They boosted themselves onto the sides of the tank, clutching at any groove or lip in the metal for dear life, and then they were rolling down the road toward the harbor at top speed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The thinner tripe with horizontal grooves has thick seams called callo. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The curved nails raked Holly’s helmet, scoring parallel grooves in the alloy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

They weren’t as worn as the steps outside Dawit’s, but the grooves felt familiar. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Across one side of the shard ran a shallow groove, evidence of the vase’s melon shape. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He tried to bump the cart out of the groove; it was too heavy to be easily bounced. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now his gaze feels like some sort of laser beam over my bumps and dips and grooves, and it’s getting a little uncomfortable. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Lapp read the note, scanned it again, then wrinkled his upper lip, squinched his nose until the bridge was thoroughly grooved, and weighted down his entire prissy face with a formidable, puzzled frown. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even Artemis’s extensive set of Allen wrenches were unable to find purchase in the tiny grooves. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The lines were perfectly symmetrical, curving so gracefully from top to bottom that Tree-ear longed to run his finger along the smooth shallow grooves. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I run my finger along a curved groove in the table. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

But when she bared her lord’s leg, bending near, she knew the groove at once. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hard, grooved candy stick is both sweet and sour, a jolt of flavor so intense I almost swoon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Intimacy grooved our voices in familiar notes; familiarity defined the limits of what could be said. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as soon as Coach told them to start, Luke couldn’t find the groove. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Once I finally got it under control, I said, “Well, listen, if it makes you feel any better, the cops messed my groove up too.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Over in the production group at ATK, a whole different division, they sometimes had trouble with a machine that inspected the booster rockets’ O-ring grooves to make sure there was no corrosion. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Looking around the footprint, I see white roses sticking out from the grooved letters. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Canali in Italian means channels or grooves, but was promptly translated into English as canals, a word that implies intelligent design. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the hours pass I get used to the motion of the train, the heavy wheels clacking in their grooves, the industrial hum under my seat. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I want to run my fingers over them, to feel the grooves, but I can't reach them through the row of guards at our sides. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Madam wore a groove in the floor pacing back and forth awaiting news of the final British victory, her footsteps tipping and tapping in measure with the ticking of the clock. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buddy, too, went round and round in a groove and did not see things. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I slide my fingers along the groove, feeling every bump. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whereas bebop took from Christian’s playing style the inspiration of his free-flowing solos, rock and roll took the sound of his accompanying - ‘rhythm’ - guitar grooves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The magnetic screws refused to be coaxed back into their grooves without the proper tool, so Artemis was forced to glue them too. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Part of an inlaid peony blossom with its stem and leaves twined along the groove. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

DAY-doe, he says, and it’s a groove in a piece of wood. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He guided them along one of five narrow ledges, all of which led to a grooved and rutted plateau. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I could see it in the deep grooves in his skin. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Instead of smooth plates—which you might expect on a metal ship—it’s still made of grooved planks, but they seem to have changed at the molecular level, like wood that has petrified into copper. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Its shell was more like a landmass—hills of bone, shiny pearl valleys, kelp and moss forests, rivers of seawater trickling down the grooves of its carapace. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He had cut two grooves the length of the board, and laid the board on blocks, one end a little higher than the other. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

His deeply grooved face glowed in the firelight. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the log could no longer be used as a canoe, Cole pulled out the knife Garvey had given him and began whittling and shaping the deep groove into an eagles head. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There was a work table topped with a big yellowed marble slab that had a drainage groove carved around it. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the persistence of the memory of the human species will be far longer in the impressed metal grooves on the Voyager interstellar record. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The deep black grooves isolating his square chin from his jowls were bent again in a kind of jeering and reprehensible mirth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On the walk home from pageant practice, Beatriz grooves to the rhythms of Newark traveling in the air. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I could see a huge grin on his face, but I wasn’t affected too much by that until I remembered it later — I was just grooving on drummer autopilot. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d taught me how to care for the vinyl, how to wipe the record’s grooves clean of dust, how to lift the needle from the turntable and set it down delicately in the right spot. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Miranda, one of the moons belonging to Uranus, features a patchwork of ridges and cliffs, grooved structures called coronae, and massive canyons up to twelve times deeper than the Grand Canyon. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She turns the car radio up crazy loud to an oldies station, and we groove to that, singing all out all the way to the mall. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Then my fingers felt something that my eyes missed: a maze of grooves etching the surface of the bars. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

One day, I was shooting my fourth set of one hundred shots and I was really in the groove. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They smarted from the weight and the grooves that the block had dug into my skin. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In some places there were grooves that looked almost like writing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A vertical groove ran down the face of the wall, different from the rest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The groove Sciron had shot across the left side of his scalp was interesting too—almost like a rebellious streak. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The lever jammed and would not slide back in its groove. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Rapidly Ranofer explained the hearthstone mold, a stone ground flat, with a bar-shaped depression in the center and little grooves scraped from it to let the air out. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

I imagine picking up the record, feeling each groove with my fingertips. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And so you should be. Celia’s been wearing a groove in the floor outside for hours. Do you feel up to a little weeping and wailing?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would write: “The soft melting hunk of butter trickled in gold down the stringy grooves of the split yam.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hand somewhere struck the gramophone arm and sent the silver needle on its way through the whirling, black grooves, like something bobbing, anchorless, in the middle of the sea. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

And though the words meant nothing to me, or almost nothing, I felt their weight, the deep groove they made in the air of time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I imagined joining one, introducing myself as the new kid in town, cracking a few jokes, starting to groove. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The cats encircled me, hissing, growling, and scraping their claws on the floor, leaving deep, clean grooves. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I drive the chisel into a groove and hit it hard with the hammer, taking off a big chunk of rock, then another. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He turns on the switch for the roller coaster and pushes the first car, painted with laughing clowns, along the well-worn grooves. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The right record is on the turntable now; she can hear its preparatory hiss as the needle slides toward its first groove. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather's white hair is scattered as a haystack and his clothes are wrinkled, but there’s no sleep in the deep grooves of his face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

After adding two layers of cushioning felt, he cranks the whole “sandwich” through the press itself, forcing the paper into the thin grooves of the plate and dragging out the ink. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I give him the shovel before I go to work, and every time the blades of my machine cut the groove of a screw, I wonder what Max is doing. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I noticed that,” Kote said with a flicker of curiosity, running a finger along the darker groove the letters made in the wood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The grooves of the trapdoor began to glow, illuminating our faces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her cigarette was angled peculiarly between her fingers; it burned dangerously close to one of her knuckle grooves. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Ben knew he was in familiar terrain now, old territory where the teasing had grooves and furrows of ground that had been plowed before. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she pushed off from the floor with both feet and began to float upward, drifting toward the groove zone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As the lamassus jumped out of the way of Idiptu's slime, I left a pair of deep chariot grooves across the toad's head. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

That’s why, with this fact that we’re extremely unlike one another, it’s weird that we get into a groove, a rhythm, practicing for the competition. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Grandfather’s tone dropped into its narrative groove again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood by the boards in the little driveway the Zamboni took to get out onto the ice, and found myself getting lost in the cuts and grooves the skates had left everywhere. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They just lie there and groove, but after a while they start hearing—you won’t believe this—they hear chamber music. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to feel the heavy white door on Not Doctor Street close behind him and know that he might be hearing the catch settle into its groove for the last time. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lines are grooves or cracks, their origin still being debated long after the mission. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carvings were etched up and down the wood, and it hummed as giant hands found familiar grooves. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

One is not seated properly, and he fits it back into its groove. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tito’s shooting, the canceled practices that followed, and the change of practice venues had prevented the new team from getting into anything like a groove. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

There were the rough grooves of the bricks lining the wall behind her headboard. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The black plastic arms of his glasses were so tight they’d etched deep grooves into his head, but he couldn’t afford new ones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At the tree limb that holds the nest, I position the knife in the groove and I'm about to draw the teeth across the wood when I see something moving. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Angel’s cool with my idea, and we get into a good groove with the project. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

He bobbed first, the way he did when he kept the groove with the Bluesmen. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

They went to the Column, where they stole a few more quiet minutes together, listening to the river wear its way deeper into the Earth, the way people wear grooves into each other’s hearts. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She admired a Douglas fir’s complicated bark, followed its grooves to the canopy of branches two hundred feet above. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He touched the groove that Sciron the bandit had cut in his hair. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We thought we’d function in Wilmington as we had in New York, catching subways and buses and living off public transportation and the groove of the city. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kneels as soundlessly as she can and runs her hands along the grooves of the floor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A split in the top of his skull, through which the bad news hissingly poured; a groove in his knees, which buckled, and suddenly Milton couldn’t keep it out any longer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I look ridiculous, and the only thing I can think to do is try and turn my wack moves into a dance, and so I wave and slip and groove my way across the benches. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Their hands reached out as if to touch the other’s face, then returned to their own, the fingers checking the grooves in the forehead and along the sides of the mouth. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad was flying—long grooves of slush that ribbed the pavement sprayed up onto the car—and the whole time I was shaking in the backseat like there was an earthquake under my skin. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I went back to the line and found my groove again. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were definitely two hollow grooves that looked like eyes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Whatever! It’s because the cops came and messed my whole groove up,” Carlos shot back. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Just above his left ear, a groove cut through his hair like a racing stripe. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Black tar bubbles out from the cracks and grooves and drips down into the grass and sinks into the earth. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The streak courses through the gilded grooves, headed for the glass. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He stepped back and took two more slow swings, feeling the groove he left in the air. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

His face looked as grooved and gnarled as an old door. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine it: gliding my hands up his long oblique muscles, lingering over the grooves of his abdomen, feeling the heat of his skin in my hands. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And Gerald's always grooving right next to her, watching her every move. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My heart raced as my fingers curved around the handle, slid into the grooves made for them. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t thinking clearly, the grooves in the concrete were moving in and out of focus, but I knew enough to know that my body wasn’t being hit anymore. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I run my hands along the wall’s rough grooves. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The size of the chambers of the nautilus and the number of clockwise grooves to counterclockwise grooves in the pineapple are governed by this sequence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I reach up and touch the small pewter claddagh Celtic cross I have worn since I was six, tracking the grooved outline of the heart with my finger. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind of music Charlie was listening to on his headphones, and he starts grooving in the middle of the street. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The transmitter remains on, the microphone tucked into the bell of the electrophone as the needle traces the outermost groove. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A smooth, old-school R&B groove is playing in the background, and it makes this whole situation weird, as if this is a music video and Darius is the star and I'm just an extra. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Celia and I traded points back and forth, but I couldn’t seem to get my groove back. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He scored a deep groove in the wooden floor, then broke a leg, an arm, more ribs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I run my hand against the surface of the rock, feeling for the grooves of the initials we found before. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Again and again he hacked, until a deep groove circled the log. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Its prongs settled around the grooves in the circular stone structure below. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It pulls him like a needle through the groove of a Bluebird record. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blood gutter, Billy learned, was the shallow groove in the side of the blade of a sword or bayonet. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to fall into the groove of things, so he sang “This Land Is Your Land” along with his class for glee. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“I remember one time we ran out of meat—” His voice dropped to a curious low sing-song, dropped into a tonal groove the story had worn for itself. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some places, the ground beneath their feet was rutted in parallel grooves, as if a wheeled cart of some kind had been driven over it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The handles had gouged deep grooves in his fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Dark blood stains his shirt, his shoulder, his hands, the grooves of the knife hilt. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He nocked it, let it rest across the handgrip, and drew the string and grooved butt of the arrow, aiming from where he sat upon the stool. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tiny hairs velvet the groove above her lip. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The reception area was the same, with gold-dyed walls and thick Persian rugs and grooved patterns on the exposed ceilings. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Dorcas has been acknowledged, appraised and dismissed in the time it takes for a needle to find its opening groove. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As tracking data from the spaceship filtered into Mission Control, the toy capsule moved along the orbit grooves on the map too, a puppet controlled by its master in the sky. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I follow another path and find a deep groove at the base of her pointer finger. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Soon, on account of the heat, I guess, that water started evaporating and drops ran down the grooves carved in that wooden face so that the statue looked as if it were crying. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I cut one line, then another, and then another, then went back over the same lines with the back of my heel, digging a groove all the way down into the dead grass. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

You reached it simply by jumping off the ground, like Superman taking flight, and then swimming through the air, into the spherical zero-g “groove zone.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Now that he knew there was a secret, he settled down into the groove of their relationship. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw the gouges and grooves worn over time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once again I willed the sand to come to life above the circular door, and I barely had to pull the figure of Anansi into existence before the grooves in the floor blazed to life. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

At the moment, however, Scott did not appear to be grooving in the slightest; instead he looked anxious and extremely tired. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

By Friday the flower hung down over the rim of the waterless vase, its dead stump of a head shedding yellow dust in the pencil groove. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

The muddy river distorted and widened, kept us helpless in the groove of its central channel, pulling and pulling. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He put the ball on a steep grooved slide and let it run down to the bottom. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The pillar was scored with hatch marks and grooves, the marks of elephant tusks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was fixed in a course, like a ball in a groove. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

All day long the round board settled slowly under the weight of the rock, and whey pressed out and ran down the grooves of the board into the pail. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walking back to the car, Molly sees Jack through the windshield, eyes closed, grooving out to a song she can’t hear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The boat was carving deep ripples upon the glassy surface, grooves in the dark mirror.... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He repeated the old doll’s words over and over until they wore a smooth groove of hope in his brain: Someone will come; someone will come for you. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

A new groove had been set, and officers were sliding into it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tucker looked down at his desk, tracing the grooves in its top with his pencil. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The centaur clipped a small cylinder into the accommodating groove on Holly’s helmet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Lee passed Harry the egg, and Harry dug his fingernails into the groove that ran all the way around it and prised it open. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Now, when she made the groove each morning, she felt a tremble in her belly. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As they neared the theater, they came upon an Englishman who was hacking a groove in the Earth with the heel of his boot. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘No, it’s more than that. Look at the ridges and grooves carved around the rim.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had a grimacing expression on his face, deep grooves by his eyes and his nose and lips, as if he were trying to go but was real constipated. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Its hands dangled, the metal talons dragging mild grooves as Pet moved to get comfortable on the floor. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

To further proclaim their status, wealthy Olmec carved deep grooves into their teeth and pierced their nasal septums with bone awls, plugging the holes with ornamental jade beads. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At this point, instead of turning back to find an alternate route, he began to move in circles, squeaking like a phonograph needle scratched across the grooves. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Fairy technology. Most impressive,” he muttered, popping the battery from its groove. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to breathe, stared up at the vaulted ceiling, the fluted grooves in the richly stained molding, hoping nobody would speak to me more—make me speak. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could blend in with the jive cats, swirl the Lindy ladies, let my feet groove, think of nothing but the now. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It certainly felt like wood, except that it was very jagged and full of deep grooves. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I touched the Long Wall with my own fingers, running the edge of my hand between the stones, tracing the grooves the builders’ hands had made. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stopping, he saw that one of the bicycle tires had lodged in the groove of a streetcar track. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

TJ spun the black lock dial confidently, like he could feel the difference in the grooves and would know when he landed on the right numbers. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Once I've got a groove, the work requires less effort but is almost more than I can handle. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

As my fingers traced the grooves in the wood, I could hear Teacher Gu’s voice saying, “It will be all right.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were outside the groove of history, and it was my job to get them in, all of them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

His greatgrandfather goes to his knees like a penitent, fits the saw into a groove in the bark, and begins to cut. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Jones slid the needle across the first few grooves of the record. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water has risen to the upper edge of the track’s groove and is beginning to spill onto the landing itself. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Learning happens on backless benches, at wooden tables grooved by the boredom of countless boys before them—squires, monks, conscripts, cadets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Reactions to the Farewell Address fell into the familiar grooves. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I carried these things until deep grooves grew in my hands. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watch as the needle follows the grooves of Dolly’s voice. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Spike puts on the record, and the crackle and hiss of the needle in the grooves sounds like a fire. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I bulldozed blindly through West Virginia, plunged into Pennsylvania and grooved Rocinante to the great wide turnpike. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to run her fingertips along the grooves as she came and went through the door. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One side was a curved groove that Otto’s thumb slid into naturally for a better grip. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingers along the groove where her pencils rested, fixing the feel of the groove in her mind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She studied the grooves in the wooden table. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Tears streamed down her cheeks into the grooves at the corners of her lips. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He insists on complexity and elegance and groove and language evolved from bebop and the blues. Playlist: Albums From George Cables and Zara McFarlane 2014-01-24T19:33:17Z

Within that framing, the wide panel pieces were held in a groove, allowing the panels to shrink or swell as humidity fluctuated. This is what happens when someone slaps veneer on a century-old wood door 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z

The groove mimics a dozen nineteen-eighties cues, while still escaping a direct parallel, until the lead vocal shows its Morrissey-inflected charm. Listening Booth: “Bugs,” by the Eclipse  2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

He and Ms. Bowles never establish much in the way of romantic rapport, and even when the zanier aspects of the plot lurch into gear, this gifted comic actor never quite finds his groove. Theater Review: ‘Irma La Douce,’ Back on the Streets 2014-05-08T19:50:34Z

Opening with a flutter of brushes by the drummer Billy Hart, “Deeper” unfolds in a percolating but unhurried 7/4 meter, a groove that’s now a staple of the modern-jazz tool kit. Review: John Raymond, Uncovering the Possibilities of the Familiar 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

You take a song that’s good, and you go into the studio and you present it to the band, and they find themselves feeling the groove. Elvis Costello, Carole King and a Song 20 Years in the Making 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

This boxed set catches him first rising meteorically and then settling into his ultimate groove. The Best of Thelonious Monk 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

She pointed a finger, rotated a hand or, with restricted hip movements, relayed the groove played by the bassist Gregg August and the drummer Jonathan Barber. Music Review: Erykah Badu at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-06-09T21:45:40Z

They had a sense of humor, an undeniable talent at grabbing sampled grooves and they weren’t afraid of the music their parents loved, particularly jazz. Review | A true fan offers a riveting tribute to A Tribe Called Quest 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

A version of the Beatles’ “Come Together” finds Mr. Johnson in Bobby McFerrin mode, humming and thumping his chest as Mr. Terrasson kneads a groove in 9/8 meter. Reviews of Purity Ring, Sarah Bethe Nelson and Jacky Terrasson 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

The country vocal trio hinted at its new direction with the sparse, soul-strutting groove of "Downtown," one of the spring's most engaging country hits. Review: 'Golden' shows different side of Lady A 2013-05-06T16:25:17Z

I don’t mind when a designer sticks with a groove but in this instance the loose shapes and neutrals looked rehashed. On the Runway: Paris Men's: Peeling Down for Spring 2011-06-26T17:56:27Z

I remember us first hitting that groove and being fired up by it. Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton on Town Called Malice 2012-11-12T17:33:06Z

The drummer brought a hipness and imaginative awareness of contemporary grooves to the gig that even had the normally statuesque Norwegian saxophonist shaking his booty. This week's new live music 2013-01-19T06:00:03Z

There's something thrilling about the moment when the rumbling groove of Epizootics! erupts into a weirdly uplifiting brass fanfare, or the arrival midway though Phrasing of a ferocious metal guitar riff. Scott Walker: Bish Bosch – review 2012-11-29T15:29:01Z

During the first act of “Once Upon a One More Time,” the Broadway jukebox musical that grooves to the Britney Spears oeuvre, a fairy godmother arrives with a present for Cinderella. Feminist Stories Are Being Set to a Pop Beat. But Are They Empowering? 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z

Get in the groove from 10.am. to 7 p.m. The Week Ahead: Daffodil Parade, Sven Birkerts, and Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings 2014-03-26T21:27:36Z

To Nancy Sinatra, they were "unsung heroes," to Herb Alpert, "an established groove machine." 'The Wrecking Crew' affectionate tribute to hit-backing musicians 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

It was less his handsome face, with its deeply grooved cheeks and the bushy eyebrows he deployed like sardonic brackets, that landed him the role than his feline way of moving. Clothes Make the Spy 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

For a while, as its groove gathered density — but still no real momentum — it seemed like the buildup to some kind of melodic event. Music Review: Where Hearing the Parts Whirl Is the Point 2011-08-19T21:33:35Z

The happy "Even When the Water's Cold" transports you to a sunny festival for a singalong, while "Get That Rhythm Right" puts you back in the club with its piano groove and saxophone. Review: 5th album from !!! (Chk Chk Chk) is a hit 2013-04-29T18:16:09Z

The pensive melodies blossom with the aid of reggae and South American grooves and syncopated hand-claps.  Disappears, Typhoon bring the rain at Lolla 2011-08-06T20:28:00Z

I do a lot with my petite 4-inch knife: peeling, chopping, and getting into small grooves, like the stems of cauliflower florets. 9 essential tools for cooking all the vegetables 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

Once I got the band and the producer, I wanted a big drum sound and more grooves. The Jam’s Paul Weller on the music industry today: “I can’t think of any other job or art form where people don’t get paid for what they do” 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

“I was like, ‘Oh, maybe we should just play this song with the band but put a trap groove over it,’” Haye recalled. Cisco Swank ‘Is Black Music. All of It.’ 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

I couldn’t find my groove, couldn’t find the right voice, the distance, the structure. Dirty, sister, daydream: I wanted Kim Gordon’s bad-assitude 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

His thick snare drum splattered against the bulb tones of Joel Ross’s vibraphone patterns, making an elliptical groove. Makaya McCraven Sees the Future of Jazz Through Layers of History 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The Elements of Grooving “IT’S not about the move, it’s the groove,” Val Ho, a k a Ms. Vee, said to her hip-hop class at the Broadway Dance Center in Manhattan. Urban Athlete: Hip-Hop Lessons at Broadway Dance Center 2012-08-10T05:00:16Z

Its songs, some of which are topical, draw on the rhythms and incantations of voodoo, the trumpeting of rara carnival music and hearty call-and-response vocal harmonies on their way to galloping, exultant dance grooves. Globalfest Showcases the Sounds and Traditions of World Music 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Sometimes the soundtrack becomes locked, like a record stuck in a groove. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham’s ‘Radio Show,’ at 92nd Street Y 2014-03-17T22:24:10Z

He teamed up with Iggy Azalea before she was fancy, helped Usher get his groove back and put Snoop Dogg in touch with his reggae side. How Diplo Is Making Pop Music Weird 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Eventually the groove relaxed into a flowing 7/8, but then it was back to the grid. Music Review: Phronesis, European Jazz Trio, Performs at Jazz Standard 2013-07-03T20:37:07Z

“This girl really knows how to groove!” another said. Adorable video of toddler dancing to Beyoncé while eating a corn dog goes viral 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

“Vagabonds” is a strange concept album, a period piece with notably thick bass sounds and heavy with groove. Throwbacks: Vinyl and digital reissues of note for winter-spring 2015 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

Jennifer is on fire -- finally having found the groove that we expected of her from the very beginning of the season. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Jennifer Grey finds her groove 2010-11-23T13:30:00Z

In addition to its clear debts to the Russian classical tradition, the one-movement work features passages with rock momentum, and others with the grooving energy of 20th-century pianists like Oscar Peterson. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

The thin surface of Sabbath is dread and fear, and everything underneath, at best, is a seriously good time: deluxe, grooving, sensuous. Review: Black Sabbath’s Metal Séance of Fear, Dread and Joy 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z

The record leans more toward grooves than tunes, with lots of heavy riffing from the guitarist Rocky George, a former member of the Los Angeles punk band Suicidal Tendencies, who joined Fishbone in 2003. ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z

“You Touch My Brain” probably never had a chance, despite its strong approximation of a Parliament-Funkadelic groove. Critics? Choice: CDs by Blake Shelton, Mike Posner, George Duke 2010-08-08T22:33:00Z

The steps of Baroque dance, he said in an interview, are often the most effective ways of moving at a given speed, to a specific groove. Composers Find Transcendence, and Inspiration, at the Club 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

Her clean, mellow voice isn’t rangy or expressive — she speaks the songs as much as sings them — but it’s perfectly suited to the deadpan lyrics and cuts easily through the band’s amiable indie-rock grooves. | 'We?re Gonna Die': Amid Catchy Choruses, Personal Tales of Life?s Brutal Verities 2011-04-10T21:32:33Z

Built over a gear-shifting groove, it was a maze full of trapdoors through which Mr. Watts and his crew barreled with aplomb. Music Review: Jeff (Tain) Watts’s Quartet Opens Series at Minton’s 2014-04-13T21:21:46Z

With such enticements, I got into the groove of dining with strangers. The App That Came to Dinner, Helping People Socialize IRL 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

We might recall from our school days his essay, “A Modest Proposal,” which in the driest of tones politely suggested eating anyone who was “funking up our groove,” as James Brown might have put it. Donald Trump’s modest proposals: His campaign sounded like a Jonathan Swift essay — but who got the joke? 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

Ms. Benjamin is a fine young alto saxophonist with a luminescent, liquid tone and a devotion to gregarious grooves. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

It sets out a slow, electronic R&B groove for a detailed put-down addressed to a boyfriend’s ex: “I know you feel he may be coming back to you,” Dawn sings with vicious directness. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

“Murder in the First” doesn’t really find its groove until the second episode. ‘Murder in the First,’ a New Drama on TNT 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

I think it's the opening to Cream's Sunshine of Your Love, which dates me, but the human voice sampling the melody shifts it into what sounds like a Funkadelic groove. A piece of performance art set in darkness made me see the light 2012-06-14T16:16:32Z

This is expeditious music that bends to a secret groove. Perspective | Best music of 2017: Cardi B paints the world ‘Bodak Yellow’ 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

So, if you want to have a few friends over for a totally relaxed, extremely cozy night in, but you've been feeling blocked lately, this is the dish to help you find your hosting groove. Natasha Feldman's cacio e pepe mac and cheese is pure pasta comfort 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

I never found moving exactly, despite the heavily signposted sadness and loneliness of every single major character; it runs essentially in a comedy groove and is a knight's move away from any emotional reality. Submarine ? review 2011-03-17T15:00:01Z

“Too Good,” written with Epworth, depicts a potential relationship going sour over a suave funk groove: “The air was fragrant and thick with our silence,” Park lilts. Arlo Parks Offers Solace Without Illusions on Her Debut Album 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The first single from Jon Batiste’s forthcoming album, “Hollywood Africans,” stays anchored to a set of tolling, somber arpeggios on the piano, never bubbling over into a funk groove or a power-ballad roar. The Playlist: Blood Orange’s Fragile Pop, and 11 More New Songs 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Opening with a wall of vocal harmonies that are soon joined by swollen strings and what sound like sleigh bells, the song then settles into a more typical groove, Mvula's rich voice sounding beautifully despondent. New music: Laura Mvula – Like the Morning Dew 2012-11-09T10:36:00Z

Nearby, a drummer and pianist locked into a syncopated groove, following the beat of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who was conducting while seated on an elevated platform. ‘Hey, Mr. Living Composer’: ‘Champion’ Takes Shape at the Met 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

So wild and inventive, yet the groove still abides despite it all. Readers recommend: songs about manual labour 2010-07-15T23:01:00Z

“It’s kind of nice to get into the groove of life again,” said Ms. Rosenblatt, the chief operating officer of Reformation, which sells repurposed vintage clothing. When the Power Came Back, So Did the Crowds 2012-11-07T22:37:20Z

And the album has proportionate doses of knockabout groove, scratchy free improvisation and chamber-esque restraint. Playlist: Straightening Out, Rapping and Leading a Band 2010-12-10T20:18:00Z

The older ones shipped to India to get their groove back with the kid from Slumdog Millionaire. Downton Abbey Watch: Drama and then Somme 2012-01-09T14:30:05Z

Though Goldings can get in the groove with the best of them, he isn't interested in just mimicking the hits of Hammond pioneers such as Jimmy Smith. This week's new live music 2013-01-05T00:06:06Z

And Santos, singing mostly in Spanish, clung to the form’s essential tenderness here, even as his muscular 13-piece band scaled the precise grooves to arena dimensions. Romeo Santos comes on like a king at Staples Center 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

It’s an invisible line: Does Dormeshia find the groove or does the groove find her? Review: The Tap Dancer Dormeshia Finds Her Groove, and Then Some 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

But—and you can’t say this about every great ’80s video—the songs worked when you closed your eyes, thanks to the rock-and-funk grooves he laid down with producer Nile Rodgers. How David Bowie Went Mainstream 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

On “Actions Speak,” his lightly jagged funk complements a swarming repetition by Mr. Iyer; on “Lude” he builds an almost imperceptible crescendo over a subtly lopsided groove. Critic?s Notebook: ?Accelerando? by the Vijay Iyer Trio 2012-03-14T22:16:29Z

This never quite happens, as the production settles into a more well-worn groove, abounding in this director’s trademark vaudevillian touches: men pulling off wigs and dancing in skirts, the works. A Festival Has a Monumental Premiere (and Some Other Operas, Too) 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

The second track develops an eerily Latin groove, while on the third, dreamy, ballad-like swoops over cymbal-edge sounds and soft piano undulations turn stormy and then reflective again. Schlippenbach Trio: Bauhaus Dessau 2010-07-15T21:16:00Z

It anchors the groove, frees up the other musicians to both articulate the melody and stray from it during solos. For D.C.’s older jazz artists, scarcity of gigs is a hard reality

The Tone’ll let you groove or yammer away for 10 hours between charges. Best bluetooth headphones under $150 2012-09-30T16:00:00Z

Talk show host Jay Leno recently reminded star athlete Johnson, that even he once grooved on the iconic show's dance floor. What's next for the Soul Train brand? 2012-02-21T21:04:16Z

The groove is deep, and if the vinyl’s worn thin on your LP, this musical performance will kick-start your memory but good. Review | Signature’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ looks hip and sounds vintage 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

With or without their brother, they were geared to entertain, and an audience fond of all things Jackson was happy to share the familial groove. Music Review: Review: The Jacksons Pay Homage at the Apollo 2012-06-29T16:36:24Z

Pearce gets into his groove swiftly, owns it and remains entertaining. 'Lockout': Actioner would be lost in space without Guy Pearce 2012-04-11T16:02:04Z

Things picked up in Season 2; by Season 3, the show found its groove, with story lines arising more organically. ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Brings Love, Canadian Style 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

And through it all, the infectious groove of Ronnie Hudson and the Street People’s funk single “West Coast Poplock” floods the soundtrack, hailing the party vibe of Compton and “good old Watts.” With FX’s ‘Snowfall,’ John Singleton returns to 1980s South Central L.A. 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Their life story obliged the backing band to shift abruptly from a hybrid free-jazz/funk vibe to a Motown groove or a four-to-the-floor disco beat, which brought the occasional lapse of tightness. Doug Carn/Jean Carne – review 2012-06-24T17:30:01Z

So I'm in it now and I'm kind of grooving with it. Celebrating "great songwriter" David Bowie's 75th birthday & introducing him to a new generation 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

His solo dance track “Talk Is Cheap,” from his debut album, “Built on Glass,” has found frequent club play stateside for its sultry vocals and rich saxophone-and-synth groove. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for April 3-9 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Apparently, its board of directors didn’t dig the groove. The Beatles Invasion 50 Years Ago: Wed., Feb 12, 1964 2014-02-12T10:30:07Z

“I’m kind of hitting that groove. The only thing really missing is a girlfriend.” Date Lab: ‘He was definitely a looker’ 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

Though saturated in classic soul signifiers – call-and-response vocals, tambourines and handclaps augmenting slinky bass lines, guitars that played accents and clipped grooves more than long lead lines – Saadiq took some detours. Raphael Saadiq makes soul music feel like new 2011-06-05T18:19:13Z

Its midtempo groove, deliberate bass line and informal backup vocals hark back to Sly and the Family Stone, while Syd doles out her come-ons just a few syllables at a time. The Playlist: The 1975 Talk About Its Generation, and 9 More New Songs 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

It’s not simple music, but it maintains a lilting groove derived from the romantic Cuban dance music known as danzón. The Playlist: Justin Bieber Boosts a Friend, and 14 More New Songs 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

The song, called “Expect the Bayonet,” finds its groove and grit in the tensions of the current political state, as does most of the band’s debut album, “Need to Feel Your Love.” Philadelphia band Sheer Mag finds hope during tense times 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

But Muti found his stride, and by the time it came to the work's finale, he was grooving to techno. Gabriel Prokofiev gets the Proms into the groove 2011-07-28T20:29:01Z

Sometimes, such as on "Final Thought," Washington's flame-throwing saxophone takes the lead, while on "Re Run Home," the focal point is an unstoppable Afrobeat groove. Kamasi Washington expands jazz's boundaries on new album 'The Epic'

“You were in such a deep groove begrudging the success of others.” ArtsBeat: ‘Girls’ Recap: Can You Imagine Hannah in Iowa? 2014-03-24T02:30:34Z

But by Day 2, things seemed to have settled into familiar grooves. On the Runway Blog: Stargazing: Earning a Spot in the Front Row 2013-09-06T21:44:08Z

He managed to create something that was so totally new with very basic elements, that found a groove. Playlist | Phoenix: From France With Romance, and Broad Tastes 2010-03-05T19:23:00Z

As for Mr. Sorey, his strategies of silence are so effective that it almost feels out of place when, on “Template,” he kicks into a whipsaw drum-and-bass groove. Drummers’ Choices: Setting the Beat, Calling the Tune 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Julie's "I Got the Music" fantasy borrows many of those same elements: the marching band getting into the groove, line dancing and breakdancing, butt-level camera shots, and even a trust fall. How the iconic "Ferris Bueller's" parade and "Dirty Dancing" number inspired Netflix's new musical 2020-09-13T04:00:00Z

This is their debut television performance and they seem to be on another planet – watching them sashaying, grooving, grinning, you just want to be in that band. Other Voices – review 2013-04-09T16:59:39Z

The group’s smoldering grooves and reverberant guitars were a perfect fit for Ms. Whitley’s own instincts, but she’s even more radical on her own. New Music: New Albums by Trixie Whitley and Kris Kristofferson 2013-01-28T22:36:50Z

“It just get things moving and grooving in the morning,” said Ms. Roup, a fitness instructor in her 30s who founded the Sculpt Society workout beloved by many models. Paring Back Your Beauty Routine? Try Water, With a Boost 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

On the album, Scott beautifully sings about his love lapses: His world is collapsing on the top-notch dance tune "Stare Into the Sun" and he's yearning on the slow groove "This Man." 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z

“Venezuela’s” alternating scores — a Rage Against the Machine song in one half, Gregorian chants in the other — allowed him to explore “the groove that happens inside you,” he said. Batsheva: A New Era, a New Role for Ohad Naharin 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z

The sandpaper finishes and washboard-rubbed grooves suit a batch of shuffles and boogies tailored for being performed on wooden crates and with pawn-shop gear. Lollapalooza ends on a high note on day two 2013-08-04T11:59:00Z

Though it’s taken a few months to find the right chef and get into the groove, the friendly, light-filled cafe at Mr. Eek’s complex is now serving lunch and dinner every day except Mondays. Next Stop: A Dutch Factory Town, Now a Design Center 2011-07-29T19:32:48Z

