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...music provides much of Heidi's inner voice. You can hear it in Heidi's Theme, where a delicate xylophone arpeggio rises above the earthier glockenspiel, perhaps symbolizing Worthington's character Joe. But it's not all so harmonious. For Rough Sex, Decoder Ring provide a jarring guitar riff to accompany one of Heidi's teenage tumbles. It lasts barely three minutes. Elsewhere in Somersault, the frisson between image and sound is pure cinema. "Cate's a real lover of music and we're real lovers of film," FitzGerald says of their match made in moody heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Snow Dome Symphonies | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...entirely without its miscues--such as when their first photo op caught Teresa Heinz Kerry reaching across the candidates to wrest a thumb from 4-year-old Jack Edwards' mouth. Or when during a $7.5 million Radio City Music Hall fund raiser, comedian Whoopi Goldberg went into a raunchy riff of lewd--and not particularly funny--puns that employed the word bush. Someone apparently hadn't told her that the password for the week was values--a term that one or the other of the two candidates used eight separate times in their interview with TIME. When Kerry and Edwards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Decision: The Gleam Team | 7/19/2004 | See Source »

...Please Let Me Stay A Little Longer,” which opens with a nimble acoustic guitar riff courtesy of Jamie Maclean, showcases Kirk Joseph’s sousaphone as it rebounds off the bass drum crump of Terence Higgins. The menacing muted trumpet of “John The Revelator” carves a scowling path through the refried swagger of the massed horns. The Dirty Dozen has volume to spare, and at times the real challenge of the album is how to step away from the band’s masterful all out boogie and find a more...

Author: By Adam C. Estes, Andrew R. Illiff, Lucy F.V. Lindsey, and Alex L. Pasternack, THE CRIMSON STAFFS | Title: New Music | 4/30/2004 | See Source »

He’s right. It could be a more interesting version of any modern emo song. Reed then plays all four bars of the riff from “Sweet Jane” and notes that, “as in most things in life, it’s that little hop at the end.” And with that, we’re in Lou Reed’s special world, where there will always be that little hop that changed modern rock forever—the astonishing...

Author: By Akash Goel, William B. Higgins, Nathaniel A. Smith, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: New Music | 4/16/2004 | See Source »

...about 70 seconds you could mistake Franz Ferdinand for the Strokes. Take Me Out, from the group's March 9 self-titled debut, opens with a standard modern-rock guitar riff and studiously disinterested vocals from singer Alex Kapranos. Then the pace shifts, the guitar goes punk, the rhythm section goes disco, and Kapranos goes nuts. He's singing about how he would rather be shot than live without his girl, but Kapranos doesn't get overwrought. He doesn't really sing either--he swings, like Dean Martin on uppers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Band You Wish You Hated | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

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