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...Stray Cats” consists of some of her more standard concert fare, in terms of both music and in-between-the-songs antics. The disc begins with “Swan Dive,” an energetic and intense song. Upon her first strum of the guitar, however she injects a bit of humor, saying, “I don’t know why the fuck I play acoustic guitars. I hate that acoustic guitar sound...
...mothers were electrified by the strut and swagger of rock ’n roll, if their eyes followed every strum and they threw their bodies into the beat, odds are they were staring up at a man. So what happens to a generation of girls that experiences that same idolatry, that loses itself to the crowd and the guitar—without the brash misogyny of a Robert Plant or a Mick Jagger...
...first of roughly 1600 members of the Class of ’06 (officially in Harvard parlance “ought six”) to arrive, Strum walked nervously down a path through Tercentenary Theater toward Canaday Hall...
These guys get filed under "roots rock" because they have been known to sing like Byrds and rhyme 'n' strum like Dylan. Now they have thrown together every instrument and influence at their disposal, futuristic synthesizer atop old-fashioned piano, to prove they're no nostalgia act. The result is gorgeous. Half the songs are close to perfect: the melodies stick, the newfangled keyboards breeze in and out with supernatural grace, the words submerge the listener in both sadness and blissed-out reverie. The band has lost its "roots" and found its voice...
...dotcom misery, in case you're still keeping score at home, is eToys. Since the Grinch stole its Christmas season, it has been hunting for a buyer or a merger partner--anything to avoid bankruptcy. Employees are bracing for layoffs as the site unloads toys like Sing 'N Strum Barneys and Talking Wimzies for as much as 75% off. And the stock? Down from a 52-week high of $31.50 to about 20[cents]. Some folks have been taking perverse pleasure in seeing the dotcoms crash and burn. "Is anyone else morbidly watching this stock like you stare...