Word: rumours
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some of this can help explain why the Rumour and Rockpile, two of rock's premier powerpop groups, are British. American rockers don't seem to have the musical knowledge, care, or sense of humor to do what these bands do--or at least do it well...
...RUMOUR ARE inextricably linked with Rockpile: They even cover a Lowe song on their new album. Both bands are from the "pub rock" scene family tree of the early seventies, where band and audience got drunk and danced together. The movement was shorter lived than the hula hoop, and left these two groups without a musical home. The Rumour formed as a studio band for gas-station-attendant-turned-songwriter Graham Parker, and have had trouble appearing from behind his shadow. Their problem is not musical ability; they play everything from Motown to reggae to Abba, all with their...
...course, some have tried already, and the results usually have been provocative, if only occasionally enlightening. In A Rumour of War. Phillip Caputo presents an agonizing portrait of individual naivete gone sour, a sort of objective correlative of our government's experience. Dispatches by Michael Herr reveals a lot about Michael Herr and something about the nature of wartime journalism, but little about the war itself...
...talents of such varied strummers and hummers that one would expect the album either to compromise the individuality of the artists involved or to quash any originality on his own part. Not so. Instead, through members of two of the tightest bands in rock, Springsteen's keyboardists and the Rumour's rhythm section, he brings coherence to music from both sides of the Atlantic. He also employs guitarist Adrian Beiew and vocalist Nona Hendryx, fresh from sessions with the funk-ified Talking Heads, and David Johanssen and Lou Reed, two of New York's most influential throats, and Big Youth...
...least one team continues to uphold the local tradition of ineptitude. And luckily for Harvard, that is the Penn football team. Benjamin Franklin founded the University of Pennsylvania and rumour has it around here that the last time the Quakers had a winning season Old Ben himself led the cheering. The Penn seniors who have played for three years have won three games and lost...