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It’s hard to talk about Andrew Bird without mentioning “The Mysterious Production of Eggs,” his 2005 opus. It may be an equally difficult task to top that album, even for its brilliant creator.Despite the evolution Bird demonstrates in his latest, “Armchair Apocrypha,” the album is just not as captivating as its immediate predecessor. Listening to Bird’s subtle stylings and soaring, intellectual, rustic chamber pop, it seems impossible that he could have ever been a part of the ultra-swinging Squirrel Nut Zippers...
...four years, as their 2005 album “Out of State Plates” was a compilation of B-sides and previously-unreleased singles. In those four years, their sound has evolved subtly while maintaining its fundamental principles of universally palatable melodies and endlessly listenable lyrics. This latest record packs into 14 fresh songs more characters than a Shakespeare play and more momentum than a Barack Obama presidential campaign. Every personality in every song is skillfully fleshed out in the space of a few bars, whether from the first- or third-person perspective. The line...
...producing dozens of popular albums, Boyd went on to become head of music for Warner Brothers Films, organizing the scoring of “Deliverance,” “A Clockwork Orange,” and “McCabe and Mrs. Miller.” His latest project is a book detailing the early days of his career, called “White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s,” which opens with Dick Clark taking the helm of a show called “American Bandstand.”“We hated...
...long love of the craft has led her to her latest venture, a partnership between Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and the sewing machine company SVP Worldwide, which Stewart announced on April 3 in New York City. Stewart will endorse SVP's Singer, Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff lines of sewing machines--the first time she has endorsed a product without the Martha brand. Why is she flogging another company's goods? "I learned to sew on a Singer machine," she says, adding that she still has a 1901 Singer in working condition. And this was a rare moment when Stewart didn...
Earlier this year, Takoma Park, Md., A suburb of Washington with a liberal tilt, held a special election to fill a vacant city-council seat. It was the town's latest contest under a 1992 law that allows any adult resident--including noncitizens--to vote for local offices. And since the election occurred at an odd time of year, officials took extra steps to get the word out. They mailed a notice, in Spanish and English, to every home. They sent a second notice to every registered voter. Yet when Election Day came, turnout was light, especially among noncitizens...