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By Aaron Keebaugh The point was made: this was not merely a revolt, but a revolution in sound. “It is a big revolt,” King Louis XVI exclaimed after the fall of the Bastille in 1789. “No Sir,” answered François de la Rochefoucauld, “a big revolution.” The events that followed shook France to its very foundations…
Playing nearly 60 songs across a trio of near-three-hour shows, jam-rockers Widespread Panic certainly made their return to Boston count.
An impressive series of performances that are not for the faint-of-heart.
World-renowned soprano Aleksandra Kurzak’s homage to the great French soprano Cornélie Falcon is largely one to cherish.
This fine album demonstrates that the music of neglected, mixed-race English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor is well worth resurrecting.
MonoNeon is the most important musician to emerge from Memphis in recent memory.
Regardless of his age, Neil Young, now 79, can still rage.
“The music I really respond to is by artists who have in some way captured a moment in an evocative way, a universal truth, something that feels honest and real. That’s what we try to do.”
If life among these four characters risks being so monotonous over the course of an hour and 45 minutes, just imagine what it must have been like to endure months of lockdown before a vaccine became available.
But this wasn’t just a night for the hits. It was an occasion for raw, in-the-trenches rock (none of Aerosmith’s later commercial dreck) and rarely, if ever, played songs.
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