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August 31, 2015 LHP Julio Urias assigned to Oklahoma City Dodgers from Tulsa Drillers. The Mets-Padres wild-card series is the one to watch -- with the winner facing the Dodgers in a colossal division series showdown. If you want to watch a good game, watch one with a Californian team as a participant (that’s not to say that there aren’t other great state sport teams out there). In the comics, Pym started out as scientist, then became Ant-Man, then used his size-changing powers to grow and become Giant-Man, later Goliath; finally, he suffered a mental breakdown and became Yellowjacket. The Vex made it into a machine world long ago, but then the Cabal took over to mine it for whatever technology and resources they could find. Natalie Merchant sings lines like, “The color of the sky is gray as I can see through the blinds / lift my head from the pillow and then fall again”, with deceptive vibrancy. Their second album’s roots run deep through their creative output to this point: The chords of b-side standout “Cameo” originally belonged to Hope Downs’ abandoned title track, while the chorus of closer “The Cool Change” first appeared in a song Tom Russo, White and Keaney performed in a previous band back in the 2000s. And from those roots, the band continues to grow, excelling at their characteristically propulsive rock while making room for more emotion-imbued softness and nuanced instrumentation to shine through, a natural progression that quietly slips an arm around the listener, rather than grabbing them by the lapels. 1 singles in a three-year span: “Heart of Glass”, “Call Me”, “Rapture”, and “The Tide Is High”. There are songs that hit the top of the singles chart in the UK or elsewhere in the world - the Boomtown Rats’ 1979 classic “I Don’t Like Mondays”, for example, the Jam’s “A Town Called Malice”, or David Bowie’s “Ashes to Ashes” - which had zero chance of ever becoming a mainstream hit in America. Although "Gremlins" has been a classic Christmas movie, because of its Christmas time setting, it was actually made in the summertime. It’s no wonder he titled his now classic sophomore record Lonerism: Those 12 songs document the internal anger, anxiety and social self-sabotage of a man who so badly wanted to be personable and in love, but was legitimately unable to even muster up the courage to talk to a woman he was interested in. He’s now wondering aloud about getting a home in Miami, going and getting married and tattooing her name on his arm (“Instant Destiny”) and thinking back on how he was feeling a year prior when he had no cares in the world (“One More Year”). Swimmer was borne from this heart wrenching period of time, a fitting name considering the sailing motif in Tennis’ discography (Cape Dory recounts their post-college sailing trip along the East Coast, and most of Yours Conditionally was written during their journey at sea from San Diego to the Sea of Cortez).

“God Is a Bullet” is a searing rocker, with Napolitano giving the song its heart and soul with her powerful and nuanced vocal, especially during the main hook, “God is a bullet, have mercy on us everyone! Johnette Napolitano is one of rock’s most under-appreciated vocalists, and she delivers a blistering performance on “God Is a Bullet”. Their half-hearted performance brought to mind the women in the background of Robert Palmer videos, who serve as ornamentation at best. But by the late 1980s, horsepower and performance were back in vogue. God informs further: "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel." Through Ezekiel, God promises to bring Israel back to their land. One of the most famous Bible verses is found in John 3:16. In it, the author explains exactly how much God loves his creation, so much so that he offers his own son to take away the sin of man. But how much do you know about the Bible? It’s hard to put your finger on it exactly, but you know it when you hear it. It’s not unusual for musicians to try updating their sound with outside influences and unexpected genres, but too often the experiment falls apart; the unfamiliar elements clang against the details that give the group character, like eating chocolate cake baked with carob. Marigold also follows Skylight’s tendencies to aim for a softer, more delicate, more intimate sound than anything on Cardinal. The album often resembles a reversion to her sparser early work and away from the cavernous jolts of her more recent output. “Just Got Lucky” is a joyous sing-along with a heavy back-beat, whirring organs, jolts of sax and exuberant piano that strongly echoes some of the soulful ravers of the Motown era. Instead of aiming to melt the brains of tens of thousands of twenty-somethings in a field on psychedelics (though this likely still will, let’s be honest), Parker instead turns his eye toward dancehalls, replacing fuzzy guitars and impressive percussion with bouncy piano and dance-y synths. A simple ascending guitar pattern opens the song, over the polyrhythmic percussion played by the band’s versatile drummer Jerry Augustyniak. Owning up to your misgivings is hard, but in this 2005 Black Eyed Peas song, that's what the protagonist does. Bartees Strange (the moniker of Washington DC-based musician Bartees Cox Jr.) gained instant critical acclaim with his debut EP, Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy, where he reimagined various songs of the National and was inspired by his experience of being a Black artist in a largely white indie rock scene. Houston is known for its diverse food scene and for being an affordable city in which to live. “You say there’s no stupid questions / Only stupid people / Well I’ve been feeling pretty foolish / Trying to get myself through this / And I’ve been watching too much TV / Looking up at the ceiling / It’s been making me feel creepy / I’m just trying to shake this feeling.” Even in our current era, which likes to pride itself on being more open to discussing mental health issues and eliminating the stigma therein, there is a lot of work to be done.

