Noise Live: Radiohead and Sigur Ros
Brooklyn Academy of Music
By Will Hermes 12.09.03 4:00 AM
"Percussion music is revolution," declared John Cage, the visionary composer and proto-DJ who was also choreographer Merce Cunningham's longtime companion and collaborator, in an essay about modern dance. "Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom."
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Too Clever By Half
With a running time of 700 minutes (give or take) and a budget of
By Diane Vadino 12.09.03 4:00 AM
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The Offspring, 'Splinter' (Columbia) ; blink-182, 'blink-182' (Geffen)
Pogoing all the way to the rest home.
By Andrew Beaujon 12.08.03 4:00 AM
California knows how to party. While straight-arrow East Coast punks were learning to suppress their gag reflexes while masticating Boca Burgers, their Golden State counterparts were doing beer bongs with hookers and pooping in audience members’ handbags. And ever since, it’s been fun, fun, fun till Arnie took the state house away.
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Pink, 'Try This' (Arista)
Pink sheds R&B roots, gets punk'd.
By Jon Caramanica 12.08.03 4:00 AM
Forget Luscious Jackson: Pink is America’s first proper Beastie Girl. The bootylicious Can’t Take Me Home (2000) was her Licensed to Ill, a gleefully race-traitorous debut that garnered props from fans on both sides of the color line.
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Band of the Year: Coldplay
On a cloudless October afternoon, Chris Martin stands on the
By Tracey Pepper 12.03.03 4:00 AM
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