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(12/06/05 6:00am)
Kate Bush is the rare artist whose music sounds entirely
otherworldly, but somehow does not push forward the boundaries of
rock music. This is through no failing on her part: Bush's music is
so idiosyncratic that it is impossible to even think of another
artist who can incorporate her styles and ideas into their own
work.
(12/01/05 6:00am)
Q: With projects due and finals around the corner, I was
wondering if all these caffeinated beverages are really safe to
drink, and if so how much?
(11/17/05 6:00am)
Stevie Wonder's latest album, A Time to Love, is not the
comeback much of the music press has been trumpeting it as. But
when one takes into account the schmaltz Wonder has been releasing
for the past twenty years, and the consistent brilliance he
maintained throughout the entirety of the seventies, it is
understandable that people are getting excited about a Stevie
Wonder album that at least has some grit to it.
(11/08/05 6:00am)
'2046,' the latest film from Chinese author Wong Kar-Wai, is
intricately woven, gorgeously filmed, and innovatively structured.
Unfortunately, it leads its audience not to care about anything
happening onscreen. Worse yet, this film could have been brilliant
had Kar-Wai not prevented a little thing called 'humanity' from
even making a guest appearance in this oftentimes suffocating
intellectual endeavor.
(10/27/05 6:00am)
Many people have the idea that when it comes to plays, you
either engulf yourself in the world of theater or go to plays only
when you need a classy place to take the significant other on an
anniversary.
(10/06/05 6:00am)
Though nobody knew it at the time-and too few know it now-Big
Star was one of the greatest groups of the '70s, yet remains the
least appreciated band whose influence can truly be considered
incalculable. They gave an indifferent public three albums that
prove nirvana can be reached at 45 rpm, and in the process, created
power pop-a mix of crunchy guitars and Beatle-esque pop-that Cheap
Trick and the Knack would later make money off of. Their influence
extends well into the contemporary indie rock scene, so much that
the existence of The Shins, Teenage Fanclub or The Posies would be
inconceivable without Big Star.
(10/05/05 6:00am)
Badgers junior forward Robbie Earl certainly has the talent. The
Toronto Maple Leafs acknowledged that fact when they used a
sixth-round selection on the junior forward in the 2004 NHL Entry
Draft. Those who frequented the Kohl Center on Friday and Saturday
evenings last season were witness to it, a work ethic and prowess
on the ice that gave him the label of \fan favorite.""
(09/13/05 6:00am)
Paul McCartney has just released one of the best albums of his
solo career-but in LL Cool J's words, \Don't call it a
comeback.""
(09/12/05 6:00am)
It seems unbelievable now, but only a year and a half ago, Kanye
West was merely one of hip-hop's best and most wanted producers.
His breakthrough debut album The College Dropout changed all that,
turning the focus from Kanye the producer to Kanye the witty,
versatile emcee.
(09/08/05 6:00am)
In 1969, rock's musical elite were interested in things like
expanding popular music to its furthest horizons, penning surreal
lyrics and having a social conscience.
(04/20/05 6:00am)
If it has been a long time since you have been hideously
offended or a long time since you've heard a rock album that's a
straight-up thrill to listen to, then the answer to your problems
has arrived in the form of Louis XIV's major label debut LP, The
Best Little Secrets Are Kept.
(03/31/05 6:00am)
A music genre is in dire straits when the best album it has to
boast in recent memory can be best described as 'a very solid
album.' Well, for some time now, heavy metal has been that genre,
and Lullabies to Paralyze, the new album from alt-metal stalwarts
Queens of the Stone Age, is that very solid album.
(03/02/05 6:00am)
Only an artist of rare talent can wear his influences clearly on
his sleeve and have the self-assurance to duet with a number of
them on his group's sophomore record.
(02/07/05 6:00am)
Sweet relief comes to Madison for the throngs of teenagers
bemoaning the fact that the creative age of classic rock
essentially came to an end with the '70s. For every guy with sort
of long hair who would, in a moment, trade in his collection of Led
Zeppelin T-shirts for the opportunity to travel back in time and
see them in concert, that sweet relief comes tonight in the form of
a Dallas-based band called The Secret Machines.
(02/04/05 6:00am)
(01/26/05 6:00am)
There is a brilliant line in the not-so-brilliant Cameron Crowe
film \Vanilla Sky"" where Jason Lee's character informs his best
friend, Tom Cruise, that he ""will never know the exquisite pain of
the guy who goes home alone"" right after Cruise steals the woman
of Lee's dreams.
(01/20/05 6:00am)
While \Beyond the Sea,"" a biopic about singer Bobby Darin,
directed, starring, co-written and co-produced by Kevin Spacey, may
not be a great movie, or really even worth seeing unless you are a
fan of Spacey or Darin, it certainly is a movie.
(12/02/04 6:00am)
While critics and audiences everywhere are busy declaring
Disney-Pixar's latest computer animated film \The Incredibles"" a
modern classic, feasting their eyes upon its eye-popping spectacle
and warming their hearts with its themes of white suburban family
togetherness, I will be the first one to stand up and denounce
Disney for not following through with the kind of children's fare
it has been providing our country for decades. ""The Incredibles""'
message of the family as a team is a distraction from the fact that
this film is not following through on the real promise and function
of a Disney children's movie: to provide children with harsh and
traumatizing real life lessons.
(10/19/04 6:00am)
Drivers may have noticed that some gas stations offer gasoline
that is 10 percent ethanol, which is an organic compound derived
from corn. In a few years scientists hope to offer fuels that are
completely derived from such renewable sources. That research is
being spearheaded by UW scientists whose studies of so-called
biofuels may lead to environmentally friendly options that decrease
our dependency on foreign oil.
(09/23/04 6:00am)
In 1970, The Band, Janis Joplin, the Buddy Guy Blues Band, the
Grateful Dead, the Flying Burrito Brothers and a mess of other
sixties counterculture favorites loaded up a train with their
instruments, loaded up their bodies with booze and hallucinogenics,
and embarked upon a cross-Canadian tour dubbed \The Festival
Express."" The tour bombed commercially, largely due to massive
protests that met the tour at most of its stops: Canadian hippie
teenagers were not pleased with the then unheard of price of
sixteen dollars a ticket and showed their displeasure by ruining
the tour. The often violent demonstrations cost the tour so much
bad publicity that even the imposing star power of its lineup
couldn't draw in enough people to prevent the tour from losing
money.