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Nowhere was their universal appeal more apparent than under the roof of Avalon last week. After a ridiculously pompous opening fanfare, the duo got straight to business with a spine-tingling mix of their wildest, most floor-shaking anthems. The songs were intercut by intense live jams that consisted almost entirely of tweaked sirens and ultra-distorted basslines, the occasional cheeky sample (Eminem elicited a small cheer), and divine, slamming beats. Not stopping at mere sound, however, the show boasted a rotating cast of exotically clad vocalists and dancers whose exhortations to the crowd were at once embracing and confrontational...
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Thus, for those students hoping to run into Joey, Jen or Jack at Avalon one random weekend, don’t get your hopes up. Instead, try summer school at Duke, and maybe then you’ll have more luck...
...this sentiment, above all others, that seemed to characterize fans’ responses to Wilco’s most recent Boston show, on Oct. 2 at the Avalon. A Diesel-clad, late-20-something crowd (college radio, six years ago) was, on the whole, more interested in cheap beer and idle conversation than they were in the newly [mis]conceived band. Lukewarm applause and half-hearted song requests abounded for the duration of a painfully short...
...After three hits (the third was Doc Pomus? "Plain Jane"), Darin could have been pegged as a smarter Bronx version of Frankie Avalon and other Philadelphia Italians Clark was promoting; or maybe a less handsome relative of teen throb James Darren. But Bobby had two things they didn?t: a facility for songwriting and the old-fashioned ambition to go legit. The first hint of Darin?s staying power was "Dream Lover," a lovely potpourri of pop modes: the plinking rhythm of "Little Darlin?" (done pizzicato by violins here), the release from "This Little Girl of Mine...