That sophistication is easy to hear on "Caracal," as in one still-untitled track with a handsome vocal by Howard and an elegant ballad that rides a crawling R&B groove. Disclosure looks beyond EDM for 'Caracal': 'We've got a lot more to give' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Here, over a warmly ingratiating acoustic groove, West admits that contentment hasn’t displaced his old fury – that the rage is still within him, just waiting to spill forth at the right provocation. Justin Bieber and Kanye West: How their charm offensives differ 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

In the ’90s, a teenager could listen to the band’s global grooves and feel connected to something sophisticated and adult. Review | Dave Matthews Band outlasts the rain at Jiffy Lube Live 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z

There’s no magic for getting into the groove, “just banging away at it,” he said. Phil Collins Says He is Writing Songs Again 2013-12-05T15:54:33Z

I sense that sleepless nights have grooved the wearied lines in his cheeks. "Today is not your lucky day": U.S. military vets who fought for America and were deported anyway 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

And “Gimme Something Good,” which rides a slow-burning groove up to the edge of a surging chorus, might be the catchiest thing he’s written this decade. Ryan Adams at 9:30 Club: Performer and his fans find a comfort zone in D.C. show

Apparently I could tell the music from the shades and widths of the grooves before I could read the labels! Oliver Knussen: 'It never occurred to me that not everybody thought music was the most important thing in life' 2012-06-06T16:50:00Z

Here, though, he segued into a deeply relaxed version of "Magnolia Mountain" that grooved like prime Al Green. Ryan Adams collected and still unpredictable at the Wiltern 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

But he doesn’t drop nearly enough of those gems to make up for his annoying habits — his abuse of “groove” as a verb, for starters. Book review: ‘Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll”

Zep were famous for their extended, trippy jams and solos, but what’s miraculous about “Immigrant Song” is its concision and groove. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

With Ms. Miller playing a fast, rolling groove, Ms. Staaf capers and collides through the song’s blues form, paying homage to Williams’s starkly articulate right hand and peripatetic left. The Playlist: Unreleased Chris Cornell, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

The nine-song "Amok" has an experimental groove, not much different from what you would expect from a Radiohead album, albeit one with a tad more funk thanks to Flea's sometimes adventurous bass lines. Yorke, Flea come together in supergroup debut 2013-02-27T15:13:09Z

The music draws R&B, four-on-the-floor dance grooves, reggae and rock into its pop packages. Review: Ariana Grande Asserts Herself With Stilettos and a Soaring Voice 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

"Say I'm old-fashioned, say I'm over the hill," Seger declared on "Old Time Rock & Roll," riding a deep R&B groove tailored for 45RPM records and caring not a whit about trends. Bob Seger full of conviction, energy at United Center 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

“Love is that which carves the lines and grooves, the curvature of our desire.” 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Bill Waxes On About Love, but Does He Sound Believable? 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

Her set crackled again with the addition of guitarist Gary Clark Jr., who got deep into the groove of “Higher Ground” as Beyoncé sang about powers lying and people dying. Beyonce, Ed Sheeran toast Stevie Wonder at all-star Grammy tribute 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

Seattle’s favorite soul party band, The Dip, kicked off the action at the main stage and drew a surprisingly large crowd for a 4 p.m. set, hypnotizing them into a sweet groove. Despite threat of rain, music fans turn out for Capitol Hill Block Party 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

It was up to McAllister to thread the needle — and he did, with a rock backbeat that nonetheless grooved hard. Animal Mother has mastered jazz — but mainly breaks away from it 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

The handle design is slightly different than the one shown in the picture you sent because food-safety rules for commercial kitchens required eliminating a groove by the screw where food could collect. How to clean an antique basket 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

But the album resists the worn emotional grooves of the breakup genre. Kacey Musgraves’s Expanding Universe 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Bright consonances and buoyant grooves in David Claman’s “Like This,” for violin and cello, suggested half of the Kronos Quartet in action. Music Review: Cutting Edge Concerts Continue at Symphony Space 2010-04-06T22:28:00Z

Thank you for Sabotage bass riff and many other great grooves. Reaction to death of Adam Yauch of Beastie Boys 2012-05-05T01:46:03Z

And now that we're into our third season, everyone is settling into their groove and everyone is calmer. | Norman Reedus 2012-10-15T16:31:44Z

Two-thirds of the way through, that groove drops away and the whole thing becomes much warmer and more human, Rostron's vocal suddenly appearing unembellished. New music: Planningtorock – Patriarchy Over & Out 2012-07-05T06:00:00Z

A calypso with an irresistible upbeat groove, “Jump in the Line” claims a lot of different authors in various versions, but seems to have come from Lord Kitchener via Lord Flea. Work, Love, Dignity and Play: 10 Key Harry Belafonte Songs 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

A mad scientist breaking beats down to their molecular level, seamlessly stitching loops and reshaping them into something with preternatural groove. Prediction: Madlib + Kanye West = OMG 2010-06-28T23:16:00Z

But Episode 2 — showing on Wednesday along with the premiere — indicates the concept’s promise; the show stops trying to be too many things and, for a half-hour at least, finds a groove. ‘Fresh Off the Boat,’ ABC Show Based on Eddie Huang’s Memoir 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile, beyond such reasoning, the music invents new grooves by the minute, as a result of numerous cross-fertilising atmospheric relationships between the practitioners. Paul Morley's Showing Off ... Dubstep 2010-10-01T17:37:00Z

It boasts a fine performance from Thompson, who starts the movie in eccentric groove like a prickly version of Joyce Grenfell's Miss Gossage, but slowly and subtly reveals her character's vulnerabilities and complexities. Saving Mr Banks: the critics' view 2013-10-21T10:26:27Z

Watery, ethereal keyboards often contrasted with engaging, swaggering grooves aimed at the hips and heart. Twin Shadow lives up to the hype with style 2011-01-15T14:24:00Z

There are many new characters, but most seem fated to fall into the same narrow groove as old ones. 2010-01-15T04:09:00Z

In the dance era, the groove was very important, but the Bee Gees weren't about the groove. Bee Gees 'on a par with Beatles' 2012-05-21T15:36:29Z

It’s grooving, it feels really good, and then the melody comes in and instantly makes your head turn. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Revive Music, an independent promoter specializing in the convergence of jazz and groove, will be responsible for lineups at the Bowery Ballroom and NuBlu. NYC Winter Jazzfest to Honor Thelonious Monk 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

"The pear filling is spooned onto the grooved cookies after baking to better retain the shape of the centers, and a sprinkle of eye-catching pine nuts completes the look." 13 holiday classics turned into cookies 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

And there’s more fresh blood in the scene from jam-band fans, who groove to techno’s extended loops and intricate beat patterns. The Sun Never Sets on the Techno Tourist 2010-05-20T21:55:00Z

"The Hive" and "The Vamp" work deep funk grooves and Jones plays with judicious restraint. New CDs: Old master Booker T. ? no MGs, but great new album 2011-05-10T00:44:08Z

Now in its seventh year, east London's premier hipster one-dayer has finally found its groove after some trying early outings. Field Day – review 2013-05-26T16:41:14Z

Motor City Drum Ensemble’s dusty grooves and Nina Kraviz’s mischievous techno top the bill. 10 of the best city music festivals in the UK 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

Debut album Escape works its groove hard, but with contributions on keyboard from Sanae Yamada, these epic and psychedelic workouts acquire a lightness of touch. This week's new live music 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

The popular conception of metal is that it’s fast and technical, but this New Orleans foursome is indebted to the drum grooves and thick, bluesy guitar riffs of Southern rock. Your week in Seattle music: Rufus Wainwright, Deck the Hall Ball and more 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

It was all about edgy, hard-hitting groove, and the improvisations tended to be collective ones. Review | Michael Bowie gets funky at Blues Alley 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Our brains tend to get into a groove of assumptions and automatic reactions, so the more detailed your notes, the better. Perspective | My 5-year-old is mean to her older brother. I can’t seem to stop it. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z

Then settle in for soulful grooves under the stars. 36 Hours in Zagreb, Croatia 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

He’s an advocate of throwing it all together: funk, Cuban grooves, city blues, early hip-hop. Live Jazz: 5 April Standouts, From Andrew Cyrille to Linda May Han Oh 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

As she finished the song - and paused - a fan yelled out the last word of the groove to laughs from the crowd. Nicks, Fogerty, more perform with Grohl in NYC 2013-02-14T17:16:09Z

The ensemble grooved hard with each tune — often aggressively percussive, though sometimes, as on “Is It Love That Inspires You?,” impossible to pin down. Review | Joel Ross, a vibraphone wunderkind, weds sweet melodies to advanced-math rhythms 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z

“Speech Impediment” suggested its title with an irregular groove — appropriately stuttering, especially in Doob’s brush-slapped intro. Review | An evening of exceptional rhythm from jazz bassist Linda Oh 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z

Now, you found a groove in this independent film world. Dianna Agron on embracing indies after "Glee": "When you ask for something, life can give it to you" 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

“He agreed. George Benson doesn’t read music. He just heard the song and automatically fell into the groove.” Don Sebesky, Arranger Who Helped Broaden Jazz’s Audience, Dies at 85 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

Ms. Akerlund said that not everyone grooves so well with her flamboyance. The Stylist B. Akerlund on Her Looks for Beyoncé and Other Stars 2013-12-19T01:04:06Z

They work well within the tentative improvised arrangements, moving from groove to tightly-wound intensity with a smiling sense that they are happening. Todd Rundgren: 'What I'm doing isn't even really music' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-13T13:01:33Z

He will hit his groove and deliver a string of intensities. Adding Up a Prolific Poet’s Charming Weather Reports 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

One of these — “Please Stand By,” a slow, brooding groove with Middle Eastern undertones — cropped up twice, first as a coda to Cole Porter’s “Night and Day” and then, more expansively, as the set closer. Music Review: Greg Osby at the Vanguard, Without Nostalgia 2010-08-04T22:41:00Z

If you haven't reconnected with your inner baker since quarantine, allow this vibrant side dish to help you get back in the groove. Look like a professional baker with Martha Stewart's no-knead focaccia bread 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z

Its structural brilliance is that there’s no robust chorus or melody, just Ms. Franklin, her piano, a blues groove and her mood. Aretha Franklin Had Power. Did We Truly Respect It? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

That “evil banana” joke is surely the work of Ms. Shear, who manages to wedge some audience-friendly contemporary humor into the sentimental grooves of the story. Review: ‘Tuck Everlasting’ Swaps Out the Circle of Life for an Eternally Unspooling Ribbon 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Her globally sourced grooves, girlish smile and sinuous hips made her a music-video sensation. Shakira Finds Liberation, One Song at a Time 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

The groove is spring-loaded, Caribbean-tinged and jazzy, and it works through ever-changing variations — with call-and-response vocals, teasing guitar lines, electronics and horns — on the way to a seamless segue into the next song, “Haute.” PinkPantheress’s Bittersweet ‘Barbie’ Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Overt self-love proclamations are in vogue these days, but THEESatisfaction’s warm space-funk grooves and infectious individualism subtly lit those candles without the cliches. 15 artists who defined Seattle music in the 2010s 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

“Hey Jude” wouldn’t groove without him, a major reason why cover versions seem limp. “Hey Jude” at 50: Celebrating the Beatles’ most open-hearted masterpiece 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Scofield, who has trafficked recently in an assertive groove, almost seems to be setting reminders for himself. New Music: Mindless Behavior and LeAnn Rimes - Review 2011-09-26T22:44:16Z

Those two words echoed repeatedly as the band surged into a noise squall that didn’t fully subside until they found the psychedelic-tinged, midtempo groove of “Death in Midsummer,” one of the new record’s highlights. Review | Deerhunter brings its earsplitting sonic tingle to odd and wonderful 9:30 Club show 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

It was Lewis who helped ensorcell Jam with stronger grooves. Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

It didn't help that this era's Clapton is all about the slow groove of "Wonderful Tonight," while the crowd responded best to "Cocaine," one of only a few upbeat numbers. Clapton's KeyArena show solid but short on spontaneity 2011-02-28T04:11:03Z

Because suddenly, being in and grooving on and talking about musicals is the hippest thing going. Give them a hand! Musicals stage a comeback. 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The grand mixture that is Cuban music — its intricate grooves, melodic inflections, arrays of drums — began flowing into her compositions. A Composer Puts Her Life in Music, Beyond Labels 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

"There's nothing wrong with the road we're on," he croons tenderly over the humming groove of "Happy & Free" — the sentiment, clearly, of a man who's only recently begun driving the 405. Dean Wareham trades in N.Y. urbane for West Coast chill 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

But it is assembled only seasonally and may well need some time to get into its groove. Music Review: Alice Coote and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet at Mostly Mozart 2013-07-31T21:15:18Z

All around us, it seemed, people were dressing up in beads and kaftans and grooving to the latest hits from the Beatles and the Stones. Separated by 2 centuries and one wall: visiting Hendrix’s and Handel’s houses in London 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

The tap vocabulary establishes that the dancers have functioning hip joints, but they can’t sit into the grooves. Trinity Irish Dance Company Review: Those Flashing, Percussive Feet 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

In the video, he sports a black T-shirt with an image of Aaliyah’s face on it and he’s grooving to the sound of his mix. His Dreams Came True, Despite the Pandemic 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z

Still, Selaocoe spends a lot of time with classical ensembles, introducing fresh approaches to groove, including techniques informed by Africa’s wealth of stringed instruments. Abel Selaocoe Finds a Home in Improvisation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

When we hit that groove, you couldn't stop your foot tapping. Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton on Town Called Malice 2012-11-12T17:33:06Z

But it’s quintessentially Darkside, full of bruising, demotic grooves and vaporous delicacy. Darkside returns to lay claim to the title of best psychedelic rock band in the world 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

It's not supposed to be about songs anymore, but grooves, riffs and passion. Post-punk landscape: Before there was a Nirvana, R.E.M. blazed the trail 2011-09-22T16:34:37Z

Louisahhh's louche vocal is set off by some incredibly satisfying counterpoint melodies, distorted horns going off like sirens and a repeated descent into a deep and compulsive groove. F&M playlist 2011-08-25T20:30:00Z

He occasionally becomes belligerent, but always settles into the groove. Download this: "Memo Tape" by Paul Dally 2011-04-25T19:39:13Z

There are moments when the vocal seems to slip away from her a little, like a phonograph needle jerking out of its groove—this is the strange looseness of the freshly wounded. The Feminist Trailblazing of Sinéad O’Connor 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Of course the arrival of the unsinkable if highly dorky Larry will reawaken Mercy's groove eventually, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. "Larry Crowne": Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts' tepid screwball love affair 2011-06-29T20:01:00Z

Both fizzed and resolved, with vamps and grooves and tight melodies: positive from start to finish, easygoing and affirmative and cohesive. Review: George Cables Trio at the Village Vanguard 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Adding to the infectious groove is the live band sound featuring real brass section, and bass guitar and a bluesy guitar riff with crowd noises in the background. Glitter down the Atlanta Highway – the B-52s are setting out on their final dance party! 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

Murphy’s sassy, exuberant voice, which finds its groove so naturally in Y.A., is more restrained here. Can an Advice Columnist Help This Middle Schooler? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

It often lacks a rhythmic "groove," and when there are lyrics, they are not easy to sing along with. Why you should consider adding classical music to your exercise playlist 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

His current LP The Secret makes the union explicit: he's getting into a swamp rock groove, but keeping his fabulous vocal melodies in the foreground. This week's new live music 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z

The following year, she found her own groove with the “Self-Eaters”: figures consuming their own body parts with gleeful abandon. Art Review: Dana Schutz at Neuberger Museum - Review 2011-10-06T23:56:06Z

“Voyage” is the Swedish mega-group’s first LP since “The Visitors,” but the lush grooves of songs like “Don’t Shut Me Down” sound like they’ve been retrieved from a time capsule. 66 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Second of all, “Time of my Life” isn’t exactly an intimate groove. What Are the Best Songs for Seduction? The Results Will Surprise You 2012-10-26T16:00:33Z

The lone exception was when the stage turned into a gym for “Side to Side,” a song with a syrupy reggae-pop groove perfect for — as Grande and her bike-riding dancers proved — a spin class. Review | Not much ‘dangerous’ about Ariana Grande’s live performance 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

In a West Hollywood, Calif., recording studio, Keys cranks up the volume and grooves along to the steady backbeat, a beatific smile on her face. After Fifteen Years, Alicia Keys Has Found an Entirely New Voice 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

The cowboy, the politician, the punk rocker, and the soccer mom all groove at the same music clubs and palm tortillas at the same Tex-Mex joints. Weekend Itinerary: Austin, TX 2013-02-21T23:20:05.960Z

“Kaleidoscope Dream” is, purposefully, a little washed-out, a blend of Prince-isms and slurry grooves. Music Review: The R&B Star Miguel at Bowery Ballroom 2012-10-03T22:19:09Z

The second starts on a bass/drums gallop, briefly turns to a folksy improvised melody, then swells up over Prevost's cymbal-tingling groove almost into an orthodox jazz walk and a softly multiphonic close. Evan Parker/John Edwards/Eddie Prevost: All Told Vol 1 – review 2012-06-07T21:40:00Z

I’m encouraged by the emergence of artists today who have pursued “groove” in their jazz without compromising creativity, reminding us that this can be music that makes you want to move. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

They mix Latin grooves with great melody lines, sparkling keyboards and the heritage of early-90s strident indie guitars. February's best music from across the MAP 2013-02-15T09:17:22Z

They laid down a fat groove for Santana's soaring solos, and each took the spotlight himself at least once. Santana plays classics at White River 2011-08-27T03:12:27Z

"It becomes about the groove, and not overplaying and over-embellishing," Carter says. Regina Carter takes her jazz violin on a jaunt around the world 2010-05-20T20:12:00Z

Then, as the song’s catchy bass groove swelled, he strutted boldly into the spotlight in blue platform heels, a floral dress and a “full-beat face” of makeup. The renaissance of drag queen legend Kevin Aviance 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Do you get into a different groove doing one or the other? Singing with Gaga, a new box and jelly bean memories: Paul McCartney returns 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Keys twirled, grooved and sometimes sat alone hitting high notes from the piano. Pop superstar Alicia Keys unveils new album ‘Keys’ in Dubai 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

Tracks such as White Shirt and Opportunity are not so much songs as grooves, knotted swathes of Hammond organ, wah-wah guitar and shuffling drums over which singer Tim Burgess ladles his earnest drone. The Charlatans 2010-06-02T20:46:00Z

It takes a bit of time for the documentary to find its groove. ‘This Changes Everything’ Review: Hollywood’s Men, Called to Action 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the best-known, most inspirationally composed and best-balanced in terms of the band's capacity for both lyricism and jubilant grooving is 1973-4's Mysterious Traveller. Great moments in jazz: Weather Report and the orchestration of fusion 2011-02-25T14:49:29Z

His bass playing is stellar, nailing grooves with drummer Chad Smith while dancing up a storm of melody. Album review: Red Hot Chili Peppers, 'I'm With You' 2011-08-26T16:04:00Z

Still, it was not until working together on Linklater’s follow-up, “Before Sunrise,” that the director and the editor first “got in a groove,” Adair said. Richard Linklater and Sandra Adair: Three Decades of Action and Cuts 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z

He started with the meditative acoustic guitar picking of “Tindo Quando” but soon brought in his entire band for grooves that weren’t only from his home. Music Review: Baaba Maal at Fillmore New York 2010-05-02T22:11:00Z

Meanwhile, Sugar's "Let's Be Friends" affords Ringo with a driving dance groove, which he fills out with a funky horn arrangement. Ringo Starr's purely positive new "EP3" finds the light in a downtrodden world 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

"Never let the lyric get in the way of the groove," White said. On this Earth Wind and Fire Day, remember "September" as a beautiful case of accidental magic 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z

He set up loops in real time, building a Frankenstein groove; then he set off a preset composition, overlaying it all with a soaring synth-guitar solo. Music Review: Pat Metheny at the Blue Note - Review 2011-10-14T23:15:27Z

Don’t worry about scuffing up the grooves, although it wouldn’t hurt to fold a piece of sandpaper and quickly run it down each line. How to paint wainscoting that has tiny grooves 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z

She hesitated, then said, “I would say this is definitely a place where each Pierre has a little bit of their own groove.” The Musical Eccentric Who Turned Tolstoy’s Pierre Into Every Seeker 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

But after a while the score settles into a repetitive groove that matches the linear thrust of the story; although each song is effective on its own terms, they begin to sound interchangeable. | 'The Burnt Part Boys': Mining Families in Disaster?s Wake at Playwrights Horizons 2010-05-26T02:29:00Z

If you notice a groove near the base of your nail close to the cuticle, the triggering event probably happened at least a month before. Are ‘covid nails’ a sign you had the virus? Experts weigh in. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

"It kind of grooves better, and I think it translates into the food," she said. Who's rocking to the music? That's the chef 2012-04-26T04:30:48Z

A modal groove piece seemed to trail off midstream during Mr. Evans’s solo, and what was probably meant as a flourish registered instead as apathy. Music Review: The Bill McHenry Quartet at the Village Vanguard 2012-03-21T21:12:12Z

I was just getting my groove back when I looked up and saw him lean toward her, and there it was: the kiss. Modern Love: Revenge of the Friend 2011-03-24T19:20:52Z

It's a world music set of great variety, with contemporary jazz and Latin grooves mixed with with the sounds of Habichuela's roots. F&M playlist 2010-06-17T22:45:00Z

Regina tries to boost up a broken Maleficent, and later succeeds in helping her at least partially get her fiery groove back. 'Once Upon a Time' recap: Regina (partially) joins the dark side in 'Enter the Dragon' 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Similarly, the dueling story lines that comprise the script feel slammed together, so the film as a whole never finds a groove - which only accentuates the fact that it's overlong. Capsule reviews: 'Tron: Legacy,' 'How Do You Know' 2010-12-16T21:31:05Z

Timed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Holiday's birth, "Yesterday I Had the Blues" follows James' 2014 album, "While You Were Sleeping," which dabbled in outsized guitars and dance grooves. Jazz singers bring new life to old standards

Once everyone involved, and everyone watching, knows the grooves of the media narrative, how could anyone in the cameras' glare possibly behave "naturally"? Gillian Flynn on her bestseller Gone Girl and accusations of misogyny 2013-05-01T18:14:56Z

Under the guise of the court jester, Perry infiltrated Western music, earning that nickname of “the Upsetter” as he set profound messages to enticing grooves. Perspective | Behind the smokescreens, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry was a true master of sound and spacetime 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

Instead they recruited master studio musicians with the technique to play a syncopated groove in near-perfect time for five or 10 minutes. Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ May Rule the Summer 2013-05-29T21:52:14Z

The panels are designed to float within grooves in the frame, allowing them to shrink or swell without altering the overall dimensions of the door. How to repair cracked panels in wooden doors 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

“In the beginning, God had a groove. And from that groove came the groove of all grooves.” Review: Finding a Collective Groove in Church and in House Dance 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

With the band, Mr. Simon also finds new grooves for older songs. Paul Simon’s Ambition, and Inspiration, Never Gets Old 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

But, Kenny added, “when they settle into a groove that aligns with the novel’s, the movie delivers great unsettling jolts that approximate the power of King’s vision.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Citizen Hearst’ and ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

The characters bumble around and take blows, but ultimately somewhat find their groove in this scene that uses the animation style itself to illustrate some of the mayhem. Watch the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ First Fight in ‘Mutant Mayhem’ 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z

Some new artists take a while to find their creative groove or footing. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

And the songs don’t settle for prolonging even the most perfectly formed groove. Music Review: Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Plays Funk 2010-07-12T21:54:00Z

The gospel-inflected groove was its biggest hit, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and on the U.K. singles chart and is a hallmark of R&B's '90s golden era. Charmayne 'Maxee' Maxwell of Brownstone fame dies at 46 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

There’s just a groove and a chant, as Blue, whose words have failed him through much of the film, stands immovable, and finally declares, “Can’t tek no more.” What “Babylon” Captured About Racism and Reggae 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Or, as a Gaga teacher usually says near the end of each class, “Find your groove.” Twisting Body And Mind 2011-08-12T15:28:19Z

To hip-hop artists, he was the supplier of endless beats and grooves. ‘The Cool Guy’: Pop and Theater Stars Celebrate the Composer of ‘Hair’ 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

Taken as a whole, the most populous display looks like a forest, with the works’ grooves and marks recalling tree bark. 3 Art Gallery Shows to Explore From Home 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Familiar genre trappings do little to dispel the groove of “Junction 48,” which does for the Israeli city of Lod what “8 Mile” aimed to do for the suburbs of Detroit. Review: ‘Junction 48’: An Arab Rapper’s Refuge Amid Charged Politics 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

Revisiting the groove of the mid-1990s, back when hip-hop and R&B were still equal dance partners. The 54 Best Songs of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Here are the darts, neat and inviting in their "velveted plastic grooves", but apparently ownerless. Poem of the week: Darts by Christina Dunhill 2012-08-27T11:35:18Z

Some people grooved quietly at the edges of the room; others sprang into back flips or tap-danced in heels. Pros, Sure. But Reborn as Party Animals on the Dance Floor. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

It is a highly specialized machine that feeds an analog signal to a diamond stylus that carves grooves into a blank disk. Can You Really Turn a Hobby Into a Career? 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

Similarly, “The Last O.G.” took a while to find its groove — a full season, in fact. "The Last O.G." thrives in its tastier second season 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

The young quartet mixes slick guitar grooves with well thought-out electronic elements and wonderful vocals, with amazing and highly addictive results. November's best music from across the MAP 2012-11-15T09:00:00Z

Over a mid-tempo groove, Ms. Moses sang the song’s lyrics of invitation with acrobatic poise, moving deliberately at cloud altitude. Live Jazz: 3 July Standouts, From Thumbscrew to Nabaté Isles 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

He got into the groove — at one point he clapped with delight, hard enough to lose a ring off one hand — and he brought the song into his own realm. Music Review: ?Robert Johnson at 100? at the Apollo Theater 2012-03-07T19:51:48Z

It grooves, without bass or drums or anything else; in every song Ms. Welch and Mr. Rawlings seem to find a fundamental rhythm that describes them both on some cardiological level. New Music 2011-06-27T22:41:28Z

Though the official events of the day were over, the forests and fields covered with thousands of tents were throbbing with the beats and bass grooves of innumerable homegrown dance parties. Disco Biscuits? Accessory: A Festival of Their Own 2010-07-16T21:48:00Z

On screen, Grande appeared as a Disney princess in gossamer pastel light to perform an orchestra-backed interlude and danced in slow motion to a hip-hop groove. Review | Not much ‘dangerous’ about Ariana Grande’s live performance 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

I don't care how hyped the opening bars get the crowd, they're always jarring and wreck my groove. Nicki Minaj's Super Bass and the year's best summer jams 2011-08-17T16:15:54Z

Using the flat roller, he presses the spline against the screen over the groove, seating them both. What to do about a torn window screen 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Many of the songs run along similar grooves, relying on laid-back melodies that gradually expand into soaring climaxes. Review: ‘Tuck Everlasting’ Swaps Out the Circle of Life for an Eternally Unspooling Ribbon 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

Hailing a group of mathematically-precise young explorers of tricky contemporary beats, who like making polyphonic in which the melodies simultaneously move to different grooves, hardly warrants holding the front page. Dave Manington's Riff Raff: Hullabaloo – review 2013-01-24T23:30:01Z

They've never shown any inclination to get their groove on, and in fact the album contains nothing more than a frosting of electronic beats. Snow Patrol - review 2012-02-13T17:50:23Z

Vinyl is the real deal, they say, the real information, captured at a wider frequency and dug into the grooves; a CD is just cheap data, and it’ll never sound as good. Second spin: the vinyl revival 2013-07-18T01:11:16Z

Before long the groove felt tumbling and unstoppable, as each man had his say. Music Review: Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band at the Blue Note 2012-05-25T22:30:07Z

In spite of this alarming aspect, the band are not unclubbable, but Mi Ami's key strength is in the vaguely intimidating nature of their groove. This week's new live music 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

Things slow down a bit in the second episode and the show finds its own groove. Oh thank god, The Wheel of Time isn’t terrible 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

Still the finest north London all-nighter in the business, tonight Mousetrap celebrates 20 years of mod-friendly grooves and unashamedly psychedelic sounds. Clubs picks of the week 2011-03-12T00:07:38Z

I may be getting my wish when it comes to Charlotte getting her art-world groove back. ‘And Just Like That …’ Season 2, Episode 4 Recap: Vivante 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z

As a composer and arranger, Mr. Robinson likes to gather mass by accretion, stacking woodwind or brass lines over Mr. Gress’s unshakable grooves. New Music: ‘La Misma Gran Senora’ by Jenni Rivera and ‘Tiresian Symmetry’ by Jason Robinson 2012-12-17T22:57:59Z

But when the jubilant choral numbers subside, as inevitably they must, “Sister Act” slumps back into bland musical-theater grooves and mostly lacks the light of invigorating inspiration. | 'Sister Act': Different Church, More Sequins 2011-04-21T02:30:24Z

Folding laundry and ”booty grooving,” said another user, named Bevin. New York Nightlife Goes Online 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z

I knew I needed to get my groove back. The author of "The Dinner Party Project" on the easy secrets of being a great host 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

The parting strip is a thin piece of wood that fits into a groove, so it isn’t easy to pry out. How to make stuck windows slide again 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

With its mix of understated grooving, chiming rock/blues guitar sounds and passages of glistening delicacy, this band recalled the early ensembles led by vibraphonist Gary Burton. Gwilym Simcock/Mike Walker 2010-05-27T20:46:00Z

The band’s drummer, Tyler Greenwell, lays deep into every groove, keeping things simple and taut. New Music from Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame 2011-08-08T22:27:29Z

And Austen's work is everywhere so fresh, just because she's at the beginning of this new realism, before it's worn into its cultural groove. What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan – review 2012-06-15T21:55:14Z

It’s there in the grain and determination of the singing, in the patiently rolling grooves, in how its down-to-earth stories unfold. Leon Bridges Brings Southern Soul Into the 21st Century 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

Often, Flexions played a gnarly groove pushed forward by Welch's guitar, and played that groove with military purpose, as if beating back an invisible force. Concert review: Flexions at the Crocodile 01/19/11 2011-01-20T18:04:05Z

“Life of Crime” quickly settles into a groove, amused by its 1970s décor and what sounds like Mr. Leonard’s dialogue. 'Life of Crime,' Based on Elmore Leonard’s ‘The Switch’ 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

She sang bluntly about sex on her own terms, demanding satisfaction with feral yowls and rasps, her voice slicing across the grooves that she wrote and honed as her own bandleader and producer. Betty Davis Was a Raw Funk Pioneer. Her Decades of Silence Are Over. 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

Lambert’s coolly commanding stage presence shined over the modernized road-dog anthem’s sauntering groove. Miranda Lambert brings her post-divorce party to Tacoma Dome 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

And that's "influences" not just as in "likes" but as in you can hear elements of those people in his luscious, loopy future grooves. New band of the day - Mr Wesley Johnson (No 1,417) 2012-12-17T17:04:00Z

In “I Want Your Sex,” Michael, with the aid of an infectious groove and booming voice, is able to combat against both the Puritans and the predators. George Michael, a queer guide for the straight guys 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

“That’s the Way I Like It,” from her forthcoming solo debut “Lily We Need to Talk Now,” is smoother around the edges than Palberta’s spiky grooves, but it’s still got ample personality to spare. Shawn Mendes and Tainy’s Summer Breeze, and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

Those demoed grooves and themes were later stitched together on computers by Yorke and Godrich, with some gnarly synthetic threads: literally, Stuck Together Pieces. Atoms for Peace – review 2013-07-27T23:05:19Z

“I love drones and the deep, hypnotic grooves they can produce,” he said. Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z

If he has two copies of the record, and two turntables, and sufficient manual dexterity, he can alchemize the incidental into the infinite, extend the groove for as long as anybody cares to get down. Down with fascist iPods 2012-06-13T00:07:00Z

The long title track evolves through stuttering sax parts, into wah-wah guitar passages, Hammer-film organ swells, warm brass ensembles, and a gradual shift from hip-hop to a Latin groove. John Escreet: The Age We Live In ? review 2011-07-07T20:03:01Z

A similarly star-studded drooled over the "deliciously hypnagogic miasma of softly whispered vocals, pummelling looped grooves and Shields' trademark 'glide guitar'". Alternative Mercury Prize 2013-09-14T00:21:58Z

When it returned for its second season last month, “The Carmichael Show” quickly settled into an easy groove of depicting hot-button issues while staying funny. Jerrod Carmichael on ‘The Carmichael Show,’ Depression and Therapy 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

But publishing professionals and readers who regularly flick between genres say you can find a new groove by looking to reliable sources and closely examining your literary habits. Stuck in a Reading Rut? How to Create New Book Habits 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

Sam Moore, the indomitable soul singer, set a high bar with his keening, regal interpretation of “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,” over a gospel groove. Jimmy Scott Honored at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z

Some tunes are withdrawn, almost static; one, “Get Dressed,” is discursive and funky, as if Grant Green were playing for dancers against a James Brown groove in a small club. Chicago and Jazz at Play, Ideally 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z

The canyons appear as deep lush grooves, a wrinkled green carpet cloaking the volcanic peaks. Cape Verde gets its moment in the sun 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

“We just haven’t been in the studio enough to get a groove. But I think that things have gone well when we’ve been there and everyone I talked to enjoys listening to us.” ESPN, ABC ramp up hockey coverage with NHL All-Star Game 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z

The score included what Dorrance called “the ’90s funk groove of my dreams” and sounds that brought back earlier parts of her life. ‘Do What Moves You’: When the Student Takes Over as Composer 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

Its main ingredients are raw and rolling dance grooves and long dazzling displays of guitar work rather than lyrical subtlety or the urge to sharpen the minds of audiences back home. Bombino: Niger's Tuareg guitar hero 2013-04-07T16:00:01Z

Following a strong couture show in July, the design duo seem to be right in the groove at Valentino. Fashion Review: Karl Lagerfeld Sends Out a Pearl of a Chanel Show 2011-10-04T17:38:09Z

Just before, the inventive young R&B producer Dev Hynes performed under his Blood Orange moniker with a batch of tensely melodic grooves. FYF Fest Day 2: Redemption through Flying Lotus, Haim and more 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Insert an upside-down penny into several grooves of your tires. Some areas are already seeing snow. Here’s how to winterize your car. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Inside, guests drank cocktails from plastic cups and grooved to a D.J. Next Stop: In Brazil: Unspoiled Beach Fit for the Chic 2010-03-26T07:54:00Z

Much of the material from “Plastic Beach” was little more than a groove and a novel collaboration, like the Middle Eastern ensemble joining the British rappers Kano and Bashy in “White Flag.” Music Review: A Virtual Band With Plenty of Friends 2010-10-10T06:21:00Z

