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Roberto Benigni was in great form last Thursday night, frantically pacing the stage in search of "one thing, just one thing!" that Silvio Berlusconi has done for Italy since becoming Prime Minister in 2001. The Oscar-winning film director and comedian was a guest on RockPolitik, an irreverent mix of song, satire and sermonizing hosted by Italy's most popular entertainer, Adriano Celentano. After sitting down to write a mock letter of apology to Berlusconi, the odd couple racked their brains for something positive to say. Drawing a blank, the scrawny comic then feigned a call to a friend...
...whose natural first constituency was the old Protestant denominations. But by the 1960s the mainline's interest had shifted from core orthodoxies to social action. Screwtape, by contrast, advised that to damn a man, "get [him] at first to value social justice ... and then work him on to the stage at which he values Christianity because it may produce social justice...
...stuff every day, all day, and there are thousands of them. How are you going to keep anything secret from a thousand Russ Kicks? Blogs have voice and personality. They're human. They come to us not from some mediagenic anchorbot on an air-conditioned sound stage, but from an individual. They represent--no, they are--the voice of the little...
...Perry Ferrell of Jane’s Addiction. Like Brandon Boyd, Incubus’ imposingly six-packed singer, he has the looks and body made for success; his dueling nipple rings certainly give his otherwise clean-cut look a bit of an edge. Perhaps Gentler’s stage presence lacks the gravitas to captivate an audience, but this doesn’t concern them. As he says of his on-stage show, “We do try to let the music speak for itself. I certainly don’t do anything special. I stand there and sing...
...problem, but the band’s own structure doesn’t help. Although of the band’s two lead singers, Krug has the more musically interesting voice, his songs lack visual presence. He merely stood and played the keyboard off on the side of the stage, making it hard for his performance to generate any intense energy. Partly because rock keyboardists are hands down the most boring live musicians ever. Concertgoers coming to a Wolf Parade show expecting the Arcade Fire will inevitably be disappointed. Boeckner and company are not nearly as polished performers as their...