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With the current landscape, Kanye’s songs are downright heartwarming. Perhaps my favorite moment on the album is how Twista, after being introduced like he’s Kanye’s best friend in “Slow Jamz”, raps in sync with the singer buried in the mix—utterly in tune to the track’s little flourishes. The sample, like much of Kanye’s sources, is sublimated into a wisp of texture that sticks indelibly in your mind. It’s that sensitivity to sound itself that...
...Kids, many from Harvard, decked out in the indie uniform of blazer, tousled hair and random vintage-tee, crowd the floor waiting for the band. But when they do, unlike the angsty, screaming opening act the National, the Walkmen look anything but rock ’n roll. Lead singer Hamilton Leithauser, tall, blonde, with classic Upper East Side prep school good looks, and the rest of the band, clad in similarly conservative sweaters and button down shirts, quietly tune...
...double-chinned thugs to the gilded-heart hooker. After an innocuous first act, the plot quickly careens into a darker realm that can’t sustain the levity of the two main characters. There is some fine acting in this film, particularly from Paul Sorvino as the outdated singer in the casino lounge, but perhaps The Cooler would have been better served had the bright lights of the Strip not been dimmed so bleakly...
...first Lee Bros. Boiled Peanuts Catalog was stitched together by a Singer sewing machine. Among other items, it advertised five-pound sacks of freshly boiled peanuts straight from Charleston. The brothers began by boiling their own peanuts, then they contracted with a family of manufacturers on Johns Island. Their clientele comes from all across the fifty states as well as other parts of the world and consists mostly of nostalgic southern expatriates. “The dislocation is felt most acutely by western states,” Matt says. The military, meanwhile, accounts for much of their overseas business...
DIED. DORIS TROY, 67, the melodically ambitious singer of the 1963 hit Just One Look, whose beginnings as a choir girl in her father's Harlem church inspired the long-running musical Mama, I Want to Sing; of emphysema; in Las Vegas. Under her birth name, Doris Payne, she wrote most of her own material, bridging gospel, soul and rock. As Doris Troy (from Helen of Troy) she sang backup for bands like the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd...