jourgensen, cabrera, dengler, hammond and dorough
halfsie or fullsie
thu 7/24/2008
You may have wondered: are they? A little?
Well, yes. Yes, they are.
Al Jourgensen
Age: 49
Lead vocalist for industrial pioneers Ministry. Rocks a fake British accent on the '80s new wave ditty Work For Love.
Fullsie: Both parents are Cuban.
Carlos Dengler
Age: 34
Bassist for NYC rockers Interpol. Dropped his quasi-Goth look for a neo-Wild West sheriff style.
Halfsie: Colombian mother and German father.
Ryan Cabrera
Age: 26
Pop singer known for gravity-defying hair and dating Ashlee Simpson. Now sports the Colin Farrel/Orlando Bloom look.
Halfsie: Colombian father.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
Age: 28
Cigarette-loving guitarist for New York rock band The Strokes. Dates models and wears his guitar higher than most.
Halfsie: Argentinian mother and Gibraltarian father.
Howie Dorough
Age: 34
The Backstreet Boy who didn't quit, didn't have a drinking problem and doesn't have a crazy little brother.
Halfsie: Puerto Rican mother and Irish-American father.
Smashing Pumpkins, Marta Sánchez, Collie Buddz, Interpol and Justice.
the music press
tue 7/10/2007
- Nineties alternative rock icons Smashing Pumpkins are back – minus original bassist D'Arcy and guitarist James Iha. PopMatters says Zeitgeist “sounds like the prototypical Smashing Pumpkins album, a Smashing Pumpkins album that is designed to be a Smashing Pumpkins album, genetically engineered to sound exactly as one would expect the Smashing Pumpkins to sound.” The Brits at the The Guardian newspaper are equally unimpressed: "[Billy Corgan’s] whine hasn’t mellowed with age, and there are some truly horrible guitar effects.”
- Marta Sánchez, Spain's answer to Madonna, returns with Miss Sánchez. The blog Don't Stop The Pop is smitten with her current single, Superstar, and rebuffs any Madonna comparisons thusly: “[Madonna] samples ABBA and destroys the classic Swedish anthem … and [Martha Sánchez] improves on the original by Depeche Mode.”
- Bermudan-American rapper Collie Buddz is heating up dance floors with Mamacita. The BBC describes his self-titled debut as “Jamaican style music with smooth commercial hip hop production, and a clear eye on the lucrative U.S. market.” For RWD Magazine, Buddz has “a wicked voice, killer riddims and a mad-sick flow,” underscoring that his debut “proves he’s more than a pale face with a bad one-tune.” That's some deep reggae sh*t right there.
- Interpol's third album and major label debut, Our Love To Admire, gets an A- from Entertainment Weekly: “[T]he outcome is akin to an artistic explosion” which may lead to “an even higher set of expectations.” Prefix Magazine says the new album only deserves a 6.5 out of 10: “Interpol still has the best tailors in town and the tunes to match. But the time may have come for a make-over – on both counts.”
- † (Cross), the debut by French electronica duo Justice, is “a harsh and mostly instrumental set that nonetheless plays like the ideal crossover electronic-pop record,” yawn the hipsters at Pitchforkmedia. Influential electronic music magazine URB laments: “the two post-Daft Punk Parisians are not saviors of the filtered disco/electro-house scene.”
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