Seventy-two years ago last week, the 33-1/3 long-playing vinyl record was invented. And while most music fans have moved on to streaming Bluetooth audio, MP3s and other digital music formats, LP sales are higher today than at any time in recent history.
The XX has won the 2010 Barclaycard Mercury Prize for its debut XX (Young Turks/XL Recordings).
The day began as you might expect it to.
Though it has been six years since Something Corporate released new music, the influential tunes haven’t escaped from fans’ hearts.
‘We wanted a track that represented where the album was going to be and how it was going to work,’ says bassist Phoenix Farrell.
John Vesely, the man behind the ballads of Secondhand Serenade, returns as the same emotive musician with the album Hear Me Now.
It began with a benign four-minute ferry ride through calm waters to a little-trafficked landmass in the Upper New York Bay, but Saturday night at The Beach on Governors Island proved to be anything but gentle.
Nearly half an hour had passed since the opening band left the stage, and the crowd at Northern Virginia’s State Theatre was getting restless.
New Politics ultimately sounds formulaic; it eventually lacks the initial pep that draws you into what this Danish band potentially has to offer. The songs are textbook from beginning to end; they are decent for what it’s worth, but there is no noticeable sheen in them. Many of the tracks, such as “Love is a Drug,†have their introductory moments of catchy beats or great bass lines, but that spark gradually fizzles.
Gary Coleman, the child star of the smash 1970s TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes” whose later career was marred by medical and legal problems, died Friday after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 42.
