Mes: septiembre 2019

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(CBS) Pinning down Portgual. The Man is tough. The band 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, 포커 규칙 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...

Some persist in believing, against all evidence, that the city of Krymsk and its 57,000 people were intentionally sacrificed to prevent the flood waters from damaging Novorossiysk, a major Black Sea port essential for exporting Russian oil and grain. Death toll from Russian floods hits 150 This deep distrust of the government poses a challenge to Putin, who depends on the support of ordinary Russians across the country to counter the growing challenge in Moscow to his 12-year rule. At the very least, the flooding has Russians once again questioning the government’s ability to keep them safe. Still fresh in their memory are a string of disasters — from the bungled response to the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000, to the wildfires that swept seemingly unopposed through a swath of western Russia in 2010, to the capsizing of an overloaded river boat that killed more than 120 people last year. The Emergencies Ministry acknowledged Monday that it had failed to warn residents about the flash flood that turned Krymsk streets into swirling muddy rivers and filled one-story homes practically up to the ceiling in the middle of the night. Many of the 171 who died were elderly residents unable to escape in time. A total of 29,000 people in Krymsk and the seaside resort town Gelendzhik lost all of their possessions, while about 300 homes in Krymsk...