Over a tight groove punctuated by horns in opener "Dreams Come True," Flowers describes being tantalized as a kid by "promises and visions of a country unseen." Brandon Flowers' new solo album, 'The Desired Effect,' takes personal turn 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lithgow and Mr. Molina say their rapport in the film, which feels like a cozy, well-worn groove from the start, happened easily. John Lithgow and Alfred Molina Play a Longtime Couple 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

I think as a season progresses, you get into a groove. Chris Messina is a work in progress on and off 'Mindy Project' 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Rather than settle for one groove, this album shuttles between several: quasi new wave, Christian pop, acoustic soul, and many more. Justin Bieber, Still Seeking a Sound 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

As a rolling groove filled the tent, the first dancer of the first set let loose with some moves. Coachella 2015, Day 1: Early arrivers face heat, massive caterpillar 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

And the ensemble hasn’t yet fallen into the natural common groove that might mitigate that impression. Review: ‘Evening at the Talk House’ Is Just the Dystopia Next Door 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

But even though her volume rarely goes above piano, Noname has attitude and depth to spare as she raps over asymmetrical grooves that have a live, unprocessed sound. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

It is also meant to put listeners in a calm groove. Jamaica Seeks to Add Reggae to a Unesco Cultural Heritage List 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

It took a while — nearly the length of the Concerto No. 1 in D — for the group to find its collective groove. Music Review: 6 Vivaldis, One of Them Arranged by Bach 2010-08-31T20:48:00Z

Rife with the kind of sublimely loose grooves achievable only through instrumental precision, "Black Messiah" is as vital as it is sublime. D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' draws on history, sublime grooves 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Back in Manhattan, they deepened the grooves of their new relationship. It Was ‘Like We Were in Love in Another Life’ 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Before settling into a groove, the star's show flitted restlessly between fragments of songs and video clips. Jay-Z joins Beyonce show in London 2014-03-01T01:07:50Z

Lady bugs groove on "tippity" feet and ducks boogie on "slappity" feet in this lively picture book, illustrated with bright collages by Marc Brown . New summer reading will keep kids, teens and young adults cracking the books 2010-06-23T23:39:00Z

They then settled into a creative groove with big pictures like “Three Days of the Condor,” “Jeremiah Johnson,” “The Way We Were,” “The Electric Horseman,” “Havana,” “Absence of Malice,” “The Firm” and “The Interpreter.” David Rayfiel, Screenwriter With Sydney Pollack, Dies at 87 2011-06-23T04:19:30Z

He says he looks out at the audience at shows and sees more than grown-ups who grooved to his music decades ago. Resuming a national tour? Oh, Hall & Oates can go for that 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

He had jokes, singalongs and dance moves, along with those South African grooves that have optimism built in to their major chords. Music Review: Hugh Masekela Played His Horn and Sang at Rose Theater 2014-04-06T21:43:49Z

When the band swing into the winning grooves of Vaporize, a scattering of people rise from their seats to sway along before being gently tugged back down by their abashed mates. Broken Bells 2010-06-22T14:32:00Z

She found a groove within the Brahms score, abandoned the outward focus that can make her performances overly stiff and showed what she is capable of when she lets loose. At American Ballet Theater, New Romantics Can’t Beat a Greek God 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

But once I made "Super Size Me," I just kind of fell into this groove that I really love as a filmmaker and as an artist. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock hosts TV's '50 Greatest Documentaries' 2011-08-04T17:48:04Z

An unseen trumpet sounded an upward figure, followed by a tuba’s downward groove. “It’s not just a party, it’s our life”: Jazz musicians led the way back to the city after Katrina — but what is this “new” New Orleans? 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

Yet there was also room for the hypnotic grooves associated with dance music’s more underground days. Electric Zoo Returns Under Watchful Eyes 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

The album became a blueprint of sorts for West Coast gangsta rap, and his production style of incorporating slow hypnotic grooves, soulful vocals and heavy samples of Parliament and Funkadelic birthed the G-funk subgenre. Chris Brown party shooting: Another chapter in the life of Suge Knight 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

On “False Choice,” Johnson and his band alternate between a steady groove and a passage of hiccupping repetition; the track’s richest moments come when the two ideas get thrown together. Jeff Tweedy’s Homesick Tune, and 11 More New Songs 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Talking tough out of the side of his mouth, Algren finds a jazzy groove reading excerpts from “The Man With the Golden Arm,” with a hypnotic recitation of “Epitaph,” the poem that ends that novel. Hearing Genuine Voices of Midcentury Fiction 2014-01-19T22:40:18Z

But this collection, called “Groovy Mood”, seemed stuck in the well-worn groove of the hippie era. Special Report: Fashion Special Report: In High Definition Color 2011-01-16T18:42:01Z

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound. Down with fascist iPods 2012-06-13T00:07:00Z

Mr. Loueke has never had a problem conveying warmth, but his expressive gifts have rarely been marshaled as smartly as they are here, on an album that upholds groove as the ultimate truth. New Music: Music From Yeasayer, Tamia, Lionel Loueke and Divine Fits 2012-08-27T21:53:22Z

To talk about self-actualization is one thing, but Deradoorian’s work embodies it, especially in the earthy tones, churning drones and motorik grooves that comprise her second solo record, “Find the Sun,” due Friday. Angel Deradoorian Channels Cosmic Energy (and Ozzy Osbourne) 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z

As she sang, her body reacted, grooving to the sound of her strong and silky voice. Review: The Costume Dramas of New York City Ballet 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z

And it’s also apparent — even if used for different ends — on the grooving trance number “Last Night.” 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z

When Watts was 14, a couple of years into school in Suffolk and beginning to “find her groove”, it was decided the family would emigrate to Australia. Naomi Watts: ‘My soul was being destroyed’ 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

That means grainy, unvarnished singing, lyrics that promise honest sentiments, grooves built with physical instruments and a gospel-rooted determination to uplift. Review: Allen Stone Keeps His Distance From Modern Music in ‘Radius’ 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

He joked that Obama's record would be called, "After the second term, now I can finally get my groove on." Obama joins Jagger, B.B. King, to belt out blues 2012-02-22T13:28:08Z

Through meditative singing, festive grooves and wafting rhythms, “Source” is a strong statement that speaks directly to her background. Nubya Garcia, Tapping Into the Past to Make Jazz for a New Generation 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

But what’s really dislodged him from his usual groove is the bleak fact that the play’s title character is dead. Review: In ‘Hughie,’ With Forest Whitaker, Two Desolate Lost Souls 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

Refreshing its peak performance, the band hopes to draw one more generation of fans to its irresistible funk grooves and youthful ambitions. ‘Stop Making Sense’ Is Back, and Talking Heads Have More to Say 2023-09-09T04:00:00Z

At times, Lefty seems like the sum of his inspirations, which remains true even as the film progresses and settles into its groove. Review: The Sidekick as Hero in ‘The Ballad of Lefty Brown’ 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

By fall, both had fallen into a groove of togetherness: writing, eating, going to the gym. Worthy of a Romance Novel, With a Touch of Mystery 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Around 10 p.m. on a recent Saturday night, the party really found its groove. ‘Heck Yeah, We’re Dancing’: It’s Diplo, Live From His Living Room 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

The high point is “Jealous,” which initially appears to be part of his throwback-minded sound, with a slick 1980s groove. Albums by Nick Jonas, Bobby Shmurda and New Basement Tapes 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

If it was mint, £3,000. lf you put the needle on the groove, even for a second, it's not mint any more: it's mint minus. Britain's rarest record – yours for £200,000 2012-11-22T19:30:02Z

The rhythmic groove that makes reggae so intoxicating prevents the kind of development that edges a character forward, just as the repeated chorus structure, usually with repeated lyrics to match, stalls when deployed as drama. Review: In ‘The Harder They Come,’ Innocence Lost to a Reggae Beat 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

As a bass player, Christian McBride favors depth and directness, laying down sturdy grooves that exert irresistible pull. Music Review: Christian McBride Trio at the Village Vanguard 2012-12-14T23:18:18Z

The groove, the horns and that guitar lick can't help but get the feet moving and the fingers clicking. Six Songs of Me: Andrew Evans of When the Gramophone Rings 2012-08-23T10:10:40Z

He was able to descend the stairway and slot into the groove laid down by Timberlake. A Shambolic, Kind of Fabulous Oscars Ceremony 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z

They were long, vertical paintings in all black, with horizontal grooves cut into the thick acrylic paint surface, as if they’d been worked over with a rake. Black Is Still the Only Color for Pierre Soulages 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

We caught a groove so early in rehearsals. Richard Linklater on Baseball, College Life and His New Film 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

A groove in the middle is a natural resting spot for my fingers. The two-in-one kitchen tool that has found its way into my kitchen — three times 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

It’s hard to do housework when you’re wearing a groove between your office and a loved one’s hospital room. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: If your shiftless fiance won’t take out the trash, put him on the curb 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Between the drugs, the music, the lyrics, and Weberman’s own undeniably exceptional mind, something fell into the place, like a needle finding the groove of an LP. Ballad of a Bin Man: A.J. Weberman, the man who says he’s behind Bob Dylan’s Nobel Award for Literature 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Then the lights pulse, the way-out band grooves and a chorus in spandex starts to writhe. Review: ‘Electric Lucifer,’ or the Passion of the Bleep Bloop Beep 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Harrison, who also choreographs most of the players’ dances, is becoming a TikTok star in his own right for his impressive acrobatics and smooth grooves on the sidelines. ‘Baseball Players Don’t Dance’? The Savannah Bananas Beg to Differ. 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z

The Mondays remain an uneven experience, but songs such as Judge Fudge rumble convincingly towards a lasting groove. Happy Mondays – review 2012-12-23T00:07:47Z

This album was all about the moment and what happens when the groove is exact and the key is right. Cyndi Lauper realizes longtime dream with "Blues" 2010-06-18T20:54:00Z

Giddy grooves on a perfect summer afternoon from freak-folk's irrepressible man-child. Devendra Banhart at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-26T18:14:00Z

Some of the tracks on their album have a certain flimsy funkiness, but there is nothing here to rival the liquid groove of a Fools Gold or the acrid energy of a Hallelujah. New band of the day ? No 816: Shit Browne 2010-07-01T16:04:00Z

While he loved art history and immersed himself for a time in the world of high finance, it was with his pen — dipped, some said, in an inkwell of acid — that he found his groove. Michael Thomas, Writer and Bête Noire of the Moneyed Class, Dies at 85 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z

An unsuspecting crowd fell into the groove of his trumpet-featuring anthems, and grew to a few hundred people. SXSW 2011 post #12: the wrap-up 2011-03-23T17:22:05Z

It helps, too, that the twinkly video edit trims a minute of fat from the song, getting the ordinary groove out the way. F&M playlist 2010-05-27T22:45:00Z

But, as it turns out, sometimes it’s pleasurable enough just watching the most unlikely American comedy star since Bill Murray slip into a groove. Review: Melissa McCarthy Takes Charge in ‘The Boss’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

After covering more political history than it can efficiently summarize, "Formosa Betrayed" finds its groove when Kelly realizes how easily he's been manipulated. 'Formosa Betrayed': Action, intrigue amid Taiwan history lesson 2010-04-08T20:12:00Z

I couldn’t see him, but I sensed that Bienville was grooving right alongside them. New Orleans celebrates 300 years of letting the good times roll 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

As "The Mother" whipsaws the characters from Alaska to Cuba and back, the story struggles to find its groove because the propulsive action is at odds with the more sentimental moments. J.Lo takes charge in Netflix's gruesome action-thriller "The Mother" 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

And if any dance artist could groove out a church, it would be Harris, the hip-hop master who has become one of the most exacting and exciting choreographers of his generation. Review: Finding a Collective Groove in Church and in House Dance 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

On his own “Aria,” a duet for himself and Pennicott, Fortner worked a light, Latin groove that he underlined by stomping one foot. Pianist Sullivan Fortner and ensemble at Kennedy Center 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

But “Explode” stands as the band’s theme song; it ticks back and forth between thrashing and blasting, with a nice slow-mosh groove in the middle, all about the rush of seeing things blow up. Playlist: New CDs by Judith Berkson, Trash Talk and Others 2010-05-28T21:25:00Z

It has been ushered onto Broadway with a gentle hand by the director Sam Gold, who allows his terrific cast to find its own way into the twisting grooves of Mr. Eno’s writing. Theater Review: ‘Realistic Joneses’ Stars Toni Collette and Michael C. Hall 2014-04-07T02:00:12Z

With Teenage Jesus, she subverted the common purpose of rhythm — to create a groove that moves the music forward — to instead favor a static series of hellacious thuds. Lydia Lunch’s Infinite Rebellion 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

That same year, her third studio LP, “Grey Area,” a grooving and eclectic rumination on her early 20s, was named best British album at the NME Awards. Little Simz’s Big Moment 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

"It was so smooth," says Moni, remembering when Tay Sean first played the stripped-down groove for her at his south Beacon studio. Concert preview: Seattle singer JusMoni at Chop Suey 12/22/10 2010-12-15T19:46:05Z

By Sunday, the ever-shifting cast, a mix of core members and rotating guests, seemed to be finding its groove. Review: Ambition and Audacity From the School of Hard Knocks 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z

The prelude, “Erasure,” begins like “Emergence,” by getting into a groove — here Koh and droning orchestral flute. Vijay Iyer jazzes up the Ojai Music Festival 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

The groove started off so rickety and slow, but it was going somewhere sheltering and mysterious, and you could come, too. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Part of his story details the interaction between a needle and a record player — specifically, the moment the needle hits the groove on the record and the music begins to play. Hugo House stages 'Brief Encounters' between musicians and writers 2011-02-17T22:28:16Z

The legs were less elegant and elongated than the originals, and the bolts affixing them to the base were white, rather than black, the L-shaped brackets flat, not grooved. You avoid fake designer handbags and watches, but what about furniture? 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

“And because you can own a groove, you can own genre.” Stolen or Original? Hear Songs From 7 Landmark Copyright Cases. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

The first single is “Night Court in Compton,” a track that starts with inflections of woozy, mid-60s Blue Note postbop — think Herbie Hancock and Andrew Hill — and quickly sinks into a hypnotic groove. The Playlist: Black Eyed Peas Get Serious About Injustice, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

So someday soon, African and U.S. audiences might all groove to one dance. Is this the year that African music will conquer the United States? 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

He papered the walls of his bedroom with posters of David Bowie and Marc Bolan, played his records till their grooves ran flat and escaped to London as soon as he could, at 17. His Name Was Blame: A Legend of London Fashion Remembered 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

One day he fell into a groove while playing with his beloved friend Al Jackson Jr. on the drums. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The arrangement seems to teeter between structure and improvisation, straight groove and cosmic freedom. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

“Family Album” eventually becomes a show whose story you just want to tune out, the better to groove on the smart, tangy, entrancing songs. ‘Family Album,’ a Musical From Heidi Rodewald and Stew 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Visiting a Baptist service, with ministers preaching, gospel choirs grooving and animated congregations matching them step for step has become a staple of Harlem tourism. 36 Hours in Upper Manhattan 2014-02-20T19:20:26Z

Platoon, the lead track, opens with a series of eerie sounds before giving way to a midtempo groove – and it is a groove, not a beat or a pulse. New band of the day: Jungle (No 1,536) 2013-06-19T14:21:15Z

Rene, though, had finally seemed to be finding his confidence and groove. 'The Voice' recap: The top 12 results are in! 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

He grabbed a Y-shaped branch from a tree, and spent a few minutes carving grooves into the wood and stringing a cord through them as we watched, wondering what he was doing. Leaping Caimans and Tasty Piranha in the Wild Amazon 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

The percolating grooves of her songs fused mutuashi rhythms with salsa, Congolese soukous and other African and Caribbean rhythms, deploying synthesizers and horns alongside traditional percussion. Tshala Muana, Congolese Singer With Danceable Messages, Dies at 64 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Cantuária's songs splice a cool elegance and an underlying restlessness, and his early years as a percussionist are audible in the softly probing grooves he rolls under them. This week's new live music 2011-01-08T00:06:12Z

Last night's debut of the digital stage peaked with Glasgow's Auntie Flo playing a live show flavoured with futuristic tribal grooves. Clubs picks of the week 2012-08-17T23:05:32Z

Mr. Simons, often spotted at the Frieze Art Fair in London and a collector of contemporary art, seems to fit that groove. Dior Turns to Raf Simons 2012-04-09T16:27:12Z

There's also that little matter of international law: We're pretty sure that no matter where a woman is in the world, not grooving to "I Will Survive" is a fairly serious offense. Reese Witherspoon dancing alone makes us want to join her dance party 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

She’ll see what comes next in terms of movie roles, but, “I’m glad I’m kind of out of the dying groove”. Susan Sarandon: ‘The good news and bad news about Hollywood is that they’re not political’ 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

The results could have felt impenetrable, but Mr. Coleman and his crew keep the music light and lithe, with a slithery sense of groove. The Best Albums of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

In any case, the show, so uneven at first, is really finding a groove. ‘Scream Queens’ Season 1, Episode 9: ‘Ghost Stories’ 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Swampy southern grooves mingle with the latest Nashville trends, blue-eyed soul akin to the more celebrated Dusty in Memphis, and, on the eerie chamber-pop of Refractions and Penduli Pendulum, whispered intimations of psychedelia. Hidden treasures: Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete 2013-01-15T12:24:59Z

Potter made the evening’s first splash, a pinwheeling solo intro on the tenor that soon settled into a punchy groove called “Hold It.” Review | Chris Potter’s Circuits Trio made a splash at Blues Alley — with jaw-dropping moments from James Francies 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

While some people had moved on from the early pandemic hobbies like making sourdough, by this year many of us weren't so ambitious and fit ourselves back into the familiar butt grooves in our couches. The best breakout TV performances of the year, from twins and vamps to werewolves and superheroes 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z

As her band ran through a heavy soul groove, Scott sang of love as healing agent, of being shattered and in need.  BET 2014: Maxwell, Jill Scott offer love and desire at Staples Center 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

He never quite gets into his comedy groove. Film review: Get Him to the Greek 2010-06-24T21:10:00Z

Mr. Harrell then “tunes” the compiled vocal, making sure the pitch is precise, and “grooves” it, matching it precisely to the rhythm of the backing track. Kuk Harrell, Justin Bieber’s Vocal Producer 2012-06-29T12:43:09Z

Her return to the piano was one catalyst for her indelible Atlantic hits, defining the groove with churchy foundations and building a visceral call-and-response between her fingers and her voice. Jennifer Hudson Knew Aretha Franklin. To Play Her, She Had to Learn More. 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

This is when musicians work together to create song structures, grooves and lyrics to convey the themes. Grammy winner explains why Adele is right – album tracks should not be shuffled 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

On October 24, 1972, Stevie Wonder released his 15th album "Talking Book" and the world heard the infectious grooves and seamless vocal delivery of the song "Superstition" for the very first time. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

A deaf guitarist accompanied him, carving an angular, hard-rock edge into the backbeat groove with tube-driven power chords and keening solos. Deaf rapper Sean Forbes makes himself joyfully heard on the hip-hop scene 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Even after finding his groove as an actor, Talbot was still a bit of a wide-eyed kid from Nebraska. Review: 'The Entertainer' depicts old Hollywood 2013-01-14T18:38:08Z

That detail was missing at Saint Vitus, but nothing else was, including a drum groove that recalls, of all things, Toto’s “Rosanna.” Review: Baroness, Rebuilt Without Edges, Plays at Saint Vitus 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

Mom was into pop, rock and country, while Dad grooved to jazz and urban music. Hair metal forever! 2012-07-22T01:00:00Z

After a while, I found myself getting into the groove and somewhat territorial toward “my” tree: I’d started it, and I wanted to finish it. Travel: Olive oil in Paciano, Italy

My parents always acquiesced — after all, they too live in their own groove. Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Its floor is grooved in places with tracks from its past life as a trolley maintenance shed. For Chakaia Booker, Whose Medium Is Tires, the Art Is in the Journey 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

At times in this piece, the choreography locks into a groove, and the layerings of the agile dancers coming and going call to mind the masterful work of Brown. A Showcase for Up-and-Comers, With Some Vogueing (and Shade Thrown) 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

That show grooved on a score more soulful and appealing than most if not all of Mr. Menken’s subsequent work. Review: ‘A Bronx Tale: The Musical’ Doo-Wops Down Mean Streets 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Subverting its title, "Trying to Be Cool" glides effortlessly on a floral neon groove. Review: Phoenix returns with another strong album 2013-04-22T18:43:09Z

It started from the premise of Mr. Coleman’s music: clarion bebop themes giving way to long and grooving collective improvisations with no predetermined chord changes. Playlist: CDs From Guillermo Klein, Kris Davis and the Body 2010-08-08T00:47:00Z

“She coaxes our imaginations out of the well-worn grooves of the existing order.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

Like all good funk it meanders to all heck, but the groove abides throughout. Readers recommend: songs about uncertainty 2010-10-21T23:01:00Z

“I put pictures up on the wall in my new apartment of me dancing when I was so in shape and so in my groove,” she said. 2010-01-29T19:29:00Z

Ms. Arnwine plays rugged drum patterns against those riffs, adding little accents to the groove, smashing her cymbals nearly all the way through. Review: Pinkwash, Songs in the Key of Catharsis 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

“I want the possibilities to remain open — so rhythmically, not being in a set groove or just playing the pulse,” Mr. Ross said in a phone interview from his Brooklyn home. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Reviews have spoken of the band's "innovative and electrifying musicianship", their "exemplary songwriting", "creatively ambitious lyrics" and "captivating blend of insatiable grooves and profound poignancy". New band of the day – Alt-J (No 1,275) 2012-05-24T15:26:10Z

“In New York, I really found my groove,” she said in a recording for the Columbia Center for Oral History Research in 2014. Virginia Dwan, Behind-the-Scenes Force in the Art World, Dies at 90 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

Together, they create a new kind of Chinese groove, one less tied by citizenry and more by community involvement. Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

It has a groove, soul, and scant regard for European or American conventions. Readers recommend: discordant songs ? the results 2011-02-10T17:22:20Z

Before the beat and the band kicked in, he set up the groove alone, sneaking in a nod to Stevie Wonder’s “Too High.” Music Review: Eric Reed at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2012-05-30T22:28:08Z

The word “groove” is appropriate here as Pennewell opens the dance, another quartet, with a phrase he riffs on throughout: a weighted, bouncy skip and a sharp kick of the leg. Review: Two Years Later, Garth Fagan Dances Out His Company’s 50th 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

Mr. Koller played a two-beat groove, then palpitating blast beats, before heading into a crawling half-time breakdown; by the end his rhythms grew denser and more complex. Music Review: All Pigs Must Die, Metal and Hardcore at Acheron - Review 2012-01-22T22:44:46Z

"He represents a future without radical change," she says, by showing "a younger generation that can groove to Tchaikovsky and Beethoven". Has Gustavo Dudamel fallen from his pedestal? 2010-06-02T15:20:00Z

While remaining as fiery as ever, Sanders had developed an interest in soaring, magisterial melodies, and the rhythms of his recordings, while dense and multi-layered, often hewed toward a steady groove. “If You’re in the Song, Keep on Playing”: An Interview With Pharoah Sanders 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

“Soul Train” shows musicians, live or lip-synced, seizing their big TV moment before an ideal audience, one that could show the rest of America just how to shake it to the groove. An Appraisal: Don Cornelius, Smooth Operator on Behalf of Soul 2012-02-01T22:59:47Z

He touches up the groove with black and creates an instant wood-grain frame by applying a brown stain to the border area. Art In Review: LES ROGERS: ‘Summer Swells’ 2012-08-09T20:25:43Z

I know it well, and I’m sure most ethnic minorities do too; we all have our own “grooves” to follow. Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Two of his recent works — the incandescent “Gloria,” to Poulenc, and last season’s lively mix of groove and classicism in “Nyman String Quartet No. 2” — are just as accomplished. The Ballet World Needs Robert Garland. Why Isn’t It Calling? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

After all, how often do we get to explore the cranial machinery of a literary titan by slipping into the groove of his daily commute? Footsteps: For the Poet Wallace Stevens, Hartford Was an Unlikely Muse 2012-02-23T17:40:00Z

The title of this song translates as “To Move Your Feet,” and the horns-driven band gives it an unbeatable salsa groove rooted in Puerto Rican plena. Bush Tetras’ Defiant Return, and 10 More New Songs 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Occasionally pausing to stretch skyward before slipping back into her floating groove, she looked like someone continually embracing and escaping herself. Review: Reveling in Live Dance at Japan Society 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z

I love to backpack around the world, climb mountains, discuss constitutional law and get my groove on every now and then. I’m blind – but it can be a blessing in disguise 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

“We put texture — actual little grooves — to scatter reflecting light.” Skin Deep: When That Smile Is Too Perfect 2010-10-19T23:39:00Z

What Willis learned that night: “Never let the lyric get in the way of the groove.” Earth, Wind & Fire is forever in the groove 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The average Broadway or touring-show stage floor is a maze of grooves and tracks to aid in moving scenery. For ‘Little Dancer’ set designer Beowulf Boritt, windows into the soul

But not all of his descriptions land, like when a bus floor is “grooved pink plastic, with white marbling, like a cut of bacon.” Unhappy Families Abound in These New Books About Fathers and Sons 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

What was a quiet groove became a loud one, though never a particularly harsh one. Review: Boogarins, a Psychelic Pop Band From Brazil 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

To accept it means to lose the ability to articulate ourselves except through the logical grooves that are inscribed in and re-inscribed on the cultural field by the influencing machine. This is your brain on the Internet 2012-08-10T20:09:00Z

He also recounts how he met his talented DJ and eventual roommate, Jaime Simmonds, who provides a steady flow of style and groove on the turntables. Review: DJ Baba Brinkman mixes Darwin and dating 2012-12-06T01:30:13Z

When the crowd gets into a groove, the two D.J.s admit, they get a heady rush. The Carry Nation, a Downtown D.J. Duo, Drums Up a Hypnotic Beat 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Here, the songs and the persistence of the groove matter more. Music Review: Etienne Charles’s ‘Creole Soul’ Shifts Away From Mainstream 2013-07-24T21:51:10Z

His history in rock and dance songwriting is evident in his scores, which often take an intriguing chord pattern — a groove — and repetitively explore it, teasing out new colors and developments. 'Moon' and 'Fountain' composer Clint Mansell will perform soundtrack pieces at Theatre at Ace Hotel 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sashay, one of Mr. Cary’s protégés in Harlem, capably spun the song into a sultry register, against an assertive R&B groove. Marc Cary Brings His Jazz Specialty to Ginny’s Supper Club 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

But the infectious groove, Mr. Lewis’s bluesy piano work and the ecstatic crowd reaction helped make the Ramsey Lewis Trio’s rendition of “The ‘In’ Crowd” a staple on radio stations and jukeboxes across the country. Ramsey Lewis, Jazz Pianist Who Became a Pop Star, Dies at 87 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z

With Berninger occasionally exploring new vocal approaches and Devendorf moved back in the mix, that groove is often forced to the side by airy atmospherics and sonic effects that are indeed beautiful, but often insubstantial. Review: The National returns with somber 6th album 2013-05-20T13:58:11Z

They're similarly sure of themselves in "Fireproof," in which they insist, "Nobody knows you, baby, the way I do," over a hypnotic groove that echoes Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy." One Direction's 'Four': How quickly they grow up 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z

But beyond that, the book was a gymnastic stretch that successfully appealed to “us,” the fans who connected with their music and played their records until the grooves were gone. ‘The News Sorority’ Links Sawyer, Couric and Amanpour 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z

This writing began as songs — grooves, melodies, shouts and moans. Laurie Anderson Needs Your Help Finding an Image From Balzac 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

"But while it's still a groove we'd like to just ride it out." Chic: 'Everybody needs a little Friday night' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-07-24T14:00:14Z

She then joined her crew members, matching them beat for beat, grooving seductively one moment and hitting quick, sharp positions the next. In Jennifer Lopez’s ‘World of Dance,’ the Dancers Are the Stars 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Fun. helped break up the sound of dance and electronic music on Top 40 radio with its edgy pop-rock grooves. Individuality takes center stage at Grammys 2012-12-06T21:02:14Z

“Backyard Groove” doesn’t include any rapping, but it’s one of the tracks on the album that find Mr. Garrett and his band in bright, slashing form, working a terse melodic line over a head-bobbing groove. The Playlist: Jay Z Responds to Police Shootings With ‘Spiritual’ 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

“Secondhand dirt,” my boss called it—the grime of the earth that would work its way into the grooves of my fingerprints. My dad: 35 and dead 2013-02-23T23:00:00Z

The disarming opener “We No Who U R” grooves steadily on synth layerings, flute scales, and what may be the Bad Seeds’ first use of a drum machine. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Rush Into the Unknown on Push the Sky Away 2013-02-20T14:30:07Z

“It could be straight-out jazz or Jimi Hendrix, but no matter what was going on, you never lost the groove.” Meet the Musicians Who Gave Isaac Hayes His Groove 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Mr. Rodgers is equally interested in harmonic theory, groove and coldblooded hit making. Nile Rodgers?s New Music Memoir Is ?Le Freak? 2011-10-19T23:27:51Z

He still believes "Thank Me Later" was an "inconsistent" album because he hadn't quite found his groove creatively in the world of major record labels. Drake finds new groove on "Take Care" 2011-11-15T13:42:12Z

A Traffic song, “The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys,” dissolved into sparse, twinkling interplay, then coalesced into a New Orleans groove defined by Mr. Russo’s drumming. Music Review: Phil Lesh and Friends at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-04-16T21:17:15Z

The album finds Greene shrinking into womb-like grooves, buried underneath synthesizers and strings, mumbling and singing as if in a trance. New CDs: Washed Out's chillwave sound 2011-10-03T21:26:03Z

A billboard advertises something called “ToxiCosmos 3,” and to those of us who groove on such visions of apocalypse and catastrophe, Mr. Bird has a message: Cut it out! Review: ‘Tomorrowland,’ Brad Bird’s Lesson in Optimism 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

The system constantly wishes to correct tectonic power shifts and settle back into its comfortable worn grooves. Ronan Farrow's high-wire act: Why it matters that "Catch and Kill" is such a page-turner 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

In celebration of the victory of Joseph R. Biden Jr., New York City — and so many other cities across the country — found its groove. The Election Brings Dance to the Streets for a Collective Roar 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

“Check one, two, three,” two characters sing into hand-held microphones, grooving in gold-rimmed sunglasses. This High School Musical Teaches Confidence, Power and Teamwork 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

The grooves on an LP are the music’s actual acoustic waves, etched on a master disc’s cutting lathe. Music: Vinyl Revival: Reissues From Blue Note?s Heyday 2010-08-08T01:30:00Z

That made the kinetic groove of the first song, “Fit Against the Country,” a little unbalanced. Timber! Festival off to a soggy but inspiring start | Concert review 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

It’s a groove of solidarity and tenacity, as serious as it is danceable. Music Review: Bombino Brings Tuareg Rhythms to Brooklyn Bowl 2013-07-31T22:04:53Z

“The Metal Master,” a funk groove bracketed by clanking abstraction, indirectly evoked the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Music Review: Scott Robinson at Jazz Standard 2012-10-28T21:31:16Z

Once onstage, Tyner kicked into high gear immediately with a beautiful fantasia that focused into a modal tune on a vaguely Latin groove. Review | McCoy Tyner proves to be worth the wait at Blues Alley 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

They also created a template for the Max Martin sound, which combines ABBA’s pop chords and textures, Denniz PoP’s song structure and dynamics, eighties arena rock’s big choruses, and early-nineties American R. & B. grooves. Blank Space: What Kind of Genius Is Max Martin? 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z

If you’ve seen her grooving in the opening credits of Spike Lee’s 1989 explosive Brooklyn drama “Do the Right Thing,” you know she’s got seriously powerful, uninhibited club moves and stamina. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

After all this, the murky, evil-sounding groove of Organic — a band with three electric guitarists, along with electric and acoustic bass, cello, piano and drums — felt almost like a comfort. Music Review: Wadada Leo Smith at Roulette in Brooklyn - Review 2011-12-18T22:47:39Z

“We Are Dreamers,” the group’s most notable track, felt especially glorious here, its synthetic groove a decent ode to 1990s house music. A look at how they lived the Sweetlife (Festival) 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

Within minutes, a mid-tempo groove takes shape and a familiar vocal melody emerges. Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind. 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

But it’s hard to sustain a disco groove when the music keeps speeding up and slowing down, making the Bee Gees sound as drunk as the couple listening to them. Review: Hungarians Bare Their Dark Side in ‘Our Secrets’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

The songs use distinctive minor modes and diminished harmonies, long zigzagging melodies and a brooding, smoldering groove that often moves in six-beat rhythms rather than the 4/4 of American funk. Review: Feedel Band and the Libyans, African Sounds at the Global Beat Festival 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

The stretches of Solange’s and Sampha’s improvised grooving that follow the choreographed sequences present not an interruption but an easy crescendo. The Profound Power of the New Solange Videos 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

In other songs, he rode the groove with nimble, airborne syncopation. Review: Maxwell’s Sensual R&B Makes a Big Room Intimate 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

The smoldering disc features a near-perfect blend of rock, pop and a bit of country twang as a fiery Potter wails her way through electrifying grooves and emotionally stirring slow-burners. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z

“If the groove wasn’t sitting exactly the way we wanted or we couldn’t get the vibe right,” she recalled, “it was like, ‘Well, there’s no stress. Margo Price, Nashville Outsider, Tells It Like It Really Is 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

The groove came together and we finished in 12 minutes flat. Jerry Leiber, Prolific Writer of 1950s Hits, Dies at 78 2011-08-23T01:24:26Z

As the evening settles into its happy groove of music and dancing, the maharawal discreetly nods to the barman, who flicks a hidden switch. The art of craft shopping in India 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

But getting into that groove — it's a lot like being in a band, especially since comedy comes from timing. Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter: Bill & Ted "aren't playing Van Halen riffs" anymore 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

The grooves insinuate rather than chug; the words disarm any concept-album pretensions. Ambrose Akinmusire, Drake, the Roots, St. Vincent 2011-12-17T03:03:14Z

We learn that 76 years before Simon and Garfunkel sang about “feeling groovy,” the term denoted someone “stuck in a groove, or a rut . . . settled in habit; limited in mind.” ‘Vulgar Tongues’ is pimped out with the dopest research 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

If drummers lost the beat, she would guide them back into the groove with her hands. Grammy nominee brings young Seattle-area musicians into harmony 2013-05-09T04:34:36Z

It has been modestly spruced up for this Roundabout Theater Company version, but the staging retains elements of the stripped-down aesthetic that fits nicely into the show’s rustic groove. Theater Review: ‘Violet,’ Starring Sutton Foster, Opens at Roundabout 2014-04-21T02:00:12Z

In “Change,” her slowed-down voice, singing out of harmony, floats over the groove. New Music: New Albums by Iggy Azalea, Kelis and Glen David Andrews 2014-04-21T22:02:03Z

After a brief pause the song then settles into a rolling, laidback groove – all smooth falsetto harmonies, finger clicks and old-school horn blasts. New music: Justin Timberlake – Suit & Tie feat Jay-Z 2013-01-14T10:08:00Z

