Reverbiage: Stories from NPR tagged 'artifice'

John Meeks: 'I See Your Lips'

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:08:00 EDT

John Meeks has been playing and recording for 15 years, but his new Three Song Demo is the pre-release EP to his first full-length album, due out this Fall. It isn't as if Meeks has spent more than a decade trying to come up with some complex musical formula. In fact, what is so compelling about Meeks' music is his simple, straightforward approach. The three acoustic, country-twinged songs are free of artifice, aren't overly produced or orchestrated, and sound effortless.

Laura Linney Explores the Art, Artifice of Acting

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:51:00 EST

In her new dark comedy, The Savages, Laura Linney tackles the role of a woman coping with her ailing father. Linney talks about good and bad scripts, and her philosophy that actors shouldn't use personal feelings to portray a character's emotions.

Sounds of the '80s, Minus the Artifice

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:54:00 EDT

Media shorthand has reduced the music of the '80s to a set of telltale signifiers: big hair, skinny ties, and so on. But a few surviving documents, among them Richard Barone's fantastic Cool Blue Halo, demonstrate that the era was fruitful for classic pop.