Then it becomes the perfect sound forever. "Barely Legal" is also transcendently familiar, featuring a two-note guitar riff that's a major letdown until the guitarist starts moving it around the fret board. Meanwhile, his band serves up a guitar-splashed din of slow-motion skronk-and-roll that recalls both Lou Reed's drug-addled splendor and every song Pavement ever recorded. On the CD's languid title track, frontman and songwriter Julian Casablancas croons sweetly, if a bit cryptically, sounding as though he's singing a song you're sure you know through a transistor radio with a dying battery. Throughout "Is This It," the band lights on the most elemental kinds of progressions (see also "the Feelies") and then proceeds to milk them for all they're worth. Unlike the artsy punks in Television, though, the Strokes mostly stick to the basics with their guitars-bass-and-drums musical attack, frequently trimming the excesses of three-chord rock-and-roll simply by playing just two chords. The list of obvious influences should also include punk-era greats the Jam and, especially, the legendary Television, with whom the Strokes share an obsession with ringing upper-register riffs and plenty of East Village hipster credibility - at least for the time being. Psst - the Strokes sound like the Velvet Underground, pass it on.Īll of which happen to be true. Psst - the Strokes sound like the Fall, pass it on. Some have been trying, it's true, playing a musical game of telephone that's only accelerated the hype, word-of-mouth-style: Psst - the Strokes sound like Pavement, pass it on. It's also pretty derivative, as any MP3-downloading music geek could have told you months ago.
Which is really too bad - the album actually is pretty great. Now Rolling Stone is calling the album "the stuff of which legends are made," while the more modest Esquire opines merely that the disc is "what all garage bands should struggle toward." The way Time sees it, the band's melodies "stay with you like tattoos." Buzz, like speed, can kill, and a Mack truck of hyperbole has just slammed into the Strokes. music press conferred Next Big Thing status on the group. Psst, psst… all of my videos use US crochet terms.Just as the New York City band of early-twentysomethings releases its debut disc, "Is This It," the rock-and-roll hype machine shifts into overdrive. Psst… If you are left-handed, I didn’t forget about you! Scroll down a little further for the left-handed magic circle tutorial. Without further ado, here is my easy step-by-step magic circle tutorial for you…please watch and enjoy!
PSST MAGIC HOW TO
My hope is that this approach makes it easy for you to learn how to make a magic circle so you can get started confidently crocheting in the round!īefore you get started, make sure you download the Learn to Crochet for Beginners Checklist to keep track of your progress as you learn to crochet! You can access your checklist at the bottom of this post.
This is the method that makes the most sense to me after watching tons of tutorials and still being stumped. In this video tutorial, I will show you a simple way to make a magic circle/magic ring. I used to go to great lengths to avoid having to figure out how to make a magic circle.Īfter watching tons of tutorials and trying to get it right, I finally figured out how to do it my own way, which I think is pretty easy to understand. The magic ring is oh-so-magical to use! But it can be oh-so-confusing to learn.