Word: rocks
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Every time I find myself in the dingy basement of the Middle East rock club, I think to myself, “Wow, the acoustics are horrible, but this is actually a respectable venue.” The room is characteristically half-full of the same thirty-somethings and sixteen-year-olds, clutching Stella Artois in their sweaty, underage hands. You can meet the headlining band at the merchandise table while the openers screech their way to an agonizing and glorious halt. The acts are not always well known, but they’re often surprisingly good. This underground scene...
...creative process. Ironically, this is something that Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor grappled with during his tenure at TVT years ago. Now labels can’t release records, period, even if those records boast more creativity in a single song than the entire top twenty combined. Rock isn’t dead; it’s in need of revival. But it’s hard to run the ambulance if you won?...
...Accelerate” is what its title suggests: a return to speed for R.E.M., the godfathers of alternative rock. Given the lukewarm responses to their last three decidedly-subdued albums, the band should be commended for cranking up the volume, letting loose, and creating their shortest album ever. But the results, though promising, aren’t immune to R.E.M.’s recent strains of mediocrity. The single greatest aspect of this album is the triumphant return of Mike Mills’ musicianship. As R.E.M.’s trusty bassist, Mills has been criminally overlooked for decades...
...break-dancing in the 1983 movie Flashdance helped turn an urban art form from the streets of the Bronx and Harlem into an international phenomenon, but Wayne Frost, also known as "Frosty Freeze," had been developing his signature style since the 1970s, later joining the influential Rock Steady Crew. He appeared as the face of the break-dancing craze on the cover of the Village Voice and later performed in the movie Beat Street. An acrobatic, charismatic dancer, Frost created gravity-defying moves that persist today as some of the most challenging and daring in hip-hop, like the "suicide...
...injustice, and these qualities are offered up without any veiling or disguise,” he said. Kushner criticized the playwright Tom Stoppard for the implicit message of his popular play sequence, “The Coast of Utopia,” and his recent play “Rock ‘n’ Roll.” In Stoppard’s plays, he said, there is “a politics of anti-politics—a great rejection of the political and the possibility of transformation.” “It?...