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...spokesman. Harvard Book Store. 6:30 p.m. (DJH)Tuesday, Nov. 1The Go! Team. Forget everything you know about the band from their modern classic “Thunder Lightning Strike!” when you go their live shows; bootlegs reveal a much more significant presence of frontwoman MC Ninja. Openers are the Grates and Airborn Audio. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston. 7 p.m. $16.50. (BBC)Sam Calef. This acoustic-based band can be compared to Dave Matthews in its soul-searching character. They’ll be joined by The Limericks, Molecule, and John Condron & The Benefit...
...heady disdain for melody, think again. It would be hard to be more artsy than Brighton, U.K.-based quartet Electrelane. On their first album, they eschewed the use of vocals (classy), but for “The Power Out”, their debut album for indie label Beggars Group, frontwoman Verity Susman (classier) has contributed vocals in four different languages (classiest). And get this: the English words on “The Valleys” are from a Siegried Sassoon poem, while the German ones on “This Deed” are from The Gay Science?...
...live setting--there was never any expectation of replicating the studio magic on stage. But the group provided no substitute for the irreproducible, no extra beeps or stage props or surprise supplementary music. Manson left the viewer with the impressive Technicolor image of a fluid, prancing carrot-top frontwoman; Garbage left the stage without making a lasting impression...
...lyrical "atmosphere," paralleling it with the Cocteau Twins' vocal texture, 10,000 Maniacs' ethereal instrumentation and The Smiths' all-around indie dynamism. When The Sundays accompanied Belly on their 1990-91 tour of the UK, the two female vocalists naturally became the focus of similar scrutiny: whereas Belly's frontwoman Tanya Donelly balanced her more direct and powerful voice against mysterious and effervescent orchestration, The Sundays' Harriet Wheeler used her gentler tone to sing the audience lullabies instead...
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