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1:38 pm EDT, Jul 17, 2004 |
Why bother to read the review? If it's #1 in Nashville, you know it must be good! During the "folk music-scare" of the early 1960s, a bunch of white middle-class youths with names like the Greenbriar Boys and the Even Dozen Jug Band discovered the mountain music of the Stanley Brothers, Skillet Lickers, and Uncle Dave Macon and set about introducing it to the country's college kids. Four decades later, the members of OCMS fit the profile of those early revivalists, yet if anything they have tapped deeper into the primal elements of an American art form. As demonstrated on their debut, they have assimilated not just the sound -- banjos, harmonicas, acoustic guitar and bass -- but more importantly the haunting spirit of music that was made to keep hard times at bay. How else to explain their ability to take a well-worn chestnut like "CC Rider" and infuse it with an energy that reveals once again why it is a classic? All Music Guide says: There is so much enthusiasm here, so much willingness and fire, that it would be hard to do anything but want to sing along. Thoroughly enjoyable, wonderfully raw and sinewy, Old Crow Medicine Show may be evoking the sounds of the old string bands, but they do it with a crackling rock & roll energy. Old Crow Medicine Show |
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Bicycles and Tricycles | The Orb |
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1:21 pm EDT, Jul 17, 2004 |
Slabs of dub, slices of surrealism, and disembodied "found" voices make their appearance on the latest offering by ambient dub commandos The Orb. Bicycles & Tricycles returns to the original Orb concept which isn't about songs, but lysergic landscapes. Industrial grinds propel you through one moment, only to be untethered into infinite space the next, before being snagged into synchronicity by a dub groove. Bicycles and Tricycles | The Orb |
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12:20 pm EDT, Jul 4, 2004 |
Like Joss Stone and Nellie McKay, Melua defeats the stereotype of the teen pop diva by singing grownup music in a grownup way. Like Norah Jones, Michael Bublé and Jamie Cullum, all of whom are under 25, Melua offers a return to quiet, shapely tunes that imply a more stable universe than the fractured worlds of hip-hop and rock. "The minute I met Katie, I knew she could be huge." Try "My Aphrodisiac Is You." Obviously Not Norah |
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1:10 pm EDT, Jul 3, 2004 |
Moby and Public Enemy have teamed up for the single MKLVFKWR. The track was written specially for Unity, The Official Athens 2004 Olympic Games Album compilation. The music for MKLVFKWR was written by Moby while the lyrics were penned by Chuck D and Flavor Flav of Public Enemy. Chuck D: "Working with Moby on this theme and project again shows that music can be a universal language of peace. Knowing his great work and concerns of the planet made this project one of like mindedness and world spirit." Moby says of Public Enemy "I've always been a huge fan" and talking about the role of music and protest he states "we do still ostensibly live in a democracy, so my hope is that at some point the people will vocally rise up and let the current leaders know that they've had enough." Adds Chuck D: "The song is a request that being a citizen of the world should transcend nationality in the name of peace." MKLVFKWR |
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Kobra Videos - Experience Kobra Quality. |
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8:52 am EDT, Jun 18, 2004 |
This site provides you with high quality mpeg music video rips. To download the videos, you will need mirc. Also, you can get videos through Torrents. Kobra Videos - Experience Kobra Quality. |
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The Thinking Man's Cowboy |
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12:28 am EDT, Jun 15, 2004 |
I only recently started exploring the Lyle Lovett discography. This article is a good roadmap. Lovett reveals his weird splendor in a schizophrenic jumble of smoky jazz and twangy country that revives whole swaths of neglected popular American music. Unpop! "The Road to Ensenada" (1996): This is a Saturday afternoon of an album. What does that mean? I know what a Sunday morning of an album is ... The songs "In My Own Mind" and "Working Too Hard" are anthems to satisfied solitude and premeditated withdrawal. Now you're talking ... The Thinking Man's Cowboy |
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2:33 pm EDT, Jun 12, 2004 |
Mid-60's popular radio was a welter of youthful voices, just as it is now. But every now and then a disc jockey would work Ray Charles, who died on Thursday, into the rotation, and it was like hearing directly from Father Time. He was singing many of the same words as the bands I listened to, but he meant something entirely different. You could hear the country and the city in his songs. He would never be able to explain it. He would just have to play his way through the whole catalog of American music, and we would get to listen to him reinvent it, song by song. Drivin' That Dynaflow |
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Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music |
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11:07 am EDT, Jun 11, 2004 |
There is more to sound recording than just recording sound. Far from being simply a tool for the preservation of music, the technology is a catalyst. This is the clear message of Capturing Sound, a wide-ranging, deeply informative, consistently entertaining history of recording's profound impact on the musical life of the past century, from Edison to the Internet. In a series of case studies, Mark Katz explores how recording technology has encouraged new ways of listening to music, led performers to change their practices, and allowed entirely new musical genres to come into existence. An accompanying CD, featuring thirteen tracks from Chopin to Public Enemy, allows readers to hear what Katz means. Fatboy Slim: "I only wish I had put as much thought into making records as Mark Katz does in appreciating and analyzing them." Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music |
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Velvet Revolver, Making a Bang |
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4:57 pm EDT, May 29, 2004 |
Perhaps never before has such predictability promised such popularity. GNR + STP = VR Yes, my friends, it's just that easy. Perhaps already sensing the inevitable meltdown of Velvet Revolver -- catch 'em while you can, kids -- Slash was a strutting, swaggering, all-or-nothing marvel at the 9:30 club Thursday, leading his much-hyped throwback band through a power-chords-aplenty 75-minute set that had a sold-out all-ages crowd of aggressive guys (and a few understandably skittish gals) eager to bang their heads -- and any other nearby noggins, as well. After all, this is an LA-born band, and its sole function is to sell the naughty lifestyle of the Sunset Strip. ... Here's hoping Slash's next doomed band is just as entertaining. This band is profiled in the Frontline program "The Way The Music Died." Velvet Revolver, Making a Bang |
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