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...native of Oran, a culturally rich northwestern port city, Taha came of age displaced from his Algerian roots but without being accepted by French society either. In 1980, after a series of drudge jobs, including a stint in a heater factory, Taha hooked up with a quartet - three of whom were fellow ethnic Arabs - in a Lyons suburb and formed Carte de Séjour (Green Card). Though the band's gritty garage sound and defiant Arabic lyrics about racism, immigration and social injustice won it a healthy club following, French radio stations shunned the group. "I knew...
Before the Animal Collective took the stage, the NYC-based space-pop quartet Gang Gang Dance played. The band was a last minute replacement after Black Dice had to duck out due to family illness. Described by scenester Joey Rhyu as “No Neck Blues Band meets Black Dice,” the band played a melodically spacey set that was at once epic and amorphous while still being very together and incisive...
...side by side with jolting Stravinsky in the Boston Chamber Music Society’s classical music mix. The show will include Brahms’ “Two Songs for Mezzo Soprano, Viola and Piano, Op. 91;” Dvorak’s “Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 23;” and Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” Non-student tickets range from $17-$46; student tickets, $8. For $5 rush tickets, arrive an hour early. 7:30 p.m. Sanders Theatre. (ECMV...
...course, the experienced quartet of players didn’t win the game for the Crimson without help from their teammates...
...When a quartet of large, scary men began rocking an unoccupied Saturn on a nearby dark street—with the obvious intent to turn it over—our hero clearly felt “invincible” enough to challenge them personally...