What's the fuzz?The Woods * Sleater-Kinney * Sub Pop In the song "Entertain" midway Midway, island group (2 sq mi/5.2 sq km), central Pacific, c.1,150 mi (1,850 km) NW of Honolulu, comprising Sand and Eastern islands with the surrounding atoll. Discovered by Americans in 1859, Midway was annexed in 1867. A cable station was opened in 1903. through Sleater-Kinney's seventh album, the group launches a taunting assault on unnamed enemy bands, singing derisively de·ri·sive adj. Mocking; jeering. de·ri  sive·ly adv.de·ri , "You did nothing new with 1972." Sleater-Kinney, on the other hand, are masters at updating music history. The Woods, which is being rightly hailed as a breakthrough for the Portland, Ore., threesome, mines the hard rock and heavy psychedelia psy·che·de·li·a n. The subculture associated with psychedelic drugs. Noun 1. psychedelia - the subculture of users of psychedelic drugs of the early '70s (Zeppelin zeppelin Rigid airship of a type designed by the German builder Ferdinand, Graf (count) von Zeppelin (1838–1917). It was a cigar-shaped, trussed, and covered frame supported by internal gas cells, below which hung two external cars with an engine geared to two , Creedence), and takes classic rock for a passionate, distorted bumper-car ride into the future. With singer Corin Tucker's Robert Plant--esque screams and guitarist Carrie Brownstein's Hendrix-inspired storms of feedback, this is the band's most accomplished album yet. |
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