But the alt-rock elements were no mere affectation or sonic window dressing – hearing Rodrigo wail “Each time I step outside/ It’s social suicide” over gnawing Nirvana chords during “Ballad of a Homeschooled Girl” felt as genuinely and awesomely ‘90s as anything the D...
The grandiose gift that is the Grateful Dead is alive and well on the Phil Lesh and Friends 2001:A Summer Odyssey Tour, evidenced by the two positively explosive events this weekend. After wallowing in a sea of post-Dead incarnations and a fog of “what now” philosophizing, the road is ...
New Orleans treasures hyperlocal folk heroes: Soulja Slim, the king of the street rappers before the storm, shot at least three times in the face and once in the chest, dead in his black Reeboks; Trombone Shorty, who closed out this year's Jazz Fest instead of Elton John or Lenny Krav...
Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things—some celebrated but more often men and women obscure in their labor, who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom. Time and again these men and women struggled and sacrificed and worked ti...
and lace my feet with the gospel of peace. Double knot the chords of Your love for me, Lord, that I walk in Your perfect peace. Tuck away any loose ends of my misunderstandings of Your peace. I want to move in Your peace as well as live out the peace that You bring me. I know...
“Later in college was when I switched to classical guitar. That really opened my eyes to a whole different approach – melody, chords and bass all together. “It progressed from there and evolved into the fingerstyle stuff I do now. Without classical training, I wouldn’t have the versatili...
s pre-mixed. And with Arnel sounding so perfect in the mix, we can do what the Grateful Dead have been doing for years. We need to build up our website more, put some money into that, and start giving people live streams.” As long as we mix up the shows, I see us going in ...
But, with the clock ticking and Jones breathing down their neck - “We needed a demo of the song like yesterday” - it fell to Richie to break the back of the task. Richie brought over a tape of the song’s We Are The World chorus and chords with Jackson’s ideas becoming the ...
“Oh, thank you so much for this wonderful gift, Mommy!” or “I am so happy that you were able to get this gift for me, Daddy! I will always treasure it!” What if they just opened it and said nothing, perhaps running out of the room to play with it and never said a word ...
‘n’ Roll) featured three definitive cover tunes. The title track she made completely her own, turning it into a worldwide #1 single. Another breakout performance was on Tommy James’ “Crimson and Clover,” where her breathy, come-hither vocal memorably mixed with crunching power chords. ...