He snarls the aggressive songs and soars on the sweet tuneful ones.
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This is ideal mood music — sharp, discrete, tuneful, ambient but not formless.
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The printer delivers an endless stream of semi-tuneful sounds as it prints.
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This thrash is committed as well as pragmaticlly tuneful in the punk-rock manner.
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Those tuneful outbursts are the highlight of a track that contains some clunky lyrics.
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Cleareyed, calmly determined and invitingly tuneful, she captures each situation in all its ambiguity.
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Mr. Norman took the side of the rebellious Beatle, not the tuneful and adorable one.
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The tap dancing was machine-gun precise, the singing was tuneful, the costumes were gorgeous.
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Their tuneful songs reward flashy vocalism and are generic enough to flatter many kinds of interpretation.
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Roundabout Underground presents a flawed but tuneful musical about a young Manhattan couple challenged by addiction.
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Salieri's operas are tuneful, excellently crafted, inventive in their orchestration, and sometimes startlingly progressive in outlook.
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The resulting cocktail is definitely "in your face," but their songwriting is at often tuneful as well.
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These days, one of Badu's favorite young rappers is D.R.A.M., an inventive Virginian with a tuneful flow.
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He has romantic, tuneful songs, many of them are based on classical pieces which people don&apost realize.
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Her tuneful songs mix vulnerability as well as flights of lunacy into her infatuation with her own hotness.
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When not playing with a straight-ahead quartet, he favored chunky, percussive backdrops that offset his tuneful improvising.
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Julien Bilodeau, the composer, stresses that the opera is tonal, tuneful and relatively accessible, steering away from intimidating atonalities.
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"Tropicália" melts down a tuneful carnival march with eerie orchestration, while its lyrics obliquely sketch a nation's cultural manifesto.
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Eventually the track switches over to the icy, minimal but tuneful electronic pop that fills Mr. Zucker's previous EPs.
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Led by the tuneful and raw vocals of Imfeld and others, the music pops like buttons from a ripped shirt.
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"He writes this magnificently complex surface that, when you start to pull it apart, is actually quite tuneful," he said.
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It's the latest ambitious, tuneful installment in a career that has had far more to do with curiosity than crowd-pleasing.
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Mr. Bjarnason delights — perhaps once too often — in creating a journey back to tuneful melody after some noisy extended-technique breakdowns.
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During its prime, in the late '80s and '90s, Sebadoh released seven albums of gloriously sloppy and tuneful rock 'n' roll.
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Figure's simple interface lets you make something tuneful with just a few taps, even if you've got no idea what you're doing.
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Classic tragedies and comedies, new plays and even a tuneful musical revival seem custom designed for this hot — and possibly overheating — season.
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Where Peep and XXXTentacion's trademark sounds were more nihilistic and morose, Juice Wrld's music was tuneful and more melodic, if also melancholic.
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Tuneful, stylish and masterfully acted, "La La Land" is a wonderful throwback to the best of classic Hollywood and the French New Wave.
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With the exception of Mr. Taylor, each contributed tuneful, wistful melodies that tend to evaporate from memory even as you listen to them.
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"He's a bipolar Nero," Giorgio Adamo, who plays the athletic and tuneful protagonist of the musical, explained at a news conference on Tuesday.
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This tuneful adaptation of John Carney's movie, about the saving grace of pop music in 1980s Dublin, hasn't quite found its ideal voice.
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Ms. Akiyoshi, who also uses instruments and concepts from Japanese folk music, has a knack for tuneful phrasing and braided, two-handed constructions.
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Endless Reader, a tuneful, Sesame Street-inspired app turns letters into talking characters that you can drag on the screen to spell simple words.
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The air had a prehistoric hush, except for the dip of paddles in the current and the tuneful descending song of the canyon wren.
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But it's the spirited, tuneful country score and the colorful characters that draw us close to the emotional ups and downs of Robert's family.
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GREEN If "The Band's Visit" could find a way to be powerful, beautiful, meaningful, clever, tuneful, entertaining — and commercial — shouldn't that be everyone's goal?
