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Nothing Like It Was In My Room (The National concert review)
I can’t talk about The National without putting my hand over my heart. Boxer runs second to OK Computer on my list of albums that kill me (in a good way). The National doesn’t quite have the depth of Radiohead yet, but they occupy and bear mentioning in the same emotional, catharsis-inducing territory. Frontman Matt Berninger’s resonant Leonard Cohen-esque voice instantly distinguishes The National from other emotional alterna-rock bands such as Arcade Fire, Band of […]
FORTY-FIVE REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE #37: Midnight At The Blurasis
DESMOND CHILD & ROUGE “Our Love Is Insane” b/w “City In Heat” (Capitol Records #4669, 1978)
I was never one of those “Disco Sucks” guys. In fact, disco pretty much freaked me out and blew me away from the beginning, before the genre even had a name. George McRae’s super-sexy and shimmering “Rock Your Baby”…was it soul? Funk? Pop? Or was it such a smash that it didn’t even matter? On a daily basis, Merv Griffin […]
Sending Out an APB for: Remy Shand
What is it with neo-soul singers and their long-ass vacations? D’Angelo’s been missing since 2000. Maxwell just returned after an eight-year break. Let’s not even get into Lauryn Hill. But at least we know where these people are and what they’re up to. Canadian R&B singer/songwriter Remy Shand came onto the scene in 2001, blessed us with one album, and then fell into a musical Bermuda triangle of sorts, never to be heard from again.
Shand’s […]