Word: east
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does not whine. Instead, he crafts silvery plaintive ballads and shouts distortedly through loud, always oddly melodious numbers. Linkous does not aim to please. Like most uncompromising music, his is not instantly accesible, and Sparklehorse songs gain much from the attentive listening that many at the Middle East did not attempt. During "Junebug," a hushed, plaintive encore, the dim roar at the back was almost as loud as Linkous's voice...
Make no mistake, Jason Falkner is a rock star. In tight leather pants Falkner swaggered up to the mic in front of a packed crowd at the Middle East and announced that he was here to "rock Boston's collective ass." In a decade when "rock star" has become a dirty word among musicians, Falkner reminds you what the word really means. He's had enough gushing "next big thing" reviews over the past decade to wallpaper his L.A. apartment after every album. But with Falkner, all bets are off. All words fall far short of tying down the brilliance...
...tape by myself," relates Falkner. "Imagine throwing in a few conflicting personalities. It's impossible, and I'm not interested in compromising it. I'm just interested in trying to express my soul as clearly as possible." Jason's soul was on full display Sunday night at the Middle East...
Rene's chauvinistic attitude toward women infuses his political views. He repeatedly conflates stereotypes of Asian women as submissive sex slaves with an imperialistic view of the East. We can't help but wince at cliches such as, "So much for protecting her in my big Western arms" or "Orientals will always submit to a greater force," which he produces with over-whelming frequency. Rene follows in the footsteps of the comic figure prevalent in classical theater, a buffoon so completely blinded by a shallow and childlike ideology that he fails or rather refuses to foresee his eventual ruin...
...million Armenians (60 percent of the population) were taken from their historical homeland and marched into the deserts of Syria, where they were beaten, raped, starved, tortured and murdered according to the systematic plans of the Young Turk government. The remainder fled mainly to Russia, the Middle East and America. Armenians, who had inhabited the Anatolian plateau for millennia, who had been the first nation to accept Christianity as a state religion, who had contributed so much to the development of scholarly thought and culture even as second-class citizens within the Ottoman Empire, were thus slaughtered at the hands...