Word: velvetized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...also has an old card catalog box from Widener Library, full of tapes, and a "velvet" copy of the Mona Lisa on the wall outside her room...
...Summertime" at 1:30, 5:30 and 9:30 on Sunday, Dec. 12. "The Letter" at 4:15 and 7:45 and "Another Man's Poison" at 6 and 9:30 on Monday, Dec. 13. "Daughters of Darkness" at 4:15 and 7:40 and "The Velvet Vampire" at 6 and 9:30 on Tuesday, Dec. 14. "Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain" at 4, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. on Wednesday...
...hear him trying, perhaps, to drum up business for a vegetable-growing friend. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion," he says...
...everyone knows the genealogy of grunge: the Stooges and Black Sabbath got married (Iggy Pop has always been somewhat of a traditionalist) and had Seattle. The superhip blame grunge on MC5, the New York Dolls and, of course, The Velvet Underground. I would add old-style metal bands like Kiss and Dio to the list of grunge predecessors, but hey, that's just...
What you probably haven't heard is Bikini Kill's music. Mostly, it's first-rate, gut-level punk rock, linked in the slow songs to the immortal Stooges, and in the fast ones to the staticy, brittle, emotive rocking of other bands you've never heard, like Some Velvet Sidewalk. (Check them out, too, by the way.) There's a bit more syncopation, and a bit more distortion, than in this band's former outings, but the new songs aren't that different from the inspiring, loud old ones...