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...left behind his cause. Post-Richard Gere, entertainment figures have zeroed in on just about every injustice on the continent, and hardly a week goes by without a high-profile visit or statement of outrage. Over the weekend, one of the original bad girls of rock, the Pretenders' lead singer and vegetarian Chrissie Hynde, was scheduled to make an appearance at a Bangkok outlet of KFC?accompanied by a protester in a giant chicken suit?to tell Thais that eating drumsticks is bad for both man and bird. Hynde, in town for a concert, is but the latest...
...Mountain Goats’ lyrics have always been their strong point, making up for the fact that the singer can’t sing or play guitar very well. But poetic lyricism is absent on We Shall—the ultimate tragedy of the album. Darnielle’s poetry suffers from a lack of any coherence; it’s unclear by the end whether this is supposed to be a concept album or not. Some images recur (cargo ships in a harbor, broken electrical equipment, unearthed specters) but add up to nothing. Darnielle’s Homeric similes...
...debut album from Volcano, I’m Still Excited!! is hard to really hate. The songs are tight, hook-filled and melodic. And when so many terrible voices rise to fame for the sake of their uniqueness, it’s nice to hear a traditional rock singer who can actually sing with confidence. The influence of conventionally gifted rock bands like The Wrens and Spoon is all over the place. The band seem to genuinely want to put together an album showing their deep association with everything that stands for indie rock today. Carnival casio synth, unexpected drum...
...literature, Knife Edge is a bit of a letdown, sagging with serial indignities where Noughts and Crosses was taut with sheer indignation. For example, Sephy's attempt to cut it as a singer in the noughts' underground music scene feels peripheral (and lyrically, she's no Eminem). But Blackman promises to end her bleak trilogy next year on a note of hope. What a nice, old-fashioned idea - especially...
...painting (TIME critic Robert Hughes). But he conquered the market with price tags of $300,000 and beyond, and captured his share of limelight as well. In the '90s, as painting took a cyclical downturn, Schnabel veered off into filmmaking, and even a one-album gig as a pop singer. His comeback show in Frankfurt, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work since a 1988 exhibit at New York City's Whitney Museum, covers the artist's various phases - figurative neo-expressionism combined with abstract; solemnity combined with whimsy and even leering humor. The most successful of the "plate paintings...