Occasionally the band was left alone with a groove — like the Caribbean vamp propelling Ms. Wilson’s cover of “Lay Lady Lay,” by Bob Dylan — and it gave even these interludes a center of gravity. Music Review: Cassandra Wilson at the Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-04T20:01:36Z

It was hoped to be a big hit, finally breaking through with its catchy chorus and upbeat, jangling groove. "Never was a cornflake girl": Why a 1994 album by Tori Amos belongs in "Yellowjackets" 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

Those of us who can recall every scene of “Local Hero” might hope that “Bill Forsyth Lifetime Achievement Film,” modest as it is, gets him out of that groove. Film: Bill Forsyth to Discuss ?Housekeeping? at Film Forum 2010-04-14T21:46:00Z

The trio transposes the groove into seven-beat measures, retaining the song’s bodily sway by alternating the emphasis between odd and even beats. An Allen Toussaint Tribute by New Orleans’s Modern-Day All-Stars 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

“It’s an infinity of nuance, in the shuffles and the grooves,” Mr. Bangalter said, knocking over his drink in his excitement. Daft Punk Gets Human With a New Album 2013-05-15T12:00:18Z

Across the album’s two live sets, songs range from New Orleans shuffles to Latin grooves and funkier fusion tracks. TIME Recommends: Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood 2011-11-10T17:40:48Z

The audience donned red devil horns for “Highway to Hell” and Herbie Hancock was grooving, but it was a surprisingly dated choice for a night dedicated to music made in 2014. Grammy Awards 2015 Recap 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z

The piano part is sturdy enough — it’s just playing fours — and it was enough to support Lindley doing this insane grooving, swinging playing. David Lindley, ‘Musician’s Musician’ to the Rock Elite, Dies at 78 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

White built EWF into a force, an optimistic movement and a creative vanguard of the almighty groove. Earth, Wind & Fire is forever in the groove 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

A version of it was featured in the film of the same name by Carlos Diegues; the album track, from Mr. Ben’s record “África Brasil,” is a repeated chant in a slow, deep, Brazilian-funk groove. The Essentials of Brazilian Music for Olympic Listening 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

A desire for bubble-gum pop in Krakow led to kiosks dealing in sound postcards: cheap, disposable records consisting of a grooved plastic laminate affixed to a colorful paper card suitable for mailing. 2010-01-29T19:15:00Z

At the Bowl, “Jive Talkin’ ” and “Night Fever” sounded as lithe and as effervescent as ever with Gibb’s aerated falsetto skipping over grooves that still suggest a kind of perpetual motion. Barry Gibb: A broken heart mended at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Today, the Ypres Salient looks like ordinary farmland: fields dotted with sheep or potatoes or brussels sprouts — until you see the grooves of trenches and bomb craters. The 52 Places Traveler: A Pilgrimage to Ypres 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

Inside "Afterglow," the group created a slow-tempoed groove while Gonzalez reveled in both the futility and hope that drives the creative instinct. Jose Gonzalez rides a vibe of gentle, mesmerizing energy 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

When he reinvented his music from the Apollo-live-period stuff into the funk period, where he did “Cold Sweat,” which was mostly known as the first groove/funk record, he kind of reinvented this. Mick Jagger on James Brown: "I Copied All His Moves" 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Of course, dancing's also a euphemism here, as anyone grooving to "Teach Me" learns when guest vocalist Kiesza arrives to start educating. Essential tracks: Joey Badass' 'Teach Me' is catchy and simple 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Mr. Smith backed him with wicked feints, fragmenting the groove. 2010-01-08T03:49:00Z

It’s tempting to slot into the most evident groove of interpretation with “Dead Collections”: that vampirism is a metaphor for being trans. He’s a Transgender Archivist and a Vampire, and He’s in Love 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

He is given a cross by a nun with a face as “grooved as a peach pit.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama’s ‘A Promised Land’ 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The line befits the sultry grooves on the band’s new album, “Hymns,” an effort that trades the group’s once neurotic, combative undertones for an easy, ethereal conviviality. Pop & Rock Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

His down-tempo beats are intended to cause what he has called “rhythmic anguish,” a more meditative and contemplative state, though they still retain an insinuating groove. Music: Nicolas Jaar, Electronic Musician and Student at Brown 2012-03-09T17:00:00Z

"We would always say, `It's what's in the groove that counts,'" Gordy said, referencing one of the songs he wrote for the musical. Motown founder readies for 'last major endeavor' 2013-03-08T17:31:19Z

This is the moment a nation under the groove of "Barbie" falls hard for a doll almost completely forgotten by popular culture. The secret "Barbie" message everyone can get behind is that Allan is amazing. He is also like us 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z

Those opposing forces made the music perverse sometimes, but not incoherent, especially with all the consonance and resolution Mr. Allison wrote into the songs and the binding grooves he made with Ms. Miller. Music Review: Ben Allison’s Band Performs at Joe’s Pub 2013-12-05T23:36:58Z

In the end it’s a story about how the woman fits her own autonomy into a satisfying groove with her cultural heritage. Their Characters Are Stuck, but the Filmmakers Are Anything But 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z

The rest of the material sticks a little closer to the house-inspired sounds she’s previously explored, but the beats are even more jagged and skittish this time, sometimes refusing to settle into a steady groove. Review: Azealia Banks' 'Broke With Expensive Taste' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

It's a dense groove that continues, frequently varied, but barely interrupted, for nearly two rapt hours, like a particularly uninhibited Radiohead gig relocated to Lagos. Atoms for Peace – review 2013-07-27T23:05:19Z

He’s a member of Kneebody, a postmillennial groove band with a sizable following, as well as an accomplished solo artist and producer. With ‘The Seasons,’ Ben Wendel Redefines the Musical Encounter 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Thickness is controlled by a reversible plate that slots into sequential grooves, and it manages seven settings. Kitchen gadgets review: Evenslice bread slicer – ‘not the best thing since sliced bread' 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z

They play fast, looping, dynamically even and entwining lines, laying bebop over clanky grooves. Critic?s Notebook: New Jazz That Keeps an Ear Trained on the Past 2011-05-06T23:26:31Z

“Sleep Now in the Fire” was rowdy and tart, and “Guerrilla Radio” used groove to drive home agitated lyrics. Rage Against the Machine Returns for Fresh Battles 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

The Sub Pop garage-glam vet charts a new course on this year’s “The Other,” trading in his party-boy persona for cosmic folk shaman riding synth-funk currents, deep grooves and sax leads. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for June 2018 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

And when that piece started, he began playing very identifiable Tim Berne music: wide intervals, athletic tone, tiny grooves worked into the music’s pivots and hesitations. Music Review: 10 Tunes in One, Peeking From a Multitude of Stylistic Niches 2011-05-26T22:15:10Z

After that party, where we meet Clara’s husband and children and learn that she is recovering from breast cancer, the action leaps forward to the present, and “Aquarius” finds its groove. Review: In ‘Aquarius,’ a Widow Fights to Keep Her Home 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

He was playing “Challenge Within,” a tune based on a streamlined Afro-Latin groove, in 10/8 meter. | Antonio Sanchez Quartet: Paths Converging on a Rhythmic Base 2010-09-22T22:00:00Z

Despite the jarring characteristics, the band's tunes clung to dance grooves. Gang of Four turn back the clock with vital, aggressive show 2011-02-12T11:21:00Z

And for the three-and-a-half minutes it’s on, with its rocket-ship keyboards, juicy funk groove and Lynn’s mighty, muscled introductory ooh yeah, the only conversation I want to have is with this song. Jam & Lewis Shaped Pop History. They’re Working on Its Future, Too. 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

It was a jarring, almost detrimental shift in energy for those who took in the night's earlier, seductive grooves. BET Experience 2014: Awards show prep, Future get the party started 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

On a song titled “Shine and Blue,” he and Mr. Vernerey crisply shifted from a springy groove to a backbeat-girded walking swing. Music Review: Manu Katch??s Balletic Drumming at Highline Ballroom 2010-07-02T20:39:00Z

It takes a little while for both the play and Carlos Armesto’s production to settle into a groove. Review: In ‘Día y Noche,’ Opposites Intertwine 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z

I connect to my formative years – roughly toddlerhood through about 15 – in which I listened constantly to my mom’s records, my first LPs, and the radio, grooving, daydreaming, but also, apparently, learning. 50 rock songs that made me a better writer 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

Occasionally, his hips betrayed an urge to groove, but even then he remained unflappably precise. Review: ‘Stranger Love’ Reflects the L.A. Philharmonic at Its Finest 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

It's the "timeless beat and groove" that he loves about Neu! and he thinks Eno's "textures and suspense" are most influential. Baltic Fleet – New Band Up North #33 2013-07-22T16:00:00Z

Of all the successes among heritage brands, few have exceeded that of the traditional boat shoe with white soles incised in a pattern of chevron grooves. Storming the Catwalk in an L.L. Bean Boot 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Now based in Los Angeles, Mr. Huston is also settling into his style groove. What Skateboard Champion Nyjah Huston Likes to Wear 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z

While some rock drummers chased after volume and bombast, Mr. Watts defined his playing with subtlety, swing and a solid groove. Charlie Watts, Bedrock Drummer for the Rolling Stones, Dies at 80 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Ms. Mitchell’s production, though hugely elaborate and confusing at the start, settled into a nice groove, and was almost lovable by the end. Review: Exploring Captivity in Handel’s ‘Alcina’ and Mozart’s ‘Entführung’ at Aix-en-Provence Festival 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

He wanted to, I think, lose the overtly comic groove that they’d gotten into, which was working very well, but he felt he was perhaps done with that. 'Doctor Who' and the Eyebrows of Peter Capaldi 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Herlin Riley, a celebrated jazz drummer from the neighborhood, was grooving with his quintet beneath the canopy. In the Lower Ninth Ward, an Artist Renews His Purpose 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z

"Just think of it as a blank vinyl record and when you are singing, it is making the grooves into the record," Blackwell said. Rocker Jack White's Nashville store offer "do-it-yourself" records 2013-04-20T14:58:03Z

As one of the interview subjects in “Horn From the Heart: The Paul Butterfield Story” puts it, just three notes from Butterfield’s harp were enough to establish a groove, or vastly improve an existing one. Review: Paul Butterfield’s Story Is Told in ‘Horn From the Heart’ 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

In his own misty, grooving music, Mr. Turner exudes both composure and longing. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

They were playing ferocious Malian grooves with a six-beat drive and spiraling, dizzying guitar solos. ArtsBeat: Bonnaroo: The Red Hot Chili Peppers Get Funky 2012-06-10T19:23:59Z

“We took pop tunes like ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and ‘So Far Away’ and did them melodically with a groove, so people could dance if they wanted.” Wayne Henderson, a Founder of the Jazz Crusaders, Dies at 74 2014-04-10T00:02:26Z

Along the way they will learn about swing, make up a blues song and, the publicity material promises, shake their groove things. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 11-17 2013-01-10T23:09:44Z

Soon enough the play has fallen back into the worn grooves of manipulative formulas, and if we follow its lead, we don’t have a chance of thinking for ourselves. Review: ‘Dead Poets Society,’ Starring Jason Sudeikis as the Idealistic Teacher 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

And indeed, Cole plays with just enough rampant activity and invention to make you forget about the son montuno groove that he’s replaced. The Playlist: Ashley McBryde’s Loner’s Lament, and 10 More New Songs 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

As time went on, Jennings said he got into a groove and felt less like an impostor in Trebek’s role, and more like a game show host. Seattle’s Ken Jennings has had quite a year. On Sunday, he could win a Grammy 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

It features styles that encompass lush orchestral layouts, darkly hypnotic dance grooves and the clarity of life and all its foibles. Review: Dido goes eclectic, electric on new album 2013-03-25T17:10:20Z

It opens with a scrambled groove — courtesy of Robert Glasper on piano, Ben Williams on bass and Mr. Brown on drums — before a springlike vocal turn by Bilal. Albums by Leonard Cohen, Otis Brown III and Lee Ann Womack 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

Throughout “The Chinese Groove,” Shelley finds the groove in unexpected places. Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Mason, a New York founder of the American Abstract Artists group, spent a career resisting stylistic or ideological grooves. Art Review | 'Constructive Spirit': History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas 2010-02-19T05:50:00Z

In my Indian American family, where no occasion passes without celebration, getting into the Christmas spirit means grooving to Bollywood music. Day 22: A Very Bollywood Christmas 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The compositions are innovative but inviting, the grooves are strong, and the group feel tingles. F&M Playlist 2010-06-24T21:30:00Z

It’s got so much going for it: mellowness, intensity, space, polyrhythm, slow grooves, deep funk, momentum — and teacherly lessons, in the English-language tracks “To Whom It May Concern” and “Which Way Africa?” Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z

Get my groove on while watching bands such as Cherry Glazerr and Lord Huron perform outdoors at the Capitol Hill Block Party from July 21 to 23. Fairs, festivals and music to go see this Seattle summer 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Glasper meshed its groove with Minimalist repetition of percussive chords and arpeggios and a suggestion of “A Love Supreme” — a more benign Western intervention. Seun Kuti at the Highline Ballroom 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Dark wooden boxes grooved with curvy patterns formed the lamps and sconces. Hotel Review: Noon Hotel Apartments in Dubai 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

“Downton Abbey” has found its groove, which, of course, involves no real groove at all. The latest thing at ‘Downton Abbey’: Exit signs 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

It was a few days into production, after we shot the marriage counseling scene, there was a moment he and I were in a real groove. Keanu Reeves & Alex Winter: Bill & Ted "aren't playing Van Halen riffs" anymore 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

“We started every morning with nothing, essentially, but we’d get in the room together and start working on a groove,” Mr. Auerbach said. Dr. John?s New Album ?Locked Down? and BAM Residency 2012-03-29T22:22:02Z

“There was no groove to get into,” he said with a laugh. Dan Harmon on ‘Community’ 2013-12-18T17:00:01Z

In “Other Wars,” the lens slides along a groove, giving the cozy interiors a shifting, 3D-hologram quality. 40 years of Gayle Bard’s art in Bainbridge Island show 2013-12-12T20:53:56Z

A combo grooved through some bebop and then made way for a Slovenian woman who read aloud in her native language from a short story. Slovenian Rhapsody 2011-08-05T18:30:00Z

The idea that dance music is about funk and about the groove was stripped away, and instead came something very robotic, this machine-like sound. Pop mourns Donna Summer 2012-05-18T01:02:00Z

This is the third movie in the series that Cruise and the director Christopher McQuarrie have made together, and they have settled into a mutually beneficial groove. ‘Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One’ Review: Still Running 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z

Before meeting Nôze, dOP have said: "The idea of putting a straight groove kick on most of our tracks was unbelievable." Vive la dance 2010-12-30T13:28:49Z

They appear in countless social media posts, basking in the afterglow of a workout with jutting jaws and abs whose neat grooves resemble cobs of corn. No more Mr Muscle: the activists championing body confidence for men 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, though, the song becomes an ode to giving oneself over to forces beyond control: like love, the unknown or maybe just the groove — particularly the loose, sparkling atmosphere the band taps into here. Best Songs of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

The plaids and patchwork in Junya Watanabe’s show Friday looked culled from a farm supply store or a college town like Portland, Ore., and so felt a bit in a worn groove. On the Runway Blog: Paris Men's: Lean and Still Hungry 2012-01-20T15:44:43Z

Where Motown would once have overdubbed sweeping strings, he builds a groove from layer upon layer of keyboards. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

It’s more contemplative than anything Big Boi’s ever done, all while still touting a powerhouse hook and spacy groove. Big Boi’s Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors Is Visionary Hip-Hop 2012-12-12T18:30:17Z

“It’s almost like there are these grooves in your brain that these toys fill, and as soon as you see that thing … you remember it, exactly how it was.” It’s playtime at MOHAI’s toy exhibit 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

It’s something of a one-note groove, but Mr. Mitre knows how to play it. Movie Review: Santiago Mitre’s ‘Estudiante’ Is a Study of Behavior 2013-08-21T22:32:30Z

Ballamy and Warren discreetly shadow Tabor, sketching subtle backdrops for traditional songs as well as delicately grooving standards and quiet tangos. This week's new live music 2013-04-13T05:00:13Z

But 16 seasons in, her show has lost its groove. How even Ellen got bored of The Ellen Degeneres Show 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Instead, I just grooved along on the often-spectacular animation, savoring its watery hues, vivid character designs and recurrent, galvanizing embrace of near-abstraction. ‘Inu-oh’ Review: Dazzling Anime Meets Medieval Epic 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

It was nearly 9 o’clock when we shouldered our bags and shuffled into the dark forest, following a wide corduroy lane with two deep-cut grooves near one edge. A Cool Glide Through Maine 2012-02-17T20:45:41Z

I have been bored through stretches of these shows during the last 15 years of reviewing them, battered by repetitive phrasing in fitful grooves. Music Review: A Most Satisfying End of the Road for Allman Brothers 2014-03-08T23:59:44Z

He found his groove in the early ’90s with severely simplified, tightly cropped paintings of generic faces derived from newspaper and magazine photographs. Art in Review: Victor Pesce: ‘Selections: 1978-2010’ 2013-07-04T23:36:18Z

Your mom knows about Stella’s groove, and so I would imagine that this acceptance would override any extreme family awkwardness. Perspective | Ask Amy: ‘Stella’s’ groove brings out the family creep 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z

Produced by Printz Board, one of the magical elves behind the global dominance of the Black Eyed Peas, it’s a disarmingly savvy dispatch, strong on hooks as well as grooves. New Music: Albums From Gotye, Candy Dulfer and Jeff Lorber Fusion 2012-01-30T23:25:12Z

This is spectral soul just as yesterday's New Band was spectral garage, with just the ghost of the original passion-flecked exhortation haunting the grooves. New band of the day ? No 1,088: Sun Glitters 2011-08-19T14:20:33Z

His style owes to the expansiveness of ‘70s “dusties” soul, placing a premium on pleading vocals, horns, and stepping grooves that glide rather than stomp. Album review: Common, 'The Dreamer/The Believer' 2011-12-19T03:52:00Z

But as an author, he didn't shy from the topics longtime industry watchers are interested in - though he threw away two versions of the book he hated before finding a groove he was comfortable with. Tommy Mottola apologizes to Mariah in 'Hitmaker' 2013-01-31T15:53:15Z

Even during the curtain calls, his hips kept flowing, perhaps more quietly, more internally than when he was in character, but he never lost hold of his gentle yet powerful groove. ‘MJ’: Dancing the Pain, and Dancing the Pain Away 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

The band also wanted to find its groove and to be looser this time around. D.C. punks Bad Moves expand their sound but keep their focus on ‘Untenable’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Dying to Know You doesn't stay long in its expected Cyrano de Bergerac groove. Dying to Know You by Aidan Chambers - review 2012-06-15T21:55:11Z

The band opened with a few well-known tunes including "Crooked Teeth," "New Year" and "Photo Booth," settling into an easy groove on stage before introducing some new songs. Death Cab for Cutie galvanizes a sold-out Showbox crowd 2011-05-12T21:44:05Z

I’m still trying to make sense of how that time in my life carved deep grooves into my brain that set me onto a lifelong search for my people. Annabelle Gurwitch on family — the one you're born with, and the one on your book cover 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

That implies Clarkson is dialing into the R&B grooves that have long punctuated her music. All of the L.A. arts events and exhibitions to check out this fall 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

If Mr. Levine can settle the performance into a more solid rhythmic groove, this “Falstaff” will enter the annals of opera history. In Carsen’s ‘Falstaff’ at the Met, Verdi Through a Postwar Lens 2013-12-07T10:08:48Z

“Meghan has tapped into a positive, infectious groove that cuts across just about every genre that exists in music today.” said Epic Records Chairman and CEO L.A. Meghan Trainor Takes The Top Spot On Albums Chart 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Once the podcast hit its groove, things grew rapidly for the Gilmore Guys. Meet the Gilmore Guys Behind the 'Gilmore Girls' Podcast 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z

Charles layers four-part harmony and swathes of effects onto an incantation of “The beat!” and her band kicks into a scorching, slow-motion groove. Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers’s ‘Red’ Duet, and 14 More New Songs 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

He swapped out some gay slurs that characters use because in 2018 it felt “unnecessarily aggressive,” and he rewrote some of the grooves to be “hipper.” New York Has Its ‘Jerry Springer’ Moment, With Arias and Dancing 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

And this shop starting getting these records from Chicago that had more of a groove and swing to them. How the midwest won over the dancefloor 2011-03-03T22:10:01Z

And when the rumpled Joe and the tentative May find their groove rocking to an old R&B number, you want to join them on the floor. Theater Review: ‘Swing & Beowulf,’ at the Irish Arts Center 2014-05-05T21:12:47Z

“I came back from that tour and we started doing Oblivions rehearsals in that mind set of working within your limitations to do something with edge and groove.” Oblivians return, chaos follows 2013-07-03T14:57:00Z

Not the Chili Peppers, who found their unique groove by blending funky hooks and a punk ethos. Rock Hall in Cleveland ready to induct new class 2012-04-14T15:25:16Z

The collision of Ruby Wood's sublime, airy vocals and sub-bass grooves end up like Sade fronting Massive Attack. Submotion Orchestra: Finest Hour ? review 2011-07-28T21:20:01Z

Slowly he began to tease out crosscurrents within the groove, gathering complexity, until his hands were a blur. Music Review: Fred Hersch Trio, Live and Recorded, at the Village Vanguard 2012-02-08T22:51:48Z

Halfway through, the piece obsessively explores frenetic riffs and rhythms, settling into grooves for long stretches, though passages of eerie harmonies lend a touch at once angelic and fearsome. Review: Revisiting a Throbbing Classic of Electronic Music 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

But he held true to his theme, filling the set with tunes like “The Virginia Gentleman,” a crisp variation on New Orleans second-line groove, and “A Portrait of a Southern Frame,” a sober ballad. Music Review: Reggie Quinerly at Smoke 2012-12-07T21:17:04Z

And it’s hard sometimes… I always find once I get that groove, hours will pass. The Internet is scrambling our brains: We spend more time online than sleeping — and here’s how it’s messing us up 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

On Saturdays, DJ Cosi will dig deep into his archive for the rarest of grooves. Boîte: Finding Harlem Culture and Music at Ginny’s Supper Club 2012-05-23T15:22:57Z

A turntable’s cartridge traces those grooves; the signal, when amplified, reproduces the sound. Music: Vinyl Revival: Reissues From Blue Note?s Heyday 2010-08-08T01:30:00Z

“We can live on the air,” she crooned from beneath the vast shimmering dome at Dubai’s Expo, a fortified stage ringed by riveted — and COVID-19 vaccinated — fans bouncing, grooving and nodding to the beat. Pop superstar Alicia Keys unveils new album ‘Keys’ in Dubai 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z

By the final scene between her and Manrico, the performance was in a deep, delicious groove. Music Review: Verdi’s ‘Trovatore’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-10-02T22:20:47Z

But after a sluggish and chaotic start, “War Machine” finds its groove and becomes its own thing: a mordant, cleareyed critique of American war-making that is all the more devastating for being affectionately drawn. Review: ‘War Machine’: Brad Pitt Has Met the Enemy. He Just Doesn’t Know It Yet. 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

The Elbphilharmonie’s larger hall is clad with thousands of grooved gypsum-fiber panels, the exact profile of each precisely calculated to optimize resonance. Review: The First Concert at the New Elbphilharmonie in Germany 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

“Fox Fire,” which Ms. Davis composed for her duet with Mr. Taborn, begins in searching quietude and slowly gathers velocity and spikiness, taking a late detour into looping groove. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

And in a movie that may prove a benchmark for female comedy, it's ironic that the filmmakers made Annie a baker who has to get her groove back by returning to the kitchen. "Bridesmaids": A triumph for vomit, and feminism 2011-05-10T20:11:00Z

Not even the perpetual groove of Daft Punk cheers up the Weeknd in “Starboy,” the title track of his album due Nov. 25. The Playlist: The Weeknd, Leonard Cohen and Dirty Projectors All Want It Darker 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Near its midpoint, the beat settles into a sauntering groove topped by vigorous backing vocals and a scene-setting poem. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

The other major school of contemporary chart-pop songwriting—although they sometimes overlap—starts with an instrumental groove and arrangement, then adds hooks, “top line” melodies and lyrics, often each by a specialist. One Direction’s Songwriters: They’re What Make the Boy Band Beautiful 2012-11-13T15:10:25Z

Winners and losers alike gorge on burgers, down champagne and groove on the dance floor. Oscar winners and losers party with champagne and statuettes 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z

Can any movie unite us so that we’re one nation under the cinematic groove? A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Moving Pictures still makes me get into a groove, I love the way it feels. Rush: 'Our fans feel vindicated' 2011-03-24T21:29:01Z

One minute you’re grooving on the story and the nice, warm feeling you get from watching Romanian charity workers dole out food and treats for Christmas. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

But it seems isolated, provincial, stuck in its own groove, cut off from the larger currents of ballet today. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

As the show got into a groove, I kept noting the way Collier’s piano was in unintentional duet with the tinkle of silverware on plates. Live Music Is Back! (Live Music Is Back?) 2021-08-08T04:00:00Z

Back at the Yeti stage, Seattle emcee Ryan Caraveo brought some old school swagger and ambition to his rap, and our fair city’s horn-driven soul band The Dip goosed the crowd into a dancing groove. Saturday at Sasquatch!: Seattle-centric day with La Luz, Hibou, Tangerine 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

He’s not giving away the setlist but promises well-known, grooving tunes from the era. Don Was leads Detroit revue celebrating Motown milestone 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Before Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj performed “Side by Side,” their frank boudoir anthem to women on top, Ms. Franklin confidently laid down a similar groove, setting the pace for “this funky dance all night.” Aretha Franklin Was the Personification of Black Woman Magic 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

They nailed down every groove, with more earthiness than on the originals. Music Review: The Songs Of Prince, Faithfully Reimagined 2011-06-16T22:08:15Z

We’re trying to tell a story where Paterson’s physical life is a well-worn groove. In ‘Paterson’ and ‘Silence,’ Adam Driver wrestles with poetry and piety 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Holding his bow aloft like a staff, the musician asked attendees to add their voices to the strutting groove sweeping the auditorium. Abel Selaocoe Finds a Home in Improvisation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

In recent years she has worked with rhythm sections and samples; her music runs on lightness of touch and depth of groove, not large-scale instrumental arrangements. Music Review: Erykah Badu at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-06-09T21:45:40Z

Elsewhere, there are Satie-esque piano passages, locked grooves and reverberating bass. New band of the day ? No 955: Nicolas Jaar 2011-03-31T16:51:35Z

Then, we hear the rock groove of the George Baker Selection's "Little Green Bag," a minor hit from 1971. Super sounds of "Reservoir Dogs": How this heist film changed indie soundtracks forever 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

David Bruce’s “Cut the Rug,” which seems constructed like a four-movement symphony on CD, became a run-on series of grooves and meditations encompassing Balkan-like rhythms and Andalusian flamenco. Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble make some joyful noise at the Hollywood Bowl 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

One of the cool things, as I’m working on it, is that I’m finding the groove very easily. ‘Three Divas, What Could Be Better?’ Making ‘The Hours’ Operatic 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z

"Papa is part Springsteen, part rock'n'roll, with the poetry of early folk, the groove of soul, and an Americana flair." New band of the day: Papa (No 1,477) 2013-03-22T09:00:00Z

“This problem is exacerbated in performance clothes that contain channels or grooves that enhance wicking,” Johnson says. This is why your workout clothes still stink after being washed 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

The backing track parallels the lyrics, opening with Cathedral choir heaviness and segueing into a meditative emo-rock electric guitar groove. Friday Favorites: Brainstorm, Blue Scholars, Beat Connection 2010-07-30T22:31:00Z

They intone their lines as if part of a church choir that every now and again tosses in some rhythm-and-blues groove to a starchy hymnal program. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

It starts with “Use Me” and ignores the lyrics in favor of group slinking to the serpentine groove. Review: Parsons Dance Is an Enjoyable Ride, as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

It's matched to a throwback groove that slightly undermines the case being presented. Europe – review 2012-11-23T18:55:07Z

Hip Angelenos have known for years about Chicano Batman, an excellently named quartet whose members sport snazzy formal wear as they unspool grooves with deep roots in rock, soul, funk, psychedelic and pan-Latin music. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday, in Mr. Taylor’s songs especially — “Carolina in My Mind,” “Shower the People” — the wide-ranging, counterintuitive bass lines, brushed drums and behind-the-beat groove made it all breathe. Music Review: Carole King and James Taylor at the Garden 2010-06-16T22:06:00Z

South Africans are steeped in music and even wintry weather will not keep them away from a good groove. Trip Tips: Mozart to Masekela, summer festivals for all tastes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

With trouble around every corner, Statham soon gets into his groove, using hands, feet, lightning-fast speed and found objects — a spoon, guys, beware the spoon — to fight off endless hordes of muscled baddies with guns. Vegas-set 'Wild Card' draws an, oh, so predictable hand 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

As usual, his group was cooking up grooves from scratch, treating the audience as a participant. Where Jazz Lives Now 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The way he grooved through a diner in a Flight Facilities music video was reminiscent of Christopher Walken’s cool dance number for Fatboy Slim’s “Weapon of Choice.” Sam Rockwell, Screendom’s Slinkiest Rogue 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

Let there be no doubt that this music was fun: When the groove finally settled into an end, Bowie waited for quiet, then shouted: “One! Two! Three! Nah, I’m just kidding.” Review | Michael Bowie gets funky at Blues Alley 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

That said, I’d have worn a groove in the song “So Big/So Small” if there were still grooves. Listening to the Best (and Worst) of Broadway 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Tyner, Workman, and Jones groove like crazy on dark vamps, spicy turnarounds, and pure swing. The World’s Greatest Living Jazz Composer Celebrates His Eighty-fifth Birthday 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Both man and musical have a dopey appeal that is irresistible in small doses and an unfortunate way of sabotaging themselves by getting stuck in a groove. ‘Fly by Night,’ a Metaphysical Musical 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

They evoke wheels clicking down the freeway on “Doors Unlocked and Open,” which borrows its groove from the German art-rock band Neu. Death Cab's newest a 'yearning that nags like a toothache' 2011-05-27T21:09:44Z

The drum groove kicked in and people just went nuts and rushed the stage. Six Songs of Me: Andrew Evans of When the Gramophone Rings 2012-08-23T10:10:40Z

The driving groove and walking bass line keeps you locked in and wondering where it’s going to go. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z

Swedish dance-pop band Little Dragon also excelled on the Bigfoot Stage Sunday, playing rubbery, minimal grooves with live electronic instruments to a massive swooning crowd. Sasquatch 2012 full review: Jack White and other highlights 2012-05-29T07:09:25Z

Early gigs were visceral pound-fests that set aside melody and groove in favor of raw aggression. Swans at the Roxy: Volume, harmony and rhythm yield profound beauty 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

If the groove on your chair is wider or narrower, you may need to shop online. How to repair veneer on a mid-century Kofod-Larsen chair 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

But the story here more often involves an elliptically assertive groove. Review: Jack DeJohnette’s ‘In Movement’ and ‘Return’ Show Sweep 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

"The big money is only interested in selling stories that have proven to fill old grooves," says Chang. It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z

Summertime calls for smooth, good-natured grooves and unchallenging thoughts about dancing and romancing, right? The Playlist: Twenty One Pilots Jolt Awake, and 12 More New Songs 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

And it relies on, more or less, the drum groove of the Angels’ “My Boyfriend’s Back,” which Mr. Gottehrer co-wrote in the early 1960s. Critics' Choice: New Music by Justin Bieber and Dum Dum Girls 2010-03-21T20:58:00Z

It had more rhythmic mystery and groove than Zs in the past; it was also bright, severe and specific. Music Review: Zs, With Extra Life and Wet Ink Ensemble, at 285 Kent 2012-08-30T21:51:33Z

They eat, drink and fuss with their hair as they groove to guitar riffs and guttural vocals. Eccentric French 'Dragons' exhibits commendable humility 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

The Minutemen were expanding their vision to include longer songs and heavier grooves, soon to reach apotheosis on the 1984 college radio juggernaut “Double Nickels on the Dime.” Glen ‘Spot’ Lockett: The Punk Producer’s 10 Essential Recordings 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

His forthcoming debut album, The Boat Party, is a bold, idiosyncratic alliance of soulful grooves and stark, jolting beats. Clubs picks of the week 2013-05-11T05:00:22Z

“I’m going to tell you a story about my life,” she said as her backing band struck up a groove, and what followed was a testimonial, or maybe the foundation of a personal mythology. Music Review: V. V. Brown?s Parasol Pop at Bowery Ballroom 2010-04-29T21:11:00Z

He gets teasingly atmospheric with the theme of “All the Things You Are,” laying out its distinctive intervals over a glacial groove. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-28T23:15:55Z

The title track opens with a slow funk groove that grows into a bombastic gospel blues, and there’s plenty of falsetto and guitar heroics. The Unique Problem Posed by Prince’s Unreleased Songs 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z

The title track is also a big win, using flutes over mysterious, world-traveling grooves, coloring the space with wordless singing. Review roundup: five local, late-summer albums of note 2011-08-19T19:01:15Z

He is that ascetically-but-unobtrusively-handsome actor, with those deep grooves running down each side of his face; the one who disappears so thoroughly into his roles that you’ve never thought much about who he is. With ‘The Crown,’ a ‘Secret Weapon’ Could Become Not So Secret 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

He's soon duking it out with the Hammond organ grooves and lead guitar work of Phantom Limb, a fluent country-folk outfit from Bristol who act as his backing band. Rodriguez – review 2012-11-18T00:06:15Z

Describing a lilac door "made of something like light, but not," the piece is nine-plus mesmerizing minutes that roll along the same speedy groove, a meditation that seems to fly by in seconds. 'High Life' elevates the Eno-Hyde rhythm 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

The group's opening piece on Thursday typified that chemistry with a deceptively mellow, mid-tempo sax-and-trumpet harmony over a steadily building hip-hop groove. Zhenya Strigalev – review 2012-06-15T17:40:01Z

Braids flying, white suit flapping, and often a smile of pure euphoria on his face, Glover polished off one cool groove after another — setting down a simple rhythmic pattern, working it, working it. In Seattle show, Savion Glover dances at the altar of tap 2012-03-18T06:06:46Z

I had friends who came to visit from Pennsylvania and there was no electricity in the house because the bill had been too high, I was kind of grooving it with a wood burning stove. Mick Jagger's secret love letters up for sale 2012-11-09T15:59:01Z

On its 1990s albums, Matthews’s guitar — often acoustic — was the band’s only chordal instrument, joined in light-fingered counterpoint by saxophone, violin, bass and drums for staccato grooves that blended folk, funk and jazz. Dave Matthews Band’s Grown-Up View of Love and Dread 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

All that's certain is that her longing, like the locked, robotic groove, will never find release. The best No 1 records: Kylie Minogue – Can't Get You Out of My Head 2012-05-31T20:11:00Z

