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...Rope”, the male members of the band sing “Way-Oh, way-oh” over a classic three chord riff, while Brody sings, “I wish you didn’t love me no more...
...Boi’s standout, “Flip Flop Rock”, features a twangy guitar riff and hi-hats that fade out every measure. It’s a beauty of a battle-rap track, no doubt, but what makes the song is Jay-Z’s rhythmically irresistible hook: “Young Hov in the place to be, Big Boi in the place to be / André 3000 … Shout out to public housin’ … I brought the whole hood with me! Yeah! Yeah...
...Lamonts ever find a middle ground on the road between academic rigor and riff-laden rock? According to Knipfing, a Harvard concert isn’t entirely out of the cards “if the money’s right and beer’s free,” and he even admits to an appreciation for Lamont Library’s resources; all band members “like a good read.” Still, when it comes to blows between the two Lamonts, Knipfing seems assured of which would win. “The edge always...
...Billboard's album chart. But the real gift on Clones is Williams. He comes out from behind the mixing boards to sing on the album's first single, Frontin', which sounds like nothing else on the radio. Over a jumpy, lover-man R.-and-B. riff, Williams slides into a quavering falsetto and sings, "I know that I'm carrying on/never mind if I'm showing off/I was just frontin'." If Frontin' were a Prince song, it would be erotic. If it were a Biz Markie song, it would be ironic. Williams manages to make it both, and Frontin...
METROPOLIS. Director Rin Taro worked with Osamu Tezuka to adapt Tezuka’s 1949 manga, a riff on Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent sci-fi classic. This adaptation is an anime film that follows Kenichi (Kei Kobayashi) and his uncle, Shunsaku Ban (Kousei Tomita), in a futuristic city in which robots do most of the work, but must live underground. Shunsaku is a detective on the trail of a fugitive who is creating a robot named Tima (Yuka Imoto), but soon Kenichi and Tima are on the run together. Since Tima is unaware of her purpose...