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That makes for a dumber film, but the target audience for this colorful tuneful fluff won't care and may even consider it an improvement.
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Here's hoping this show sticks to its angstier, less tuneful early work, rather than the later songs designed for everyone to hum along to.
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This Philadelphia emo/punk band makes loud, messy, tuneful feelings-rock, but because they're responsible adults they never get bogged down in adolescent self-pity.
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For I don't seem yet to write things as as good as either Varius or Cinna, but to be a goose honking among tuneful swans.
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A MINUS Charly Bliss: Young Enough (Barsuk) It's been a while since a new power-pop machine has operated at this pitch of tuneful intensity.
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It was, instead, the kind of concert he has been playing on tour through the decades: loud, tuneful, impeccably sung and aimed toward the rafters.
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Touches of untamed brass notwithstanding, the conductor Joseph Colaneri brought great tenderness to Janacek's tuneful score, teasing out the composer's flourishes of Moravian folk music.
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Paak's new album, "Oxnard," sets street stories, boasting, raunch and California hip-hop solidarity in tracks that thoroughly interweave rapping with funky, tuneful neo-soul.
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Though Dvorak's stirring, tuneful "New World" Symphony is justly popular, it tops my list of works that are heard too often for their own good.
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Not everybody likes his work, which tends toward a tuneful, easy-listening accessibility that robs him of a place in the pantheon of serious composers.
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"Iolanta," a fairy tale about a princess whose blindness is cured by love, is a tricky piece, quivering between tender delicacy and robustly tuneful grandeur.
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He picked up a guitar, sat on the sofa, and began to sing a song, something Mark knew from his own youth, rousing, but tuneful.
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He's pleading to clean up his act and feeling miles away—it's a combination that'll get a person sad and tuneful at the best of times.
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Again, it's buzzy and caffeinated, but this time Dean Allen Spunt's lines are more tuneful and Randy Randall's multi-layered guitars fizz around a little more.
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But on Teens of Denial, Toledo renders that indie-rock ur-theme, um, relatable—grand, rousing, philosophical, ecological, funny, riffy, confused, out front, and of course tuneful.
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Like many of the cafe's regular bands, it has a sound that's hard to pin down, adhering to a tuneful but open-form style of its own.
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The interactions between members of the jailer's household are fresh and sweet, with tuneful arias and ensembles shaded only lightly, here and there, with a melancholic oboe.
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But Mr. Trump might have a good time at this tuneful, sentimental musical about a Newfoundland town's accommodation of thousands of stranded international airline passengers on Sept.
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Not only is it more tuneful and exciting than it's given credit for, it served a higher purpose in rousing Bowie from the lethargy that he'd descended into.
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Designed as a framework to be stuffed with tuneful songs, vaudeville turns, sprightly dancing, insinuating jokes and cartoon characterizations, "Mattress" has its charms, but they do wear thin.
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After unleashing an onslaught of energetically-uptempo-yet-unerringly-tuneful numbers, he'd throw in a tricky riff from "Rhapsody in Blue" just to show you that he could.
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Kirchner's Quartet No. 4 is his most tuneful, although here, as in his First Quartet, instruments often seem to sabotage one another's melodies as they jostle for attention.
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On "Bouncin' With Bud," the tuneful Bud Powell classic, Jack DeJohnette maintains a openhanded clatter on the drums, while Mr. Jarrett revels in the tune's major-key buoyancy.
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Since 1999, this Austin-based group has made wonderfully uplifting and tuneful instrumental music with an array of quirky instruments like vintage synthesizers and lo-fi drum machines.
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It is one of Bernstein's retrieved scores, an element in the continuous revaluation of his work, and much of the music, as Jamie Bernstein says, is inventive and tuneful.
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" WHAT OUR CRITIC SAID It's an "intimate, carefully tended new musical" that "proceeds in a melancholy, tuneful and slightly hesitant trickle that seems to be apologizing for any unpleasantness.
