The whole thing of rock is that it's emotional and it's direct – that's its strength.
Considered out of context, they are unimpressive things, crude chunks of rock shaped into marginally useful objects.
There's no way the thing's made of rock.
It mingles the standard four-on-the-floor beat and synthesizer pulses of trance with all sorts of things: rock guitar, quasiclassical piano, Middle Eastern melodies.
K-Dot opened up a space for rap to do that, or at least reminded folks of the sorts of things Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth used to do with the art form.
Shakur's staggering posthumous release schedule exists for the same reason that most things in the world of rock and pop exist - because there is a market for it.
Instead, Ms. Arnold, a rock critic whose previous books include "Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana" (1993), hijacks Ms. Phair's album and, like a late-night disc jockey adrift on a pirate radio barge, uses it as a platform to rap about a dozen other things, including the death of rock criticism, the end of a certain crucial indie sensibility and third-wave feminism.
(Petrusich)20100527 SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN (Saturday) Improvisation means lots of things in rock, but to this Massachusetts collective, which has been churning out dozens of albums and homemade recordings since the mid-'90s, it means spacey, meandering drones that seem like endless psychedelic trips.
The icon was back out of the box as a marketing term, as former New York Times photography critic AD Coleman recalls: "Cultural journalists were bandying that term around in regard to all sorts of things: rock stars, fashion models, consumer goods, you name it.
"Mama, do you know what the easiest thing to make out of rock is?
