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Turner's voice is dry and laconic, and he seldom strays from his middle range, but flourishes would only distract from some of the best lyrics ever written by someone who still lives with his parents. On the punk hurricane I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor, he yelps, "Oh, there ain't no love, no, Montagues or Capulets/ Just banging tunes in DJ sets and/ Dirty dance floors and dreams of naughtiness," while the song title You Probably Couldn't See for the Lights but You Were Staring Straight at Me gets a laugh on its own. Turner...
Walking into “Frank Stella 1958,” the special exhibition currently at the Sackler Museum, reminded me of the surprise I got when I heard one of my friends, who plays guitar in a punk band, playing Mozart on a violin. It wasn’t that the delicate strains of the violin concerto were completely unrelated to the straight-up, snarling chords of his punk songs, nor even that one was necessarily better than the other. It was just that, man, I didn’t know he could do that...
...seat folk musical hall, The Iron Horse, was met with such enthusiasm, Haimovitz says, that he embarked on a “Bach Listening-Room Tour.” He has played to audiences in intimate and often unlikely settings ranging from coffeehouses to the famous New York punk club, CBGB’s. He recalls the Iron Horse performance as a turning point in his career. “I had reached an audience made up of lovers of other kinds of music and people of different social backgrounds. There was an electric feeling in the room...
...generations in between, packed Boston’s Avalon last Wednesday to see Calexico and Iron & Wine, for nearly four hours of music as diverse as its audience.The demographic disparity within the crowd was highlighted by their diverse reaction to opener Tom Fite’s strange electro-folk-punk-hip-hop stylings: “awesome” to the college student on my left, “wretched” to the middle-aged man on my right. Their disagreements seemed to disappear once Calexico took the stage; the remainder of the night was filled with stunning music...
...stand-up comedy to benefit the victims of the South Asian earthquake. Comics scheduled to perform include Lisa Lampanelli, Kevin Brennan, Mitch Fatel, Modi, Judah Friedlander, Todd Barry, and Azhar Usman. Sanders Theatre. 8 p.m. $25 general admission, $10 students. (CNC)X with Juliana Hatfield. Started in 1977, this punk band is one of the most important influences on the alternative rock scene. Avalon. 7 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster. $20. (JDMC)Cage. German-born, Middletown, NY-raised rapper Cage will promote his new Def Jux release “Hell’s Winter” at the Middle...