Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Modern Lovers signed to Warner Brothers, which proves just how base corporate rock today is, since major labels then weren't afraid to sign bands like the Stooges or the MC5 or the Modern Lovers. All these bands were commercial flops, so it's understandable that labels were chastened, but each produced a body of art that ought to have bands like Third Eye Bland and Dave bleedin' Matthews throwing themselves off bridges in shame, or at least wetting themselves with envy...
What is most appealing about Richman's music, aside from general excellence, is its unironic appreciation of life, rare in today's hipper-than-thou culture. Richman is never less than totally honest and earnest and although he is aware of this and its effects, he is never putting on an act; he's just being Jonathan. This was very apparent when he played to a packed downstairs at the Middle East on Nov. 2. With just his guitar and drummer Tommy Larkins, Richman played one of the most entertaining and energetic live shows I've seen in a very...
...said reporting today has become "about as much how to package a story as looking for facts...
...market place, the country landscape, the butcher's meat market all are recorded with such accuracy that the viewer's mind dizzies at the intricacy with which lines are drawn. The prints were also used in order to display political or social allegories, much like the political cartoons of today's newspapers. All in all, the French world was thrilled to finally have an artistic movement that encapsulated them, and not the royal or religious scenes they were used...
...allegorical prints are dramatic because of the contrast given to points of the artist's interest, and the everyday scenes are all recorded in concise detail. What all of these themes possess as motif are their underlying static feeling. These prints are immobile; the figures in them are frozen. Today, a viewer cannot relate to these scenes of the past through the mind and eyes of a 16th century village person, therefore, there is no dynamic between...