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Since the release of their debut album “Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished” in 2000, Animal Collective have invariably sought to challenge prevailing musical perceptions. With their eccentric fusion of psychedelia, pop, and indie rock, the band has achieved musical mastery on records such as the highly acclaimed “Strawberry Jam” and “Merriweather Post Pavilion.” Now, with the creation of “ODDSAC”, the band is attempting to diffuse their musical psychedelic experimentation into a visual...
Malcolm McLaren, who died April 8 at 64, will be remembered as a master manipulator who inflicted punk on the world when he detonated the explosion that was the Sex Pistols--the most famous punk-rock group ever...
...professional troublemaker by nature and a haberdasher, boutique owner and rock-'n'-roll manager by trade, Malcolm lived life more as a "glorious accident" (a term he used to describe Sid Vicious) than as a strategic campaign. While McLaren was portrayed in the film Sid and Nancy as a cunning calculator who cons the media into giving the Sex Pistols publicity, Malcolm was more bewildered by the monster he created and more naive than he was ever credited for--except when it came to realizing how much money there was to be made. Pistols lead singer Johnny Rotten...
...Pistols were his master's thesis in rock 'n' roll, then the New York Dolls, one of New York City's first punk bands, were McLaren's boot camp. He began as an unofficial manager of the Dolls in 1975, when the band was in its death throes, dressing them in bizarrely unfashionable red patent leather in a crapshoot to revive the Dolls' career. On Malcolm McLaren's tombstone should be the epitaph his grandmother left to him: "To be bad is good ... to be good is simply boring...
...goalkeeper is the rock on which you build the foundation of your defense,” Ferrar said. “She’s gotten pretty vocal and that can be a huge benefit to a field player. Especially if you’ve given up a bad transition situation, or the other team’s got a fast break, you take the word of the goalie and obey it without question...