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...cowboys in tight jeans, ten-gallon hats and boots made from cute animals. One senses a moral cancer beneath the surface: the all-American spirit of the music, far from including all Americans, actually seems a form of exclusion for people and issues. For years, the androgynous singer k.d. lang was locked out of main-stream country. Garth Brooks caught flak for a video that dared deal with domestic violence...
...with "Birdbrain," the title track from their 1989 album, with Janovitz wrenching out his tormented vocals as the rhythm section gnashed beneath him. He doesn't always hit the note right, and often there's more noise coming out of him that song. But this isn't k.d. lang--he's supposed to be in agony, and his imperfect, sincere singing makes the band seem like they rehearse in your neighbor's basement...
...discovery in World War I that scientific advances had also produced better engines of death and destruction turned speculation about the future excessively sour. Bellamy's radiant city became the high-tech slave societies of Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We and Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis. Aldous Huxley perfected the notion of dystopia in 1932 with Brave New World, and George Orwell weighed in with his haunting classic...
Spies--by Fritz Lang. Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, 1555 Mass Ave. Sunday, Feb. 9, 8 p.m. $3 contribution...
MARCUS ROBERTS: PRAYER FOR PEACE (RCA/Novus). This terrific young jazz pianist doesn't do things the easy way. He performs 14 seasonal songs, ranging from the shimmering Silver Bells to a Tatum-tinged Auld Lang Syne, with due reverence for both tradition and experimentation. Music appropriate for either a Christmas Eve service or a secular late-night eggnog...