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...transformed from floor-stomping fiddler into a mega-orchestral artist for the ages. Yet some aspects of “Armchair Apocrypha” aren’t improvements over Bird’s earlier work. The album seems to aspire to the grand populism of arena rock, but it loses the catchy hooks and grab-your-head lyrics that popped out of “Mysterious Production.” For example, even though the song “Dark Matter” begins with whistling that’s Bird-ish, it bursts into guitar crescendos and epic...

Author: By Elsa S. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Andrew Bird | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...Maniacs, may have been 20 minutes late for his “Learning from Performers” talk, but he entered the music industry at just the right moment. When he spoke to about a dozen undergraduates on April 4, Boyd recounted his experiences as a rock and roll producer working in the heady ’60s.“I apologize, not for being late, but for being born when I was,” says Boyd, referring to the good fortune which allowed him to become a producer during a revolutionary musical era.“People...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Producer Reveals His Secrets | 4/13/2007 | See Source »

...have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy. The nerd now is the Bush Administration--supporting, anti-intellectual dumb ass." Whether that's true or not, it's clear the once desirable macho-jock type hasn't got such pull. There's a reason the Rock and Vin Diesel haven't filled the gap left by Schwarzenegger and Stallone: nobody minds the gap. And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Mr. Adorkable | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...characters in B.C., the Stone Age comic strip created in 1958 by Johnny Hart, made readers laugh by pondering naively the wonders of fire, stone and the wheel. (A prehistoric dictionary defines rock as "to cause something to swing or sway--by hitting them with it!") More controversial were the religious panels Hart occasionally drew after he converted to evangelical Christianity. A 2001 Easter strip of a menorah slowly transforming into a cross led several newspapers, including the Los Angeles Times, to drop B.C. Hart, who told a reporter that "Jews and Muslims who don't accept Jesus will burn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 23, 2007 | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...know the worst thing about niggas? Niggas always want credit for some s__ they supposed to do. A nigga'll brag about some s___a normal man just does." CHRIS ROCK, in his HBO special Bring the Pain AFTERMATH: None. OUTRAGE FACTOR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What I Meant Was ... | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

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