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Grohl, an only partially reformed drummer, uses his guitar at least as much as rhythm instrument as for melody and the result is relentless stream of power-chord headbangers. As the tattered black heart on the cover illustrates, the album is a tribute to disaffected love: “I may be scattered, a little shattered / What does it matter? / Noone has a fit like I do / I’m the only one that fits you.” The lyrics even border on kitsch sometimes, though only because Grohl couldn’t care less. Here the guitar...
...didn’t get a chance to get in a rhythm because she was on fire,” Martire said...
...seconds, the single reminds those who watched MTV in the early ’90s what they are missing with the current obsession with boy bands and bare bellies. The first rumblings of Kurt Cobain’s low, searching voice, balanced by a thumping bass and percussion rhythm reminiscent of a heartbeat, are achingly familiar...
...rest of us need a prescription from a doctor to get Provigil. But getting that prescription may soon get much easier. The manufacturer of Provigil (which is also called modafinil) announced two weeks ago that it would try to get the drug approved for “circadian rhythm disorder,” a fancy name for being sleepy when not sleeping on a normal schedule. If approved for this use, Provigil will take one more step toward becoming a lifestyle drug like Viagra that completely changes the way we think about sleep...
This isn’t a musical exactly—it’s maybe best described as a play with songs. While writing this play and the last one, some material leapt out in meter, or with a melody, or with a bass-and-percussion rhythm attached. Music and song evoke responses in us that straight text doesn’t, and vice-versa. I keep finding myself wanting to juxtapose text and song, but not in a new-music-opera way. I’m too much of a text-bound creature for that...