Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have an Italianate flavor (Walter's grandfather was named Antonio Pistone) and the tonal language is cosmopolitan: Piston, luckier than most Harvard seniors, won a Paine Traveling Fellowship after graduation. You'll want to listen in the third movement for exuberant music that Dr. Y wants to deliver in "band style...
...going to be easy with an unforgiving, suddenly betrayed crowd, as the other opener Stretch Princess found out. An obscure pop rock band out of Britain with a new self-titled record release, SP hit the stage first in the typically boring fashion of opening bands. They invariably touted their new album and their appearance on the She's All That soundtrack with their opening song "Sugar" to a thoroughly unimpressed crowd. Lead singer Jo Lloyd constituted the only bright spot in the repetitious repertoire with her wispy vocals, but the crowd's only reaction was the occasional crude whistling...
...blue-blooded I-banking firm, McKinley Morganfield is actually the birth name of Muddy Waters, Blues legend. The man is gone, but you can still hear his influence through the Muddy Waters Tribute Band, featuring Pinetop Perkins, Luther Guitar Junior Johnson, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin and Jerry Portnoy. Somerville Theatre, Davis, Somerville...
There is nothing noteworthy about this band's sound except that they are following the pack of clones who imitate superbands like U2, Nirvana and the Cranberries. Lead singer Jo Lloyd manages to merely mimic Dolores O'Riordan's vocal stylings from "Zombie," that frantic, slightly nasal guttural pitch. Backed by random noise fillers consisting of drums and guitar, each song is a blur of blah and blech. Forgettable lyrics of the usual uber-topic, love, in all its iterations nicely round out this disappointing disc. With the rise of this new crop of artificially-flavored pop bands, the music...
...video is deliciously subversive. In asense, Madonna consciously sheds layers of herpostmodern act during the 4:25 minute video,daring us to piece together its clues. At thebeginning, she stands upon a raised platform infull Geisha costume (eerily enough, she resemblesMarilyn Manson with a fluorescent band of makeupacross her eyes). She holds a baby wrapped inglowing plastic. The scene seems comfortablyserene--until we realize that Geisha Madonna isn'tholding a baby. The plastic bag is empty...