The new pieces adhered to the sound and style of the previous collections: klezmer’s sinuous or doleful modal melodies and odd meters, infused with free-jazz impulsiveness, rowdy beats and slinky grooves. Music Review: John Zorn and Masada Begin a New Chapter 2014-03-20T22:05:01Z

And then there’s the drumming, in a groove with the bassist Ethan Miller. Review: Heron Oblivion’s Debut Album Explores Opposites 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Close inspection reveals subtle swirling grooves of pigment, shreds of brightly colored sidewalk ads, and the word city scrawled in orange. A Look at José Parlá's Dual Shows in Manhattan 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Take that word and 'women' out of the statement, and you get what both men and women do when the groove is there: nod and sway. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

It's a thumping groove until the song unravels at the two-minute mark into a shifty, echoing drum beat, a dime-turn that counts as a whole new song. Friday Favorites: Flexions, Lake House, James Blake 2010-10-15T21:01:00Z

She starts with a soft, high, thin, cool-and-prim tone; she moves toward skipping rhythms and drone notes; then she starts really improvising, making her voice fluid, letting the groove carry her. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z

Carlos Santana revved up his band with grooves adapted from Africa and the Caribbean, jamming live in the studio. Best Albums of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

Although influenced by U.K. dance, the grooves of Lapsley’s music are almost surreptitious: Her songs move in slow motion and seem appropriate for only the most horizontal of dancing. Catch this rising vocal star: Singer-songwriter Lapsley grooves beyond her years 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

His unlikely redemption now secured, Mr. Harmon found it difficult to get back into a groove at “Community” when work resumed in the summer. Dan Harmon on ‘Community’ 2013-12-18T17:00:01Z

There’s barely a trace of that carbonated flair in the new version, which puts Mr. James and the trumpeter Rick Braun at the foreground of a groove perhaps best classified as Santa Barbara Funk. New Music: ‘Bankrupt,’ by Phoenix, and ‘The Beat,’ by Boney James 2013-04-22T22:07:35Z

Even Brahms’s dances don’t stick to a single groove. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

We got out of the car and hiked up a grooved and lichen-blanketed rock face that turns into a channel for rainwater during the wet season. A Birder’s Paradise in Zimbabwe 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

At their furthest from their essential grooves and melodies, the slinky “Cantaloupe Island” and the funky “Actual Proof” were essentially the same. Herbie Hancock stretches out and enjoys the jams at Kennedy Center 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

A 12-piece brass band joined the latest incarnation of Prince's New Power Generation for a run of hits like "1999" and "Cool" that jammed a groove twist. Prince delivers funk-filled finale at SXSW 2013-03-17T12:10:27Z

As expected, there are wow-worthy stunts and high-flying bodies in “Edge of Tomorrow,” which finds its groove after Cage discovers that he’s on seemingly endless repeat. Tom Cruise Battles Invaders in ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

You’re also watching two actors settled into a groove that works partly because it’s an assertion of life, a passing refuge from inexorable death. Movie Review: ‘Deadfall’ Stars Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde 2012-12-07T00:31:59Z

The leader's own You Got the Fever brought suitably heated interjections from Sneider, and inspired freewheeling scat vocals as the Cuban groove swelled. Curtis Stigers – review 2012-07-01T16:03:01Z

Still others might just enjoy watching individuals of different ages, orientations and abilities shaking their groove things. Can Chaz Bono dance like a dude? 2011-09-06T21:30:00Z

It opened with the meter-shifting, harmonically labyrinthine song “The Sloth” and the quick arpeggios of “You Enjoy Myself,” demonstrating its ensemble precision; it also jammed vigorously on basic two-chord grooves. Music Review: Phish at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-12-31T00:27:32Z

It's classic "Raw Power"-era Stooges from the get-go on "Burn," a heavy-duty groove that kicks off the collection. Review: Iggy and Stooges still have raw power 2013-04-29T14:07:09Z

In “Houston,” which Mr. Blade stamped with a lean Levon Helm groove, she sang movingly of heartache, finding solidarity in the face of some recent hurricane wreckage. Jenny Scheinman Features Her Own Songs at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

It’s got serious dynamics: his own self-effacing lead singing, relaxed grooves, dramatic band swells. Playlist : New CDs: Josh Berman, Guardian Alien, Rodrigo Campos 2012-08-17T19:49:57Z

In the meantime, enjoy a blissed-out night of diverse music ranging from soul to rock'n'roll, funk to punk and plenty of dancefloor grooves along the way. This week's new clubs 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z

Thankfully the tune doesn’t get bogged down by anything too conceptual, though, and invites the listener to simply lock into its blissed-out groove. Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

This would have left the groove edge of the new piece just resting on the tongue of the adjoining piece, making it prone to splitting loose as the flooring flexed from people walking over it. What to do about splitting floorboards in an old home 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

As Ice Cube wound down at Staples Center, across the street at Club Nokia the Roots were slowly unpacking a night of freewheeling grooves. BET Experience 2015: N.W.A reunion, Lauryn Hill among final thrills 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Throughout, rich disco grooves thaw icy keyboards; choral chants and children's laughter throw light on claustrophobic textures worthy of PiL. KXP: II – review 2013-02-07T22:00:01Z

I want everyone to discover, right there in the thick grooves of the oil paint, the wonder and vitality of art that needs no animation. Submerged in van Gogh: Would Absinthe Make the Art Grow Fonder? 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

This record is still dominated by grooves that don’t move anywhere in a hurry; they’re just much more fragmented. Explosions in the Sky Explore a Muted Sound on the Prince Avalanche Soundtrack 2013-08-09T18:56:46Z

We washed down briny fried clam strips and crispy-gooey macaroni and cheese balls with iced lemonade as “Hotel California” grooved in the background. No Subway. No Buses. No Uber. No Problem. 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Over an understated groove, persistent melody and warped vocal samples, she anticipates heartbreak, singing, “So if you’re gonna hurt me, why don’t you hurt me a little bit more?” Catch this rising vocal star: Singer-songwriter Lapsley grooves beyond her years 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

That may be why he so often kept his eyes trained in her direction, intent on locking into her groove. Music Review: Geri Allen Trio at the Village Vanguard - Review 2011-09-07T19:51:28Z

Its contemporary grooves and dancefloor ambiance might have surprised the trumpeter's jazz-rooted fans, but The Modern Sound of Harry Beckett only reflected the warmth and curiosity that had characterised the Barbadian's open-handedness from the start. Harry Beckett obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z

“I love the first half where you change up the groove, but it still keeps all the momentum,” he told them. Bicycle Diaries: Cruising With the ‘American Utopia’ Family 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

There's a balance of muscle and lyricism to his work that grabs audiences and shakes them into the groove. This week's new live music 2012-08-24T23:05:00Z

Valdés arrived to open with a Duke Ellington medley over a laid-back Cuban dance groove. Chucho Vald?s 2010-04-06T21:35:00Z

Their mix of Latin grooves, reverberating guitars and sinuous Khmer melodies matched the heady optimism of the era. Cambodian Music Festival salutes tradition, new artists paving the way 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z

And the striking thing is how fluidly this group weds advanced harmonic movement with instantly accessible groove and dynamics; it's not a stretch to suggest that this band would slay at Bonnaroo. ArtsBeat: Winter Jazzfest: A Happy Audience for Kneebody, Whatever Its Genre 2013-01-13T04:50:26Z

Self-improvement and historical gratitude converge over a groove that just keeps on sprouting new levels of percussion and polyrhythm. The Playlist: Esperanza Spalding’s Intoxicating Groove, and 12 More New Songs 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

If the wood becomes drier than it was when the porch was installed, the boards will shrink, but the tongues are still in the grooves, so you don’t see openings in the floor. Dealing with a wooden porch that buckles when it rains 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

One choice took me to a steep, winding hill road with grooves so deep I thought my tire would get wedged in one. Place 10 of 52: In Los Cabos, Beaches Abound, but So Does Generosity 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

I eventually realize this is the name of a local beach and not an invitation to groove. Kayaking through the past in Dubrovnik, Croatia 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

It’s certainly possible to delight in the movie without this background, to go with the romantic flow, to groove with and cringe at the characters and their lives. ‘Paris, 13th District’ Review: Groping Toward Happiness 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

He hopped onto a chair at middeck and bleated a few pithy lines on tenor while the members of his band motored through a kind of frictionless, imperturbable soul groove. Review: Boney James Performs with Panache in Smooth Cruise Kickoff 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

Whatever the groove, Mr. Watts doubled as bricklayer and demolition man, setting up substructures and pummeling against them, always with momentum in mind. Music Review: Azar Lawrence Quintet at Jazz Standard - Review 2011-12-15T23:04:44Z

The musicians are downright grooving on this warm, imaginative track, both exhaling and exalting in every note. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Alice Coltrane 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

Williams’s version of this Dizzy Gillespie composition is relaxed, soulful and grooving, yet constantly surprising. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

Legendary British saxophonist Evan Parker sits in with the group, using his signature circular breathing techniques to help elevate the groove to an even more ecstatic place. Perspective | Best music of 2021: Playboi Carti, Grouper, Turnstile, Yasmin Williams and more 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

The song piles into a groove after nine seconds, then repeats the pattern of tension and release a few more times. Review: In ‘The Blackest Eye,’ Aye Nako Draws on Race and Identity 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

Prodigiously gifted and bursting with vigor at the piano, Caine is the uncommon player who sounds just as deft on a deep groove, a classical minuet or a freely improvised odyssey. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

He occasionally becomes belligerent but always settles into the groove. What our writers love this week 2011-04-27T22:30:06Z

Tuesday’s first set opened with “Secret Life,” built over a straight-eighth groove in 14/8 meter, and during Mr. Potter’s athletic solo it sounded a lot like something from one of his own albums. Critic?s Notebook: When the Latin and Jazz Converge 2011-06-09T00:00:16Z

Like a long-distance runner who takes a few miles to get into his groove, Izzard's brain needed some warming up Saturday. Comic Eddie Izzard, at Hollywood Bowl, generates hysterics and more 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

The grooves often appear across all fingernails and occasionally on toenails. Are ‘covid nails’ a sign you had the virus? Experts weigh in. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

The dark groove of Watch The Throne's standout track is a saturnine meditation on big themes. This week's new tracks 2012-06-08T23:05:21Z

On “Obadiah” you hear direct echoes from those earlier records: strong and easy four-four grooves, small string arrangements, and little drop-ins of organ, harmonica and banjo. Critics? Choice: New CDs From Rick Ross, Marc Cohn, Frazey Ford 2010-07-18T21:21:00Z

The full band’s final appearance was with “Late in the Evening,” a musician’s victory strut with an exultant extended groove. Review: Paul Simon, Still Evolving, Is Saying Goodbye 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wonder brought more than two dozen musicians to recreate his omnibus of American music and led them joyfully and tearfully, opening up the songs to savor their best grooves and deepest lessons. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

She painted over parts of the matrix to create raised surfaces and carved into other areas, creating grooves to trap the ink. The late Cuban artist Belkis Ayón's mysterious world unfurls at the Fowler Museum 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

The left wall is the left channel, the right wall is the right channel, and you’re just dragging that rock through the groove. Jack White Is the Coolest, Weirdest, Savviest Rock Star of Our Time 2012-04-07T00:27:22Z

“Wonderstruck” takes a while to find its groove, but it gets there. Review: ‘Wonderstruck,’ Todd Haynes’s Imitations of Life 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

But they accepted that they would have to record each performer’s audio in advance, sync it and then synchronize the picture — “putting everything back into the groove,” Clark said. Broadway Adjourns, but the ‘Sing Street’ Band Plays On 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

The early drafts of “Champion” came across stiffly when the singers did the notes precisely as written, but Blanchard has worked at conveying in notation some of the looseness and groove he’s searching for. A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

It finds his trumpet coaxing an electrified ensemble into all sorts of approaches — slow-jam, vague Caribbean groove, contemporary jazz balladry — then tearing into them with animated, inventive soloing. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

This is where the vast Pacific plate bends steeply beneath the Philippine plate, leaving a huge groove in the Earth's crust. Dive for Avatar 2011-01-18T07:59:02Z

And he’s perfectly compatible with Mr. DeJohnette, who sustains one of his magically elastic spells here, grooving hard while seeming to float above it all. Playlist: Albums by Rosie Thomas, Punch Brothers, Luis Perdomo 2012-02-12T15:54:38Z

Mr. Sparks later appeared on Mr. Denson’s album “Dance Lesson #2,” and occasionally played with other groove outfits, like Galactic and Soulive. Melvin Sparks, Guitarist, Is Dead at 64 2011-03-21T03:37:26Z

Symphonic devices can add dramatic heft, but they also tend to bog down tempos and restrict pop music accustomed to grooving to a beat. Peter Gabriel's experiment with strings attached 2011-06-21T14:26:00Z

So mellow that the volume of chatter in the room got loud, louder at points than the group itself, which fought back with a muscular rock-steady groove but was still defeated. Magic! Celebrates Its Hit Single and a New Album 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Big K.R.I.T. puts a fresh spin on old-school tradition--there's even a "scratch" solo--enamored with do-it-yourself skill and hard grooves. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z

One solo continues for five minutes, slipping inside the groove and then back atop it, all the while maintaining the fierce yet elastic momentum. Lollapalooza Day 3: Jack White, Florence + the Machine, At the Drive-In and the amazing Amadou and Mariam 2012-08-06T06:00:00Z

Santigold said it was Mr. Shears who introduced her to the couple’s music, and she quickly became addicted to their hooky grooves even before she heard them live at a festival. Amadou & Mariam Aim to Expand Audience With ?Folila? 2012-04-13T21:05:13Z

Tempo-shifting with Swiss watch precision, alternating between dynamics in perfect sync and without warning, settling into complex grooves with lazy aplomb, the Smashing Pumpkins sound like equals here. Smashing Pumpkins’ The Aeroplane Flies High Reissue is Compelling and Excessive 2013-07-25T14:47:40Z

There's a tantalisingly brief dance scene in which he grooves with Jennifer Lawrence, counselling a miffed Cooper, her ostensible dance partner, to "black it up". Chris Tucker: 'I got my first big laugh and kept going' 2012-11-15T23:52:48Z

The moist paper squishes into the grooves, soaking up the ink. The Renaissance origin of porn: Inside “I Modi,” the 16th-century sex manual masterpiece 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z

Each time a needle hits a record groove, it becomes an act of resurrection, blending the past and present. In his novel 'White Tears,' Hari Kunzru delves into the blues, white appropriation and our violent past 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

Their chief concern was groove, often in a deep, gluey cadence that opened plenty of space for melody. Music Review: Derrick Hodge and Aaron Parks at 92YTriBeCa - Review 2011-10-28T23:42:57Z

Like Beatles-era Ringo Starr before him, “Fill” Collins was and is capable of writing drum/drum machine grooves that are hooks themselves, that can stand independently from their corresponding songs. Take a look at Phil Collins now: It’s time to recognize the critical punching-bag’s true genius 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

They play some terrific stuff, huge euphoric grooves that prompt jumping up and down - although the catchy choruses of Our Riotous Defects and the rest occasionally get lost in the cacophony. Of Montreal ? review 2010-10-07T21:30:00Z

That groove — subtle, almost mesmerizing repetitions of a theme — was the essential characteristic of the Crusaders’ music. Wayne Henderson, a Founder of the Jazz Crusaders, Dies at 74 2014-04-10T00:02:26Z

When the band fired up the slow, deliberate groove of Young’s “Don’t Be Denied,” Benaroya Hall lit up like a rock hall. Norah Jones defies labels in genre-, career-spanning concert 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Van Kemenade's quiveringly tender tone and delicately inviting phrasing led his own Close Enough, before an effusively Cuban groove closed the set. Van Kemenade/Anderson/Bennink ? review 2010-10-27T21:30:00Z

"Why Don't You Believe in Me" grooves like cosmopolitan country music but with a hum of funk driving it. Essential tracks: Natalie Prass' debut has plenty of brass, irresistible songs 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

A groove emerges from the din, the dense layers of percussion. My Journey with Jazz 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

We're going to sit on the fence and just dig the grooves, enjoy the vibe, and breath in the patchouli. New band of the day - Foxygen (No 1,435) 2013-01-21T16:49:00Z

But it became one of Mr. Ongala’s best-known songs in a career as Tanzania’s most beloved and influential musician, on and off the dance floor, with songs that had both a groove and a conscience. Remmy Ongala, Tanzanian Musical Star, Dies at 63 2011-01-17T04:17:29Z

The last decade has seen a continuation of the trend toward dance grooves and away from simple love songs. Here Are the Last 50 Years' Songs of the Summer 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

“In the beginning, there was God, and God had a groove,” a preacher says. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Rennie Harris, and Rhode Island-Style Pizza 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

She brought a fine lyric reserve to the slow movement and loved getting into an exciting rhythmic groove at the end, which is the kind of music in which she excels. Salonen leads Yuja Wang, L.A. Phil through Russian turmoil 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

And on almost every track there’s a richness of musical detail: the multitracked vocal harmonies, the shrewdly off-kilter grooves, all those spidery bass arpeggios. New Music: Albums From Thundercat and Buika 2013-06-10T21:43:39Z

Foucault’s maxim is relevant for anyone interested in the arts, but particularly apposite for critics, who are obliged to perceive and reflect quickly, relying on deeply grooved instincts and memories. Dance Review: ?The Work The Work? by Fitzgerald & Stapleton 2010-05-24T21:26:00Z

“Life Boat’s” watery groove, fuzzy guitar, and chattering background sounds grab your attention before even a word is spoken on Which Side Are You On?. Is Ani DiFranco's Which Side Are You On? An OWS Rallying Cry? 2012-01-10T17:10:54Z

When “Voodoo” was released, a great number of musicians actually found it difficult to listen to, because of the gluey disorientation imparted by these grooves. How the Soulquarians Birthed D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’ and Transformed Jazz 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Clyde Stubblefield, drums: James Brown's command to "give the drummer some" ushered in the most famous drum solo in funk history; Stubblefield's "Funky Drummer" groove has been sampled on countless hip-hop hits. A sampling of some of rock's greatest foils 2011-06-20T01:07:00Z

The groove chugs rhythmically and steadily forward toward freedom, but there is enough space left for those striking horn solos to come in, and Ibrahim’s piano flourishes situate it in the spiritual realm. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

We fell into a groove for the next few days, fully embracing #castawaylife. On a Bahamas Sail, 8 Friends Get a Taste of Robinson Crusoe 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

He was feeling more at home in the rehearsal room, finding his groove in the role. Robin Williams, stage actor: What I learned from directing him in a Broadway play 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

The 21-year-old's latest song, the goodbye groove "Deuces," hit the top spot of Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop songs chart this week. Chris Brown returns to No. 1 spot with 'Deuces' 2010-09-02T21:24:00Z

There’s one possible reference point here: Henry Threadgill in the 1990s, with his complex, organically growing structures over a groove. New Music: Skrillex Releases ‘Recess’; Dan Weiss’s ‘Fourteen’ 2014-03-17T21:45:45Z

In “Missing Pieces,” from “Blunderbuss,” Fats Kaplin accented the song’s herky-jerk groove with eerie long tones he pulled from a theremin. Outsider no more, Jack White brings 'Lazaretto' to the Fonda Theatre 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Over a bouncy refashioning of the groove from Dion's "Runaround Sue," she pledges to be "the perfect wife" in "Dear Future Husband," as long as her man does right by her. Meghan Trainor's 'Title' is cheerful, crafty yet vexing 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Not sure White Socks Flip Flops sounds sartorially advisable, but Super Furry Animals pull it off thanks to wibbly 70s keyboards and a winning groove. Readers recommend: songs about clothes – results 2012-07-19T14:05:28Z

It started with a march beat akin to U2, then moved into a groove, and lyrics, from Cameroon; Shakira led a dance with palms pressed together and angular shoulder moves. Music Review: At the Garden, Shakira Is a Star With a Conscience 2010-09-22T12:00:00Z

“The cartridge ferrets out a lot more low-level detail within the groove’s walls,” Mr. Hobson said. Music: Vinyl Revival: Reissues From Blue Note?s Heyday 2010-08-08T01:30:00Z

Birch has an especially melodic way of playing, and her slinky, fluid grooves seem to relish their role in the spotlight. The Raincoats’ Gina Birch Goes Solo (and Still Makes the Floor Rattle) 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Presto chango, tattoos crawl across his arms and head, now hairless, and angry red slashes groove his skin. | 'Beastly': From Hottie to Homely, Transformed by a Witch 2011-03-03T23:17:00Z

A hip-hop duo of the rapper Residente and the producer Visitante, Calle 13 was backed by a large band for grooves that fused Latin American rhythms, hip-hop and even some hard rock. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z

Let's hope the show finds a better groove before its premiere. Wednesday TV Picks: Matthew Perry's new 'Go On' on NBC 2012-08-07T21:18:05Z

Now grooving and swinging her hips, now weeping abjectly, Zaino finally cuts loose to a strobe light, which reduces her movements to flickering fragments, as if in an old film. Cleopatra; Henri Oguike Dance Company ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:20Z

Then, overnight, humans disappear, and this unsettling survival story finds its groove. ‘In My Room’ Review: Alone Again, Unnaturally 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

It’s not supposed to be about songs anymore, but grooves, riffs and passion. R.E.M. breaks up, leaves behind career that balanced hits, integrity 2011-09-21T21:46:00Z

He’s also a character we’ve seen before: the grumpy, jaded male coach who gets his groove back with some help from the irrepressible young women he was reluctant to mentor. ‘GLOW’ Season 1: Watched It All? Let’s Talk 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z

The Latin grooves helped hold together songs that threatened to fall apart under so much weight. Music Review: Crosby, Stills and Nash With Jazz at Lincoln Center 2013-05-05T21:08:05Z

He has patter and stutter and groove all tied together in his drumming, and he shares Mr. Lloyd’s relationship to rhythm: always ahead, never rushing. Charles Lloyd Revels in the Flow on a Stellar Live Album 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

The second movement, too, establishes a rhythmic groove that propels the music forward. Music Review: The Emerson Quartet Plays the Mostly Mozart Festival 2013-08-21T21:27:12Z

I’m not sure if I’d get Botox again – I like my laughter lines, the grooves around my mouth – but having better skin has been nice. ‘I’d rather spend £300 on fillers than face cream’: the rise of tweakment face 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

After all, the 1970s-tinged groove still cruises along, with little flurries of jazzy keyboard, spoken-word bits that turn into babble and what turns out to be a very minor request: “Just be honest.” The Playlist: Prince’s Own ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ and 12 More New Songs 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

As Deadmau5 supplies dance grooves, dub-step loops and house beats, people dive into mud pits and cheer when the sheets of rain pick up in intensity. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z

"The songs started mostly from grooves," he said. Robert Plant aims for nuance in album 'lullaby and … The Ceaseless Roar' 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

A capacity crowd packed the outdoor venue in Woodinville for the 90-minute dance party, which spanned generations and revived long-dormant dance moves, particularly among baby boomers who delighted in getting that groove thing going again. Earth, Wind & Fire whips Chateau show into boogie fest 2012-07-22T00:35:04Z

The title track is a spoken word groove inspired by Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” accentuated by backup singers and the sweep of Bullens’s electric synthesizer. This is pioneering rocker Cidny Bullens’s ninth album. But his first as a man. 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Together they specialize in the communion between ecstatic free improvisation and psychedelic groove. Playlist: New Albums: Tift Merritt, Rangda, Randy Newman 2012-09-29T23:43:03Z

Whereas "Black to Black" relied heavily on a retro, 1960s soul groove, "Frank" harkened to an even earlier time. Winehouse was more than 'Rehab' caricature 2011-07-23T21:49:08Z

But the bedrock of the piece is Fela’s infectious music — complemented by Jones’ fevered choreography and executed by hip-swinging dancers who sometimes encourage the audience to get up and groove along. Get-up-and-dance ‘Fela!’ coming to Seattle May 28-June 2 2013-05-22T23:12:41Z

There's a lovely Beach Boys-circa-Cabinessence middle-eight before a return to the gently propulsive groove – definitely one of the tracks of the year so far. New band of the day ? No 810: Sunbirds 2010-06-17T15:24:00Z

It's a metaphor, I thought, for the new Marjorie, still finding its groove. Well-prepared, inventive fare showcased at the new Marjorie on Capitol Hill 2010-07-22T21:43:00Z

You can still buy a piece of history and groove on it. Perspective | Woodstock can’t be duplicated. Perhaps we should leave it at that. 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Where Verzuz found its groove was in its battle format, offering music legends and superstars going head to head on Instagram live as they showcase their best cuts. Verzuz battles brought us together to bond over live music again 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z

By 1 a.m. the vast, vaulted bar of the Casino was in full groove, thanks to a soirée organized by Le Baron, the Parisian nightclub, which last year began holding monthly summer galas in Cabourg. Visiting France?s C?te Fleurie 2010-08-06T15:19:00Z

They bring an elastic ease to his compositions, periodically landing on a backbeat groove. Playlist : Improvisatory Responses To Post-Punk Chirping 2011-01-23T02:30:15Z

It's a step up that has encouraged the duo to develop their intimate groove into something much more expansive, enlisting Marshall on guest vocals and recruiting a full-time live drummer. Mount Kimbie go beyond making music for after the club 2013-05-24T12:00:00Z

He flirted with a groove but stayed evasive, slowing down and speeding up. 2010-02-15T01:06:00Z

His acceptance by mainstream America was sealed when the Budweiser frogs grooved to his song "Jamming" in a 1999 beer ad. Reggae fans in Jamaica mark Bob Marley's death 2011-05-11T21:47:09Z

Because my wife and I so repeatedly read these favorite picture books aloud — comically, exhaustedly, occasionally inebriatedly — to our children, their words and images have worn grooves into our minds. Critic’s Notebook: A Splendid Little Book Club Has Ended Its Run 2013-04-24T21:59:48Z

These kinds of left turns and tangents arrive with regularity, whether it’s the dripping-faucet percussion and acoustic-guitar coda of “Arch & Point” or the blanket of keyboards that cloaks the sparse bass groove of “The Thrill.” Album review: Miguel, 'Kaleidoscope Dream' 2012-10-12T18:57:00Z

In “Neil Young Journeys,” to be released June 29, the filmmaker Jonathan Demme followed Mr. Young as he vanished into the grooves of his past and sang too. The Week Ahead: May 13 ? 19 2012-05-13T04:01:17Z

“This is my favorite place,” said Amelia Meath, Sylvan Esso’s singer and lyricist, as she reclined on the floor, gazing up at the grooves on the animal’s belly. Sylvan Esso Keeps Electronic Pop Human 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

She has so much style and groove to everything she does. Twyla Tharp’s Troupe Prepares for a Milestone Tour 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Davis’s double album, with its dark aura, thick acoustic-electric instrumentation and seemingly endless grooves, also made way for like-minded bands to assemble in its wake. 53 Years After Miles Davis’s Album, a Fresh Spin as ‘London Brew’ 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Because James Brown managed to have incredibly deep politics at the same time that a groove is underneath making you move. ‘Luke Cage’ Season 2: A New Villain and Respectability Politics 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

You're Gonna Hate Me's rough and tumble groove, coated in sheets of echo and shadow, will leave you bewildered and enthralled in equal measures. July's best new music from across the MAP 2011-07-18T08:26:00Z

One of my thumbnails is permanently grooved from dropping a rock on it and is uncleanable. For the gardener, cleanliness is next to . . . impossible 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

With its focus on backing vocals and supple R&B grooves, AM is a slower, funkier album than the quartet's frenetic debut. Arctic Monkeys land fifth number one 2013-09-15T18:03:46Z

His band, airtight but flexible, rumbled and shuddered behind him, sometimes pushing into the foreground with a cyclical groove. Review: Ibrahim Maalouf Salutes a Great Arabic Performer 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

In his fiction, especially, he’s hit a deep groove. Books of The Times: ‘The River Swimmer,’ Two Novellas by Jim Harrison 2013-01-15T19:55:50Z

Everyone gets solo moments, too, yet half the purpose of these is to set up the next solo, the next groove. Review: The Singing Feet of Michelle Dorrance’s Dancers 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Her eight-person band filled the songs with cocktail lounge piano, bright keyboard textures, sleek mid-tempo funk grooves and the coos of three female backing singers. Anita Baker shines after long wait at Chicago Theatre 2011-02-13T16:06:00Z

For six weeks late last year they cut grooves for 20 hours a day. Antiques: Tile by Tile, a Mural Is Saved 2010-02-25T21:36:00Z

Many albums have followed, often self-released and sold at his live appearances which, thanks to Everett's ability to be thrillingly spontaneous while maintaining a groove, attain vivid response from his similarly dynamic audience. Clubs picks of the week 2011-03-19T00:06:36Z

Despite its plethora of bad news, the grooves of 1970, rock’s forgotten year, play on. Music: James Taylor and Marc Cohn Revive 1970 2010-08-13T17:49:00Z

Tracks flow into one another, DJ-set-style, a perpetual groove as hypnotic as it is assertive. !!!'s fourth album establishes the band's dance-imperative legacy 2010-08-23T23:53:00Z

"He never quite gets into his comedy groove." Post-credits scene: Get Him to the Greek 2010-06-28T16:17:00Z

Well, all right, then: the band struck up a light-funk groove, and Ms. Freelon plunged into one last song, parsing lyrics with syncopation. Music Review: Nnenna Freelon: Vocalist Who Bends Melodies 2010-05-12T20:28:00Z

But his songs have been perennially rediscovered, in part because they never walled themselves into any one genre: His ballads have been reclaimed by folky guitar strummers, his grooves by R&B acts. Review: A Bill Withers Tribute With His Soul Disciples 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

Wax cylinders were traditionally played on a phonograph, where, similar to a modern record player, a stylus followed grooves in the wax and translated the information into sound. Wax Cylinders Hold Audio From a Century Ago. The Library Is Listening. 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z

A stretch in the first movement featured a quintuple pulse overlaid by syncopated triplets; the second half began in free tempo but then lurched in another asymmetrical groove. 2010-01-15T04:23:00Z

But there’s more to the record than a deep, frenzied groove. “I’m just weeping and weeping”: Thao Nguyen on how Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” set the tone for her new album 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

In the Sir collection, these include a custom filigree, raised rivets and vintage-inspired fitting grooves. | ‘American Psycho’-Style Specs From Oliver Peoples and Miller’s Oath 2013-08-05T19:20:48Z

She stayed on as a groove materialized, setting up “Red Before Orange,” a ballad not unlike some proto-smooth-jazz records by George Benson — at least up until the distorted solo at its melting center. The Nels Cline Singers Play New Music at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-05-05T16:43:42Z

Self-doubt leaks into those seductive grooves, and in the second half of "Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action," the unraveling begins. Franz Ferdinand comes back dancing 2013-08-27T05:00:00Z

“The bass player pulls the whole groove forward,” Mr. Brooks, himself a bandleader, explains. Television Review: ?Cab Calloway: Sketches? on PBS 2012-02-25T00:16:11Z

The “Chinese groove” referred to so often in the novel is, of course, the generosity and connection that always exist among fellow countrymen. Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The only question after reading the book is whether Mr. Barrett’s groove is quite as wide as it is deep. In Colin Barrett’s ‘Young Skins,’ a Small Irish Town’s Aimless Denizens 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

One country, however, was hip to African grooves almost 40 years before the rest of the world. How African music made it big in Colombia 2010-07-08T21:45:00Z

“Exactly,” he said as the guitars slid into the groove low and tight. Runnin’ down a dream with Tom Petty: His childhood abuse, his relationship with Stevie Nicks and his short, wacky run with Gary Busey 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

After a week or so, I began to get into a groove. How I cook for myself and my baby — at the same time 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

Keleketla!’s tracks rely on Coldcut’s fundamental skills as D.J.s and producers: layering multifarious sources to find and sharpen a groove. Coldcut + Tony Allen and African Artists = Studio Electricity 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z

He and his band were devouring an Afrobeat groove in a tune pointedly titled “All Brothers,” when I glanced at my phone and learned that Nat Hentoff had died, at 91. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon With Protest at Its Heart 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z

Yet Mann's competent five-piece band are notably short on visceral thrills as they plod through the lethargic grooves of forgettable, country-tinged new workouts such as Slip and Roll and Soon Enough. Aimee Mann 2013-01-29T15:17:42Z

Then he switches to another tack, which becomes another groove he gets deliberately stuck in. Dance Review | Alex Escalante: Babble on? Babylon? Next Question, Please 2010-02-19T23:46:00Z

They drank cans of Angkor beer, grooving to Top 40 hits by the Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga, smiling broadly late into the night and dancing freely with whomever they liked. Next Stop: Siem Reap, Cambodia, Welcomes Gay Travelers 2010-03-19T18:51:00Z

She and some friends, including Mr. Murray, started underground parties in Kentucky to ease her back into the groove. The Black Madonna, an Activist D.J., Wants to Turn Dance Music Upside Down 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

It was a game changer, and Fall for Dance got its groove back. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-11-03T01:15:46Z

This young keyboardist crafts tightly woven grooves that are equally influenced by the cosmic soul-jazz of the 1970s as they are by the broken-beat and nu-jazz traditions of his native London. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

I arrived at the subway platform drunk on endorphins, running my fingers under my coat to feel the tiny grooves in my shoulder his bite had left. I Wanted to Be Dominated. But Not Quite Like That. 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Her orchestral writing, meanwhile, pulsed with Minimalist gestures — phrases that repeatedly swirled upward, steady rhythmic support in the strings — while also nodding to grooving rock in drum kits and electric guitars. Review: An Oratorio Cautiously Looks Back on Women’s Suffrage 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

The show is in its 40th year and Mr. Clark has been hosting it much longer than Lady Gaga, the pop diva given to euro-dance grooves and wacky costumes, has been alive. ArtsBeat Blog: Lady Gaga to Ring in the New Year With Dick Clark 2011-09-09T18:14:47Z

But be wary not to get stuck in a disco groove. | Jil Sander Wins! 2011-01-17T17:00:50Z

“Psy Ops” has gnashing, dissonant, trebly guitar riffs over pounding drum syncopations, with Nadia Garofalo wedging telegraphic little bursts of lyrics — “now pay attention/your anger/fear/has got me” — wedged tightly into the groove. The Playlist: Janelle Monáe Feels the Funk, and 13 More New Songs 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z

Those suspicious of pretention would do well to disregard the title of this debut solo album by Jim James and feel instead the southern orchestral funk of its groove. Jim James: Regions of Light and Sound of God – review 2013-02-03T00:05:08Z

Its sound is denser, more plangent and textured, more given to droning groove. Music Review: The Tomasz Stanko Quintet Performs at Birdland 2010-04-14T21:27:00Z

And musically, just the contrast between the thick, consistent groove and the contemplative melody is enough to keep you on the edge of your seat. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

That constant elasticity is part of what grounds Mr. Harris’s dances, where nothing is brittle, and the history of hip-hop — in the joints and the limbs — lives on in an unceasing groove. Rennie Harris Puremovement and ‘A Batalha do Passinho’ 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

