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Trapper, the lead singer of the Boston-based Push Stars, brought his month-long solo acoustic tour to Club Passim in Harvard Square for two sold-out shows last Sunday. While bandmates Dan McLoughlin and Ryan MacMillan listened from the audience, Trapper wowed his audience of Push Stars-devotees with both new songs and old standards...
McLoughlin and MacMillan joined Trapper on stage (much to their surprise) for the fourth of his six(!) encore songs, “Miracle.” Their playing was a treat that reminded the audience that despite Trapper’s phenomenal performance as a solo artist, he is even better when joined by his fellow Push Stars. In the Push Stars’ “Who We Are,” Trapper sings, “The singer thinks he’s a superstar.” Indeed...
Leaving bandmates Dan McLoughlin (vocals, bass, piano) and Ryan MacMillan (vocals, drums) on vacation for the month, Trapper will rejoin the Push Stars in December to record their fourth full-length album, which they will promote during January and February...
Working mostly from source material, including some never-before-available letters from Jackie to Macmillan, Leaming argues that Jackie was "one of the most public and political First Ladies yet," despite the fact that her efforts needed to be veiled as "social rather than political." But Leaming doesn't bolster her claims by referring to the commonplace notion that the Kennedy presidency was the first shaped by television, an idea that would have underscored the importance of his wife's mastery of the language of images. Instead, Leaming's focus on detailed accounts of the various (mostly foreign policy) challenges...
Leaming depicts John Kennedy as a man who made a bumpy political journey from ruthless opportunist (after the model of his father) to a man who had "found himself morally at last" under the influence of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. When Kennedy's callow self-assurance first foundered after the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961, Leaming writes, Jackie stepped in, using her social skills and talent for imagemaking to wrap his presidency in an aura of maturity and dignity that it did not yet possess...