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Cafč Tacvba (pronounced tacuba) has spent 17 years taking elements of contemporary music--from north-of-the-border punk to the indigenous sounds of Veracruz--and synthesizing them into a fluid, singular brand of rock en espańol. The song El Fin de la Infancia puts brassy Mexican banda music to a ska beat. Eres is a pop ballad served straight. And Chilanga Banda is a nod to funk. It makes for manic concerts. This two-disc set captures Tacvba's epic 15th-anniversary blowout in Mexico City...
...singular sensation of a show tune if there ever was one. That little three-note figure - doo-do-de, doo-do-de, doo-do-de - is still one of the most thrilling buildups in the history of the musical theater. But it's just the ice cream sundae at the end of Marvin Hamlisch's rich banquet of a score, with its equal helpings of Tin Pan Alley schmaltz and modernist invention. Sure, it's too soon for a Chorus Line revival. But it's also too soon to dismiss this show with mere nostalgia...
...image of a person grieving expresses a certain rawness, a singular emotional intensity that, strangely, rarely surfaces in images of the 9/11 aftermath. Artists dealing with acts of terror are often content to represent a more general sense of national grief through abstract images, like the photographs of twisted debris that comprise Joel Meyerowitz’s photo-book “Aftermath.” Often, this results in gripping, affective art.But when someone explicitly grieves for a friend who died in the attacks, the moment is special, charged with the weighty energy that comes only with proximity...
...voice.And yet, it is an album that stands up to repeated examination. While “Eraser” lacks the manic fluctuations of favorite Radiohead tracks, and while Yorke’s voice slips rarely into his characteristic Brit-sneer, its expression of its creator’s singular vision—lyrical, musical, and otherwise—makes it one of the most intriguing albums of the past summer.TV on the Radio: “Return to Cookie Mountain”In which yesterday’s next big thing actually fulfills their potential, creating an album that...
...Internet relationship. My life is increasingly being invaded by these people. There's a woman (or a man, or possibly a robot) named MoFlo4Sho who e-mails me a couple of dozen times a day with her various insane thoughts about religion and celebrities. It's one of the singular features of our little social-technological moment that people all over the world whom we otherwise would never even be aware of can effortlessly impinge upon our minds and lives and desktops. We probably see fewer people in person these days, but our lives are populated by an entire chorus...