Kid mixed the Detroit hip-hop culture with blue-collar rock, speed metal and twangy country guitars and he came up with a winning combination culminating in a Grammy nomination for "Devil With a Cause".
When Sparklehorse occasionally revs itself up to punk-rock speed, it's less a release than an argument Mr. Linkous may be having with himself: "It's not so hard," he sang, "to trap the dead dogs of summer assaulting your slumber".
Songs from their new album, "Lust Lust Lust" (Vice), offered a little diversity — slowing down for a dirge, turning to folk-rock, speeding up — but the reverb kept everything coherent.
So I broke away to hear Iggy and the Stooges, reuniting Iggy Pop with the guitarist James Williamson, gleefully cackling and hammering through the live premieres of songs from their album due in April, "Ready to Die," with titles like "Burn," "Dirty Deal" and "Sex and Money," which rev up to garage-rock speeds.
Maybe the mamaRoo didn't bounce quickly enough for Khalil; its fastest setting seems a bit slower than my own arm-rocking speed, and Khalil seems slightly happier in a traditional baby swing, which rocks much faster than the mamaRoo.
Cashpoints, celebrity chefs, estate agentese, Ikea, magicians, rock musicals, speed bumps, theme pubs and Virgin trains are just some of the targets for Grumpy Old Men (HarperCollins £9.99), hitching its wagon to television's Room 101 and an unrelated series of the same name.
These range from classic rock to speed metal.
A few days later, she nailed "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree" at lightning speed.
Part of the fun is to pick up the speed and look like you're really rocking your dance moves.
