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...espouses the yearbook wisdom that "love is watching someone die." Gibbard pitches most of his morbidity in an assuring middle range; he doesn't sound like he's singing so much as throwing an arm around your shoulder and advising, like a high schooler playing the prematurely wise friend. It does not add to the appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Major Label, Minor Key | 8/28/2005 | See Source »

...people--Sunni and Shi'ite alike--have been killed in Washash this year, and the pace seems to be picking up. One of the latest victims was Shi'ite house painter Ali Jeri, whose death was especially painful to the neighborhood. Jeri was known as a kind and wise mediator who had many Sunni friends. Three gunmen pulled up in a car while he was painting and shot him in front of his child. Not long before that, Jeri had told his brother Ibrahim, "If I am killed because I am known as a religious man and a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killers in the Neighborhood | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

...terrific/ I got a couple past due bills, I won't get specific/ I got a problem with spending before I get it/ We all self-conscious, I'm just the first to admit it." Throughout, West careered between the Protestant ethic and street fantasies, revealing himself to be wise and stupid, arrogant and insecure, often in the same breath. But by baring his flaws and being self-critical--and daring listeners to do the same--he created a fresh portrait of African-American middle-class angst, and you could dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Can't Ignore Kanye | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

...didn't take long for The College Dropout to develop coattails. Fashion-wise, you may have been blinded recently by the swarm of pink Polo shirts, while on the charts, West's friends John Legend, an R&B singer with a University of Pennsylvania degree, and Common, a whip-smart and austere Chicago rapper, both had sales spikes. West's Late Registration should push things further. "I didn't want to play it boring and safe," says West while sitting in the balcony of a 14th century church in Prague, one of the locations he hand-picked for the video...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Can't Ignore Kanye | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

...very classy quartet takes on one of Bollywood composer R.D. Burman's trashiest melodies, and the musicians are wise enough to keep the meticulousness of their playing from overwhelming the main attraction--the exuberant juxtaposition of Indian tabla, Chinese lute and rock rhythm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 10 Songs for Late Summer | 8/7/2005 | See Source »

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