“Playing” latches onto a couple of interesting grooves in its last twenty minutes. ‘Playing in the FM Band’ Review: A Free-Form Radio Legend 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

Agron also discussed how she's found her groove in the world of independent films, her timely new horror movie "Clock" and why she has no interest in locking down a superhero franchise. Dianna Agron on embracing indies after "Glee": "When you ask for something, life can give it to you" 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

I use my asanka, a traditional Ghanaian earthenware mortar lined with thin grooves, and a two-sided wooden pestle to gently work the ingredients in. Mortars, Pestles and the Comfort of a Culinary Ritual 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

The first was an outcropping of basalt - lava rock - with grooves showing the direction a glacier moved in as it receded and uncovered the Keweenaw thousands of years ago. Geoheritage website links local history, geology 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Jon Garcia at AllHipHop.com praised Miller for the album's production, "and the fact that he doesn't do too much to mess up the groove." Rapper Mac Miller straight to No.1 in indie victory 2011-11-16T22:12:09Z

It injected a few more hooks into the duo's trademark sound: a blues-based minimalism that embraces moaning-at-midnight vocals and trancelike grooves. Black Keys riding out the buzz 2010-12-24T06:00:00Z

We’re doing a few outside festival shows in England, but we just feel more in the groove doing arenas. Mick Jagger talks Stones tour, ticket prices and scalpers 2013-04-03T20:07:00Z

The caning on your chair appears to be the machine-made type that’s held in place with a spline stuffed into a groove around the edges. How to repair veneer on a mid-century Kofod-Larsen chair 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

The band’s lineup changed over the years, but its instrumentation and sound remained basically the same: a solid, driving groove provided by guitar, keyboards, bass and drums, punctuated by staccato blasts from a horn section. Leroy Bonner of the Ohio Players Dies at 69 2013-01-29T04:53:02Z

That said, it takes a while for Bullock and Tatum to find their groove, in part because he isn’t as comfortable in his lunkhead role as he needs to be. ‘The Lost City’ Review: Raiders of the 1980s Blockbusters 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

“Oh Really?” has him playing a Wurlitzer electric piano in unison with the guitarist Jef Lee Johnson, against a pocket funk groove. Critics? Choice: CDs by Blake Shelton, Mike Posner, George Duke 2010-08-08T22:33:00Z

It was joined by a gentle flute, hissing cymbals and a snare-drum tattoo, as Jasper Hoiby's double bass led a bumpily Latin groove. Fringe Magnetic ? review 2011-02-10T17:19:22Z

With his band the Africa 70, this Afrobeat pioneer rolled out monster-size grooves, chugging along with soulful beats, keyboards and horns. ‘Finding Fela,’ From Alex Gibney 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

While some of the ascetically curt melodies, edgily avant-funky grooves and impassively entwined counterpoint are familiar Coleman traits, the music is several degrees warmer: full of sparky ensemble writing, varied percussion sounds and vivacious grooves. Steve Coleman & Five Elements: Functional Arrhythmias – review 2013-04-11T21:35:01Z

And Mr. Lefebvre laid a mischievously unstable foundation; on “Losing Track of Daytime” he briefly adopted the warp and wobble of a dubstep groove. Music Review: Donny McCaslin Group at Jazz Standard 2012-12-05T23:06:20Z

Redwoods are a beloved fixture of the West, beautiful and soaring with thick, almost furry red-hued bark, deep trunk grooves and lush green needles. The Quiet Strength of an Old-Growth Forest 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z

Before we set out to tackle our task, we had to get into the groove Hannah Montana style, and you should too. It's time to Party In The U.S.A. for 'American Idol' hopeful Crystal Bowersox 2010-03-24T15:02:00Z

And "Sweet Talk," a 1980s-laced groove, is a pop gem, much like Ware herself. Review: Jessie Ware strikes right chords on EP 2013-01-14T17:17:08Z

But it’s also to take in the infinitesimal variations from one pizza to the next, from one night to the next, as Sang Woo Joo finds his groove. Perfecting Neapolitan Pizza in Los Angeles, With Help From Tokyo 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sangare’s voice gained a steely, determined edge, dominating grooves that were built around her soaring exhortations. Music Review: A Malian Singer Sets Her West African Message to a Dance Beat 2011-07-31T22:06:14Z

The movie shifts into a steady action groove once the not especially dirty dozen lands in Afghanistan. Review: ‘12 Strong’ Believes in the Brotherhood of Battle 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Then everything changes at 1:16: "Attack the track, I said attack the track!" they yell, joined by drums, horns and a lazy groove. Dexys Midnight Runners to release first new album in 27 years 2012-02-13T10:38:23Z

You need to delimit your options; it’s best to go uptempo and syncopated and bravura, with narrow grooves. Playlist: New CDs by Judith Berkson, Trash Talk and Others 2010-05-28T21:25:00Z

But something’s missing here, and it’s something to do with music alone: sound, feeling, groove, attack, dynamics. New Music: New Releases From Travis Porter and Melody Gardot 2012-05-28T22:04:52Z

Mario's already bizarre Mushroom Kingdom bursts with Rayman-ish peculiarities, like geysering toilets, grooving flowers and ivory pipes with bunny ears and lolling tongues. Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle Is a Strategy Masterpiece 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

Not newness, really, but something about grooves and songwriting and resonance; perhaps, all together, a desire for longevity. Critic’s Notebook: Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, in All Its Multiplicity 2013-06-17T22:06:12Z

Beck’s electric guitar opens with twangy rockabilly syncopation, sets up the choppy piano groove and pointedly spurs things along. Jeff Beck’s 10 Essential Songs 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

Ali Catterall Now it's settling into its groove, there's plenty to enjoy about this show. Tonight's TV highlights: Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India 2011-03-08T00:05:54Z

Mr. Stone’s old-fashioned grooves are a studio illusion. Review: Allen Stone Keeps His Distance From Modern Music in ‘Radius’ 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

Brown said a tour through England with Kings of Leon got the band thinking about arrangements and finding the groove - then sticking with it. Zac Brown Band's new album 'Uncaged' out July 10 2012-04-25T11:16:04Z

It's more Room On Fire than First Impressions of Earth – an insistent groove but no fondness for hair-metal guitar. New music: The Strokes ? Under Cover of Darkness 2011-02-10T12:01:00Z

Words help paper over this sorrowful understanding or at least distract us from it, but as Sally observes at one point, the hollow grooves of idle conversation can also leave us lonelier than ever. ‘Lips Together, Teeth Apart’ Revival at Second Stage 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

We have fallen instead into a pattern much closer to the comfortable grooves of love: two homebodies shuffling around the same desk, battling frustration and disappointment, witnessing failure and choosing, against all odds, to stay. My book was a bad idea 2012-06-27T00:00:00Z

Tonight's curator Kieran Hebden has chosen Caribou, producers of this year's excellent psychedelic groove effort Swim, as his live headliners, to precede his own performance as Four Tet. Clubs picks of the week 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

Moving further back in time, the chapters set in 1968 thrum with the grind and groove of the Age of Aquarius. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z

Ms. Spalding’s set, with her wide-ranging Radio Music Society, used a big-band horn section, pop and funk grooves, and her serene, flexible singing; Mr. Batiste played bebop and New Orleans rhythm and early jazz. Critic’s Notebook: Festival, Now 59, Welcomes Several Generations 2013-08-05T21:42:43Z

Intelligence and romance shine through his gentle voice — carried, on this album, by grooves that are even more persuasive. Playlist: Teen, Jorge Drexler and Secret Sisters Have New Albums 2014-04-25T19:44:43Z

Single Black And White is strident and sonorous; while the Beatlesesque Teeth White carouses around a choppy guitar groove. The Staves: 'Bon Iver gave us cabin fever' 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z

The sound design is immaculate; the grooves palpable. Atoms for Peace: Amok – review 2013-03-03T00:05:09Z

In fact, although known as a ferocious rock band, their most enduring hits tend to scan as romantic soft-pop — couching fiery, passionate lyrics in gauzy keyboards, honeyed guitars and soothing grooves. Why Fleetwood Mac's music resonated so deeply in 2020 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

By 1988, Hollywood had settled into a vulgar groove that even the horror movie understood. Uncouth, Cranky and Rude: Movies in 1988 Were a Far Cry From Today 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

Meantime, this new album that Parker has made with Natural Information Society sounds like life, as if the band’s signature groove might be a growing, changing, living, breathing thing. Perspective | Two saxophone masters delivered resonance in pandemic times — but one of them sounded a bad note on vaccines 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

From the bandstand, Washington shouts out to his peers Robert Glasper and Terrace Martin in the crowd, and the band roars to stratospheric heights and simmering grooves. In 2015, jazz reasserted itself 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

Sometimes he sinks into the kind of syncopated six-beat groove that he and Jones had made into an idiom of its own with the Coltrane quartet. McCoy Tyner’s Essential Recordings: Listen to 11 Tracks 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

The renovated space features beech wood walls molded into grooves to help improve resonance. Geffen Hall’s $550 Million Makeover Is Fully Funded 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

“You create a groove that the listener gets into,” Byrne said. Composers Find Transcendence, and Inspiration, at the Club 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

“He will be very quick to tell you if you’re not playing one of those grooves correctly.” The Syncopated Sounds of Old San Juan Hill at the New Geffen Hall 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

The tunes from Cymbals retain their groove, though. Yeasayer 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

His playing centers on heavy oscillations between the strong and weak beats, and never lets up on a groove. With Sons of Kemet, Shabaka Hutchings Brings London Jazz Into the Spotlight 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z

She’s been cutting grooves in the ice since the first grade. Everything you ever wanted to know about hockey in one exhibit at Seattle’s Pacific Science Center 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

More likely, the panels are tucked into grooves cut into the edges of the frame pieces. How to repair cracked panels in wooden doors 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

He’s an improviser, continuously remaking grooves from New Orleans, Memphis, reggae and the blues, and reacting instantaneously to guitar or vocal phrases. Music Review: An Old Hand Plucking At the Heartstrings 2010-11-19T06:00:00Z

By the last sequence of the Mass, starting with the Sanctus, it was in a deep groove, with the orchestra joining it in a second “Osanna” that was as raucous as this ensemble becomes. Music Review: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra at Alice Tully and in Newark 2012-03-18T20:18:26Z

And though in the groove with pure white and sheerness, including lacy knits, the dark earth tones of his tailoring stood apart. Fashion Review: Fashion Review — Spring Men’s Wear Collections in Paris 2012-07-03T20:38:23Z

‘I wonder sometimes if anything could have prevented me becoming an alcoholic, or if drinking was my fate’ As I left, the click of the lock’s tongue in the groove brought me such relief. My drinking years: ‘Everyone has blackouts, don’t they?’ 2015-06-13T04:00:00Z

“At this age sometimes you need to be shaken out of your grooves,” he says in the Netflix series. With ‘How to Change Your Mind,’ Taking a Trip With Michael Pollan 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z

“Deuce Coupe” melds styles, but never loses its underlying groove. When Twyla Tharp Made Ballet Modern 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

To call Los Angeles guitarist Hanni El Khatib a garage rocker is kind of accurate but also risks diminishing his skills in crafting deep, funky grooves. Essential tracks: 'Blackheart' beats with visionary soul sonics 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

With its unshakable groove, “Over & Over” might be the most hard-rock-radio-ready, while “Alligator” evokes a heavier Black Keys with pit-scuffed boots. After rapid rise with no album, blues-rock hellion Reignwolf returns to Seattle with long-awaited debut 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

The story finds its groove in its humble domestic detail and the relationships between the writer and his brother and parents. Movie Listings for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

He’s grooving in the comfort zone he established decades ago. At Marc Jacobs: New York Fashion Week’s Haunted Ending 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Daedelus pushes throbbing loops, bass undercurrents and heavy hip-hop grooves into the red, hovering over boards, knobs and computer screens with a smirk on his face. Lollapalooza Day 3: Rain, more rain, and a Foo Fighters finale 2011-08-08T05:32:00Z

“But after about two weeks of that, as we sort of settled into the groove of coronavirus, it didn’t quite speak to the outlook that I, at least, wanted Lake Oswego to walk away with.” With Movie Theaters Closed, Marquees Go Viral 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

From the beginning, the room claps along to Holt and Young’s tight groove, with scattered shouts and whistles. In the year jazz went avant-garde, Ramsey Lewis went pop with a bang 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

But any hints of classic garage rock are mixed with quirky synths and fun, big beat grooves. January's best new music from across the MAP 2011-01-15T12:41:00Z

"I've said a couple of times, 'The grooves on this record lean back a bit and maybe that's because of the mood out there', but it's not true," he says. Arctic Monkeys: "We're a gang again" 2013-09-12T06:55:20Z

Tom Kitt, 44, “Head Over Heels” orchestrator/arranger: I’m a big fan of pop songs that begin with an energetic, iconic drum groove. How Broadway Got the Beat: The Go-Go’s in 5 Songs 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Find your Celtic groove with great Irish and Scottish baroque and traditional music, performed by fiddler and Irish whistle player Michael Albert, Scottish fiddler Brandon Vance and harpsichordist and cittern player Henry Lebedinsky. 4 don’t-miss classical events around Seattle and Bellevue 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Mo joked that Obama's record would be called, "After the second term, now I can finally get my groove on." Jagger, B.B. King, ready to sing blues for Obama 2012-02-21T18:29:15Z

When Mr. Yazbek paused from cutting up, and the musicians hit a groove, the music exploded. Review: David Yazbek and a Few Cheery Songs About Death 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

The sentiments were strong, but the grooves were underdeveloped. Review | Angelique Kidjo offers intercontinental delights at Wolf Trap 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

The Sam character remains a bit of a dud — enough with the brooding! — but Ruth holds her own against the textured and grooved Dwight. Books of The Times: Reconstructive Surgery for a Shattered Family 2011-07-28T21:00:13Z

Set among scientists at a Siberian research station, it never finds its rhythm or its groove. Review: At Ensemble Studio Theater, Men and Women Chatting Privately 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

The opener, “Calypso Minor,” begins with just bass and drums on a stark, nearly plodding groove, before the horns bleat the simplest of melodies, phrasing behind the beat: funk without toil. Playlist: Look Back at a Legend, Then Revisit Disco 2011-04-01T21:50:45Z

Ferrone, a big, gentle Englishman known for his stability and power in the Heartbreakers, was having a little trouble finding the groove. Booker T. Jones, Soul’s Ultimate Sideman, Takes the Lead at Last 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

But their riposte to accusations they were too "laid back" was Over and Over, its taut groove toughened with distorted beats. Readers recommend: songs about repetition ? the results 2011-03-17T16:30:02Z

Mr. Ribot will also perform here with another drummer, Mr. Martin, who can deal with rustling texture with as much authority as he brings to a groove. Where to Catch Music and Comedy on New Year’s Eve 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

“They just grooved on it and had a wonderful time.” 50 Years Ago, James Brown Took an Unlikely Stage: Rikers Island 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

His experiences in both cities shine through in his richly harmonic playing and swiftly grooving music. New Year’s Eve: A Guide to Music and Comedy Events 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z

“The Edenist” featured a braided melody that floated serenely over an increasingly agitated groove; the accord between Mr. Turner and Mr. Cohen was strong. Music Review: Mark Turner Quartet at the Village Vanguard 2013-06-20T22:42:40Z

But the lack of a foil didn't stop the troika, which continued in amorous groove, hands reaching for crevices, bodies folding atop one another. ArtsBeat: CMJ: Go Where the Night Takes You 2012-10-18T10:31:45Z

Vermont night life conjures an image of tie-dye-clad locals grooving in a bar with gravy fries on the menu. 36 Hours in Manchester, Vt. 2014-01-31T18:48:20Z

The defiant track not only gives the final battle a firmer edge beyond the easy grooves of the throwback needle drops, it marries contemporary recording techniques with ’90s flair, particularly through Nas’s sharp verses. How ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Throws a ’90s Hip-Hop Party 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

“The thing about this band is that they just groove, and nobody can play that music like they play it, so there’s nothing to fight about there,” Mr. Roth said. Antibalas, Afrobeat Band, Hopes for Post-‘Fela!’ Audience 2012-08-06T22:32:17Z

We also did a lot of trompe l’oeil, like the skirt that looks pleated but is just a flat piece of fabric that’s printed with the grooves and the impressions of a pleat. ‘What If Africa Was the Birthplace of Fashion?’ 2022-04-11T04:00:00Z

Or — who could resist these grooves? — they decide to dance a bit. Review: Kyle Abraham’s Theatrical Love Letter to Social Dance 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Raichel made his reputation in Israel as the ringleader of an expansive community of musicians playing infectiously grooving world pop songs with lyrics in Hebrew, Arabic, Hindi and the Ethiopian Semitic languages Amharic and Tigrinya. Idan Raichel and Vieux Farka Tour? find musical oasis in Sahara 2012-04-26T20:12:04Z

They can seek patter in a language they know or groove to the cadences of one they don’t. Website allows users to listen to thousands of radio stations around the world 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

The keyboardists shift from question marks to exclamation points — one moment prodding against the groove, the next soloing in colorful bursts of noise. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

It's mainly the actual groove – the way melodic and rhythmic patterns interlock together – that we take from him. Prince is still king, say Hot Chip 2012-12-11T18:55:00Z

But the emphasis is on subtlety and groove. Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

But the track craftily refuses to settle into a club groove. Sylvan Esso’s New Album of Electro-pop Challenges All Expectations 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

It’s profound to realize that what you think you’re doing is actually in the same groove as someone in the past. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z

The rock was deeply grooved in the middle. On a General’s Trail, Summoning America’s History 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

Grohl soon formed his own band, Foo Fighters, who settled into a comfortable groove as the stadium rock stars Nirvana never had a chance to become. Review | Dave Grohl’s ‘The Storyteller’ is just as upbeat as you’d expect 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

“It’s got a nice groove, and it’s nicely played by a well-integrated trio — they were very tight,” says jazz critic and historian Gary Giddins of the record’s appeal. In the year jazz went avant-garde, Ramsey Lewis went pop with a bang 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

“My Dad played on this tree when he was a kid,” said Lisa Anderson, as she traced with her finger the bronze groove of initials and hearts carved by locals into the original tree. In Washington, a Beloved Birthplace for Artistic Giants 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

The trio's music is rooted in the sounds and grooves of classic techno – quite a challenge for an acoustic band. Brandt Brauer Frick say you can get (slightly) jiggy with it 2011-08-04T21:30:03Z

With Cropper, Dunn, keyboardist Booker T. Jones and drummer Al Jackson Jr., the MG’s were self-effacing masters of groove and melodic concision. Donald 'Duck' Dunn dead at 70: A soul rhythm-section great 2012-05-13T23:40:00Z

“Power Ranger,” by Mr. Douglas, put a funk groove on slippery footing, with absolutely valiant work by Ms. Oh and a suspenseful, unhurried solo by Mr. Baron. Music Review: Sound Prints at the Village Vanguard 2012-11-30T23:43:30Z

What matters are the words, which is to say Mr. McCarthy’s continuing effort to arrange them in incantatory ways, to get into that ancient-bard groove. Television Review: After Saving a Jumper, The Chat That Ensues 2011-02-12T00:04:03Z

The correlation between tight groove and good feeling gets willfully complicated in the music of DRKWAV. Reviews: New Albums From Big Sean, Emile Haynie and DRKWAV 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

She visibly grooved throughout the performance, emphasizing the dancing youthfulness of a piece by an 82-year-old composer. Review: Philip Glass, at 82, Unveils His First Piano Sonata 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

I have to think about it a little bit, and groove into it a little bit. Stevie Nicks on her life in isolation: "We have to believe" 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z

I did see one sign of intelligent life while bending down to examine the grooves, however. My Quest for Atlantis 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

It features the bassist Derrick Hodge on lead vocals, singing a romantic entreaty through light electronic processing, while the band hurtles through several variations on a groove. The Playlist: Barack Obama’s Summery Playlists and Green Day’s Fiery Return 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

Its jagged, sometimes virtually atonal grooves still echo through everything now called post-punk. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-24T23:19:27Z

As with the recent "Let It Bleed" box set, the Stones' music on "Goats Head Soup" benefits from the greater separation afforded by contemporary technology, rendering the band's well-known, otherworldly groove even tighter. Inside the remastered "Goats Head Soup," the end of an era for the Rolling Stones 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z

Never one to be stuck in a groove, she subsequently tried to change her image. Catching Up With: Pat Benatar?s Memoir Takes a Shot at the Bullies 2010-06-18T21:11:00Z

A nation under the groove of "Barbie" has fallen hard for a doll almost completely forgotten by popular culture. The secret "Barbie" message everyone can get behind is that Allan is amazing. He is also like us 2023-07-29T04:00:00Z

Instead of leaning back into the groove, this version lurched forward, eventually reaching a coda that toggled between prog-rockish 10/8 and 11/8 time signatures. Review: Galactic, Paying Tribute to New Orleans and Its Sounds 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

And a groove that dissolves and hardens again. The Playlist: 21 Songs From 2016 That Nearly Got Away 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

Motian also didn't see a drummer's role as laying down a metronomic groove, but as a fluid and rhythmically flexible conversation with partners – a skill he began honing back in his Bill Evans days. Take Five: John Fordham's month in jazz – April 2013-04-19T09:33:10Z

It doesn't just start on a groove and stay there: each verse is arranged differently to advance the song's forward motion, before the breakdown at the end. Scott McKenzie's San Francisco was a hippy anthem with a life of its own 2012-08-20T14:39:00Z

They worried too much detail would muddle the groove, leaving players “dreading their way through a thicket of squiggles,” said Anger. How Do You Write Down a Scratching, Crunching Violin ‘Chop’? 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

But the other five tracks are poppy dance grooves with erotic lyrics. Robin Thicke, a Romantic, Has a Naughty Hit 2013-07-21T16:14:52Z

The instruments are still hand-played, and the grooves still sound like they were created through jamming, not programming. Dave Matthews Sings to the Next Generation on ‘Come Tomorrow’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

"It was like blending this country sound with this up-tempo groove." Pharrell denies Blurred Lines claim 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

It’s a statement of unity; it’s also a trove of ideas that happens to be magnificently funky, with a different groove in every song. The 28 Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Should Know Salty, bossy, eternally pink-cheeked Empress of the Kitchen, who may be Downton Abbey’s only remaining virgin but seems to be getting her groove on with a local pig farmer. ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Good, the Bad and the Forgotten 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

“You ever tasted grooved sea squirts?” asked a blond fishmonger, her eye shadow matching the iridescent scales of the fish. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

For 15 minutes “Arena” avoids settling into a groove, always teeming, restless and multilayered. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs at Avery Fisher Hall 2010-06-11T22:11:00Z

Once she settles in, the movie gets its groove on. Review: Aliens Drop Anchor in ‘Arrival,’ but What Are Their Intentions? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Harnessing that “it” factor has been a struggle for Clinton’s campaign, but the “Between Two Ferns” interview shows she might be finally finding her groove. It’s hip to be square: Hillary Clinton isn’t cool — and she shouldn’t have to be 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Random noises are one thing, and bad enough; a rattled listener may be able to get back in the groove. Critic?s Notebook: A Faint Sound at a Concert, but Impossible to Ignore 2011-08-01T22:29:51Z

"To just sit there and watch Jay ponder as I talked, then go out to his kit and start building a groove — to me that was amazing," he said. Norwegian pop star Thomas Dybdahl uses L.A. as his lab 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

The finale grooved with verve, punctuated by howling double-stops in the violin. Review | Violinist Yevgeny Kutik’s debut at the Kennedy Center has its highlights, and its lowlights 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

There was also a lot of secular sermonizing between grooves, and an unfinished song, “Check On Your Love,” that seemed as unfamiliar to his band as it was to the crowd. Critic?s Notebook: Austin City Limits Festival Has Big and Local Acts 2011-09-19T22:32:23Z

The track never rises into guitar heroics; there’s a lot of heady downtime, the groove getting thicker, pulling you toward a foreboding stupor. To Make the Messthetics, Mix a Reunion With One Virtuosic Newcomer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

But the sounds Can made, mixing the primitive with the avant-garde and total freedom with rigid, funky grooves, continue to send out ripples of influence in underground rock, electronic music, film soundtracks and beyond. Can Was 40 Years Ahead of Its Time. A New Book Helps Us Catch Up. 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

Public-private partnerships — which they discuss excitedly in town after town — are another thing that helps communities get into a groove. What Two Writers Found When They Bought a Plane and Touched Down on Main Street, U.S.A. 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

He’ll lull you into a groove with a fiercely repeated phrase, then blast you with a fistful of dissonance. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Even when singing about long division in his pinched, bookworm voice, Ben Gibbard swayed his body to the grooves that Nick Harmer fueled with his lumbering bass lines. At Hideout Block Party, a little twang, and little funk

Their music seamlessly brings together house music grooves, the stutter of U.K. garage, an uneasy electronic ambience, and — perhaps most notably — Ethiopian folk music. How a small D.C. record label became a hotbed of modern Ethiopian sounds 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

But "A Better Tomorrow" still oozes the minor-key menace for which the group is known; it's unmistakably a Wu-Tang project, with tinkling pianos, lumbering grooves and mysterious bits of dialogue lifted from obscure kung-fu movies. Wu-Tang Clan looks to past, future in 'A Better Tomorrow,' more works 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

Mr. Sacks stretched out his rubato phrases at will, making them skulk around over steady bass and drum grooves, turning most of his harmony a little dark and dissonant, and never using the sustain pedal. Music Review: Two Weeks, One Stage: The Forging of 40Twenty?s Sound 2010-08-02T22:17:00Z

Or whether he’s simply finding his sea legs, relying on old default settings of sarcasm before finding a new and compelling groove. Review: In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Hits a New Octave 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cleaver and Mr. Shipp sometimes set up pockets of groove, parsing the fury into deliverable units. Music Review: Vision Festival, Experimental Jazz, at Roulette 2012-06-13T21:51:40Z

The grooves will flow abundantly through 4 a.m. on Boxing Day. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

The songs on “Beyond the Pale” have the polish and commitment to groove that one would expect of a dance-music acolyte like Cocker, in addition to the limber spontaneity of a live album. Jarvis Cocker was one of the voices of Britpop. He’s still the voice for England’s disaffected who just want to dance. 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

A scenic 45-minute drive from Salt Lake City International Airport makes same-day skiing and flying a reality from many major cities, and live music every weekend from end of March through April keeps skiers grooving. 14 Easy Weekend Getaways 2011-03-11T19:55:00Z

However you remove the old piece, prep the replacement board by cutting off the bottom of the groove edge. What to do about splitting floorboards in an old home 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z

As the groove deepens, the reeds and brass of the Frankfurt Radio Big Band swarm around Somi’s voice, rendering it almost weightless, until finally, singing in wordless harmony with the flutes, it evaporates into air. Taylor Swift’s Heartbreak Dreamscape, and 9 More New Songs 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

They launch into their performance, arms flailing, blissfully absorbed in the rumba-rooted grooves. Staff Benda Bilili at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-27T19:51:00Z

A wordless little ditty, like a child singing to herself, is quickly doubled a couple of octaves below; a religious stateliness in the keyboards lies over a deep-pocketed groove, accented by spacey, jazzy guitar lines. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

It was just a weird puzzle of grooves.” Nine Inch Nails Is Back Onstage, With a Vengeance 2013-07-25T12:00:01Z

The horns and percussion kept playing, the audience kept clapping its hands and dancing, and the chirps of the alarm fit perfectly into the groove. Music Review: Hailu Mergia Performs in Brooklyn 2013-12-20T23:17:50Z

Some of Shelley’s friends back home disappoint him too, taking advantage of his unworldliness, his bottomless belief in the groove. Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The scuffle dislodges Carlson's microphone but the bass and drums remain locked in a persuasive groove while the stage is cleared, all except for one girl dancing spellbound, apparently oblivious to the bedlam around her. Splashh – review 2013-06-02T14:30:01Z

A few of these were original songs, full of spirit talk and churning, viscous grooves. Music Review: Cassandra Wilson at the Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-04T20:01:36Z

In Neville grooves, Dumpstaphunk operates less like a funk machine locking into a pattern, more like a finely coordinated organism in motion. New Music: Dumpstaphunk, Five Finger Death Punch and Ben Monder 2013-07-29T22:08:11Z

By the time he was done, the number exploded with a sound so dense and intense that a record needle could literally jump out of the grooves. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

It’s also people, joined together, and ordinarily jammed together, as one under the cinematic groove. An Eerie, Thrilling Trip to the Toronto International Film Festival 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Rather than getting into a groove, you can get into a rut. Singing with Gaga, a new box and jelly bean memories: Paul McCartney returns 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Let’s just say that it’s a groove or rhythmic feel central to jazz — and, because tap and jazz developed together, central to tap. She’s the Queen of Tap. Is Her Moment Now? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

You can practically see Champion’s breath over the icy grooves on tracks like “Coming for You” and the low-key funky “Mainline.” The best Seattle albums of 2018: Critics choose the top 20 releases of the year 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

It’s the most static point of the piece, and a groove needs to be found between static to the point of no motion, and finding the magic that’s in it. A Young Pianist Learns Liszt From Listening 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

An infectious R&B number — each verse a rising groove that drops back to base before starting up again — it imparts bounce to the balletic positions and squeezes some soul from the steps. Review: William Forsythe’s Infectious New Hip-Hop Ballet 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

That’s fine, but the grooves on their cast albums can feel like ruts as a result, both emotionally and aurally. How Do You Measure a Season on Broadway? In Cast Albums. 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Has Synetic Theater worked its proficiency for hard-core, cold-blooded sensations into a dull groove? ‘Dr. Moreau’ delivers the blood, but not so much guts, at Synetic

By going into the studio, they muddied the groove a bit; the earlier version was more minimalist and by extension more powerful. Down the Rabbit Hole with Wolf Alice 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Gentle grooves and softly arpeggiated guitars take the place of sprawling, climactic jams, yet their songwriting is taut enough that the audience is never in danger of being lulled to sleep. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

What I decided to do, I borrowed, the way hip-hop samples music from earlier; I tried to use funk grooves that they might use. ‘The Central Park Five,’ in song: composer Anthony Davis on his new opera 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z

The camera pans to the wings, where an encouraging Mr. Baryshnikov — delightfully spry, hips shaking — shows exactly how to get into the groove. The Best Dance of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

I'm not talking about the packaging that encases a 12-inch record, but the black, grooved material of the disc itself. 'The Record' goes beyond vinyl and turntables 2012-08-15T20:29:04Z

The group was an experiment, and Stepney its gleeful chemist, mixing gospel, strings and soulful grooves with unexpected, even jarring sounds and wordless, atmospheric interludes. 46 Years After His Death, the Producer Charles Stepney Shines Again 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Noah Haidle’s “Birthday Candles,” which opened on Broadway Sunday night at the American Airlines Theater, tries to build poignancy and depth through moments that repeat like a record needle stuck in a groove. ‘Birthday Candles’ Review: Another Year, Another Cake, Another Profundity 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

A highlight was a 50-minute version of Under My Thumb that shifted between rock, pop, jazz and assorted other experimentations before finally settling on a remorseless deep reggae groove with dubby effects and congas. The night I saw the Rolling Stones jam until 7am 2012-11-25T00:05:36Z

A marble in a groove is not effectively regulating its perfectly straight motion. Science doesn’t know everything 2013-06-02T18:00:00Z

He’s back for more with the quartet that launched the “jam band” movement, but that is probably more accurately described as dedicated to grooving than jamming. Go Phish | Concert preview 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

His original compositions are songlike but often slyly episodic and always deft with groove. Playlist: A Confection of Pop, and Newport Chops 2011-08-20T19:45:06Z

“This is the thing, to groove off each other. It’s not the same when we’re at home doing things over the internet.” With a Pickup Truck and an Open Mind, the Philharmonic Returns 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z

Inside, people grooved, tightly packed, with few masks visible. ‘Just Epic’: Foo Fighters Bring Arena Rock Back, to the Vaccinated 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

Back to the congas, then: He attacked them with declaratory force, shifting the emphasis in his groove but endlessly adhering to a headlong standard of momentum, in rough accord with Mr. Watts. Music Review: Jerry Gonzalez & the Fort Apache Band at the Blue Note 2012-05-25T22:30:07Z

Its tough funk grooves were fronted by vocals that rasped, rocked and screamed with something between delight and threat. The muse who changed Miles 2010-09-04T23:05:00Z

The book really starts grooving, though, five years on, when Gabriel leaves the band and Collins replaces him. Phil Collins Wants You to Know He Isn’t Dead Yet 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Most of the set suggested a gluey, shape-shifting vision of groove, with melody and harmonic variation relegated to the back burner. Marc Cary Brings His Jazz Specialty to Ginny’s Supper Club 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The band falls in behind him, grooving now, but the feeling of scattered friction that it established in the overture still reigns. Charles Lloyd Revels in the Flow on a Stellar Live Album 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

While the groove on “Dark Horse” is strong, it’s still not wrong to call it a trap for soccer moms. Pop Goes Katy Perry: PRISM Promises Hits 2013-10-22T14:08:45Z

Whether you opt for the main event or the lower-profile warm-up shows, expect multiple sets of extended, improvised grooves and psychedelic visuals. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Omar Apollo is known for combining cool funk grooves, slick charisma and sensual falsettos. Post Malone and the Weeknd’s Emo Synth-Pop, and 12 More New Songs 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

None of the new album was written before they got to the barn; Khruangbin cobbled it together from grooves played during soundchecks and instrumental drafts recorded throughout the year while they were on tour. ‘Was It a Lost Psych-Funk Classic?’ It’s Khruangbin, Right Now 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Then, as the Ballet Theater corps member Erica Lall put it, “We get to groove together.” Black in Ballet: Coming Together After Trying to ‘Blend Into the Corps’ 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Leonard said that when Mr. Cohen died, they were at work on an album of string arrangements of his songs and another of songs that he said were inspired by old rhythm-and-blues grooves. For Leonard Cohen, the End Came With a Fall in the Night 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Seattle trio Flexions is all about spiky grooves. Capitol Hill Block Party 2010: the preview 2010-07-20T18:37:00Z

In the middle of Shelley Washington’s sinuously grooving “Black Mary” for baritone saxophone were charming little staccato folk-ish passages. The Bang on a Can Marathon, Still Lovably Scruffy Online 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

“The restaurant started to turn, our team found its groove, and now we are getting ready to expand and open our catering operation.” Perspective | They broke up five times in eight years. But these lovers-turned-restaurateurs found a recipe for love. 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

The shelf is 31⅜ inches long and just under 13 inches wide, with a groove 1/16 - to ⅛ -inch deep. How to repair or replace a scratched glass shelf 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

The hard-working oboe soloist, David Dickey, struggled in an early obbligato appearance but found a better groove thereafter. Review: Masaaki Suzuki Conducts Young Musicians in Bach 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

Yet at first, gently bouncing and grooving close together, they look more like they are at a club. Review: Where a Boxer’s Clinch Is a Slow-Dance Embrace 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Through groove and delivery it naturally connects the vocal chants and horn arrangements in the R&B of James Brown, Parliament Funkadelic, and Curtis Mayfield with southern hip-hop, even recent southern hip-hop. ArtsBeat: Outkast at Coachella 2014-04-12T13:50:07Z