III‘s standout strengths is its discussion of mental health and illness, reflected best on “I’ve Been Down”, a somewhat sequel to “Now I’m In It”, as both explore Danielle’s experiences with depression. The quintet-which comprises singer-songwriter-guitarist trio Tom Russo, Joe White and Fran Keaney, plus bassist Joe Russo and drummer Marcel Tussie-arrived essentially fully formed with 2016’s Talk Tight, and have remained remarkably consistent since, from 2017 EP The French Press to their acclaimed full-length debut, 2018 standout Hope Downs. The word “indie” once strictly implied “independent,” meaning the release, be it a film or album or what have you, was put out without the money and resources that come along with a major label (your Atlantics, Columbias, etc.) or studio (Universal, Disney, Warner Bros….). He shot out of San Diego in college and immediately became an asset for the Cubs, where he helped the team win its first championship in like a million years.J. After quickly rising in the ranks to chief of the artillery, he first displayed his talent in architecture by designing fortifications and bridges. Hinds’ usual fuzzed-up rock aesthetic bridges the gap between The Prettiest Curse and I Don’t Run nicely. The deep multi-tracked vocals sung in a deadpan baritone exude a sense of menace, repeating “If you wanna ride, don’t ride the white horse” with the air of someone speaking from experience, and recommending instead to “ride the white pony”, evidently suggesting cocaine is preferable to heroin. Natalie Merchant’s glimmery vocals skate above the lean and insistent groove, with restrained organ, a lyrical bass, and bright lines of guitar. Tracy Tracy’s spritely vocals glide beautifully above the chugging guitars and locomotive drums. On “Blinking Light,” a synth-pop ballad that flows like a gentle stream, Rose describes circling the drain and leaving texts unread, and though the image of a neglectful Rose is bleak, the song’s slow glide toward her belting away her agony is equally somber and invigorating. Before that, we had punk, post-punk, new wave, college rock, underground, modern rock, and other more specific labels like goth, industrial, new romantic, ska, power pop, hardcore, indie rock, etc. All of these fit within the umbrella of what would be considered alternative. Beginning today and continuing all week, we present one critic’s best punk, post-punk, new wave, college rock, underground, modern rock, goth, industrial, new romantic, ska, power pop, hardcore, and indie rock of the ’80s. Some of these albums could easily find a home on other lists-pop, punk, or perhaps folk-but they also all fit here, under the indie rock umbrella. They finally find a spot in a stable, and Jesus is born in a dirty little manger. Near the city of Nain, Jesus had compassion for a widow whose only son had died. CM Punk left the Second City victorious on this one. Many of these songs fit into multiple categories and many that were left out for not being alternative could very easily be considered by others to fit into that label quite nicely.

Chad Green came in to pitch the seventh and struck out Carlos Beltran for the first out. The films are focused on his military career, focusing at first on the revolution in Cuba and in the second film, his failure and subsequent death in Bolivia. The Houston Oilers are now known as the Tennessee Titans, but they once featured a red and blue "tower" as their logo. https://penzu.com/p/f920bc5d It seems Hall realized yelps and screams don’t necessarily attract the most attention; he now recognizes that by being even more vulnerable than ever before, he’s capable of producing his finest songwriting yet. That being said, the location also has to be easy to get to. Of course the mass shootings get the headlines, but the problem is far deeper than that, with an astonishing 30,000 gun deaths in America every year. I would love that, yes. We're rich in love. As relationship songs go, “Just Got Lucky” captures love in its first bloom of excitement and promise - faces are still plastered with silly grins, flowers are delivered for no reason other than to say ‘I Love You’, and the inevitable disillusionment and complications of the real world have yet to seep in. Can you pick out which ones have gone through a metamorphosis? Grant that their latest, The Prettiest Curse, dropped in June out of sober respect for the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced a reschedule from its original April 3 date. That stylized artificiality has been an unspoken running theme in Bejar’s music as Destroyer, at least since Kaputt in 2011. He and bassist-producer John Collins (former bandmates in The New Pornographers) take it to the extreme on Destroyer’s latest, Have We Met, on which the only actual instruments are electric guitar and bass-and a whole lot of electronic accompaniment, including synthesizers, keyboards and beats. It’s an extremely calming album until it isn’t-the guitar and synth fury on “Faces” is life-affirming, the guitar solo in “Exile” is painfully emotive and its subsequent outro track creates blistering, ambient havoc. Musically it’s like a car barreling down the highway, mimicking the motion suggested in the chorus, with the sudden snarl guitar at the beginning suggesting the crash itself. While you're going through this quiz, try to picture yourself floating down the mighty Mississippi River on a sternwheeler or paddling a kayak along on the Colorado. She shakes and shimmies as a smarmy male singer, while bikini-clad babes dance behind her or unconvincingly “play” instruments. It became a popular dance hit, and for a while, it was a go-to tune for breakdancers showing off their Robot skills. But Leithauser has spent his entire career on its wavelength, and dedicates The Loves of Your Life to the people who make the metropolis what it is, bringing all of his skills (he plays most of the instruments on the album) to bear on rendering their stories in poignant detail.
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