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“Don’t worry, we’re in no hurry.” The music world’s most famous slackers were in such a non-hurry that they had to cut two songs written on their set list but that didn’t stop Wednesday’s show from being a spectacular success. Not too many bands do ...
The joke inherent in Wilco’s new record Ode to Joy – the band’s eleventh full length – is that it’s actually kind of a downer. The Chicagoan collective who perpetually straddle the lines of indie, art-rock and alt-country have never been the cheeriest band to begin with ...
Looking backwards over two decades can be a belly-gazing exercise in self-indulgence, but the Mezzanine XXI tour succeeded on nearly every level. The pioneering trip-hop record from Massive Attack was gussied up for tours of Europe and North America, with this stop being rescheduled when the entire ...
"He’s very particular about what he likes. If you do something even a little bit differently he’ll get really mad; he wants each audience to get the same performance."
You don’t get a lot of chances to see people who caused seismic shifts in the areas of their expertise, who were disruptive and propelled the evolution of music forms in completely new directions. The Beatles, Dylan, Sabbath, Chuck Berry, The Velvets, etc… all made their mark personally ...
