Word: rocks
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Whatever calm this track creates is quickly shattered by the caustic screech dominating “Rapture.” In an era when the “screamo” genre is pervasive in loud rock music, the Deftones don’t do well in distinguishing themselves from the pack: Moreno takes a fairly well arranged guitar song and destroys it with the most painful and unartistic screaming imaginable. The track is a huge let-down, but it by no means defines the album...
...museum, the whole situation that [these objects] were created for is not present,” says Reyes. “You see a document that is a record of that performance.” One of the videos in the series, entitled “Instant Rock Star,” features several prop guitars of varying shapes and sizes which become active pieces of art when Reyes invites passersby to use them and perform to a song of their choosing. Each performance concludes with the smashing of the guitar.“They are meant to be destroyed...
...criteriaon isn’t the fact that music is being played, or even the fact that said music is being played at a loud volume. I, like all human beings, enjoy music. Sometimes I even like to listen to music at an appreciable volume and “rock out.” No, the problem is not the idea of music, but the fact that the songs chosen are, inevitably, the flat-out worst songs possible. Walking to CGIS from the yard and being forced to listen to Punjabi MCs for five straight minutes? What about being forced...
...best albums in 20 years.” In declaring his deep debt to Bruce, and in writing an overwrought album of trendy arena indie titled after a Vegas casino, Flowers wins a place in a long line of observers to misunderstand the goals of “Heartland Rock...
...heartland” raises both geographic and normative issues—popular in the early to mid-1980s, is usually defined by down-home folks like Springsteen, Tom Petty, and John Cougar Mellencamp: artists who wrote tender blue-collar tales of broken American dreams and perseverance over folksy rock backings, not maudlin anecdotes over bubbling synth lines...