, Baum deconstructs the poem himself. “I used the nonstandard AABBB rhyme scheme because physicists continually encounter the unexpected as they explore the mysteries of the universe,” he says...
...easy to make Elizabeth Hurley look gorgeous LASSIE Canine voted favorite film animal. Marlon Brando had a strong early showing, but in the end they wanted something a little more human JESSE VENTURA Politico-wrestler to help write songs for a musical based on his life. Lucky you can rhyme "rebel governor" with "triple backbreaker" Losers AUSTIN POWERS Faux-spy told his second sequel's title, Goldmember, is too close to Goldfinger. Guess it's back to Man With the Golden Groin MIKE TYSON Brawling boxer denied license, is being investigated for rape. We're contemplating giving him a regular...
After one final rhyme we arrive in Central Square and ditch the car. A semi-legal parking job, but since when were Cambridge cops picky? (A handful of parking tickets should have told him: always.) And wouldn’t The Crimson pick...