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ARTS FIRST Band Fest Holyoke Center, Forbes Plaza...
...same nondescript lyrics as many times as possible, like “Somebody / Somebody / Somebody’s gonna hurt somebody” on “Berlin.” Listening to “Baby 81” becomes a search for something different, and the band does oblige with some interesting moments as the album moves on. The acoustic guitar introduction to “Weapon of Choice,” the first single, is energetic. The song proceeds to bend back into typical BRMC, but it does make effective use of stereo sound, sending noise...
...Next year, Ur will apply his technical knowledge on an even bigger scale: the real world.He’ll be working with high schoolers as program coordinator for the Governor’s School of Engineering at Rutgers University. He also plans on starting a band, and helping out with tech on local productions.But a career in theater is not in the stars for Ur, he says: “My first love really comes down to engineering and solving problems and building things and working with kids...
...obviously didn't think so. But having bitten the hand that feeds him enough times on stage, and on two CDs (Never Mind the Pollocks-Here's the Histrionics and Museum Fatigue), Kesminas, 40, has become the art world's unofficial court jester. Early next month, the band will help launch the Australian artists at the Venice Biennale, and on June 15, they'll play before Dutch royalty at the opening of a survey of sculpture from Australia and the Netherlands in the Hague. "I liked the witty comments and a sort of devilish charm and provocative...
...fairs and biennales. As his indonesian holden rider society T shirt indicated, Kesminas has been spending time with Australia's northern neighbors, and while on a residency at Yogyakarta's Indonesian Art Institute in 2005, the artist hooked up with some like-minded students to form the garage band Punkasila. Their name is a punk play on founding President Sukarno's five pillars of nationhood, Pancasila; just as playfully, the band like to riff on the names of the institutions that dominate post-reformasi Indonesian society, from TNI (Indonesian National Military) to KOPASSUS (Special Force Command...