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...performance itself was everything expected of a singer of Fleming’s stature: It was almost without fault, it showed a remarkable range of ability and it had its share of notes that can only be described as glorious. All of which can be found, with poorer vocal quality and a contempo-casual cover, on a recording of Night Songs. But Fleming’s personality—her radiant smile, clever winks and coy directions to the audience— is something that can only be experienced live. It’s been correctly argued that one should...
...Down are comprised of four Californian Armenian-Americans who have come to use their music as a means for disseminating their political ideals, replacing Rage Against the Machine as metal’s prominent political activists. Some areas of concern for the four-piece band, consisting of singer Serj Tankian, guitarist Daron Malakian, bassist Shavo Odadjian and drummer John Dolomayan, include an aversion for American cultural and political hegemony, a desire for global recognition of and reparations for the Armenian genocide by Turkey, and a suspicion for virtually all aspects of the American political system. Their track...
...Chris Trapper, the hair-flipping lead singer of Boston favorites the Push Stars, will perform sans band at Club Passim in Harvard Square. Wanting to play some of the band’s more mellow songs that venues such as Avalon do not encourage, Trapper kicked off his month-long solo tour in early November...
Michael, a feckless Hong Kong singer-songwriter, sits in a Beijing restaurant delivering an ambitious pitch: he, too, could be a star on the mainland. Beijing rocker Road (Geng Le), his starry-eyed girlfriend Yang Yin (Shu Qi) and other members of their underground band are skeptical. The mainlanders mock Michael's Hong Kongese-ness and bait him to party like a man. Michael (Daniel Wu) reaches into his pocket and pulls out some spliffs. "Ah," says Yang, "the Hong Kong peasant grows...
...gets a slap in the face, a knee in the groin and is then told to "bugger off." Their relationship fits the mold for any rock star and groupie: namely, dysfunctional and bordering on the catastrophic. "There are a hundred ways to die," Yang muses. "Dating a rock singer is one of them." Then Michael appears, gets a place in Road's band and develops one in his heart for Yang. The performances, like Cheung's style, are measured and mature: Geng Le's got depth, Shu Qi stands out in italics and Wu finds a previously hidden range...