Sentences with phrase «as any rock critic»

As any rock critic knows, the very notion of analyzing the stuff is a direct violation of the message of the music itself.

Not exact matches

A slight change of plans here — I had wanted to talk about this recent Conor Friedersdorf piece about the lack of conservative rap critics as part of a three - part essay called «Paradoxes of Conservative Pop - Culture Studies,» but I realized that to really to do that, I would have to talk about rap more than a bit, indeed, enough to demand a Rock Songbook post or two.

But maybe now those critics will have to change their tune as the Frenchman appears to have been as solid as a rock when it comes to Hector Bellerin.

With her role as the epnoymous character in Frida (2002), Hayek disappeared into her subject so convincingly that not only would she return to the good graces of critics, but earn an Oscar nomination as well.Hayek would spend the coming years enjoying superstar status with everything from comedic turns on sitcoms like Ugly Betty (which she produced) and 30 Rock, to meaty roles in dramatic thrillers like Savages.

Select highlights of her stage career include performances as Lucia in WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Mrs. Lovett in John Doyle's production of SWEENEY TODD (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations); Maria Callas in MASTER CLASS; Reno Sweeney in ANYTHING GOES (Drama Desk Award; Tony Award nomination); Moll in THE CRADLE WILL ROCK; Nancy in OLIVER!

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Semiautobiographical Willie links up with the fictional Stillwater because real - life rock critic Lester Bangs (Crowe's mentor as well as Willie's, beautifully and hilariously played by Philip Seymour Hoffman) assigns him a piece for Creem about the real - life band Black Sabbath.

This is the most personal of Cameron Crowe's films (director of JERRY MAGUIRE, SINGLES and SAY ANYTHING) because it's inspired by some personal experiences he had as a young aspiring rock critic while following The Allman Brothers back in the early 70s.

At Car and Driver, one critic noted, «A short drive along the California coast proved that the reasons to choose an e-Golf are the same as the reasons to choose any Golf: access to VW family values, including a rock - solid platform, excellent dynamics (improved, actually, with a lower center of gravity due to the battery mounting below the floor), and fastidious interior packaging.»

In 1971, the great rock critic Lester Bangs famously denounced James» Taylor's music (in the essay, «James Taylor Marked for Death») as «I - Rock, because it is so relentlessly, involutedly egocentric,» making Bangs want to push Taylor (and Elton John) off a clrock critic Lester Bangs famously denounced James» Taylor's music (in the essay, «James Taylor Marked for Death») as «I - Rock, because it is so relentlessly, involutedly egocentric,» making Bangs want to push Taylor (and Elton John) off a clRock, because it is so relentlessly, involutedly egocentric,» making Bangs want to push Taylor (and Elton John) off a cliff.

«Confrontational Clay: The Artist as Social Critic,» organized by Exhibits USA; traveled to University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL; The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT; Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH, 2000 - 2001.

His notable works include Double Negative (1969 - 70), a pair of trenches in the desert near Overton, Nevada, created by displacing 240,000 tons of rock, and City, an ongoing project in Lincoln County, Nevada, described by critic Michael Kimmelman as «a suite of giant, variously shaped abstract sculptures over an area that covers more than a mile end to end — modern art turned into monumental abstract architecture, with ancient ruins as the model.»

Reed was a founding member of the band The Velvet Underground, whose album The Velvet Underground & Nico is considered by critics as one of the most influential rock albums of all time.