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...special world, where there will always be that little hop that changed modern rock forever—the astonishing ’60s and ’70s rock group the Velvet Underground. Although their group work guaranteed Reed a place in musical history, much of his solo work has been hit-or-miss...
With Animal Serenade, Reed makes peace with his legacy, bringing together the best of his solo career with some of his VU classics to make an entirely unique live album, stripped of the production obstructions that kept the listener away from his songs’ raw power...
Often found years ago playing solo gigs in front of drunken college kids at Longwood College’s campus in Virginia, Pat McGee is now working on establishing himself among prominent contemporary singer/songwriters. His band formed in early 1996 and has been touring since. From McGee’s 1996 recording From the Wood, it was clear that McGee was an extremely talented young troubadour, blending folk influences from James Taylor and Paul Simon with his own acoustic rock sound and incredible vocal capabilities...
...choreography, by Amanda M. Gann ’06, is another standout feature of this production. Some of the moves are dubious (Private Willis attempts to dance the Macarena to his solo), but most are strong, like the comically half-hearted and self-conscious dance leaps by the Lord Chancellor and Strephon, the Lord Chancellor’s fluidly shifting nightmare scenarios, or the tensely balanced face-off between the Lords and the fairies in the House of Parliament...
Radish split in 1998, and Kweller has recovered admirably. He is now on his second solo album, On My Way, which happens to be his first as a legal, beer-drinking adult. On My Way has some impressive moments, largely because it seems to care so little about being impressive. It feels like a bunch of songs Kweller put together casually and recorded impeccably...