Word: sonics
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
PEOPLE IN PARTS OF NEVADA AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HAVE noticed the loud sonic booms and strange pulsing noises for months. Seismologists at Caltech have been picking up echoes of extremely fast overflights heading east from Los Angeles. Now Royal Air Force radar technicians at the NATO base in Machrihanish, Scotland, have identified the cause of it all. Officially, the U.S. Air Force is mum. But insiders say Lockheed has been test-flying AURORA, the top-secret hypersonic U.S. spy plane, code-named "Senior Citizen," which can fly at speeds exceeding 4,000 m.p.h. That's about 90 min. from Washington...
...WANNA GET ROCKED?" shouts DEF LEPPARD on its new album, Adrenalize (Mercury). The answer, judging by the way the record has beaten Springsteen to the top spot on the pop charts, is a thunderous yes. The British band offers its trademark formula: a sonic avalanche of crunching power chords, rock-solid rhythms and surprisingly tuneful vocals. The lyrics remain gleefully sophomoric. On Make Love Like a Man, singer Joe Elliott pleads, "Don't call me gigolo./ Don't call me Casanova./ Just call me on the phone, and baby c'mon over." The Leps may not change the world...
...styles. The lead guitarist Ross Markonish's solos and Yosef Siegal's drumming had a classic rock feel. But the guitar chord progressions, Leif Simonson's basslines and Arik Grier's vocals definitely had a more alternative flavor. They would be probably be as comfortable playing Led Zeppelin as Sonic Youth, whose "Kool Sing" Goatboy covered effectively...
...time, it was both a description of the Velvets' sonic experiments and a jab at Reed's own less-than-operatic singing voice. Today, "with words nearly singed" could be the motto and the challenge of his new book Between Thought and Expression...
...Apocalypse is different from standard-issue funked-out dance-club rap: in its thick sonic layering, which is playful, graceful and brutal by turns; in its roughhouse lyrics, which are part editorial and part rage, raw but keenly focused; and in its politics. "I think people got a connotation that hard-core rap had to have cursing or gangster stories," Chuck D, 31, reflects. "We've got neither. I wanted to show we could make a hard album without those connotations -- a positive hard-core record." A first step was to cool out on the language, which had been overworked...