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...Intro,” is a departure from their usual heavily-synthesized style. Here, the Backstreet Boys seem to be capitalizing on the soulful style popularized by John Legend. It’s a beautiful style in the right hands, but falls short of the mark when a boy band attempts a capella soul. AJ McLean’s soaring vocals—backed by the Boys’ humming—are positively contrived. The Backstreet Boys’ biggest downfall is their inability or unwillingness to let go of the serious schtick. The album is not fun, unapologetically...
...something even greater: the renaissance of live music at Harvard. Well, as long as the money holds out.Sponsored by campus radio station WHRB and the College Events Board (CEB), the pub will present a night of performances by Harvard’s own DJs Radius and Quiet, preeminent Harvard band The Sinister Turns, and New York independent rockers Nightmare of You. The entire performance will be broadcast live on WHRB, allowing Harvard students and members of the station’s greater Boston following to tune in.“We’re all really, really excited and really...
...video for Canadian indie band Apostle of Hustle’s “Cheap Like Sebastien” raises some interesting questions. Who knew frontman Andrew Whiteman could dance? And doesn’t he kind of look like an ex-convict? The answers don’t really matter. For those who are entertained by Buddhist monks and brief-wearing Neanderthals, for those amused by priests rocking out to strobe lights and Native Americans dancing with dead animals (may they rest in peace), for all those who simply wonder why Sebastien is so cheap: This is the video...
...surface of its natural habitat. As if viewers weren’t visually stimulated enough, the director guides the audience to random shots of two of !!!’s members sporting pairs of nifty sunglasses. The video makes it clear, though, that !!! isn’t just a band that knows how to rock—they’re also a band that knows how to raise the dead. Necromancy isn’t really popular subject matter in the music video world, but lead singer Nic Offer produces the exception that proves the rule when the song?...
...Drum Tower, which was built in 1420 and used to signal the time during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. For after-dinner cocktails, the Alpha Omega Club, tel: (86-10) 6612 9898 is on the west bank of Shichahai and within walking distance of Nuage. A pop cover band plays on the first floor, a jazz band on the second, and there's a DJ and dance floor in the basement if you can squeeze through the crowd. If you still feel like having fun afterward, go to Party World, tel: (86-10) 8857 6566, a karaoke franchise with...