Hassan Hakmoun, playing a sintir (a three-stringed, wood and camel-skin lute), matched his younger brother's furious rhythm, whipping around his long, reddish dreadlocks.

So Solid's style is all tricky rhythms and rapid-fire vocals, faster and more furious than the sum of its parts; the group makes some of the least dreamy dance music on the planet.

For a long time the furious rhythms of the storm and the grunting of the exhausted men around them were the only sounds to be heard inside the hut.

His early symphonies revealed a distinctive musical voice, prone to thickly augmented harmonies, furious stop-and-start rhythms and lunging melodic lines.

On "The Rat," Mr. Leithauser sputters, "You've got a nerve to be asking a favor," while the drummer Matt Barrick strikes up a furious, petulant rhythm.

They were forty yards away, yet he still felt their metal-hard muscles flexing in furious rhythm.

Staff and crash cart arrived at the same time, and everyone fell into a fast, furious rhythm.

Yet Myrddin did not pause, only beat out his furious rhythm, singing stronger, deeper.

The body whirled and darted grotesquely, a crazed thing dancing a furious rhythm of death.

After two false starts-one in the laundry room, one in a roughed-in bathroom-I found Emily unconscious in the furnace room, her heart beating with the same furious rhythm I'd felt in Lauren's chest.