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...Spoken-word artist Okechukwu W. Iweala ’06 and singer Callie P.S. Watkins ’05 tied for the honor...
Iweala, who performed the fleeting rhymes and ever-changing rhythms of his spoken-word poem, “The Rail,” to intermittent audience cheers, said he was delighted to be one of the evening’s winners...
When Hill goes for diva moments, the songs collapse beneath her. Beautiful has spoken-word verses that recall late-night Cinemax soft-core and the chimerical cliches of Bonnie Tyler. "I love the way you hold me with your eyes/Hold me so tight that I can't move/It's like everything I've ever known is a lie, and you're the simple truth." Beautiful ends with one of those cheap "Take it up a notch!" key changes, as does Unsaveable, the song that follows. Hill's longtime producers, Byron Gallimore and Dann Huff, have done her no great favors...
According to West’s account, Summers rebuked him for focusing more on outside activities—like recording a spoken-word CD and working on political campaigns—than on his scholarship...
...Canada, club appearances in the U.S. and Europe, and a stint at the Summersault Music Festival. At one point the band recorded two songs in three days, leaving the mixing up to Brendan O'Brien, whose previous gigs include Soundgarden and Pearl Jam. Despite its conceptual pretenses and the spoken-word excerpts from Kurzweil's book, Machines is hardly a departure for Our Lady Peace. If anything, it is a return to the energy and simplicity of Naveed. Machines has already gone gold following in Canada following its 2000 release there, continuing the band's solid success in their homeland...