Word: soundness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...children, who may never know the indignity of racial profiling; and his mother Miriam, 85, who brought up two sons to revere the law. "We taught them to help where you can and right the wrongs that you see," she says. As in the old days, that's as sound as any advice Eric Holder is likely...
...need to cut benefits if workers do it for them. You can hear it when you talk to working moms, all the old theme songs played at twice the volume. Do I dare ask for flextime? Miss the meeting for the doctor's appointment? Governor Palin made it sound as if it was all in a day's work when she talked about juggling BlackBerry and breast pump. But as conditions get worse and 75,000 jobs turn to powder in a day, the strain on survivors can only grow. It doesn't help that on TV every Tom, Dick...
...Animal Collective’s most accessible record, but it only invites access on the band’s preconditions—the music never aspires to anything so much as it expects listeners to aspire to the music. Submerged in a seamless ocean of arpeggiated electronic sound, the album affects a reoccurring cycle of freak-pop whose contours range from low-end love songs to psychedelic-dance.The album’s ambitious opener sets the tone. “In The Flowers” seems to emerge from outer space, with Portner’s vocals fading...
...Street’s Alphabet Song? Since 1987, when Paul Simon produced the group’s first American record, “Shaka Zulu,” Ladysmith Black Mambazo has been our country’s ambassador for African music. On February 7, they bring their unmistakable sound to Sanders Theatre, returning for the fourth time in as many years. Before Simon brought Ladysmith to the world’s attention, the group had been singing together for some 26 years under the leadership of founder Joseph Shabalala. Shabalala, a farmer and factory worker, named the group...
...melody is sweet but out of place with the rest of the album’s dance-punk aesthetic. “Tonight” grows on you. For the most part, it’s fun to groove to. But, after spending four years minimally updating their sound, “Tonight: Franz Ferdinand” is inarguably a disappointment. —Staff writer Candace I. Munroe can be reached at cimunroe@fas.harvard.edu...