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...spectacle of an American tank waiting patiently in the same "izdiham" as Iraqi cars is a reminder that Iraq is nominally occupied, and should therefore be neither anarchic nor chaotic. If the angry protests staged daily in front of the Palestine and Sheraton hotels where the media are staying are any indication, Iraqis are demanding their freedom from a brutal imperialist occupation - although clearly not sufficiently brutal to suppress the demonstrations themselves, which a mere month ago would have been greeted with machine gun fire...
...past few months, several drivers have made public appearances for their benefactors at military installations around the world. Over the New Year, Nadeau spent a week in Afghanistan and Kuwait, hanging out with the troops and even driving a tank. Shortly thereafter, a number of drivers accompanied team owner Richard Childress on a five-day tour of U.S. bases in Spain, Germany, Sicily and Bosnia. In March, Rudd visited Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base and, according to the Charleston Post and Courier, “got about as close as a civilian can get to an F/A-22...
...takes for Blur front man Damon Albarn to find the right sound - so be it. One man's ranting antic is another's creative ritual, and this one turns up as the rhythmic squeaking on the track Gene by Gene from the band's just-released seventh album, Think Tank. But it's also understandable that after 14 years, guitarist Graham Coxon finally decided he'd had enough of Albarn's calisthenics, and left the band in September last year, soon after work on the record began. The real reasons are unclear, although the band claims Coxon didn't show...
...where Oasis was lager louts, Blur was college boys. And these days, with the Gallagher brothers still playing to the Britpop nostalgia crowd - churning out new records stuck in Oasis' mid-'90s towering guitar rut - Blur has been quietly growing, developing its sound and self-confidence. And with Think Tank, the band has produced its most mature and accomplished album to date - with or without its resident guitar slinger. Despite the new breakthrough, Albarn says, "I don't mind if I'm still called Britpop. We are British and we are popular. It's actually quite an apt description...
...languid warmth to this record; the tracks feel like they were laid down in the midday sun. "Inevitably it seeps into the sound of the vocals," says Albarn. "It is a very elemental record, it is informed by the weather and environment it was made in." But Think Tank is more than a grown-up-rocker-discovers-Afropop indulgence. The production involvement of Norman Cook (Fat Boy Slim) and remix-master William Orbit was an inspired stroke, but their hand is light, quelling fears that this would be Blur's dance album. The opening track, Ambulance - which would sit easily...