Music
Despite the band’s obvious affinity for alcohol, there’s nothing sloppy about OTP. They’re a tight unit.
A pithy critical consideration of new releases from Flaming Lips, The Frights, Mind Spiders, Radioactivity, Ólöf Arnalds, Lee Bannon, Armand Hammer, and Haunted Horses.
Charles Dutoit, one of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s favorite guest conductors, drew playing of high energy and vivid color.
This is a movie that one Stone Roses fan made for other Stone Roses fans to enjoy. There’s nothing wrong with that though, and judged in this way, it’s a winner.
No pianist in his right mind is going to repeat this program. András Schiff had privileged us with a gift that only he could give.
So is the book worth reading? Depends how interested you are in twentieth century cultural history, in music and creative genius, in marriage and sexuality.
Lou Reed has left us, but the truths he took pains to show us about ourselves and our society – much as we try to cover them up – remain.
As those of you who have already heard “Reflektor” no doubt know, the album is fantastic, one of the best of the year for sure, whether the Grammys take notice or not.
Ralph Alessi’s compositions are flexible rather than tightly organized, yet their initial statements are strong enough to dominate even the freest group improvisations that follow.
The slow tempos on the whole didn’t hurt the show. People were there to hear Madeleine Peryoux — her voice and delivery, her offbeat arrangements and particular idiosyncratic take on familiar songs.
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