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The group arrived during the early 20143s ascendance of alternative rock: tuneful, punk-derived, guitar-driven songs that often made their way from college-radio playlists to commercial radio.
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Julian Lage, whose trio features Scott Colley on bass and Kenny Wollesen on drums, sought out a more relaxed and tuneful sound, but with no less rigor in the execution.
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But it eventually revealed itself to be genius, an idiosyncratic and tuneful album that understood how important the concepts of "mood" and "vibe" would soon be to pop culture consumers.
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MARA ROSENBLOOM QUARTET, "Songs From the Ground" (Fresh Sound, 2013) The bandleader edges closer to the fore here, offering a handful of pert, tuneful originals with more space to improvise.
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Fox's live broadcast (ably co-directed by Scott Ellis and Alex Rudzinski) smartly emphasized what sets the show apart from the film: big production numbers, putting across generally tuneful songs.
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"If we can reduce these symptoms by altering the alarm sounds we use to more melodic and tuneful varieties, we may at least head towards safer conditions for everyone," he says.
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Foy thrashed out a spooky and tuneful AF cover of Madonna's 1998 hit "Frozen" and if it's not enough to get your in the Halloween spirit, we don't know what is.
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Thirty-four years ago, on the record "Milo Goes to College," they figured out the sardonic blueprint for pop-punk, in short and tuneful songs with bass lines running wide patterns.
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But the third album of her tuneful, bonus-studded catalogue stars the torchy femme fatale who always lurked underneath, and by now half the objects of her exploitation are pretty clearly jerks.
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A farcical, tuneful 2982 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (22787:22).
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A farcical, tuneful 2246 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (244:2212).
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A farcical, tuneful 226200 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (2195:2718).
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A farcical, tuneful 2811 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (24111:22).
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A farcical, tuneful 2239 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (2:21).
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A farcical, tuneful 1923 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (2212:2239).
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A farcical, tuneful 22 romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, it's deeply satisfying in a handsome, large-cast production by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene (200:2195).
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Nearly 30 seconds in, Herrmann introduces a tuneful melody that, even in its singing ease, feels unstable over the accompaniment, a symptom of the horror hiding behind the amiability of Norman Bates.
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"Alabama Song" from "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" (1930) This tuneful moment in Weill and Brecht's opera was originally part of their first collaboration, the song cycle "Mahagonny" (1927).
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It's quite slight, quite tuneful, quite funny—"Met a woman named Ella/Used to be a fella," or the long list of imaginary social-media sites like ListenUp, WhereYaAt, Lick4Lick, Gwaffalo, and GrindStone.
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The shifts in "Guy and Madeline" from the everyday to its tapping, tuneful numbers is characteristic of musicals that blend the walking-and-talking ordinary world with the singing-and-dancing musical world.
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After his return to commercial recording and international performances in 21993, his music became more diverse, mixing tuneful original compositions and jazz standards with R&B classics and ballads from France and Cuba.
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Mr. Iconis, the 34-year-old ringmaster of these revels, is a prolific songwriter in the tuneful, talky Jonathan Larson mode who has been circling Broadway for a number of years without yet landing.
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A farcical, tuneful romance that's part old-fashioned musical comedy, part straight-up opera, "The Golden Bride" ("Di Goldene Kale") is an immigrant fantasy that looks as fondly on Mother Russia as on Uncle Sam.
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As rallying cries go, "Nature needs half" has a ring to it, but not one that sounds so tuneful in the poor countries where much of the rhetorically required half will have to be found.
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And in all things, she was first and foremost a melodist: She insisted on giving your ear something tuneful to ride alongside, even as she worked with a deep language of condensed harmonies and spiky rhythm.
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Yet one of the most glaring obstacles to Daniel Zaitchik's ambitious and wonderfully tuneful new musical "Darling Grenadine," at Roundabout Underground, is the utter absence of romantic chemistry between its leads, who play Harry and Louise.
