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...never been difficult to reconcile my love for hip-hop with my eternal devotion to Gordon Sumner. Like the best rap music, the Police always had funky basslines, rhythm-driven songs, and an oft-maligned intellectual underside. But after the Puffy sob-fest “I’ll Be Missing You,” I figured the party was over. 11 years later, imagine my surprise when a respected Atlanta rap stalwart releases not one, but two tracks prominently featuring samples from the Police on an otherwise “back-to-basics” album. In addition...
...Flashing Lights,” directed by the legendary Spike Jonze. Instead of his usual display of egotism, Kanye is barely onscreen at all. The video opens with a Mustang parking in the middle of the desert at dusk. As the red brake lights turn off, the song breaks into its titular refrain and Playboy model Rita G exits the car dressed in fur and large black sunglasses. She promptly strips down to her expensive lingerie, then lights her clothes on fire. With flames now at her back and Kanye belting his rap, Rita G glides back toward...
...nothing—they’ve yet to release a forth album—but it seems as though his words are beginning to be reflective of the contemporary creative condition. Today’s music scene is one in which belief in the revolutionary potential of a song is viewed as an anachronistic pipedream and faith in rockstardom as a transcendent force is regarded as both naïve and haplessly nostalgic. This thoroughly postmodern sentiment is both the fate and the challenge of the up-and-coming artist. How can today’s artist feel comfortable...
...feel gratified yet.KB: Alright, what about if I did a scene about me and my friend who is a banana. Starting to feel more gratified? Maybe? A little bit?RR: You’re getting there.KB: Alright. What if during the next show, we broke into an improvised song with a piano player?RR: That would be great.KB: Well, that’s what’s coming up next. We have this new piano player, Ben Cosgrove. Great guy, amazing piano player. Last night one of the keys was broken, and he turned it into a high...
...fifteenth full album under the name of the Mountain Goats, and it finds the singer-songwriter eager to explore the same ups and downs of domestic living in a way that artfully captures truth. If you closely study the structural skeletons of Darnielle’s songs, you can hear the echoes of a decade’s worth of Mountain Goats tracks. But instead of the intimate string arrangements and piano parts which now accompany Darnielle’s acoustic guitar, the production values of older albums were quite different. Most of Darnielle’s back catalog finds...