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While the lead singer is emoting, or not, the band is grooving with a ruthless efficiency. Is This It was criticized for mining riffs from Television, the Velvet Underground and Iggy Pop, and there's no ignoring the influences when drummer Fabrizio Moretti (also known as Drew Barrymore's boyfriend; I told you there were many reasons to hate these guys) bangs out a snare fill that would make the Zeppelins' John Bonham bolt upright in his grave. But the Strokes don't agonize over their influences; they synthesize them. And songs like 12:51 and Between Love & Hate...
...like boxes," says Daniel Bedingfield. "Human, male, heterosexual, Christian - stop there." But people don't, especially with the 23-year-old singer's music. Though his debut album Gotta Get Thru This sprawls from garage to pop to rock, it's the syrupy ballads that stick in the minds of critics. Lyrics like "If you're not the one, then why does my hand fit yours this way?" have won him a label he loathes: "cheesy pop star." Certainly the star part is true. Gotta Get Thru This has racked up 1.8 million in sales since its debut 15 months...
When you hear the term “gay TV,” what comes to mind? Let me guess, you pop culture aficionado, you: gay TV emerged in 1997 with Ellen’s airport confession to Laura Dern. Since then, Jack McFarland has danced into our hearts with his delicious rendition of “Oops… I Did it Again,” and the Fab 5 have revealed the inner beauty of dozens of hapless heteros (you’d find it under those dead skin cells, boys, if you only exfoliated). Right...
Condo is a seasoned artist and painter in the New York art world, known for imaginative portraits inspired by themes taken from such diverse styles as Surrealism, Pop Art, Baroque and Renaissance art. He comes to Harvard with both an exhibition and a surprise: he will be teaching a course in the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department in the spring...
...works have been collected by such prestigious institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Condo’s work is not limited to painting—in the past he had shown a series of Pop Art inspired silkscreens at Pace Wildenstein, and has an ongoing exhibit at the Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Switzerland of some thirty gilt-bronze portraits of semi-mythical figures...