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On "Open the Gate," the only track exceeding 10 minutes, the guitarist Charles Altura takes a solo that begins with tuneful modesty, then gives way to a cascade of distorted cries over a writhing drum solo.
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This is generally considered one of the Rankin/Bass standards, mostly for its tuneful score (just the name of "Even a Miracle Needs a Hand" will probably cause the song to take up residence in your brain).
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But over 14 tuneful R&B-raps, the answer is a yes so convincing that not only do Khalid and J. Cole shore up his slow songs but Future and Offset throw in a rhyme or two.
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His latest single, the instantly hummable "Shape of You," has shot to No. 1 across the planet, offering just a hint of the tuneful treats found on his new full-length, ÷ (that's "Divide," folks), which dropped last Friday.
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More research needs to be done to determine what types of songs would be best for "sleep inertia," the transition from sleep to awake, but McFarlane suggests incorporating tuneful sounds othat you can hum or sing along to.
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The Beach Boys There are almost as many Southern California sounds as Southern California towns, whether it's the hard-driving punk of X, the dark visions of the Doors or the tuneful hard rock of Guns N' Roses.
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"Fading Frontier," the band's seventh studio album, released last fall, is a strange, brilliant meditation on perseverance through adversity and an ode to Mr. Cox's many tuneful obsessions — and it's fully evocative of his eccentric stage prattle, too.
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Their strategy balances elements that code "classic rock" and would sound corny on their own, like tuneful grandiosity and major-key chords and unfrenzied drumming, against elements that code "punk," like amplifier static and dirty recording and frenzied singing.
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" He sang a bit of "The Blizzard," by Jim Reeves, a midcentury Nashville great, his voice warbling but tuneful: "There's a blizzard comin' on, how I'm wishin' I was home, for my pony's lame and he can hardly stand.
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Sure, it's an odd moniker for a 40-year-old dad, but it seems to capture the dual poles of Lennox's solo career—both the tuneful whimsicality and the sense of wilderness conveyed through long, serpentine passages of sample-based psychedelia.
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The consequences of Addison's efforts to graduate from Twitter feuds to real-life action remain underexplored, for instance, and most of the songs are so short that there is barely time to appreciate Ms. Lotz's tuneful, post-Michael Friedman sensibility.
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And as trends in music have shifted over the years, the singer and guitarist J. Mascis, the singer and bassist Lou Barlow, and the drummer Murph have remained committed to a guitar-centric approach that's blissfully loud but nonetheless tuneful.
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"Singles Going Steady," the 1979 compilation that was the first American Buzzcocks album (it consisted of material that had already been released in Britain), is a quintessential punk collection: fast, terse and tuneful, shielding a lusty yet tender heart behind a brash attack.
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Through a series of increasingly eccentric mixtapes, Uzi surfaced last year as an exemplar of so-called SoundCloud rap, embodying the splotchy intensity, warped trap hooks, tuneful ache, and strategically deployed lo-fi distortion characteristic of rappers using that particular online distribution platform.
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Last weekend, the White House did not disclose that he attended a charity benefit for cancer research at Mar-a-Lago, during which a tuneful former Canadian prime minister, Brian Mulroney, sang "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" to Mr. Trump and his guests.
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The directors double as actors here, with Mr. Brody as the self-infatuated Count Orsino and Mr. Steinfeld as an especially tuneful Feste, a clown in Olivia's court, who delivers his melancholy ballads in the style of a James Taylor-esque troubadour.
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The comic, tuneful operetta follows an orphan on a shtetl who receives a large, unexpected inheritance when her father dies and sets off to the United States in search of her mother — all the while offering her hand to the man who can help.
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Pound for pound the most tuneful and raucous old-school metal band in Seattle, Substratum are already a headlining local act and have been tapped for a slot on the Ragnarokkr metal fest—even though they've only got a single demo to their name.
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But the most impressive improvised musical I have seen is "Your Love, Our Musical," also at Caveat, a double act in which Rebecca Vigil and Evan Kaufman interview a couple from the audience and turn their romantic origin story into a fluidly structured, tuneful show.
