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Return to Central starts out promisingly. “What You’re Afraid Of” is one of those perfect pop songs, with swirling synths and surprisingly warm vocals from singer Manda Rin building anticipation before the guitar crunch and insanely catchy chorus bust everything up in a climax of euphoria. Backed by cinematic strings, “The End Starts Today” is a positively grandiose affair, indicative of the major change Bis have undertaken. The raw immediacy of their past has been displaced by an apparent craving for a deeper sound—exemplified...
...this point (at least not in America), the Strokes have managed to bypass fame, fortune and selling out without collecting their $200 and have instead skipped straight to the requisite hedonism that accompanies rock ’n roll superstardom. In spite of their new-money pedigrees (lead singer Julian Casablancas’ father is the founder of the Elite model empire; guitarist Albert Hammond Jr.’s father wrote “It Never Rains in Southern California;” Casablancas, drummer Fabrizio Moretti and guitarist Nick Valensi all attended Dwight prep school in New York...
...this abandonment came with the concert’s climax during their best known single, “Crazy Game of Poker.” OAR’s ballad about losing it all in a poker game echoes not with regret but rebirth. Accompanying the loss, explained lead singer Mark Roberge during an prelude to the song, is the realization that although you can lose your home and lose your money, “you can never lose your soul...
...popularized the Fly, the Pony and the now legendary Hucklebuck.) "This is Nobel Prize territory," he insists. The quest came to him after an appearance on a sitcom. "A line in the script was 'I thought Chubby Checker was dead!'" he says. "It got me thinking." Problem is, the singer, aerobic-tape shaker and Chubby Checker's Beef Jerky maker hasn't even been inducted yet, let alone invited to be immortally smelted. The Hall, not afraid of big personalities, calls his demand "unreasonable...
...attended Sande Zeig’s The Girl at the Brattle last weekend. Praised at film festivals across the world, the movie involves themes of murder, romance, intrigue and lesbian lovin’. A mysterious woman referred to as The Painter falls in love with a nightclub singer known as The Girl. After a series of sexual encounters, The Girl tries to end the affair, but fails. Sexual encounters ensue...