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...characters in his songs and turn them into universal themes. With Folds’s manic pounding on the baby grand and Sledge’s prominent bass-playing, BFF quickly became a cult favorite. The highlight of their debut release was the wildly sarcastic “Underground,” a parody of the very underground rock scene they emerged from with lines like: “You been kicked around? / Did life bring you down here? / Everything’s heavy underground / We can be happy / We can be happy / We can be happy underground...
...difficulty in reviewing a group hailed as “the saviors of rock and roll” by NME and the heirs to the Velvet Underground by almost every major music publication is separating the band’s hype from the sounds they emanate. The Strokes’ full-length album, Is This It, has yet to hit stores (the release date is Oct. 9), but the five New York city college dropouts are being given the proverbial jock ride by the press...
...ripped through the set of pop-punk delights including crowd favorites “Last Nite,” “Someday” and “Hard to Explain.” To describe the music, of course, there are the already clichéd Velvet Underground comparisons, but I maintain that they sound like a darker, dirtier, more anxious and volatile version of Weezer. They have precise, sonically taut arrangements with undertones of straight-up 50s rock ‘n roll. Or think of it this way: If Rivers Cuomo is the guy you would...
...Welcome to the world of hawala, an international underground banking system that allows money to show up in the bank accounts or pockets of men like hijacker Mohammed Atta, without leaving any paper trail. There are no contracts, bank statements or transaction records, and yet those who use the hawala networks can move thousands of dollars around the world in a matter of hours...
...wasn’t exactly legal. “I was in New York and I played in underground clubs, because there’s no legal gambling in New York,” he says. “I loved it—it was like home.” That home was in Chelsea. He would buzz at an ordinary-looking black door, and then he would be admitted into a waiting area with video cameras, which would scan the area for police. If there were no cops, he would enter into a room with about eight poker...