There are few things more entertaining in “Succession” than Kendall in a boss groove, tossing out big ideas and buzzy business jargon at a rapid clip. ‘Succession’ Season 4, Episode 6: Cool New Rule 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

In “Come to the Dark Side” Mr. Korsrud deftly improvised soaring fanfares and racing, spiraling lines on trumpet over the orchestra’s Morse-code chatter and funky grooves. | American Composers Orchestra: Louis Andriessen and Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall 2010-04-11T21:04:00Z

Rodgers’ instrument glides atop the bass and drums, shaping a melody line while dictating groove. Album review: Daft Punk, 'Random Access Memories' 2013-05-17T17:59:00Z

What we said: "Rife with the kind of sublimely loose grooves achievable only through instrumental precision, 'Black Messiah' is as vital as it is sublime." Top 10 lists reveal harmony among Times pop music critics 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z

And Sarah, a cleaning lady in a hospital intensive care unit, wiggled and grooved in glittering red and black tweed. London Fashion Week Gives Good TV 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z

There’s an exciting track on “Revisionist” called “You Thy __.” It begins with unsyncopated blast-beats and moves into an ecstatic groove halfway through; a couple more guitar tracks pile in; the surge begins. Review: New Releases by Kelly Clarkson, Sannhet and Asleep at the Wheel 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

They edge closer than ever to disco with the late-night grooves of “Always Ascending,” Franz Ferdinand’s fifth album and the first since the departure of their founding guitarist, Nick McCarthy. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

There are still lyrics divorced from any narrative purpose and grooves that fall somewhere between a stomp and a swirl. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the New Pornographers and the Hold Steady 2010-05-02T20:55:00Z

There sits a Presto 6N record lathe — a 1940s-vintage machine the size of a microwave that makes records by cutting a groove into a blank vinyl platter. Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It’s Getting Hard to Sell Vinyl 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

But here the microphones are dry, the groove is intricate, the tempo is wakeful, and Mr. Butler drives its long crescendo. Review: ‘Motown Gospel Presents 1 Mic 1 Take’ Sells Simplicity 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z

Since its 2010 debut album, “Everybody Wants Sum,” Dumpstaphunk has moved from writing grooves to shaping songs: bridges, choruses and all. New Music: Dumpstaphunk, Five Finger Death Punch and Ben Monder 2013-07-29T22:08:11Z

At the 10-month mark, you would ideally be entering a great groove with each other, where you are recognizing and accepting one each other’s differences, without insisting that your partner change elementally to please you. Perspective | Ask Amy: Young relationship feels like a messy first draft 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

In “The Sandbox,” with O’Farrill on piano and Casel dancing before him, the balance between groove and lightness becomes almost feverish as the pace of both quickens and Casel’s dancing takes on a blistering intensity. Review: Reveling in the Tap Magic of Ayodele Casel 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z

She played two songs with a more questionable resort-reggae groove: “Have a Heart,” from “Nick of Time,” and “Right Down the Line,” the lead single from the new album. Music Review: Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples at the Beacon 2012-06-22T23:54:20Z

A theatrical adaptation of the movie "Sister Act" will be getting its groove on Broadway style. Musical adaptation of 'Sister Act' to hit Broadway 2010-10-05T22:08:00Z

“Part III: Source” begins with a watery, reverberant introduction by Ms. Halvorson, and then assumes a lurching, elastic groove, folding in on itself. New Music: New Music: Javier Colon and Taylor Ho Bynum - Reviews 2011-11-28T23:08:05Z

There are funky grooves and joyous ones and acoustic tapping of terrific complexity and cogency. ‘ETM: The Initial Approach,’ Debuts at Jacob’s Pillow 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Bonnie Raitt also performed, as she and Keys sang a duet version of her slow groove "I Just Can't Make You Love Me." Alicia Keys raises $1.3M at gala, honors Winfrey 2012-12-07T08:46:04Z

"It's kind of tough getting back into the groove," she admits. On the set as "Glee" begins its second season 2010-08-27T05:39:00Z

In the opening chapters of “Casebook,” Ms. Simpson circles around and around, trying to find a voice and a storytelling groove. Books of The Times: In ‘Casebook,’ Mona Simpson Explores a Family 2014-04-14T21:15:11Z

This goes some way towards explaining their sultry and melodic but insistent and intricately produced grooves. SXSW 2013: The British are coming! 2013-03-12T12:36:00Z

Eleven years without alcohol or drugs, and I fell, complete, into the waiting groove. ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z

He doesn’t directly address his condition; instead, the music dissects mortality through bright pop collages and textured grooves. After a long hiatus, Beauty Pill returns with vigor and a new record 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

The group seemed to unite the kind of joyful, geyser-of-energy grooves that a jam band might play with the daring, taut-wire ethic of contemporary jazz. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

“He got stuck in this groove. I remember thinking, ‘Did he have a stroke?’ “I won’t see the end of the year”: Backstage at Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead’s final shows 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z

About 10 minutes later, the mood loosens; it’s grooving, with airy vocals. From a Composer’s Resurgence, a Masterpiece Rises 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Sonically, the song is classic Tribe, built on beats and groove and a Paleozoic sample from an Andrew Hill Blue Note record. Review | A true fan offers a riveting tribute to A Tribe Called Quest 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

The overstuffed band slalomed erratically between in-the-pocket grooves and choppy sludge. Beach Boys dazzle at Chateau Ste. Michelle concert 2012-07-14T20:12:17Z

Then the groove kicks in: fast and funky, as an urgently raspy vocal rides a jabbing modal desert-blues guitar line. The Playlist: Black Eyed Peas Get Serious About Injustice, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

For them, the records “sounded like the needle was stuck in the groove.” ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

With Cat Stevens on the soundtrack at Mr. Kors’s show, you just sort of hummed along until you fell into a hopeless groove. Fashion Review: Long as a California Summer 2010-09-16T05:30:00Z

Minus the Bear excelled at making their proggier impulses accessible, balancing intricate guitar parts and tricky time signatures with enough grooves and alluring melodies that were easy to latch onto. Seattle’s Minus the Bear says goodbye with 3 sold-out nights at the Showbox 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

We witness much shouting and ruckus before the characters settle down and relax into a groove, embracing each other as they are, tics and all. 'Road Within' is a bumpy trip through personal challenges 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

Being on the road, you do get into a groove, and you are running on a different level of cylinders rather than being at home. "Lyric writing is not easy": Michael Stipe looks back on creating REM's "New Adventures of Hi-Fi" 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z

On one of the new album’s signature tracks, “Esto Es Cuba,” he describes grooving residents of Guantánamo who were able to see live broadcasts of “Soul Train” because of the U.S. naval base’s antenna nearby. Cimafunk’s Quest to Create One Nación Under a Groove 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

The wit of the conception and the execution — the songs are a slick blend of pop grooves, tight lyrics and old-fashioned musical theater craft — goes a long way toward keeping the show from sagging. Review: In ‘Six,’ All the Tudor Ladies Got Talent 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

It’s a generous album — 17 songs — that rolls along smoothly for nearly an hour, one leisurely midtempo groove after another, while Khalid’s voice conveys far more longing than agitation. Khalid Has Fresh Insecurities and a New Set of Musical Tricks on ‘Free Spirit’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

In “Lifted,” understanding the weight of that collective groove is crucial. Review: Finding a Collective Groove in Church and in House Dance 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

Swapping shakes with the group's backing singers, who were dressed in sequins and moving with loose swagger, France grooved like Tina alongside the Ikettes. Foxygen knocks out a brave, raucous rock 'n' roll set at the Roxy 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

A bizarre and thrilling listen, Me Moan's woozy journey involves grinding guitars, gothic atmospherics and swaggering grooves. Daughn Gibson: 'I just want to see the weird' 2013-06-20T15:30:02Z

On those, he used simpler chords and riffs to build understated, well-ordered grooves and a coolly Afrocentric sound. What ‘Rubberband’ Reveals About Miles Davis’s Final Act 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

Ebbing and flowing in waves, the music ended with an obsessively repeated figure as if a phonograph needle were stuck in a groove. Music Review: A Complex Jazzman, Informed by His Classical Side 2011-04-20T21:12:55Z

After about 20 performances, they found their groove. A Ballerina and Choreographer Team Up to Be Goddesses 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z

Is that why the groove was so muscular? Concert review: Flexions at the Crocodile 01/19/11 2011-01-20T18:04:05Z

Finally, James found her indelible solo groove with the album At Last. A Voice of Gold, a Life of Pain: Etta James, 1938-2012 2012-01-20T22:06:06Z

Yet her songs ride sleek, complex studio grooves that draw from all over Africa and beyond — Nigeria, Congo, Senegal, the Caribbean — to find pleasure in hard-headed resilience. Music: Listening to Sia Tolno, Wye Oak, Etta James and Givers 2011-12-30T17:00:00Z

We just started about a month ago, right back in the groove again. John Slattery and Zach Gilford Take Ladies to Romantic Cabins, Work With Bears, Discuss ‘Mad Men’ Season 6 2012-12-07T15:00:20Z

"One Way Ticket" sways with a reggae groove. Carrie Underwood learns from imperfect moments 2012-05-01T16:58:08Z

Fortunately, Like Clockwork feels like a return to the smart but incisive grooves and melodies that made those songs such enduring anthems. Queens of the Stone Age: Like Clockwork – review 2013-05-30T21:30:01Z

White is credited as composer here, and his fidgety drum groove certainly keeps the engine running. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

The high spirits of the first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8 sometimes felt forced — a clenched grin — but the performance soon settled into a groove of winning, precise exuberance. Review: Joshua Bell Plays Tchaikovsky at David Geffen Hall 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

"Coming Through" spotlights the band's surrealist qualities and preference for sticking to a steady groove. Lollapalooza Day 1: Black Sabbath, Black Keys and Passion Pit's black thoughts 2012-08-04T06:11:00Z

To start "Lonely Boy," the band's ubiquitous yowl of frustration, the Keys seemed to trip through the first few bars before moving into its organ-fueled groove. The Black Keys hit hard at sold-out Forum concert 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Some passages build like Brad Mehldau pieces, hinting at melodies and grooves. Ibrahim Maalouf: Wind – review 2013-02-28T22:30:01Z

It enlarges the groove and in some strange way encourages the listener to tune deeply into the ongoing present. Review: With ‘Evolution,’ Dr. Lonnie Smith Channels an Old Wisdom 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

This Midsummer Night Swing show offers old-school soul and R&B grooves for dancers. 24 Outdoor Performances to See This Summer In and Around New York 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

“Insecure” depicts L.A. as a playground accessible to everyone, not just the rich, and watching Yvonne and Molly groove through it is one television’s finer pleasures. Review: HBO’s “Insecure” offers a more confident second season 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

Integration occurred through cultural necessity and legislation and brought more white people to appreciate the unique groove of funk. "Funky Drummer" Clyde Stubblefield, keeper of James Brown's beat, never truly got his due 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

Hollywood CGI animation seems stuck in a groove compared to the imaginative riches on offer here. This week's new film events 2012-10-12T23:05:39Z

Auerbach's springy skank guitar provides plenty of punch to complement drummer Patrick Carney's direct rhythmic approach, making the track easy to groove to upon first listen. Billboard singles reviews: Stone Temple Pilots, Macy Gray 2010-04-02T21:57:00Z

In a few arias with undulant accompaniment patterns he needed a phrase or two to find the groove and get with his singers. Opera Review: A Winning, Cautious, ?Don Carlo? at the Met 2010-11-23T12:39:00Z

In the end, the music trumps all quibbles – any tendency Simon had toward solipsism is more than balanced by the all-enveloping groove and ebullient counterpoint harmony vocals. Top box sets, from the Beatles to Bill Withers 2012-12-10T16:42:00Z

It was pretty brave of them to come with that triplet groove on Latch. Disclosure and Zed Bias: dubplates, DJing and the sound of the suburbs 2013-02-15T14:00:00Z

They complied, combining hip-swinging empty space with a groove that is modernized by trap drums. Meet the Stereotypes, the Guys Who Help Give Bruno Mars His Bounce 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

There is a sense of shared pursuit here; the group often rearranges its component parts, cycling through grooves and trading lead roles. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

What felt more or less unaltered was the tune’s prowling, sinewy groove, enthusiastically upheld by the band’s bassist, Robert Mercurio, and its drummer, Stanton Moore. Review: Galactic, Paying Tribute to New Orleans and Its Sounds 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

But hearing the trio play “Winslow Homer,” a piece with an angular tilt and a giddy, stomping groove, I wondered about how tough an act it will be to follow. Music Review: Floating Along on the Rhythm While Staying Anchored to the Beat 2011-04-20T21:48:56Z

The songs use repetition, much more than her earlier work, and slow, hypnotizing grooves; the drummer Omar Hakim found the center of them, and Ms. Bush finally began to move to them like a dancer. Kate Bush Returns to the Stage, and Her Fans Are There to Welcome Her 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t about songs or groove, it was more like a race to get to the end as fast as you could. Oblivians return, chaos follows 2013-07-03T14:57:00Z

By jazz standards, the solo is a slight one: The pianist vamps on the groove, bangs out chords on the accents. In the year jazz went avant-garde, Ramsey Lewis went pop with a bang 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

This is music built for meandering; its grooves are malleable but stable, often largely defined by a swinging ride-cymbal pattern. New Music: Air, Of Montreal and the Jim Black Trio 2012-02-13T23:57:44Z

They groove on the thrills without much thought about their noninterventionist, apolitical credo. 'The Bang Bang Club': Film shot with focus on guts and glory of combat photography 2011-04-28T20:07:17Z

With their leader chipping in on sax and keyboards, the band hit an Afrobeat groove and stayed there as the sun shone. Femi Kuti at Glastonbury 2010 2010-06-25T12:55:00Z

By throwing a totally different kind party: a grooving, brass band-backed funkfest that stretched to 3 a.m. and outlasted many fans lucky to get inside in the first place. Prince delivers funk-filled finale at SXSW 2013-03-17T12:10:27Z

I think “Abstract-Contact” is reminiscent of past releases because there are the traditional elements of bass and drums, and we’re back in the world of fairly traditional chord patterns, beats, and grooves. The Unclassifiable, Unstreamable Eighties Albums of Annette Peacock 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

Expect wry, hilarious non sequiturs muttered in between songs — like “Them Changes” and “Show You the Way” — that will be full of elastic funk grooves and blistering bass solos. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Twenty-five years after we left the stripping troupe, each man has settled into a variant of a groove or slump. Stripped of its cheekiness, Hulu's "The Full Monty" transforms from a movie comedy into a TV slog 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

He hops on and off a balance beam as the California quintet flushes out the tension ridden in grinding metal grooves and hazy, atmospheric soundscapes. Lollapalooza Day 2: Rain, retro and Eminem 2011-08-07T06:50:00Z

“It’s kind of like how Stella got her groove back,” she said. The Repurposing of a Vogue Editor 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

This version of “New Orleans” is an original arrangement done by Leroy, and captures the beauty, intensity, creativeness, spontaneity and groove of what New Orleans is. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love New Orleans Jazz 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Funk artists long ago realised that "more is more", that a sweet groove gathers exponential power the longer you play it, as long as the audience is still dancing. Pop's long players: sometimes extra length makes all the difference 2012-05-17T08:46:17Z

I closed my eyes and could actually feel the warm air turning into a groove, the lyrics drifting across the sky in cartoon bubbles. Secrets of the “Exile” sessions: Drugs, sex and madness as the Rolling Stones took over France 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z

While it trundles along nicely, it's on the lighter, Fleetwood Mac-esque Once Rich – premiered here – where they seem to settle into their groove. New music - Here Is Your Temple – Once Rich 2013-03-22T09:00:00Z

I just remember trying to get deep into Sally’s world, into her groove, and hang onto it through the scene. Growing Up on ‘Mad Men’: A Conversation With Matthew Weiner and Kiernan Shipka 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Big Sean gets more room in “Open Wide” but his rapping still feels like a coach’s encouragement to that whomping groove. Calvin Harris keeps jock jams pumping on 'Motion' 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

Other outtakes show lyrics getting refined — Harrison stripping clichés out of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” — and grooves evolving as in “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.” Deep Inside the Beatles’ White Album, 50 Years Later 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

Currently a Top 10 single on Billboard’s adult R&B chart, that song is an empowerment lecture over a processional groove, with lyrics about how women are complicated but righteous. New Music 2011-06-13T22:00:32Z

Yet the song — with its trippy percussion groove that swells into an explosive chorus — is a clear signal that Sia The Solo Act has arrived. Here Are the 25 Best Songs of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

I still have deep grooves on my shoulders from my bras. United front: breasts without the airbrush 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

That groove went on to inspire much of subsequent reggae, distinctly heard in works by Sugar Minott, Ibo Cooper, Gregory Isaacs and Dennis Brown. Sleng Teng: How a Japanese woman influenced Jamaica’s reggae 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

In the process, as far back as the early 1950s he was sounding out grooves and feelings that would not catch on broadly until years later. A Pair of Ahmad Jamal Live Albums Capture an Innovator in His Prime 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Altogether, the album seems to suggest a liberated neo-soul concept, constantly reimagining what a groove can feel like and how a voice can be woven into an ensemble sound. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

Stone Soup Theatre has found a holiday groove with "A Child's Christmas in Wales," a fond choreo-poem portrait of a tiny Welsh village, like the poet Dylan Thomas' hometown. A sleigh full of holiday shows 2011-11-24T23:56:38Z

“Tom likes tunes with these monstrous grooves that kick you into playing,” Mr. Ribot, who has worked on many of Mr. Waits’s albums and toured with him, said by phone. Arts & Leisure: Tom Waits?s New Album, ?Bad as Me? 2011-10-20T11:01:09Z

Adventurous programming, as ever, is on offer from this vocal and instrumental ensemble, this time exploring so-called ancient groove music and the evolution of dance music, from Machaut and Monteverdi to Reich and Gorecki. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

Mike Hale of The Times called it “an artsy, darkly humorous psychological horror story” that “settles into a satisfyingly eerie groove.” What’s on TV Monday: The First Presidential Debate 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Shilonosova enjoys smudging lines, playing around in the various spaces in which noise becomes music, marrying traditional instruments, ambient sounds, atonal composition, and electronic grooves. A Glimpse of Alternative Russia Through the Music of Kate NV 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

Over a sneaky rock-steady groove on “Retribution” she pokes at hypocrisies of the church, “poisoning the minds of the youths.” Playlist: Tumblr Soul, Rocker Country, Teenage Tartness 2011-03-11T15:35:16Z

The quintet's method came to be dubbed "time, no changes" because of their emphasis on strong rhythmic grooves without the dictatorial patterns of song-form chords. 50 great moments in jazz: How Miles Davis's second quintet changed jazz 2010-10-13T15:49:00Z

The groove, he believes, is still there no matter what. Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

“There’s some hardcore technical reasons why most mechanical music doesn’t groove that hard,” he said. 2010-01-30T00:49:00Z

Beneath all that lie Mr. Riggins’s own synthesizer melodies and his programmed or live drum-set beats, slow and deep with delayed groove. Pop: New Releases from Saxophone Players and Drummers 2012-10-07T05:10:06Z

We got into this groove where everyone was young and inexperienced – apart from the tired old hack who was nominally in charge, who was me. How we made Skins 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Before using the cylinders, he had to warm them up under a light to make the material soft enough for the stylus to cut grooves as the disc spun. Romancing the Horn: Opera Stars Record Like It’s 1900 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

Sutherland’s John Weir is a corporate dirty trickster rather than a federal agent, but “Rabbit Hole” quickly settles into the familiar whack-a-mole groove. In the Long, Paranoid Shadow of ‘24’ 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

It has groove and clank and tone and sonic depth, and it doesn’t lie down and submit to formula. Playlist : Ambience, Doom and Other Strong Medicine 2011-07-09T04:15:26Z

He never lets listeners settle too deeply into a groove, and Hebden made sure to preserve some of that chaos. How Four Tet Helped Madlib Make Something Totally New: A Solo Album 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

His playing tends to swirl, almost mistlike, with sprinkled melodic phrases, flickering harmonies and rolling arpeggios implying a groove rather than stating it. Gerard Way Sneers at the Apocalypse, and 12 More New Songs 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

This wasn't much of an issue when the listener had to fast-forward tape to just the right spot, or jump a needle to the appropriate groove. Grammy winner explains why Adele is right – album tracks should not be shuffled 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z

Even though her latest dance was a considerably smaller affair with just six performers, it had sweetness and groove, all washed down with the music of Jim Pepper. Review: A ‘Punk Ballerina’ Turns to Film and Fashion 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Even the police officer who was blocking fans from getting closer to the church grooved along to the performance and shook the saxophonist's hand afterward. Fans kept from funeral mourn Houston in NJ streets 2012-02-19T02:01:04Z

Watch how effortlessly hip hop star Chiddy Bang – not your typical Hall & Oates fan — slips in to a Daryl Hall kind of groove. Back off, haters! Hall & Oates rule 2013-12-17T19:54:00Z

Though there is a nearly propulsive quality to the book—it is focussed on reinvention, reëmergence—certain words and phrases deliberately repeat, like a needle stuck in a groove. Peter Gizzi, a Poet of Sound and Time 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

At Cake Shop he sang through most of a midnight set — unintelligibly and off key — against sloppy, deep-murk funk grooves with bleating trumpet and saxophone. Music Review: Two Different Spins for a Noisy Room 2011-08-17T22:09:16Z

Haynes doesn’t just want you to listen to the reminiscences of band members and their friends, lovers and collaborators, or to groove on vintage video of the band in action. ‘The Velvet Underground’ Review: And Me, I’m in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

Then it grew into a deeper, more intense and enveloping rhythm-section groove. Music Review: Underwater Ghost Brings a Plus-One to Brooklyn 2014-03-14T22:06:40Z

The title track mixes steel guitar – an instrument Sakamoto taught himself before recording the album -- Hawaiian melodic inflections and Space Age atmospherics into a quietly funky groove.  Slash, Mia Doi Todd and the Juan MacClean drop new albums 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

If it does and it's about singing and writing, again - melody over runs, harmony over groove - most of these folks will be out of work. Grammy Nominations 2018: Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar Lead the Way 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

On his own and with widely assorted collaborators, he delved into hip-hop, reggae, funk, dance music and non-English rock, forging grooves that have sold millions of Gorillaz albums worldwide. Music Review: A Virtual Band With Plenty of Friends 2010-10-10T06:21:00Z

There are constant shifts from obsessively repeated notes and chords, to wildly skittish bursts, to rhythmic episodes that almost — but never quite — slip into a marching groove. Review: A Carnegie Recital Pushes the Piano to Its Limits 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Children's movies have found their expensively animated groove in today's cinema, but this festival usefully reminds those born in the 21st century what they've been missing. This week's new film events 2013-03-23T06:00:10Z

All the while Mr. Blake remained stately at his keyboard, avoiding the groove. Music Review: Beat After Beat, by the Book 2011-03-15T22:18:13Z

“Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,” Mac sang, as the eight-piece band leaned into a groove, “I’m in it for the hang.” Taylor Mac’s ‘Fever Dream’: Exploring the Philosophy of the Hang 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

His son and musical successor honors him on “Ali,” an inspired team-up with Khruangbin, a Houston trio that has garnered its own passionate following thanks to its exquisitely chill, globally seasoned grooves. 75 Pop and Jazz Albums, Shows and Festivals Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

Collins called it, conjoining the terms "groove" and "movement" as he spoke to the power of collective action. SXSW 2013: Chuck D-Bootsy Collins summit 2013-03-15T17:40:00Z

Sometimes, you’re going to be in such a good groove that you’re going to work 12 or 14 hours at a time. How to Practice Self Care in Your Career 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

But there’s a more curious, and certainly less intentional, link between the two: both titles invoke records, those clunky grooved discs that remain one of popular music’s most peculiar symbols. Why Apple and Beats Should Sell Turntables 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

"But we try and get away from that, keeping the groove, the constant — but being flexible and developing that throughout the set, working with people, and things 'just happening.'" Interview: Seattle-collaborating British electronic act SBTRKT 2011-10-25T15:15:06Z

It takes a little while for “Radioactive” to find its groove. ‘Radioactive’ Review: Marie Curie and the Science of Autonomy 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

She called me up to let me know how much she was grooving on it. ArtsBeat: How Dan Harmon Did, Or Did Not, Get His Groove Back at ‘Community’ 2013-12-18T17:03:13Z

The grooves will be churning, and the mood exuberant verging on ecstatic — especially given a likely parade of guests from a local scene aswarm with party-starters. Where to Catch Music and Comedy on New Year’s Eve 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

The look on his face when Bumbercatch re-illuminates the restaurant’s sign is utterly endearing, but still less endearing than the groove he gets into with Sam in the kitchen just before the credits roll. ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3, Episode 7 Recap: Restaurant Week 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. LeFranc keeps his dialogue in the groove of everyday conversation, with its comforting, quirky repetitions and discomfiting holes. Review: ‘Rancho Viejo,’ Where Banality and Trouble Cohabitate 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

The Canadian company Lululemon, which sells items like the $118 Lulu Zen Wrap and the wildly popular $98 groove pant, reportedly has a market cap of more than a billion dollars. Books of The Times: Stefanie Syman?s Yoga History, ?The Subtle Body? 2010-07-29T21:30:00Z

The Roots revive 1970s grooves, including the lightly scrubbing guitars of Ms. Wright’s early Miami soul, but they’re not pure vintage style; there’s a hint of hip-hop’s hypnotic repetition. Critic?s Notebook: The Roots: 2 Albums, One Quest 2011-12-06T23:35:54Z

But it’s clear as you listen that instead of things getting better as the sessions progressed, with the musicians finding their groove with Dylan, the atmosphere in the room degenerated. Bob Dylan’s First Day with “Tangled Up in Blue” 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

Grudging Level of Respect Higher after a bonding moment in which Carter teaches Lee how to really groove to Edwin Starr’s funky “War.” ‘Central Intelligence,’ Buddy Cops and the Art of Mismatched Pairs 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z

But the Cartier Foundation was doing its utmost to get into the groove. Malick Sidibé’s Mali: Scenes of a Rollicking Night Life 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Howard and the rest of the band are steeped as well in the patient grooves and storytelling strategies of soul, particularly the sounds of Memphis and Muscle Shoals. Review: Alabama Shakes Lifts Soul to a Different Plane 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Her 2015 album, “Roots,” brings traditional Japanese songs into a modern jazz context, equipping them with tumbling counterpoint and swiveling grooves. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

Well, that and groove, on a cellular level. Critics? Choice: New CDs by LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses 2010-05-16T22:45:00Z

It also established the band’s dynamic exchange, a byproduct of Mr. Chambers’s deep groove pulling against Mr. Jackson’s ropy, ingeniously off-kilter bass lines. Music Review: The Mike Stern Band Brings Jazz-Rock to the Iridium 2013-12-20T21:27:21Z

“They have some kind of a groove there, where you don’t have to stop.” Kurt Vile turns out ‘fried or sizzled out’ rock tunes 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

Seated on scaffolding high above the floor of the Hammer Museum, Mark Bradford runs his hand along the grooved outline of a two-story map of the United States. After traveling the world, L.A. artist Mark Bradford gets a solo show in his hometown 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

Somehow the crowd, which included several local musicians in awe at what they were hearing, managed to dance along to the weirdly braided R&B groove. Dirty Projectors adopt 14th-century musical style in eclectic Seattle set 2010-10-01T19:32:00Z

In his music, he lets spacious R&B grooves soak and simmer, leaving the listener to revel in his inventive keyboard voicings. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 2-8 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Viscous rhythms lurch and splatter, creating herky-jerky grooves, and noise bursts splatter here and there. Kate Bush's bewitching "The Dreaming" turns 40 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

The encores, as usual, were stunning: a soulful groove tune; a gleaming, Copland-esque ballad; and pristinely lyrical readings of “Miss Otis Regrets” and “It’s a Lonesome Old Town.” Music Review: Keith Jarrett in a Solo Concert at Carnegie Hall 2012-01-26T22:29:27Z

She started her tenure by asking subscribers and community leaders for feedback: What did SAL need to get its groove back? Ruth Dickey and the turnaround at Seattle Arts & Lectures 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

“If I’m guilty of one thing,” Mr. McVeigh sings on “Bad Love,” over a sluggish groove, “It’s loving you too much.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z

Typically he began seated, quietly singing a little uptilting falsetto melody while beating the groove on his chest. Bobby McFerrin/London Vocal Project 2010-05-30T20:31:00Z

Mr. Bradley gave himself fully, slowly flapping his arms, screaming James Brown screams, riding on slow grooves. Critic’s Notebook: I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival at Pier 36 2012-09-24T22:29:50Z

Perhaps what he was trying to say was, “moderation in all things” — except the groove, of course. Femi Kuti’s energy is as tireless as his message during 9:30 Club concert 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z

The festival often takes a few days to get its groove on, and this year is no exception. The Cannes Film Festival Opens Amid Disruptions 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

This jam-friendly festival believes deeply in the power of a good groove, as evidenced by the unflustered faces of its often-shirtless, grinning attendees. Summer Stages: Pop and Jazz 2010-05-07T21:24:00Z

The first time Potash heard “Shattered,” on DC 101 in 1978, the driving opening guitar groove, snarling vocals and cocky lyrics left Potash spellbound. How one Maryland man became a fixture in the Rolling Stones firmament 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Only after establishing a groove in the band's infectious jam "Red Eyes," for example, did the band move into bottom-end live-drum momentum, rolling within it with a lubricated ease. Coachella 2015: Alabama Shakes, Tame Impala among top Friday moments 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Murphy and the band often built songs like D.J. sets, starting with bare-bones grooves and then bringing in layer upon layer of interlocking lines and rhythms. Review: LCD Soundsystem Makes a Return and a Homecoming at Panorama 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

Five great arrangements Massive Attack: Unfinished Sympathy Arranger: Wil Malone Massive Attack created a song that featured samples, scratching, a strong groove and a superb vocal by Shara Nelson. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z

This was as much his strategy on the opening tune, a soulful processional titled “The Last Chieftain,” as on “West of the West,” which closed the set over a deep, asymmetrical funk groove. Music Review: Christian aTunde Adjuah Brings New Sound to a Jazz Festival 2014-05-09T21:40:13Z

Bluesy, and with a raw groove, Sartain's songs have unsurprisingly found favour with White Stripes man Jack White, who has employed him as both opening act, and released a single on his Third Man records. Music picks of the week 2010-05-14T23:33:00Z

But they quickly found a groove, building a song from the sketch of a slow jam by Mr. Hynes that would soon become Ms. Jepsen’s lane-changing reintroduction to the pop world. Carly Rae Jepsen, With a New Album, Is Definitely Changing Her Number 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

If the first single is any indication, “An Evening with Silk Sonic,” out on Friday, will be full of ’70s inspired smooth R&B grooves perfect for the dance floor. New this week: ‘Red Notice,’ Silk Sonic and ‘Clifford’ 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

And then you miss them, because your ears retain an afterimage of a powerful chord change, a smart arrangement of dynamics or repetition, a good groove. New Music: New Music by Passion Pit and Micachu & the Shapes 2012-07-23T22:18:24Z

“All those precious little voices,” she says over a fluttery gospel groove. Jimmy Greene’s 'Beautiful Life' Is a Eulogy to a Daughter 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

To me, it sounds like hypnotic grooves and confrontational, pop-as-theater fragmentations. Seattle culture node Cairo readies compilation, festival: "The Cold Jungle" and "Expo 88" 2010-10-01T20:16:00Z

Eventually Mr. Iyer played a spiky trill in oblong meter, shifting the trio into a different groove. Music Review: Vijay Iyer, Alone and With Others, at Zankel Hall 2013-04-29T21:19:37Z

The thunder in the distance suggests the turbulence of the grooves within: this wasn't the mild fusion of Filles De Kilamanjaro, or In A Silent Way, this was the way forward – the jazz-rock fusion thunder. The greatest ever album covers 2012-07-06T16:00:14Z

Some patrons grooved in their chairs and waved their hands wildly, which the staff have taken to call the “butt wiggle.” Where the Party Never Sleeps 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z

When Mr. Chavez stuck to salsa, his shell-game formations both rode and established a groove, but his attempts at storytelling were unclear, and his stabs at lyricism turned mawkish. Dance Review: Roclan Gonz?lez Chavez in ?Kings of Salsa? - Review 2011-10-18T20:50:41Z

The new track lurches from the dark groove of “Woe” to something else: Björk’s vocal harmonies, warped keyboard vamps and mystical life lessons. Rosalía and Rauw Alejandro’s Love Trilogy, and 8 More New Songs 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z

But the bass line’s gummy groove holds all the disparate parts together, allowing Lizzo to glide elegantly from arch, semi-rapped verses to a belted-out bridge that shows off the full range of her vocals. Lizzo’s Empowerment Pop Gets Stuck in the Same Groove 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z

Focusing on the dancier side of her catalogue, Richard was a siren over propulsive grooves, synthesized melodies and waves of bass. Dawn Richard continues the part at the fringes of electronic R&B at DC9 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

A similar plea turns up in the refrain to “Real Talk,” one of the album’s most appealing tunes, built around a skeletal, syncopated groove. New Music: CD’s by Trey Songz, Bloc Party and Six Organs of Admittance 2012-08-20T21:58:57Z

But it is possible to get into a sustainably satisfying, relatively untormented groove. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: A 20-something in need of a groove only sees ruts 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Widely cited as one of the first dub reggae albums, it put forward a sound that stripped Jamaican pop music to its most essential grooves. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

The set has a looseness that squares well with its low center of gravity; it’s satisfying just to hear Mr. Grohl and Mr. Watt lock into a heavy groove. The Playlist: The xx Return in a Brighter Mood 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

"Ballroom Dancing" has Fab Four irreverence in the way it conjures a lively dancefloor, with peppy horns, jaunty piano and bouncy grooves from guest Ringo Starr. Paul McCartney's "Tug of War" at 40: A self-aware solace written in the wake of John Lennon's death 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

I was trying to include those ballet nuances and I was ignoring the groove of it. Poised for Change at a Company Where Dancers of Color Feel at Home 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

She moves from snakily grooving songs of uplift to romantic entreaties to reggae-tinged protest anthems. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

There’s no relief from the groove, and that groove can become deadly in a theater if it’s not relieved by storytelling.” Get-up-and-dance ‘Fela!’ coming to Seattle May 28-June 2 2013-05-22T23:12:41Z

But for the most part, the band concentrate on producing lithe, percussion-heavy grooves, finding a funky core in songs such as Echoes and Far Away that's easy to miss on record. Washed Out ? review 2011-08-11T16:55:50Z

Others who believe in the Chinese groove feel compelled to help him. Immigration Is Hard. This Novel Turns the Struggle Into a Comedy of Errors. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

Lima Lima is a large and popular bar that grooves to an electro and hip-hop beat, and also boasts a big terrace in the back. | Tel Aviv 2012-09-21T13:00:55Z

