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...horn section accompanying the manifold musicians was comprised of members of Stars, a fellow Canadian band as well as the second of two opening acts that night (the first, California’s Dios, brought a pleasant dual-singer rock sound to the impatient crowd). The horn playing brought a certain vitality to the songs that was sometimes lacking on the album, making the live show all the better...
...called standout track from YFIIP. While pleasing the crowd, many of whom seemed to have only a passing acquaintance with the other songs (even though almost all were from the same album), the song, far from living up to its title, quickly turned into a smug drone. Singer Emily Haines (one of four in the band) does indeed possess a beautiful voice, but burying it under layers of cutesy effects and having her repeat the same simplistic refrain for bars on end is no way to showcase her talent...
...says of the mock beauty pageant. “She’s always an ambassador.” Where his voice is concerned, Hunter respects the notion of different strokes for different folks. “There’s no such thing as a bad singer, just bad for that genre,” he says of his five rejections from the Din and Tonics. “Just because my voice is scratchy and out of tune doesn’t mean it’s bad. It just means I’m singing...
...DIED. JAN BERRY, 62, singer, songwriter and, with partner Dean Torrence (right), performer of such '60s anthems as Surf City, The Little Old Lady (From Pasadena) and Dead Man's Curve; in Los Angeles. Berry collaborated on lyrics to several songs with close friend and Beach Boy Brian Wilson. Though a 1966 car crash left him temporarily paralyzed, he returned to performing with Torrence and in 1997 produced a solo album, Second Wave, which updated the duo's greatest hits...
They hurt her body and trapped her swimming in a "speed zone, a groove. I was like a singer stuck in one octave." She wants people to understand that the alterations she's made are more than technical: "It's a whole mindset, a whole paradigm that's changed...