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...hardest one was actually Mandarin. Japanese was easy, sort of.' AVRIL LAVIGNE, Canadian pop star, who recorded the chorus to her new single Girlfriend in English, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Mandarin...
Despite the clamps on freedom during the first years of World War II, the pockets of youthful defiance that Savage describes in Germany and occupied France showed a daring contempt for fascist authority, expressing it to the beat of American pop culture. The self-styled Swing Kids of Hamburg and the Zazous of Paris paid a heavy price in beatings and scalpings for growing their hair, wearing Zoot suits, and dirty dancing to banned jazz. "Instead of uniformity, they proclaimed difference; instead of aggression, overt sexuality," writes Savage, with as good a recipe as any for the teenage era that...
...music.” The band has changed since its inception. The group began as a five-piece ensemble during Wallach and Drummey’s freshman year and had a different musical focus than it does today, said Wallach. “We were really influenced by [psychedelic pop group] the Zombies and were listening to a lot of Roy Orbison and British soul music. It was more retro,” Wallach said. The band also used to focus more on live shows. However, Wallach described the Harvard and Boston gigging scene as stymying for musicians...
...other bands. We're not at the Toledo Speedway or a dive bar in New York. This is JK7, the latest Jakarta venue brave enough to host the growing metal scene that forms just a small part of a burgeoning Indonesian alternative music scene that includes hundreds of indie pop, electronic and rock acts. More than 1,400 bands auditioned for the 12 spots on a recent compilation album called LA Lights Indiefest, all of them from far outside Jakarta...
...resulting spirit of freedom has spawned a scene in the capital called "underground" not because it's illegal, but because if you're not looped into its social networks, chances are you won't be able to find it. Bands pop up to play at outdoor stages, abandoned music schools and sweaty auditoriums, usually with little or no promotion. But the thrill of arriving at a venue and knowing you're in on one of the city's best secrets helps sustains the scene...