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Tuesday, August 14, 2007 |
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MUSIC REVIEW: `High School Musical 2'
Original Cast Recording, "High School Musical 2" (Disney)
You don't have to worry about "Breaking Free" from the "Start of Something New" because the "High School Musical 2" soundtrack will "Get'cha Head in the Game" and, if history serves, "Bop to the Top."
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MUSIC REVIEW: Zap Mama's `Supermoon'
Zap Mama, "Supermoon" (Heads Up International)
Zap Mama is constantly exploring new identities. What started as an all-female a cappella project evolved through various personnel changes and Grammy nominations to include instrumental arrangements and more mainstream pop sensibilities and now is distilled to a one-woman collage of global sound produced by Congo-born and Belgium-bred vocalist Marie Daulne.
MUSIC REVIEW: Lori McKenna's `Unglamorous'
Lori McKenna, "Unglamorous" (Stylesonic/Warner Bros.)
With "Unglamorous," Lori McKenna steps beyond the acoustic settings of her singer-songwriter past for a more dynamic sound better suited to arenas than coffeehouses. The good news is that the best aspects of her songs and her voice make the transition; this is outstanding contemporary country music presented with a storyteller's eye for nuance and detail.
Luxury palooza!
For the approximately 150,000 fans pressed into Grant Park last weekend, Lollapalooza wasn't just a music festival – it was a full-contact endurance test. The temperatures soared on Friday, and the rain swept in on Saturday. The crowds were large; the lines were long.
But on a small hill overlooking the AT&T stage, a few lucky concertgoers stretched out on white couches and reclining beach chairs, sheltered from the sun and rain by umbrellas. They dined on catered food and drinks, provided by a restaurant downtown. The service was complimentary.
Gogol Bordello: A multicultural musical melee
Everyone in the crowd at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza is hot but happy, arms draped around friends – and strangers. As the beat blares, they jump in unison. It's a scene one expects to see at a Pearl Jam show rather than a concert where two of the foremost instruments are an accordion and a violin. But Gogol Bordello, a gypsy-punk outfit that has improbably become something of an It Band, takes pride in stirring up some of the craziest live shows on earth.
On stage, accordion, violin, drums, bass, and electric guitar create a high-speed punk symphony, while two masked go-go girls run around playing on washboards, drums, and fire buckets. Above the fray, Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hütz – hard to miss in tight purple pants and pointy blue shoes – strums his guitar, dances, and sings lines such as, "There were never any good old days/ They are today, they are tomorrow."
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