Mes: septiembre 2019

(CBS) Pinning down Portgual. The Man is tough. The band 실시간 축구 has been called psychedelic, which isn’t really accurate. The band uses its share of eerie atmospherics (especially on its 2008 release, “Censored Colors”), but none of them recall the summer of love or acid. There’s also the moniker “chamber pop,” which may refer to P.TM’s fine use of strings, but the point is this: It’s more fun to listen to a really good band than it is to figure the band out. (Scroll down to listen to “Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now)”) P.TM has its poppy moments but its sound is based in rock. Then there are the layers of keyboards, vocals and guitars that seem designed to fill the listener’s head with as many individual, overlapping sounds as possible. The arrangements are deft and never weighed down despite a liberal use of instruments and voices; John Gourley’s high tenor is a hallmark of the group. On “Got It All (This Can’t Be Living Now),” different sounds the band has used in each of its recordings seem to coalesce in one song: soaring background vocals, layers of guitars, strings, manufactured beats combined with live drums and a bass that’s sometimes meaty and sometimes nimble. “In the Mountain in the Cloud,” Portugal. The Man’s sixth album in six years, comes out next week. You can...

(AP) THE HAGUE, Netherlands – The first witness in the long-awaited trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic testified Monday, describing a harrowing escape and scenes of horror in his home village — despite a motion by defense attorneys to adjourn the war crimes case for six months. U.N. judges said the prosecution could respond to this latest request for a delay on Tuesday, and allowed Elvedin Pasic to testify. Mladic faces 11 charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. He denies wrongdoing. Pasic testified about his family’s escape and separation as his village in northern Bosnia was being shelled in 1992 by Bosnian Serb troops under Mladic’s command. The Muslim, just 14 at the time, described weeks of wanderings with his mother, being turned away from village after village. Now 34 years old, Pasic spoke in English, carefully describing how he and his mother eventually circled back to their home village despite a warning from two Serb soldiers patrolling nearby who told them “there is nothing for you to go back to: your home is Turkey, this is Serbia.” He described his excitement as they entered the village anyway. He raced up a shortcut to his family house — only to find the Serb soldiers had told them the truth about there being little for them to return to. “The house was burned completely,...

(AP) KABUL, Afghanistan – Gunmen killed three people in an ambush on a van in northern Afghanistan, including an American electrical engineer who had lived in the country for decades, Afghan and U.S. authorities said Tuesday. The U.S. Embassy could not provide further details about the slain American because of privacy laws, but three Afghan security officials said he had been working in Afghanistan for about 30 years. The Afghan officials said two or three assailants attack the vehicle Monday in northern Parwan province. Two Afghans — the driver and one of the American’s colleagues — were also killed in the attack, said Shirin Agha, the police chief in Parwan’s Siahgerd district. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the killings. More in Afghanistan: The way forward NATO: Two American contractors killed by Afghan cop22 NATO supply trucks destroyed in AfghanistanAfghan commander among 23 dead in blast Agha said the American had “a long beard and he was wearing an Afghan shalwar kameez so he looked like an Afghan,” referring to the long shirt and loose-fitting pants that most Afghan men wear. “The villagers said this man had long-time contacts in this district, doing his electrical work,” he added. According to Agha, residents said the American had been in Afghanistan for about 30 years. No other details about the man, or who he worked for, were available. Afghan security...