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This unpretentious album solves the mystery of how Kelly Clarkson unpinned herself from the scarlet A (for American Idol winner) that nearly doomed her career before it started. She works with strong producers, picks crisp, up-tempo songs that mine a slender emotional vein (to summarize: Why did you leave me, you jerk?) and sings them with an understatement alien to most of her peers. It's an (almost) guiltless pleasure...
...stage.“Faded from the Winter” was the most surprising success, as Beam replaced the driving folk guitar of the recorded version with—are those palm-muted power chords? Beam made the unlikely arrangement work somehow, playing the song at a moderate tempo with moody accompaniment from softly driving toms, a violin, and a pedal steel guitar.Beam’s attempts to reinvigorate his work were valuable experiments even when they fell flat. A full-band, electric version “Jezebel,” one of Beam’s strongest songs...
...Hockey Center, they will be fighting for more than just momentum. “It’s been a great rivalry,” said Harvard coach Katey Stone before her team’s practice yesterday afternoon. “Just a lot of energy, very high-tempo games. There’s a lot of pride on the line.” Senior captain Carrie Schroyer said that it would be difficult to treat tonight’s game like any other. “You feel it, just because of those past experiences...
...night, under Lou’s watchful eyes.Dinosaur Jr. ended the show with the strongest, heaviest material they had, tearing through several “You’re Living All Over Me” tracks. The guitar and bass tag teamed the crowd through the volatile tempo changes of “Lung,” then piled on the doomster ur-grunge of “Sludgefeast,” before exiting stage left for the requisite encore. When the band swaggered back in, no-one complained.They chugged straight into “Freak Scene...
...invoking images of creation and the cosmos. For the first time, it seemed that the orchestra was entirely involved with the music, and the result was significant and exciting. The second movement is a difficult combination of duple and triple meter, and it gave the orchestra some trouble. The tempo dragged and notes were often out of place, but the oboes, clarinets and bassoons blended beautifully in the central trio section of the movement. It was the best the winds sounded all evening...