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...There is no doubt that the BSO had the power to fill Symphony Hall with its rich sounds, but their full potential was not reached. The concluding fugue closed on a clean note that left the listener??s thirst for an impassioned performance unquenched...
...spoke at the Harvard Law School yesterday afternoon. Fans of the site range from your run- of-the-mill indie-loving college students to their Johnny Mathis-loving grandmas. Using a complex algorithm created by the Music Genome Project, a company Westergren helped found earlier, Pandora takes a listener??s favorite song or artist and recommends similar music based on a series of factors present in that song or artist’s catalogue. “[Pandora] replicates your best friend, but with almost perfect knowledge of an enormous catalogue of music,” Westergren said...
...much timeless as they defy definition after a single listen. A mixtape is simultaneously a record of the maker’s mood at the time, a sum or product of the totality of their experiences up until creation, and a continually moving barometer of the listener??s musical breadth. Finding the totality of what music has to offer, as with any art, is about discovering connections, following them to their end, and then making more.An Essential Mix from almost a decade ago by David Holmes led me to explore the artists that influenced and provided the tracks...
...Tropical Island,” coupling stereotypically lilting island music with lyrics like “Ring-ding, another one dies / Watching posers scandalize / Trading off their panty lines one day.” Abruptly, “Cannot Get Sicker” yanks the listener??s frame of reference in the direction of woozy jazz, only to divert him again with “That Sounds like a Pony,” a song with John McCrea-like monotone speech-song and the added curiosity of movie-soundtrack strings. “Morning After Midnight?...
...have to admire a rock band that tries to push the envelope and makes their own social and political statements, the patently offensive track titles are over the top and produce a clichéd effect. The band tries, as it claims in the first track, to read the listener??s mind—but only the darkest, most painful, and most secret recesses of it. Take the track “Monkey Powder,” most memorable for its grating, repetitive electric guitar and use of bass chords over a monotonous drum beat. This could seem...