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...Thermals are just as fun to see live as they are to hear. Charismatic lead singer and songwriter Hutch Harris bounced like a pro and lent the band’s deliciously raw sound its greatest asset: his full, sassy and confident voice...
...immediately recalls the lush chamber-pop of Belle & Sebastian, the Set’s touring partners from last spring. That band’s Sixties-tinged aesthetic is favored over the crunchy noise-pop that filled the Aislers Set’s first two albums, and much of lead singer Amy Linton’s previous career with Henry’s Dress...
...humor, and share a love for period dramas. “We hang out a lot—almost everyday,” Keel says. They point to a wall above their fireplace mantle, which features a collection of sacred Catholic images juxtaposed with an image of pop singer Madonna in a leather dominatrix ensemble, from the cover of her “Justify My Love” video. The wall embodies the essence of their relationship—one in which personal connections and similarities enable political differences to coexist...
...seemingly an impossible dream. A year earlier Warner Bros. had released the first (partial) talkie, The Jazz Singer, and the movie biz was in a tizzy. The Al Jolson movie was awful, but the man sang and spoke. A long-sought miracle had arrived. Unfortunately, the camera, heavily blimped to prevent its whirrings from being recorded, was immobilized. Movies could talk but could no longer move gracefully...
...only an audition. That's why there were no drums, no backup singers and no expectations. Sam Phillips had heard about a good-looking local kid who favored ballads, knew a few guitar chords and was blessed with the ostentatiously original name Elvis Presley. In his search for a new sound, Phillips had run nearly every singer in Memphis through his Sun Records studio; on that Monday summer evening, Elvis, 19, was merely next in line...