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...have to rely just on old, familiar hits; he is still producing quality new material. His latest album, “Working on a Dream,” may not be his finest, but The Boss has proven, yet again, that at least this old-timer can still rock. “Working on a Dream,” like Springsteen’s other albums, features songs about the triumphs and downfalls of the low, the poor, the nobodies. Given the country’s current economic upheaval and political change, these songs seem more relevant than ever...
...approach to music-making has remained consistently innovative and their output stubbornly unique.For six years and as many albums, Animal Collective narrated a sort of ongoing insane, half-perfect sonic collage of genre, building structurally damaged and occasionally brilliant pop songs out of hastily-rendered foundations of rock, folk, trance and psychedelic music. Oscillating between the creative controls of the respective halves of its founding duo, David “Avey Tare” Portner and Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, the band matured from a cabal of electronic-noise anarchists into fully-fledged experimental...
...rumor that alt-rock outfit Eve 6—known for singles “Inside Out” and “Here’s to the Night”—would be headlining at this year’s Yardfest sparked the ire of students as it circulated through House lists yesterday...
...catchy dance tune and could have been a second “This Fire,” if not “Take Me Out.” However, the album version veers too far into experimental, uncharted territory for Franz Ferdinand. Instead of the straightforward dance-rock, they substitute the catchy choruses for musing, fuzzy electro-noodlings. The first half of the album is much better than the second. The second half’s main problem lies in some of the songs’ repetitiveness and slow pace. One would wish the band had been able to come...
...have his permit—the two “true friends” proclaim their multi-faceted similarities. “We walk just alike, talk just alike,” they observe, and even have “the same damn swagger when we rock up on the mic.” Bow Wow, however, seems a little unfocused on this lovefest as fantasies of blue-tinted women run through his head. And where is your seatbelt, young man? You can almost see a few tears well up in Dupri’s eyes as he praises...