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...Harvard tends to temper dreams of rock stardom. More young men here have their hopes set on being the next JFK than being the next Mick Jagger, but Carbone’s ambition still burns. It helps to have the right fuel. Called and Careless’s singer, Evan Gentler, 26, graduated college and came to Boston in August of 2003. Already aware that music was his passion, he placed an ad in The Boston Phoenix, played with a few different people, and tried out for a number of bands. After Carbone read Gentler?...
...showcase for Berman’s dexterous lyricism: the Jews are a dynamic and cohesive musical unit. The band began as a collaboration between Berman and Pavement mastermind Stephen Malkmus, but this lineup includes such luminaries as bassist Paz Lenchantin (of Zwan and A Perfect Circle fame) and singer-songwriter Will Oldham (a.k.a. Bonnie “Prince” Billy). This motley crew is so fluent in the idiom of country music one would never suspect that they are only two steps removed from the alt-metal stylings of Tool. Ironically, the only cut on the album that doesn?...
...microphone, Walters is still very much a 12-year-old girl. Asked about her future aspirations, she says she hopes one day to be an Olympic horsewoman. "But you have to have a lot of money for that," she says. "So I have to either become a famous singer or actress or something, or marry rich...
Cloud didn't use much nuance in saying my film Hedwig and the Angry Inch was "a cult musical about the relationship between a drag queen and a young singer" and includes a scene in which a teenage boy is "masturbated by an adult." Is that what it really boils down to for Cloud? He might have also touched on why it has already found favor with many scholars. I've been told by young people of all persuasions that Hedwig is appealing because it is an exploration of personal identity outside traditional straight, gay or even transgender definitions...
...contrasting with its velvety, lusher application in “Chanteuse de Café.”Wolohojian also describes how the background of “Chanteuse de Café” creates, for him, a visual representation of sound. The dark backdrop behind the café singer is a “cavern of black space” symbolic of the “deep belly of the singer.” Her song pours out of it, manifested in bright vertical sound-waves that double as the decorative paint on the wall behind her.Most...