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...Troubadour Club, heckling an Israeli woman’s performance. “Now there’s something you don’t see every day—a Jewish folk singer,” he joked with his Gentile buddies just before crashing the musician??s set (casually concealing the fact that he himself was just such an oddity). With this potent blend of self-deprecation and arrogance, Dylan has managed to keep us laughing at his jokes without quite grasping the crux of the punchline for decades, making his latest musical endeavor, an album...
...change in philosophy, and until “Together Through Life,” that fact was easy to forget. After two albums consisting entirely of folk covers on acoustic guitar, “Time Out of Mind” saw Dylan stepping away from a bare musician??s role and toward a more auteristic philosophy, prompted by Daniel Lanois’ production. The arrangements on that album were lush and spacious, propelled by lively performances from seasoned studio musicians—his tightest band since the mid-70s. Dylan produced the three albums that followed...
...Deacon, should come with a Surgeon General’s Warning. Deacon’s noisy arrangements are sure to cause headaches, blow out eardrums, and send true indie-electronic fans into a blissful state of sensory overload. This bundle of noise is, surprisingly, the Baltimore-based musician??s most accessible album to date. After six years and numerous independently-released records, Deacon appears to have realized that a few tracks with vocals and clear pop melodies can increase an album’s popularity—even hipsters enjoy the occasional sing-along session. Like Deacon?...
...dual degree program, the sophomore attends both Harvard and the New England Conservatory (NEC). He plans to earn both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Music in five years. In between classes, papers, and problem sets are lessons, concerts, and—the mainstay of any serious musician??hours upon hours of daily practice...
...that Rise Against has no qualms about mixing their two passions, music and politics. The beginning of the selected Picasso quote reads, “What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who only has eyes, if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician??” Rise Against feels that in order to be responsible, the artist must be socially aware. But in the case of a band this fiercely progressive, one wonders whether the music is revolutionary enough to be an adequate vehicle for the message. Rise Against...