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...Singer-songwriters are as old as literature itself. Before any poem was committed to paper, it was the object of the bard, the oral poet, who, accompanied by instrumentation, entertained willing audiences. A little before the turn of the first millennium B.C., the mysterious Homer gave birth to Western literature with song as his medium. For many years thereafter it was unthinkable to hear poetry without accompanying music...
...debase a song since the Pixies. The song accelerates into something more frenetic, dangerous, and complicated—how like love. “It’s always better on holiday / That’s why we only work when we need the money,” singer Alex Kapranos enthuses while guitars rage and cascade beneath him. The result sounds like a new wave torch song crossed with a high-velocity punk thrasher crossed with a beer hall anthem. It’s also the best guitar rock song in years...
Like many of her fellow performers, Sur brought to Ghungroo a wide range of talents that were explored in one of Ghungroo’s diverse forums. A one-time singer for the Opportunes, Sur collaborated with Om L. Lala ’06 on the moving original song “Oceans Apart,” which the pair co-wrote and performed with guitar and violin accompaniment by Arjun Kumar ’04 and Sonali Palchaudhuri...
...Kids perform their intermittently mellow and driving Vagrant pop for maudlin girls and boys. Label-mates with the more famous and even more sentimental Dashboard Confessional, the Kids just released Gulit Show, their follow-up to 2002’s subdued On a Wire. Joining them are Recover and singer-songwriter Rocky Votolato. The title of Votolato’s most recent album, Suicide Medicine, should give you a good idea of what to expect from him. Tickets $16. All ages. 6 p.m. Axis, 13 Lansdowne St., Boston...
...everything that's been said about the President, and then we're going to correct the impressions about the [Democratic] nominee," says pollster Matthew Dowd. The ads, made by consultant Mark McKinnon of Austin, Texas, promise to be edgy but warm. In the corporate world of Bush, the onetime singer-songwriter stands out. Most of the staff members use PCs; he has a PowerBook. Most are lifelong Republicans; he is a former Democrat with an iPod playing Kenny Chesney and a candle in his office. McKinnon became a Bush believer during Bush's first term as Governor and did Bush...