Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE The Battle of Los Angeles (Epic). Because Tom Morello--who can make his guitar sound like a harmonica, a pair of turntables or a street uprising--is the most thrilling guitarist in rock today. Because rapper-singer Zack de la Rocha mixes poetry and polemics into song lyrics that would do Chuck D or Bob Dylan proud. Because in a year in which a riot of rockers copped beats from hip-hop, no other band made the rap-rock union resonate with such ferocity and intelligence...
...FIONA APPLE When the Pawn... (Clean Slate/Epic). Like shards from a shattered mirror, the 22-year-old singer-songwriter's latest album glitters with reflective surfaces and sharp edges. Apple's songs, richly produced and intimately performed, explore the opposite of romance: betrayal, breakup, failure to commit. Apple has matured into more than a pop prodigy, more than a girl, interrupted. She is now, as an artist, a woman in full...
...stir up noise. It was a polished stage act; more than that, it showed talent. Bennett's voice and the clear, crisp sounds of his guitar (especially on the slinky guitar lick that opened "Chinese Cabdriver") worked well with the smouldering voice of the group's other lead singer, Becky Warren (a Wellesley senior). Small wonder people were standing on chairs, straining for a glimpse of the band...
...based sensibilities of the previous groups, Ari Welcom and Co. was an unabashed hard rock band. Coming on at midnight, the group announced its intentions upfront, kicking off with a long, looping guitar introduction (courtesy of guitarist Duane Koh '00) filled with feedback and distortion. The dreadlocked lead singer, Alvin McCottry '00, unfortunately sounded muffled throughout, drowned beneath a sea of distortion from the sometimes overly self-indulgent guitarists. Still, the group's drum-intensive cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" inspired manic pogoing among some of the faithful who had remained, even though their sped-up version...
...other hand is Laetitia Sadier, Stereolab's all-purpose singer-songwriter-guitarist, who took center stage on Sunday...