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...songs later, frontman Steve Schiltz closed his eyes for a surprisingly delicate falsetto while “Strawberry Fields” keyboards tweeted wistfully over skittish drums; without missing a beat, he doubled over to play a loud, bluesy fuzz riff. Longwave loves to create atmosphere and plays with it this way, painstakingly assembling moods and sending them crashing into each another within songs...
...minute-long Castaways and Cutouts finale, “California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade.” During the transcendent bridge that transitions between the song’s two parts, Colin sat himself down on the stage and turned his eyes downward to his guitar, strumming one single riff over and over, eventually shifting it around until he came to a new variation, then shifting it even more and incorporating the hook from R.E.M.’s classic “Seven Chinese Brothers.” Then he swirled the section around into a roaring and wholly...
...with me.? The song is a declaration of promiscuity, and as Mitchell sings he glances around the room, being serially flirtatious: making laser eye contact, leaving a lady in a puddle of love and moving on for the next conquest. For the instrumental break soars into a scat-singing riff; fake-exhausted after the flourish, he pants in 4/4 time. Big laugh from the audience, or rather, audible smiles. Before the first number is over, they?re in BSM?s mood. Now everyone in the room is at his stage door...
...couldn't help but think back to Bush's interview with Tucker Carlson in the now defunct Talk magazine, where the Texas governor mockingly mimicked the death row appeals of born-again convict Karla Faye Tucker. "Please don't kill me," said Bush with a condescending quiver. And the riff on gang violence? It's fine to take on gangs, but I couldn't help but notice Bush's promotion of programs "ranging from literacy to sports" and the standing ovation it drew from House Republicans who spent the Clinton 90s laughing at their anti-gang initiative, Midnight Basketball...
Former late-night titan JOHNNY CARSON, 79, left, retired from his paying gig at NBC's Tonight Show in 1992, but he's now spinning jokes for free. Carson, who likes to riff on current events, writes one-liners and slips them to DAVID LETTERMAN, 57, right, who uses the material from time to time in his Late Show monologues. CBS executive Peter Lassally, a former producer of both the Carson and Letterman shows, told Reuters that Carson "gets a big kick out of that," and has long considered Letterman, not Jay Leno, his rightful heir. Looks like Leno will...