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There is a tuneful rhythm to the dialogue that might have been lost in a looser comedy, and the pleasure of watching actors throw lines back and forth is particularly evident in scenes between Izzy and Sabrina, whose chemistry reflects their real-life sibling bond.
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But while the original creatures weren't what you'd call tuneful, there will be plenty of melody here: Miller commissioned an original score from the composer Courtney Bryan, who will lead a jazz quintet that may be as much New Orleans as it is Bremen Town.
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In a very short time, he's made an impression with his effortless, tuneful vocal, and has collaborated with other rising names like Stefflon Don (on her Real Ting mixtape) and Belly Squad (on this British re-imagining of Young Thug and Travis Scott's "Pick Up the Phone").
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The album's graceful and tuneful (and less obviously electronic than its reputation suggests) musical vision of an Orwellian future still hasn't exactly come true and maybe never will, but perhaps it's that lingering distance which has allowed it to age so well as melancholy robot music.
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Idibia's song was talky but tuneful, drawing from hip-hop and dancehall reggae, and it built to an infectious, polyglot chorus: Nfana ibaga Never give another man yawa o So the reason why I say " nfana ibaga " Is that I got my conscience on my side.
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Strictly limited to children 6 and older, the experience offers timed-entry sessions during which you can create live-action or animated films with the Cinekid Storymaker, transform shapes into tuneful compositions with Fingerlab's Musyc app and explore children's fiction in the Augmented Reality Story Corner.
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Musicals are hot in Hollywood again: As the song-and-dance film "La La Land" sizzles at the box office and streaks toward the Academy Awards as the favorite, one of the producers involved, Marc Platt, has set up another tuneful project at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment.
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Vampire Weekend (2008) and Contra (2010) are light, tuneful, summery romps, condensing trebly guitar, violins and harpsichords, bubbly, pitched percussion, and ska beats into clean, spare, distinctive, skewed guitar-pop that, despite comparisons to African pop and Paul Simon's solo music, didn't sound much like anyone.
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But to my ears the secret is simpler: as foreign fans of pop-punk who love the genre for its guitar whomp and its tuneful clarity without necessarily participating in the concomitant subculture, they're not alienated, or anxious, or in touch with any sort of negative emotion whatsoever.
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Critic's Notebook The Colombian songwriter Juanes, a superstar across Latin America, could easily have released his new album, "Mis Planes Son Amarte" ("My Plans Are to Love You"), on its own terms: as a set of a dozen gleaming, tuneful, good-natured songs about love, featuring his amiable voice and his strategically syncopated guitars.
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He wisely leaves the full-throated choir alone in the jubilant opener 'Every Hour' and to awe in the climax of 'Selah,'" Brian Josephs wrote for EW. "'Jesus Is King' is also merciful: It's as unimaginative about its hollow ideas as Ye, but it is a comparatively tuneful 27 minutes that isn't as crippled by prideful ugliness.
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And if it's not, there's a good reason: Immortalized by De La Soul as "The Magic Number" on the group's 1989 album "3 Feet High and Rising," the Illuminati-friendly toe-tapper works so well as a song unto itself, despite being little more than a tuneful series of multiplication problems, that its provenance is almost beside the point.
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But Cleaver is no ordinary drummer, and on its new album, "Live at Firehouse 12," like on "Detroit," there's something special about the combination of his powerhouse, magnetic playing; his tuneful, twisting compositions; and the rough cohesion of this ensemble, which features a mix of all-stars (the trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, the saxophonist J.D. Allen, the bassist Chris Lightcap) and lesser-known talents from Cleaver's native Michigan.
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"What a Time to Be Alive," Superchunk's 11th studio album, is filled with the same sort of noisy, tuneful, hyperkinetic guitar rock the band has been bashing out for nearly 30 years, with one key difference: Despite almost never showcasing his political beliefs in Superchunk's music previously, Mr. McCaughan has focused pretty much all 11 songs on the new album on the challenge of living and surviving in Trump's America.
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