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...their destinations), boarding aircraft and leaping out in Afghanistan. While a group of commandos seized a dry-lake airstrip some 100 miles southwest of Kandahar, other troops headed to Kandahar itself in pursuit of Omar and one of his command centers. The special forces didn't manage to snare Omar, but Pentagon officials said U.S. troops gathered valuable intelligence and destroyed a small-weapons stockpile at the airfield...
...your face. You could feel the pressure on your chest, just like you could feel Dee Dee's down-picked tonic eighth notes (no one ever strummed in the Ramones) in your stomach and bowels. Tommy's drums were metronomic, massive with almost no fills, just sledgehammer kick and snare...
Roach’s deliberate mixture of media and art forms is closely mirrored by the multicultural nature of the drum set. As Roach explains, the cymbals are from the Middle East, Africa and Native America provide the side drums, and the snare and bass drums are shared by various world musics. All this diversity leads Roach to reject limiting labels. He believes “Jazz” is one such label...
...repetitive and infectious grooves of “Loose Cannon,” allowing the audience to catch a true glimpse of his virtuosity. He constructed polyrhythmic extrapolations onto the initial simple patterns, building on the rhythm and blues flavored hooks and then subsiding into sparse, off-putting snare shots as he tried to push Blake’s more cool and subdued solo into another, more frenzied direction. Blake’s resistance to percussive prodding created a palpably apparent tension, until Stewart resolved the matter, asserting his authority in the first of many explosive solos. Building up from...
...with many DJ sets, the first few tracks only lured the serious dancers and glow-stick fiends away from their drinks and onto the dance floor. But as the rhythms became more snare-intensive and Maas' trademark bass rattled the club's foundation, fewer and fewer found themselves able to resist. By the time the sampled introductory chords of Madonna's "Vogue" gave way to yet another punishing rhythmic assault, a mere hour into the set, it became clear that Europe's Next Big Thing was well on his way to winning over Boston clubbers...