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...litigation letters sent to some of American universities’ most profligate downloaders (evidently, the first seven waves failed to frighten people off). This new offensive was followed by a high-profile legal victory over Jammie Thomas, a Native American woman who may have illegally transmitted twenty-four songs over the peer-to-peer transfer program called Kazaa. The jury that ruled on Ms. Thomas’ case awarded the plaintiffs $9,250 in damages per song, totaling $220,000. Though Ms. Thomas could have originally settled for much less, it seems the record companies’ strategy...
...unbroken baseball curse, 2007 division title or no. Plus, they’re John Darnielle’s team. People started shouting for the anthemic “Cubs in Five” early on, and Darnielle finally gave in, despite the curse he feared. “This song is about something you think is totally impossible and that’s never going to happen, and now, when it looks like it might happen, you want me to sing it?” Darnielle asked the crowd. “If you had written a song called...
...nightmarish figure. Nevertheless, we feel pity as he goes about his solitary life. Engulfed for mysterious reasons by worry, boredom, and heartbreak (a past love is hinted at as he traces the word “Ella” on the frosty windows), his pain is palpable. As the song reaches its climax, González’s repetitive vocals grow increasingly urgent against the guitars’ violent strumming. “Don’t let the darkness eat you up,” he pleads, once, twice, eight times. But the pig-man, deaf...
...outset to be a play about these two guys who are in love, the crazy antics that they do, and the events that they go through in their lives. I love the comedy that we’ve found, and there are moments when people burst into song in the first act that just are smart and funny. And then there’s this very serious second act where you can’t even, sometimes, believe it’s the same show, that they’re the same people."Aside from the work?...
...that punctuate the album. Thankfully, Krug finds his way back into more familiar waters with “Winged/Wicked Things,” punched up by visceral guitar waves that lap across an ocean of keyboard hum. Krug’s talent for building tension is unquestionable, and the song offers what may be the album’s schizophrenic manifesto: “And chaos is yours / And chaos is mine / And chaos is love and they say love is blind.” Centerpiece “Stallion” clocks in at over six drab, confused minutes...