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...recent Thursday, when the front page of La Repubblica offered three articles on Berlusconi's admission that he was "not a saint," the free Metro carried a much more relevant headline: "H1N1: 15 Million Youth To Be Vaccinated." Online, Beppe Grillo, a comedian turned political blogger, has a large, vocal following. As does dagospia.com, Italy's left-wing retort to the Drudge Report. Read: "Blog di Beppe Grillo...
Behrens, who died Aug. 18 at 72, began her career later than most. After abandoning a background in law to pursue music, she made her professional debut in 1971, with just four years of vocal training and without a single acting class under her belt; her first director had advised her against taking drama lessons, correctly predicting that her raw instincts onstage would become one of her greatest strengths...
...truly successful and catchy song. “Jimmy Dove” is a beast of an entirely differnt nature, and moving forward, the band should strongly consider making its unique sound into their calling card. The song opens with heavy, bubbling synth and a chorus of vocal “oh’s,” creating a trippy underwater effect. The lyrics then quickly burst on scene with an intensity a notch above The Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Just Like Honey.” The chorus is easily the highlight...
...beginnings. Before Pavement brought the slacker ethos to its natural, albeit eccentric climax, the reformed hardcore punks J. Mascis and Lou Barlow, along with drummer Murph, sculpted murky, long-range guitar workouts for the laid-back and the incidentally employed. Mascis’ twangy intonation rendered the kind of vocal performance that seemed as surprised as the listener with the craggy and uncompromisingly melodic. Not unlike the generation of grunge bands it inspired, it never seemed meant to last. Well-beloved but critically understated in general, the band was, for a time, the middle-child of indie rock?...
...this would be our fate / This is what happens when we separate / This is what happens to all dead weight, eventually.” Like Joe Strummer, Tweedy has always been able to coax remarkable amounts of empathy and emotion out of his one-octave range, and his subtle vocal gifts shine throughout this album. Yet the greatest attraction is the guitar interplay of Tweedy and Nels Cline. Few guitar duos in rock history have their ability to delight both guitar enthusiast and casual fan. “Wilco (the Album)” is not quite a towering masterpiece...