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...recently broken up their hardcore band Deep Wound, picked up Murph as a drummer, allowing J to emerge from behind the drum kit and to take up lead guitar and vocals. J’s professed love for Neil Young and accomplished songwriting almost single-handedly revived the guitar solo in punk rock, one of the reasons for Dinosaur Jr.’s enduring legacy. The trio released three seminal albums in the ’80’s, “Dinosaur,” “You’re Living All Over...
...arguably one of the biggest names in the production, but many were uncertain whether she could hold her own beside such a formidable Broadway lineup. Thoms certainly lives up to Walker’s performance as Joanne, surpassing expectations in some places. Clearly well-trained for musical theater, her solo in “Seasons of Love” will impress even diehards. Dawson’s performance is slightly more debatable. She takes her character in a vastly different direction than the original actress Daphne Rubin-Vega, replacing Mimi’s usual raspy vocals with a much smoother...
...rejected by the low strings until the winds finally present a variation of the familiar “Ode to Joy” theme, which is enthusiastically taken up by the low strings, then the violas and the violins, and finally the entire orchestra and even the chorus. The solo vocalists, especially baritone Sidney Outlaw, were superb...
...feel like the best concerts have been ones in which I’ve witnessed an artist either screaming or whispering his or her way through the Earth’s crust, drilling into the magma that flows in the subconscious. I remember seeing Beck do a solo acoustic show, playing Big Star’s classic “Kanga-Roo,” and his eyes glazed over. He saw all his lovers, past and future. He was exorcising demons. Similarly, I remember seeing Frank Black of the Pixies, monstrously obese, bleating out how much he still wanted...
...Regardless, the 50-minute album should be judged on its own terms. Doing so reveals some embarrassing missteps. On the painful “Ms. Hill,” Kweli recounts the entire story of the Fugees’ breakup, and Lauryn Hill’s subsequent rise to solo success and quick fall from the spotlight, in tabloid-worthy detail. While the story is interesting enough, and the nostalgic beat is appropriately soulful, no one ever asked the emcee for “Behind the Music: Eccentric Alt-Rap Songwriter Edition.” We asked for hip-hop.He delivers...