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...padded (shorter stays and another stop on this tour might have helped), but musically, it's original and extraordinarily winning. Stew, a bald, bespectacled guitarist who leads the band and narrates, is a professorial presence onstage whose flat, prosy singing voice gives an ironic grounding to the lyrical, gently rocking melodies. He's a model of a new kind of stage composer, one neither steeped in Broadway tradition nor reacting overtly against it. "Without casting any aspersions," says Stew, "I don't think most of the so-called rock onstage sounds like anything my friends and I would listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Rent | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

REPLACING RENT? Hear Richard Zoglin talk about Broadway's rock musicals, and listen to excerpts from the shows, at time.com/rent

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life After Rent | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

Still, who can afford $45,000 speakers? Rock stars, pro athletes, doctors, lawyers and audiophiles so obsessed with music they will skimp on other areas. "No one buys McIntosh when they're paying college tuition," says Pacor. L.A. Reid, chairman of Island Def Jam Music Group, got hooked 20 years ago. His first piece was a Mac preamp, and today he has Mac gear in his home and every professional music setting. "I am superstitious and had so many hit records with the preamp that I kept it and still have it today," says Reid. Those hits include Kanye West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A New Tune for High-End Audio | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...main motivation is to let more people know about it,” Jacoby says.UNLOCKING THE CAGELike the Bow and Arrow Press, the Quincy Cage has come to occupy a special place on campus among students looking for an offbeat place to perform. The Cage has primarily hosted rock bands and pop groups since it opened in the spring of 2002. In its brief history, the Cage has staged performances by a wide range of groups, including a “Star Wars” tribute band and a dual-laptop electronica outfit.Due to construction in Quincy, the Cage...

Author: By Eric W. Lin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Rooms for Art | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

Anyone who’s ever read, talked, or thought about rock albums has often come across this criticism: “This would be so much better as an EP.” Many musicians have a habit of building LPs around a couple of good songs and devoting the rest of the space to uninspired filler tracks. They seem to prefer making long, mediocre records when they could create succinct, exciting ones. So when a band recording an EP decides to extend it to an LP, it’s usually for the worse—unless...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dirtbombs | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

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