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...four Californian Armenian-Americans who have come to use their music as a means for disseminating their political ideals, replacing Rage Against the Machine as metal’s prominent political activists. Some areas of concern for the four-piece band, consisting of singer Serj Tankian, guitarist Daron Malakian, bassist Shavo Odadjian and drummer John Dolomayan, include an aversion for American cultural and political hegemony, a desire for global recognition of and reparations for the Armenian genocide by Turkey, and a suspicion for virtually all aspects of the American political system. Their track “Prison Song?...
George A. Moyer, the bassist for the band, said, “I call him ‘Mumbles,’ but that doesn’t take anything away from...
...Breathing and alive.” The bouncy “I Got Something” is possibly the best cut on the album: It is bluesy and clearly owes a smidgen to Gottesman’s time in a funk band (though someone clearly managed to restrain the bassist). The understatement of the obligatory wah-wah pedal is characteristic of the album, and is one of its charms, allowing the most juicy elements (such as the finely wrought chorus on “Into the Morning”) stand out in the light they deserve. An album for sensitive...
...direct: “Soap and water / Wash the year from my life / Straighten all that we trampled and tore / Heal the cut we call husband and wife.” The music is subtly complex, often with the folky underpinnings of an acoustic guitar. Vega and longtime bassist Mike Visceglia shift easily from the breezily defiant “(I’ll Never Be) Your Maggie May,” to the lithe, staccato “Solitaire.” Yet the punch is all in her lyrics, full of extended metaphors and vivid imagery that catch...
...regular arrangement wasn’t close enough, local band Eloe Omoe (consisting of a drummer and bassist hailing from Charlestown) played smack-dab in the middle of the crowd, so that the closest spectators were standing literally inches away from a cymbal or bass amp. Despite not being quite as physically close as Eloe Omoe, the featured Chicago bands, My Name is Rar Rar and Lozenge, were able to eradicate any sense of distance that playing on stage would have normally produced...