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Conor Oberst is the hottest little indie duckling around. Over the past few years, Oberst’s Bright Eyes project has peddled his singular brand of disingenuous melancholy all the way to the gatekeeper of the musical elite: Maxim’s Blender magazine. His Omaha-based label Saddle Creek have hosted a handful of similarly insipid alt-rockers, many of whom, like The Faint or Rilo Kiley, have recently met Mammon’s warm embrace. Adored by hordes of sobbing alterna-teens, Oberst has generated an elaborate cult of personality that often obscures the mediocrity...
...which sounds like a cover of Disintegration-era Cure); the rocksteady exuberance of “Casa Nova” is really the only stylistic surprise on an album of mostly sparse arrangements. It is Todd’s voice instead that ultimately carries the album: a husky, singular tone reminiscent of legendary Velvet Underground collaborator Nico, whom she openly acknowledges as an inspiration...
...Rice apology in return. No apology ought to or will be given. The U.S. may not be the world's most artful liberator. But it is hard to think of a more sincere one. Ask the 8 million Iraqis who for the first time in their lives enjoyed that singular democratic experience: the free and secret ballot...
...term as editorial chair of The Crimson is now complete, Stromberg wants to tell you what he really thinks about University policy, politics and pedagogy without the editorial “we” muddling his rhetoric. Look for a cornucopia of pronouns in the first-person singular and fully attributable boilerplate in “Elementary,” which will appear on alternate Fridays...
...length by whites, Marley is now embraced by whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Americans, Africans, Jamaicans and more. A man of many names and many fans, the general public's feelings towards Bob Marley are now best summarized by the title of what is among his most singular songs: One Love...