Word: songfulness
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...School yesterday afternoon. Fans of the site range from your run- of-the-mill indie-loving college students to their Johnny Mathis-loving grandmas. Using a complex algorithm created by the Music Genome Project, a company Westergren helped found earlier, Pandora takes a listener’s favorite song or artist and recommends similar music based on a series of factors present in that song or artist’s catalogue. “[Pandora] replicates your best friend, but with almost perfect knowledge of an enormous catalogue of music,” Westergren said at the talk, which...
...Balladeer, he played a central role in executing Sondheim’s gorgeous score. “Assassins” is riddled with bits of American musical history, from the broad, open harmonies of folk to gospel’s ecstatic fervor. Even Sousa marches get their moments. In songs like “The Ballad of Booth” and (especially) “The Ballad of Czolgosz,” you could hear the country’s musical heritage talking to itself. “Assassins” is predicated on the idea that history...
...Drank (Shawty Snappin’)” and “Bartender.” The reality is that more than half of the 21 tracks on the deluxe edition of “Thr33 Ringz” blend into one continuous and forgettable song. The few exceptions are noteworthy, but a few good songs do not an album make. T-Pain starts off with two tracks that are promisingly different from the monotony that characterizes a majority of the rest of the album. “Welcome to Thr33 Ringz Intro” provides an enjoyable minute...
...humanistic and pessimistic ethos, the record narrates the day of its eponymous protagonist’s failed suicide attempt. Each track represents a different moment in J. Smith’s day. Travis eschews chronological order and groups the tracks instead for tonal coherence (though the first and final songs, “Chinese Blues” and “Before You Were Young,” do mark the beginning and end of the character’s day).Fusing together a multitude of influences and showcasing a fair share of erudite literary allusions...
Chicago may be "my kind of town," as the song goes, but since Barack Obama's election, conservatives have been busy warning that it could be his kind of White House as well. "Dozens of Chicago advisers, officials and fundraisers have helped grease Obama's ascent from community organizer to President-elect," reads one typical Fox.com report. "[They] may also be looking to ride Obama's coattails." The President-elect's selection of Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel as his chief of staff and Chicago native John Podesta as his transition chief, as well as the news that his Chicago-based...