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Slate Magazine - Music Box - Sep 23, 2008
Here we are eight years into a new century, high time to start looking back at the last century and asking what the hell that was about. Critic Alex Ross, in his best-selling book The Rest Is Noise, takes a long, hard …
Slate Magazine - Music Box - Sep 16, 2008
If opinion polls are to be believed, the French are still ambivalent about their first lady, Carla Bruni. Bruni, of course, is a former supermodel and current multimillion-album-selling singer-songwriter, but she is …
Slate Magazine - Music Box - Sep 9, 2008
Country music has a Mr. Nice Guy problem: There are too many of them. Consider the country A-list: Kenny Chesney, Alan Jackson, George Strait, Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley. They all make fine records. (Jackson and Paisley …
Slate Magazine - Music Box - Sep 2, 2008
Post-racial may be the new black, but race humor is as perilous as it ever was. This summer, satirists—from second-time offender Don Imus to The New Yorker's Barry Blitt—have found being funny on race hard to do. The …
Slate Magazine - Music Box - Jul 29, 2008
First, a confession. In the 1970s, I got familiar with a recording of avant-garde composer György Ligeti's Adventures and New Adventures for a small group of instruments and "singers" but had to wait 10 years and hear …
Slate Magazine - Jul 29, 2008
First, a confession. In the 1970s, I got familiar with a recording of avant-garde composer György Ligeti's Adventures and New Adventures for a small group of instruments and "singers" but had to wait 10 years and hear …
Slate Magazine - Jul 18, 2008
Jay-Z knows how to handle himself in a rap feud; he's triumphed in battles with some of hip-hop's sharpest tongues. But this spring, he was presented with an unfamiliar sort of antagonist. In an interview, Oasis' Noel …
Slate Magazine - Music Box - Jun 23, 2008
There are things we can and cannot say in public, and we generally accept this without worry or serious regard. Hate speech, for example, is self-evidently bad: Its injury can be violent, sloppy, and incommensurably …
Slate Magazine - Music Box - Jun 16, 2008
Close listeners will notice something strange about "Violet Hill," the new Coldplay single: It isn't a Coldplay single. That term, after all, implies certain things about the shape a song will take, what it will sound …
Slate Magazine - Mar 11, 2008
Fifty years ago, Link Wray's "Rumble," a snarling instrumental, was banned by radio stations because programmers worried that the song's grinding distortion would incite teenage audiences to West Side Story-esque …