(Anderson) ★ The Breeders (Monday) The Pixies' reunion languishes without new material, but that band's bassist and frequent singer, Kim Deal, is reconvening the most commercially successful lineup of the Breeders, her other alt-rock act.
★ The Breeders (Friday) The Pixies' reunion languishes without new material, but the band's bassist and frequent singer, Kim Deal, reconvenes the most commercially successful lineup of the Breeders, her other alt-rock act.
It is most frequent in singers, announcers, and people who use their voices strenously and often.
Typical of the Ponderosa Stomp's thoroughness, the performers also included half a dozen of the era's frequent backup singers, among them Toni Wine, who wrote (with Carole Bayer Sager) "A Groovy Kind of Love," and sang it solo at an electric keyboard with elfin affection.
Singer Chrisette Michele will perform at one of the president-elect's celebratory balls, yet frequent collaborator, Gospel singer Jonathan McReynolds, has decided to forgo Friday's ceremony.
Roni Ben-Hur Quartet (Friday and Saturday) Roni Ben-Hur, a guitarist fluent in both modern jazz and various forms of Brazilian music, leads a quartet that features his wife and frequent collaborator, the singer Amy London.
At Puckfair, a bar across the street from Bowie's apartment and frequented by the singer, the barman played a string of his hits – Jean Genie, Let's Dance and Heroes.
"I think he was competing with Springsteen, Sharon Robinsonn, a singer and frequent co-writer, joked about the length of the shows.
Restarting the Seattle grunge band Alice in Chains after the death in 2002 of its lead singer and frequent lyricist, Layne Staley, was a matter of delicate positioning.
Backed by a pair of drummers and by Mariee Sioux, an occasional backup singer and frequent dog-petter who sat in the middle of the stage, Nathan Shineywater and Rachael Hughes built a series of evolving grooves: basic chord progressions from her keyboard; simple, woozy lines from his slide guitar; shuffling rhythms underneath.
The show will be recorded in front of a live studio audience and incorporate the "Supermodel (You Better Work)" singer's frequent collaborator Michelle Visage.
