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Revolve with the Fab Four
Kids are now busy dancing their nimble fingers across their mock guitars as "I Am the Walrus" plays on their new Beatles Rock Band video game.
Boomer parents, meanwhile, have their own excuse to get Beatlemania all over again: The entire Beatles catalog -- all 14 albums, in the British versions -- has been remastered and is in stores now.
If you can't spring for a complete box set (available in stereo or mono), then conventional wisdom says your first purchase has to be the perennially acclaimed Greatest Album Since King Tut Walked the Earth, aka "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band."
Smart money says to turn off your mind, relax and float downstream with "Revolver," whose myriad sounds -- sitars, electronic noise, string quartet, French horn, John Lennon's submarine commands and more -- will be a perfect test of the remastering process.
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Singer traps 'Lion' in Ghana
Singer-guitarist Shola Akinshemoyin Vaughn lives in Los Angeles. She's a Harvard grad. She likes Radiohead. She journeyed to West Africa to reconcile with her father, who lives in Ghana.
So, when she hooked up with drummer Albert Sadia to create the duo Divisible, her African adventure became gist for their debut full-length album, "Less Than Lion." Along with a cover of Radiohead's "Exit Music (For a Film)," "Lion" fuses Shola's Edge-y guitars (as in U2), her hummingbird-sweet vocals and clattery tribal drumming on the song "Everybody."
Check out the video for "Love Is the Cost," replete with footage of African ritual dancing, on YouTube.
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Put in time at "The Office"
If every office at every business in the country had a boss like Michael Scott, then the good ol' U.S. of A. would be .¤.¤. facing an economic crisis 100 times worse than today's headlines.
Fortunately, Scott's bungling and incompetence, as portrayed by Steve Carell in the hit NBC TV series "The Office," is helping our nation's comedy productivity stay at a peak.
In season five of "The Office," out this week on DVD, Scott is replaced as the head of the Scranton office of paper supply company Dunder Mifflin. In steps Charles Miner (played by Idris Elba of "The Wire" fame). Meet the new boss -- not the same as the old boss.
Revolve with the Fab Four
Kids are now busy dancing their nimble fingers across their mock guitars as "I Am the Walrus" plays on their new Beatles Rock Band video game.
Boomer parents, meanwhile, have their own excuse to get Beatlemania all over again: The entire Beatles catalog -- all 14 albums, in the British versions -- has been remastered and is in stores now.
If you can't spring for a complete box set (available in stereo or mono), then conventional wisdom says your first purchase has to be the perennially acclaimed Greatest Album Since King Tut Walked the Earth, aka "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band."
Smart money says to turn off your mind, relax and float downstream with "Revolver," whose myriad sounds -- sitars, electronic noise, string quartet, French horn, John Lennon's submarine commands and more -- will be a perfect test of the remastering process.
LISTEN
Singer traps 'Lion' in Ghana
Singer-guitarist Shola Akinshemoyin Vaughn lives in Los Angeles. She's a Harvard grad. She likes Radiohead. She journeyed to West Africa to reconcile with her father, who lives in Ghana.
So, when she hooked up with drummer Albert Sadia to create the duo Divisible, her African adventure became gist for their debut full-length album, "Less Than Lion." Along with a cover of Radiohead's "Exit Music (For a Film)," "Lion" fuses Shola's Edge-y guitars (as in U2), her hummingbird-sweet vocals and clattery tribal drumming on the song "Everybody."
Check out the video for "Love Is the Cost," replete with footage of African ritual dancing, on YouTube.
WATCH
Put in time at "The Office"
If every office at every business in the country had a boss like Michael Scott, then the good ol' U.S. of A. would be .¤.¤. facing an economic crisis 100 times worse than today's headlines.
Fortunately, Scott's bungling and incompetence, as portrayed by Steve Carell in the hit NBC TV series "The Office," is helping our nation's comedy productivity stay at a peak.
In season five of "The Office," out this week on DVD, Scott is replaced as the head of the Scranton office of paper supply company Dunder Mifflin. In steps Charles Miner (played by Idris Elba of "The Wire" fame). Meet the new boss -- not the same as the old boss.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR9c00R7fqQ