But you're bound, literally, to find your groove with a number of them. 'The Record' goes beyond vinyl and turntables 2012-08-15T20:29:04Z

Improvising on “Truth,” he spent some time lobbing change-up funk grooves on a single note. Review | Kamasi Washington’s playing is a mighty howl at Lincoln Theatre 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

While still settling into their onstage partnership, they found their groove in a talking-and-gesturing sequence that replicated a conversation between two A. I. bots about becoming human. At La MaMa, a Dance Festival That Embraces States of Change 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

At Selander Bridge Club, fans dance in formation to Kilimanjaro Band’s hypnotic grooves under a massive thatched roof. Cultured Traveler: Where Tanzania Taps Its Feet 2014-02-18T17:38:07Z

As the group began seasoning its country-blues-rock 'n' rollstew with soulful harmonies and R&B grooves, it left behind its more one-dimensional leader, who remained a devotee of Sun Records-style rockabilly. Levon Helm, drummer and singer for the Band, dies of cancer 2012-04-19T19:39:00Z

And once he got in the groove, he even found himself relaxing at last. For ‘The Lincoln Lawyer,’ Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Climbs in the Front Seat 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

We said: "People might be drawn to Everything Everything for their refusal to sound obvious, but they will stay for this band's mastery of the basics: grooves and feeling." Mercury prize shortlist 2011: what Guardian and Observer critics said 2011-07-19T13:07:52Z

If, on the other hand, someone really doesn't groove on any of that, and says so, believe them. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Why do some parents let kids stay up all hours at sleepovers? 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z

All three songs share the dirtbag camaraderie of Joseph’s delivery and a certain paranoiac groove. The Slippery Appeal of the Biggest New Band in America 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

He loves the original grooves and what you are trying to say. Steven Tyler brings his country show — and his take on Aerosmith — on the road 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Grounded in soul and rare groove, the World Headquarters' sounds cover everything from reggae to house. Clubs picks of the week 2013-01-26T06:00:14Z

Yet with its grinding synth scapes and throbbing dance-punk grooves, "Bionic" also serves as a characteristically bold artistic statement from one of pop's least apprehensive superstars. Christina Aguilera enters hipster territory as "Bionic" woman 2010-06-01T01:42:00Z

"Maybe it’s the freedom offered by the liminal state, before the inevitable drag of being home, of settling into old grooves of relationships, whatever gap of understanding might always be there." The Drive Home 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

Cow bells, gamelan and jazzy grooves conjoined Europe, Africa, the Americas, Asia and grunge rock. Claudio Abbado at the Lucerne festival; BBC Prom 44 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

I’d got into this groove of being a reasonably successful, very blessed actor, playing increasingly bland parts. 'Doctor Who' and the Eyebrows of Peter Capaldi 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

The show opened to warm reviews in January but hasn’t found its box office groove. These numbers suggest a closing date is not too far away. Broadway Box Office Rallies In Advance Of Awards Season 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z

Now fully grown, “Pow” has its premiere at the 92Y Harkness Dance Festival, with a score that zooms from cinematic waves to reggae grooves, reflecting Ms. Garfield’s thematic breadth and expansive interests. Dance Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

You realized just how deeply ingrained Stewart’s mannerisms and outlook were, how your brain had almost formed particular grooves for them to slide into over so many years. Trevor Noah first “Daily Show” was definitely strange — but it could be exactly what we need 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

The bar is still finding its groove, so for now, it is first come first served, especially after 10 p.m. An Italian Bar Fit for Romance in Greenwich Village 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z

Softly they tapped faint beats onto the floor, building rhythms as they broke away briefly to swipe their thighs, dipping into new grooves. Review: Michelle Dorrance Returns to the Joyce. Where’s the Zip? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z

Let's not forget that The Daily Show took four years to find a groove, after all. 10 O'Clock Live: did the Channel 4 hype backfire? 2011-01-21T10:43:58Z

“The beat of The Stones. There are no words, every groove has spoken for itself.” ‘Ultimate drummer’: Stars react to Charlie Watts’ death 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Squatting and kicking to the groove in platform shoes, he’s more limber than you might expect, yet unavoidably comic. Dance Review: David Dorfman?s ?Prophets of Funk? at the Joyce Theater 2012-01-25T23:51:50Z

“The fear is that you can own a groove,” Neely said. Stolen or Original? Hear Songs From 7 Landmark Copyright Cases. 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Eventually, pulling apart, they moved in sync finding a groove — and exuding an underlying vulnerability — as the lyrics rolled by: “And I suggest you trace your scars if you get lost, my dears.” Review: Reimagined Gibney Company Makes a Long-Winded Debut 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Before committing to a long vacation, get the entire family in a go-with-the-flow groove to better handle the inevitable car-free setbacks: delayed buses, stuck trains, no available seats, overly ambitious parents. How to Travel Car-Free With a Family 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

Largely ditching the straightforward, melodical approach of their previous work, it focuses on atmospheric grooves, cut-up vocals and austere, moody soundscapes. Dig for success 2010-03-11T08:16:00Z

As soon as Mani finds the song's fabulous, lolloping groove, they get better. The Stone Roses – review 2012-06-15T18:00:00Z

An anvil sits in the center of the space near a grooved swage block for shaping metal and a power hammer for pounding it. Blacksmithing roars back as homeowners seek out unique furnishings 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

A near-capacity crowd spanning several generations grooved on the timeless music of the band’s late-’70s heyday, from “The Chain” to “Gold Dust Woman.” Fleetwood Mac lights up Tacoma Dome | Concert review 2013-05-21T18:11:45Z

Hypnotic world-music grooves mesh with blues and country, as loops and programming mingle with banjo, electric guitars, synthesizers and a one-stringed West African fiddle. Robert Plant Releases ‘lullaby and The Ceaseless Roar’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Set to a backdrop of Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way,” the dancers, from the Brooklyn-based group Diversity of Dance, bounced, leaped and grooved down the aisles through the crowd before taking the stage. At Bessie Awards, Mourning and Celebration 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z

But the feisty chatter of the women—Oliver and Leslie Cuyjet—was funny, and good-natured, and led us right back into the earlier groove. Dance of the Everywoman 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

For his signature song, “It Had to Be You,” he found and held a groove that might be described as a slow bounce and into which he interpolated hot Erroll Garner-like note clusters. Music Review: Harry Connick Jr. Performs on Broadway 2010-07-16T21:19:00Z

“The grooves actually groove but they also have the structure of proper pop songs.” Stromae’s Music Delves Into Dark Topics. His Return Is Right on Time. 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

In the meantime, an ever-expanding audience found their own lives in her songs: in their desires, jealousy, doubts, seductions, setbacks and triumphs, and in their leisurely grooves. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

But perhaps because the material runs in the same emotional grooves as that show — also a story of misfits finding self-acceptance through competition — true inspiration arrives only intermittently here. | 'Little Miss Sunshine': Taking Dysfunction on a Road Trip 2011-03-08T16:48:24Z

“City Music,” his fourth solo album, released in June, contains mellow folk-rock grooves, lonesome ballads and a cheeky homage to the Ramones, all loosely organized around the idea of urban wandering. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

The resulting album is willfully eclectic but hangs together, the product of a musical mind that's always sought out the groove connecting disparate styles. Music producer Mark Ronson scores his own hit with 'Uptown Funk' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

And, not incidentally, to be both steeped in musical history and ready to transform it, to reach for ever deeper grooves. Review: D’Angelo’s ‘Black Messiah’ 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Inside the clubhouse, waiters in red and green argyle took drink orders, and a couple dozen couples of a certain age grooved to Wild Cherry’s “Play that Funky Music.” California’s Marrakesh: A Country Club That’s Chic Again 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Here and elsewhere, her music, in addition to its fascination with the natural world, exudes inventiveness with a welcoming personality, rousing energy and torrents of joy — not to mention an infectious groove. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

"At the risk of sounding corny, it's about the absolute bliss of the grooves," he says. Disco gets lucky 2013-05-31T08:58:13Z

It was a nice job, except the paint in the grooves on the wainscoting deteriorated very quickly, leaving unsightly gaps. How to repair bathroom wainscoting 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Both “Lay My Head Down” and the stop-time stomp “Shame” used the greatest parts of Led Zeppelin: not just the riffs and grooves, but also the sense of space. Music Review | Harvey Milk: At Le Poisson Rouge, Playing Like Its 1993 2010-03-09T23:20:00Z

But in the moments when it finds its groove, thanks to Erivo’s incandescent performance and its insight into Franklin’s process, it socks it to us. Review: ‘Genius: Aretha’ Speaks Loudest When It Sings 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

In subsequent episodes the show settles into a smoother, less frenetic, more Kelley-like — and, not coincidentally, more tolerable — groove. Television Review: From Law School to a Frat House? 2011-05-31T22:09:37Z

"Summer Breaking" is a ringer for the theme to "Law and Order," at least in its opening bars: a smooth, professional groove that suggests Steely Dan, yacht rock and police procedurals. Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Special' polished to a collaborative gleam 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Public Service Broadcasting, an English duo, samples film dialogue and constructs surging instrumental tracks around it: full-bodied rock, dance-music pulses, funk grooves. The Playlist: Harry Styles and Beth Ditto Take the Plunge and Go Solo 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Over the Mountain” blasts out of the boombox and “Flying High Again” is a deceivingly poppy blend of groove guitars. Perspective | A dozen albums for a penny? I’ve still got mine, and plenty of time to listen. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

“The Writing’s On the Wall” ushered out the slow jam and ushered in a new era of R&B — super-produced, drenched in attitude and built on songwriting rather than grooves. The 12 greatest albums of the ’90s 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z

She gave the lyrics an extroverted push, and then hung back as Mr. Sewell took an electric solo against a bobbing funk groove. Music Review: Cassandra Wilson at the Rose Theater - Review 2011-10-04T20:01:36Z

The trays are also grooved, so juices won’t easily spill over. Perspective | These gadgets will keep summer dining safe 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

“You get into that groove, and it’s all retrospectives and ‘lifetime this’ and whatever,” Mr. Forsyth said. Film: Bill Forsyth to Discuss ?Housekeeping? at Film Forum 2010-04-14T21:46:00Z

The band played through irregular grooves beautifully—Pete Rende on Fender Rhodes, Matt Brewer on bass, Ted Poor on drums—and Mr. Endsley constructed clean, logical solos, just on the wet side of dry. ArtsBeat: A Lot of Jazz. Many More People. 2011-01-08T22:14:32Z

Her husband would rather groove to Motown and taste American freedom. Review: ‘Sojourners,’ About Nigerians Assimilating to Life in the U.S. 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

We came on with our little pop thing, then George came on with a groove so heavy he wiped the floor with us. Pop's undersung heroes: artists with big influence but small reputation 2010-07-15T21:00:00Z

In “juke joints we fixed onto being segregated. Being in the thick of ourselves with our own groove,” he writes. Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Thanks to the bassist Franz Lyons, Turnstile is more fluent with groove than many of its peers. Turnstile Knows Hardcore’s Rules. That’s Why It Can Break Them. 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

Ever since they found their groove on SNL, they’ve been quizzed and prodded about the one thing that interests them the least – their gender. Maya Rudolph: ‘I'm not a woman in comedy. I'm a comedian' 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

Apparently in a trance, the Boss strums at his guitar and hums a melody while Van Zandt taps out a groove on congas. Bruce Springsteen: 'People thought we were gone. Finished' 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z

His career as a drummer flowed easily from there: Working with James Blood Ulmer, Vernon Reid and others, he became known for his balance of throbbing groove, white-knuckle power and thick blues coloring. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

What you get on Jagwar Ma's single the Throw is bright sunshine pop with a psychedelic glaze, underpinned by loping, stoned grooves. Jagwar Ma (No 1,443) 2013-02-01T09:00:00Z

A Gov’t Mule concert often sounds and feels like one giant song with a massive groove that shapeshifts according to different stylistic genres and traditions. Gov’t Mule’s “Revolution”: Hope for an angry and divided land 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

The movie more or less recovers, settling into its lively groove, even if the Flash remains a curiously uncertain presence. ‘The Flash’ Review: Electric Company 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Weekend Update seems to be finding a mid-level groove – nowhere near its high point, but not at the depths that befell the writing after Seth Meyers and his team left the show. Saturday Night Live review: Emma Stone rocks as real Donald Trump weighs in 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

He preferred to dial up the variability and wobble that distinguish a groove as human, intriguing in its imperfection. How the Soulquarians Birthed D’Angelo’s ‘Voodoo’ and Transformed Jazz 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

The audience grooved along, drinking sippy cups of whiskey or wine. Elvis Costello at the Beacon: Misery and Splendor 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Despair carries a strangely appealing, abrasive groove, and Yellow Wood ambles around a glacial soundscape before finally settling into an intriguing melody halfway through. Esben & the Witch: Wash the Sins Not Only the Face – review 2013-01-17T21:30:01Z

On Sunday, that grooving was glorious — joyful, buoyant, liberated. Black in Ballet: Coming Together After Trying to ‘Blend Into the Corps’ 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

This year Medeski Martin & Wood are celebrating their 20th anniversary, and their set included both recent material and a version of the first groove they came up with together. Music Review: Three Bands, Floating Their Music on a Cool Breeze 2011-06-12T22:53:07Z

It was really just about me finding my groove and then hopefully everybody else could find what they found in the show too. "Colin in Black & White" writer on Kaepernick's parents & awakening: "They didn't see him as Black" 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z

Orthodox men rock back and forth when they pray, and that rocking created grooves in the floor. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 10-16 2012-08-10T04:40:09Z

James’ subtle mastery of minimalist, backbeat guitar groove is the heartbeat of both ensembles. 1 remarkable guitarist powers 2 of Seattle’s hottest bands 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z

On standard-speed LPs, however, some grooves, especially those representing very quiet sounds, are so tiny and so tightly curved that no cartridge can track them perfectly. Music: Vinyl Revival: Reissues From Blue Note?s Heyday 2010-08-08T01:30:00Z

It’s also a showcase of the manifold territory that is her style: There’s acoustic balladry, sighing neo-soul, and dance grooves that start in the hips and swirl into the head like an intoxicant. The Playlist: Pearl Jam Kicks Up a Fury, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

Thicke, whose sound is based in R&B, is known for his bedroom grooves and his No. 1 hits like "Lost Without U" and "Sex Therapy." Robin Thicke: Wife is OK with nude models in video 2013-03-29T15:28:09Z

“Old-time shines in its truest sense as a communal music centered around the rhythm and groove,” she wrote in an e-mail. From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z

A meditative soprano-sax theme over a wash of cymbals opened the show, with a typically bright and folksy Kairos melody following over a brittle, funky groove. Nigel Price/Kairos Quartet 2010-04-07T22:00:00Z

What the collection does reveal is a band locked into a performing groove, one capable of steering them toward worthy takes of half-sketched songs. The Stones Come Back From Exile--Again 2010-05-07T20:19:00Z

Geri Allen showed up in the 1980s with powerful grooves, exuberant melodies and astonishing polyphonies between her anchoring left hand and her wry, fluidly inventive right. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

But with his relentlessly grooving new album, "Secret Agent," Allen is delving headlong back into Afrobeat. KEXP World Music Festival features Afrobeat pioneer Tony Allen 2010-06-17T20:20:00Z

But somewhere around the brilliant "In Bruges," Farrell found his unique and darkly hilarious groove. "Fright Night:" Farrell's mesmerizing in campy remake 2011-08-18T20:45:00Z

“Signs of Life,” a song about “cool kids” trying to beat boredom, assembles an elegant rock-disco groove, but Mr. Butler’s vocal is an attempt at rapping that’s as stiff as its apparent template, Blondie’s “Rapture.” On Arcade Fire’s ‘Everything Now,’ Pop Can Reach Deep 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

It has a sturdy plastic handle with finger grooves built in which allow you to get a firm grasp, like a barbell. The Water Bottle That Won’t Leave You Alone 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Marty is revived, going from swooning and fading and twanging to springing upright, playing the right chords, restoring the groove, all right with the world. Happy “Back to the Future” Day 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

The cadence was slow, the dance intimate — a beguiling groove reminiscent of Haitian zouk. With Cura?ao?s Music, You Can Hear the Cultural Mix 2012-03-16T21:28:10Z

It doesn’t help that he’s a terrible comic, at least until the show needs him to be a better one — in Episode 6, he suddenly finds a groove at an opportune moment. Review: The Predictable Tears of a Clown Flow in ‘Crashing’ 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

It stayed firmly in the grooves of our waffles and, easily spreadable, proved a welcome addition to a peanut butter sandwich. Grandma Cookies: Getting creative with the season’s “low grade” maple syrup 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

It was a blow to the cast and crew, particularly because the series had found its groove. ‘The Game’ is over and everybody won: How BET’s comedy helped make history 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

"No Candle Light" is instantly amazing, Hammond is ever the gentleman on the tender mid-tempo groove "In My Arms" and the romantic ballad "Lonely Fellow" is sincere. Review: Beres Hammond is classic on new double CD 2012-11-12T17:44:11Z

What was really funny was the intro of it that we used as the chorus is actually faster than the groove. Portishead’s ‘Dummy’ Is 25. The Band Asks That You Play It Loud. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

On the one hand, Chic's orchestrations were subtly done – devoid of the high-camp theatrics favoured elsewhere – their grooves tougher and more obviously rooted in funk. The Chic Organization: Up All Night – review 2013-06-27T14:30:00Z

Above all, there is the rhythm, the layered grooves — the way that, as those heroic scenes in “Come Ye” play on the rear wall, the dancers keep riding the grooves, inexorably. Review: Ronald K. Brown’s Messages of Resilience 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Right after cooking on your grill, while the rack is still warm, scrub with a wire brush or a grooved scraper made for the grill. Perspective | Hints From Heloise: Mashed potato soup? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Royston knows how to put a hard bounce beneath any groove without sounding overbearing, and from the first moments here, on “The Music of Glen Deven Ranch,” his presence is crucial. Critic’s Notebook: California Dreaming Adds Sweep to Bill Frisell’s ‘Big Sur’ 2013-06-23T21:08:56Z

But Solange, who wrote and co-produced every song on the record, has populated her work with plenty of grooves and hooks and rhythms. Solange Knowles’s Album of Black Life in America 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

An English band formed in 2000 by its lead singer and keyboardist, Alexis Taylor, and its main composer, Joe Goddard, Hot Chip is grounded in dance music but constructs pop songs, not open-ended grooves. Review: Hot Chip’s ‘Why Make Sense?,’ Rooted in Dance Music’s Past but of the Now 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The open secret of post-punk is that no matter how cynical the vocal gets, the song is always about the groove. Billie Eilish’s Forlorn ‘Barbie’ Ballad, and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z

In fact, there’s a certain joy in it: crisp guitar melodies, nimble bass grooves and Mr. Smith’s bright, keening vocals. Pop & Rock Listings for Nov. 18-24 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

The sickly sweet whiff of Catholic corruption enticed audiences a decade back; this time it's the equally worn groove of the gulf between rich and poor in the country. Has Mexico's film industry been helped or harmed by Hollywood? 2013-05-01T16:38:06Z

"She wants to sing, she wants to dance and get her groove on." Chelsea Handler signs off from 'Chelsea Lately' on E! 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

As barely a beat passed, the group dropped into the loping groove of "Hearts and Bones." Paul Simon takes graying fans on world tour 2011-04-25T05:21:26Z

He thinks you might take a bit longer to get into the groove. Spoiler alert! Fifty percent of “Fifty Shades of Grey” 2012-07-09T14:02:00Z

However, Butcher Boy's third album sees them affirming their own groove of beautifully crafted and orchestrated pop songs. Butcher Boy: Helping Hands ? review 2011-08-25T21:40:00Z

It is the marketing department, after all, that promote the wavy grooves, the holes in the head, the blue lines, the reason to buy one thing on a shelf over another thing. Tampon wars: the battle to overthrow the Tampax empire 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z

The setting: a drive-in theater where a rowdy crowd of young folks is grooving on “Bullitt.” ‘Need for Speed’: Visions of better films come fast & furious 2014-03-12T22:21:56Z

But a funny thing happened on the way to divorce court: We found our groove in splitting up. ‘We Found Our Groove in Splitting Up’ 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

They’re moody, but still bubble with the grooves that drove Crooks & Lovers. Genres Collide on Mount Kimbie’s Cold Spring Fault Less Youth 2013-05-31T09:45:20Z

"Ain't That Easy," which opens the record with a transfixing groove, draws sweat from the get-go. D'Angelo's 'Black Messiah' draws on history, sublime grooves 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

When you returned to “Community,” did you find it easy to get back into the groove of working here? ArtsBeat: How Dan Harmon Did, Or Did Not, Get His Groove Back at ‘Community’ 2013-12-18T17:03:13Z

Back in 1981, the single had an extended "Night Version" mix with swooning sax, simmering percussion and intensive dance grooves. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z

Other features suggest other creatures: “If there is no hole and just a groove present, consider armadillos.” The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

Instead, focus on getting them to slide back and forth in the grooves. How to repair cracked panels in wooden doors 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

About four years ago, Mr. McCaslin made a hard turn toward groove as a bandleader, enlisting the other members of the quartet, who have their own separate histories together. On David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar,’ Turning to Jazz for Inspiration 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

The introduction sets up the familiar groove with its static harmony, pulsing bass and keyboard riff. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

With its slow grooves and gunked-up tones, it’s funky in two ways. 2010-02-06T03:47:00Z

Busta Rhymes declares that he’s “upholding the fundamentals” as he raps over a Motown groove and the voice of a young Michael Jackson. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

In its initial incarnation, her first single from it, "Yellow Flicker Beat," is a striking, if straightforward, banger, one that starts quiet before jumping into a consistent dance groove. Friday essential tracks from Captain Beefheart, Lorde, more 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

To some degree, “The Radio Show” becomes stuck in its own groove. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham’s ‘Radio Show,’ at 92nd Street Y 2014-03-17T22:24:10Z

"It's been a remarkable change of direction for all of us and as a group we all seem to have developed a new groove," Plant said in a statement. Robert Plant to tour with new Band of Joy lineup 2010-03-29T09:58:00Z

The cheerful optimism – and the propulsive groove – of “Don’t Stop” inspired thousands in the audience to sing along. Fleetwood Mac at the Forum: A band reunited, team spirit intact 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

"It kicks into its groove from the first second, with some delicious riffs along with backing vocals that make the chorus very sing-a-along" – soundblab.com. New band of the day ? No 984: If the Kids 2011-03-11T16:07:06Z

We spoke to Blanchard recently from his home in New Orleans about the socially charged content of the album, his future work in that vein, as well as the music’s sometimes disarming groove. Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard is all about ‘creating conversations’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Overdrive’s humor grates, but the gameplay carves a deep, particular groove that is tricky to learn and ultimately rewarding. Reviews: Sunset Overdrive, This War of Mine, Super Smash Bros. and Civilization 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

This time, instead of writing songs on guitar, he started improvising ideas around producer/co-writer Simon Dine's looped grooves. Paul Weller: the upsetter 2010-08-26T20:30:00Z

At one point, Mr. McPherson, using brushes, carried the trio into a big, circular groove — something evoking passage and duration. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z

“I will sink and I will disappear/I will slip into the groove and cut me up and cut me up.” Album review: Radiohead, 'The King of Limbs' 2011-02-20T05:48:13Z

“She found her groove, and then she was unstoppable,” Ms. Prince said. Breaking Glass and Gloomy Skies Inspire This Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

On that album, “For All We Know,” Nao, a native of Britain, blends sumptuous R&B grooves and hip-hop-inspired beats with her bright, otherworldly vocals. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

Some machine-y music is great," he says, "but you can apply any groove to any song now – there's literally a massive drop-down menu on most programs. Jon Hopkins: the next Brian Eno 2013-06-04T15:52:15Z

This was an eight-piece ensemble that produced a rolling river of groove. Review: In ‘Nehanda,’ the Band Played On 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z

The video never quite finds the right surreal/deranged groove, which is odd considering that it's a collaboration between artists who pride themselves on upbeat nuttiness. The new Muppets and OK Go collaboration falls flat 2011-08-26T22:01:00Z

After a subtler improv from Avis, the violinist let loose with a deft solo that showed the breadth of his technique while also throttling up on the samba groove. Review | D.C.’s beloved Blues Alley comes back to life with a joyful set from Veronneau 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

“I Got You” and “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” will turn into thirty-second throwaways; slow, hard funk grooves will be accelerated until they lose their bite. The flash and breakneck frenzy of James Brown’s “Live at the Apollo” 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

Jamming crops up here and there, yet, as he demonstrated last year at Wrigley Field, Matthews is better when he doesn't wander too far away from the main groove. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z

They had really cool organic grooves that I love and was so excited to hear. Hunter Hayes follows own path to Grammy noms 2013-01-31T12:45:16Z

The rest of the band watched him and each other carefully for near-invisible cues, often stretching the songs past the 15-minute mark without losing track of the groove. At Metro Femi Kuti carries on his father's music and mission 2011-05-01T15:02:00Z

With the percussionist David Hawkins adding thick mallet strokes on a second drum kit, Mr. Murray kept up a thunderous and slant-fit groove. Live Jazz: 3 May Standouts, From Sullivan Fortner to Dana Murray 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s clad in shadowy gray precast, thickly grooved concrete panels spectrally embossed with abstracted roses that refer to floral decorations on historic buildings in the neighborhood. Sugar Hill Housing Will Have a School and a Museum 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z

“The Love,” a Malian song with a slow, hypnotizing groove, was playing on the sound system. Ronald K. Brown Choreographs a Love Letter to Alvin Ailey 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Woven through is the music of the Heliocentrics, whose work connects soul, African funk, Sun Ra-heavy jazz and hip-hop to create psychedelic, stoned grooves. Nikki Lane's 'FaLaLaLaLove Ya' a hot Christmas torch song 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

With less marching-band thunder and more hip-hop swagger than, say, New Orleans’s Dirty Dozen Brass Band, this eight-piece ensemble mixes the influence of hip-hop, soul and gospel into a coolly grooving sound. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Some pieces were centuries-old, some current; one, “Synesthesia,” by Joel Mellin, an ensemble member, went African and European, into grooves and silences, in a way I haven’t heard gamelan music do before. The Basilica Soundscape Festival Features an Eclectic Lineup 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z

The driving rhythmic groove of the outer movements, propelled at times by the space-rocket sound of the flexatone, was balanced by the calmer middle section, featuring a mysterious melody sung by some of the musicians. Review | The Knights weave old and new in concert of surprises at Dumbarton Oaks 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

She coaxes our imaginations out of the well-worn grooves of the existing order. ‘The Right to Sex’ Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

With his big band, he offers plush arrangements of his compositions, often undergirded by a trenchant groove. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

This is his version of celebrating all together, as one nation . . . but under a groove he grabbed from other people that gave the form its beats, meaning and measure. This Juneteenth, "Atlanta" will give you all the insights you need on how America co-opts a holiday 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z

And, as the DJ drops a funky groove and another champagne cork soars skywards, it’s my turn. Skiing and partying in Austria’s Obertauern 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

Despite the many voices featured on the album, the sound is unified under a groove, built on Odesza’s multi-layered melodies, spaced-out beats and cinematic charm. Odesza's "Say My Name" Gets a Star Slinger Remix: Premiere] 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

So, he gets the story’s groove on by using some of the songs that Hendrix covered, like “Wild Thing” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” ‘Jimi: All Is by My Side,’ a Jimi Hendrix Biopic 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

However, I am also aware that on many assignments the first few days or weeks are always the hardest as I settle into my groove. Giles Duley: 'I lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but had to go back … ' 2013-02-10T00:13:44Z

And his live shows border on performance art, featuring grooving figures clad in silvery suits called the Tinsel Mammals. Helado Negro's 'Private Energy' is an experimental electronica album that quietly delves into the political 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

About two hours in, the touring concert “Rocktopia,” which is making a six-week pit stop on Broadway, had settled into a benign, dull groove. Review: Roll Over, Beethoven? At ‘Rocktopia,’ It’s Time to Roll Back 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

"You put me right back together again," she sang, grooving near her set's conclusion. BET 2014: Maxwell, Jill Scott offer love and desire at Staples Center 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z

But then the groove on that record is hot. ‘Luke Cage’ Season 2: A New Villain and Respectability Politics 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

And their music generally relies less on syrupy R&B grooves than on rowdy pop-rock guitars. 5 Seconds of Summer tells it like it is on self-titled debut 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Born in Oklahoma but based for much of his life in Southern California, Cale built his sound from deadpan vocals layered over a propulsive yet unhurried groove. Eric Clapton honors J.J. Cale with low-key style on 'The Breeze' 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

The entire album grooves like crazy, but especially the back-to-back tracks “Unit 7” and “Four on Six” — some of the best highway music ever made. Road Trip Tunes 2012-05-19T00:57:18Z

Watch how effortlessly hip-hop star Chiddy Bang – not your typical Hall & Oates fan — slips into a Daryl Hall kind of groove. Back off, haters! Hall & Oates rule 2013-12-17T19:54:00Z

They grooved through a number of pretty good covers, including “How Deep Is Your Love” and Allen Stone’s “Unaware.” Mumbai, a City Both Uplifting and Heartbreaking 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Mastering a vinyl record involves “cutting” grooves into a lacquer disc, a dark art in which tiny adjustments can have a big effect. The Vinyl? It’s Pricey. The Sound? Otherworldly. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

The lyrics were in English, while the grooves were fusions that put momentum first. SXSW Came Back With Genuine Joy. Here Are 15 of the Best Acts. 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z

Unlike their pop singles, it’s not a tight verse/chorus/verse construction — all four Buzzcocks stretch out on the groove, revealing the clandestine German art-rock influence hidden in Shelley’s closet. Remembering Buzzcocks’ Pete Shelley: The ultimate punk romantic 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

To be able “to walk into a room, set a groove and people understand what to do with their bows, rather than be told,” he said. Abel Selaocoe Finds a Home in Improvisation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

You thought it was just the whistle – pitched at 15 kilocycles, undetectable by humans but easily picked by dogs – and the backwards muttering on the original run-out groove, but you're wrong. Jon Savage on song: The Residents create the first Beatles mash-up 2010-06-21T10:37:00Z

This small revolution is known as “the chop,” a percussive technique that opens up a new world of rhythm and groove for the bowed string player. How Do You Write Down a Scratching, Crunching Violin ‘Chop’? 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

It’s not often that one wishes for a longer running time, but frustratingly, the show rushes to its conclusion just as it was finding a hybrid groove. Review: A Legal Battle Over Adoption in ‘The Copper Children’ 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

It opened with “World News,” a soaring crescendo in song form, and then led into “Camera Talk,” which oscillated between a headlong new wave beat and a half-time reggae groove. Music Review: Local Natives and Suckers Perform at the Bowery Ballroom 2010-05-09T21:50:00Z

At first, the punk icon couldn’t quite find the groove, said the guitarist Jonathan Kreisberg, who was in the studio that day. How Lonnie Smith Found an Unlikely New Collaborator: Iggy Pop 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

At Dunhill, the designer Kim Jones is getting in the groove — literally, with marquetry on a stylish rosewood brief case containing artists’ tools. Special Report: Radical Surgery on Regular Menswear 2010-06-28T11:14:00Z

His idea to twist the column’s groove pattern transformed his prints into something organic, resembling, say, the petal of an orchid or the inside of a seashell. Special Report: Fashion: Gabriele Colangelo and Marco de Vincenzo in Milan 2011-09-25T16:48:43Z

Together they groove to the cheerful live music. Review: At the Big Apple Circus, Discs Fly and So Do People 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

The show took a few episodes to find its groove, but now at last, D.C. exists as the idiotic, brain-dead place it is. Readers reflect on the staying power of Beatlemania and mourn the loss of Gene Wilder 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z

The listener can't help but respond directly to the infectious opening groove played by Wonder. Dissecting Stevie Wonder’s "Superstition," 50 years after we first heard its infectious grooves 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z

No matter how torrid the music became, the band never lost sight of the groove or its mischievous sense of humor. Motorhead drops decibel bombs at sold-out Congress Theater 2011-02-20T16:36:00Z

If bassist Robin Stein is a less dazzling player, his subterranean bass lines are crucial, and cohere the experimental mixture into something mutated, but grooving. From Case Studies to The Physics, a hot week in Seattle music 2011-01-13T20:25:05Z

Only a few guitarists interest me, and it’s not about the solos they play, it’s about the grooves they create. Black Keys and their 'rocketship to the moon' 2012-03-12T02:13:00Z

The craggy melody of “Anti Heroes” supersedes a lissome groove; “Lost Song” gathers density as it rolls on. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z

"Tommy's Congo" has a funny rhythm to it, one that seems to limp sideways through the measures before finding a West African-suggestive groove. Arresting beats of James Blake, Steve Gunn, Miguel 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z

Clients still request their removal, and of “the tear trough” – the groove down from the inner corners of the eyes. Faking it: how selfie dysmorphia is driving people to seek surgery 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

It's mainly quiet music, with both men favouring improvisational bursts rather than sustained grooves, but older originals such as the elegaic Wistful Thinking will receive a new sheen from Fresu's warm sound. This week's new live music 2011-03-05T00:07:31Z

During one of the set's highlights, the new "A Formal Invitation," Spx and her band hit on a throbbing blues groove that suggested a strange mix of Nina Simone and the Bad Seeds. Cold Specks surveys the ages during confident Echo set 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Miller was just an extreme example of the snuggly relationship with power, and the subtle but pervasive channeling of public discourse through well-worn grooves of accepted dogma, that has characterized mainstream journalism for decades. Et tu, Gawker: Can Nick Denton’s rebel tabloid empire be saved from slime and self-righteousness? 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

The band grooved on without her, letting us collect ourselves. Listen to Margo Price 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Those two performers were pretty much where I got my stage groove. Rockers The Hives lay down the law for "Lex Hives" 2012-06-14T20:27:11Z

Even on Mr. Anderson’s “Hurricane Birds,” when Mr. Evans improvises in punched notes and unlinked phrases, a springy groove takes hold. The Bad Plus Greet the New Year With a New Lineup 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Near her, a redhead grooved in a lime green tutu and matching Nike sneakers. The Rise of Early-Morning Dance Parties 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

I thought the power was in the groove, but it was in changing the key. Emmylou Harris returns to 'Wrecking Ball' 2014-04-03T21:36:00Z

And what could inspire one of the grumpiest characters in children’s television to get his groove on? 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

The “ring” is actually a circle of wood that is “turned,” or carved, on the lathe to create a grooved wheel. Dreaming of an Artisanal Christmas 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Impressive grooves, fine cosmic riffing, entrancing harmonies: they're steeped in the 60s rock of the Floyd and Hendrix, but are innocently in love with it, rather than slavishly trying to replicate it. This week's new live music 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

Conversely, one of the downsides of the age of plenty is that the more widely you listen outside your well-worn grooves, the more frequently you’ll experience disappointment, distaste or just indifference. Review: In ‘Every Song Ever,’ Ben Ratliff Helps the Listener Discern 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z