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...five college dropouts, all under the age of 23, have been hailed by NME as “the Saviours of Rock and Roll,” lauded by Rolling Stone and mobbed across the sea by a slew of British fans including the likes of Kate Moss and Thom Yorke. With a look more Welcome Back Kotter than laundry-hamper New Wave and a refreshing fuck-you nonchalance, the Strokes serve as a more-than-welcome respite from the onslaught of top-40 politically-correct cookie-cutter boy bands aimed at the screaming pre-teen...
...through a number, the poetry of his words comes out in the phrasing. "How does it feel?" Dylan famously asked on Like a Rolling Stone. We may not have known exactly what he meant, but we knew how it felt. Today's musicians have taken that lesson to heart. Thom Yorke of the British band Radiohead wrote some songs for his album Kid A by cutting up lyric sheets and pulling lines out of a top hat. The Icelandic band Sigur Ros sings some songs in a made-up tongue it calls Hopelandic...
This recording is Bjork's return to Iceland--or Scandinavia, at least--after a career of mixing cultures: posing as a Chinese woman in Asian dress on the cover of her last album, Homogenic, and collaborating in past projects with American rapper RZA and British musicians Goldie, Tricky and Thom Yorke. The album was written mostly while she was in Denmark (which controlled Iceland until the mid-20th century), shooting the 2000 film Dancer in the Dark and feeling homesick. "My album is sort of chamber music for this century," she says, scratching a mosquito bite on her arm. "After...
...stretch their vocal range over the area traditionally reserved for women and victims of unfortunate bicycle accidents are often some of the most exhilarating singers around. Anyone who doubts this has clearly not discovered the ethereal wonders of Jeff Buckley or Thom Yorke, let alone Jimmy Sommerville. Alas, despite occasional exceptions like Tracy Chapman, the reverse doesn’t seem to be true nearly as often. Fortunately, Thalia Zedek, formerly the vocalist for Come and Uzi, has such a female baritone voice showcased on this album—part Leonard Cohen (whom she covers on the elegiac...
...When Thom Price arrived in Venice in 1996, he didn't know much Italian. He did, however, know the word squero - the workshop in which gondolas are made - and searched the phone book...