Blast from the future.Byline: Victor D. Infante Victor D. Infante (born 1972 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and critic. A 1993 graduate of the British campus of New England College at Arundel, West Sussex, he emerged as a writer and performer at poetry readings in Orange County, California, and as a contributor COLUMN: TEN THINGS TO DO Melding offbeat electro-pop rhythms and eccentric, understated vocals, Boston's Technoir has a sound that's both modern and strangely retro, reaching back to New Wave influences with Tom Tom Club instrumentation and a voice that has a touch of Morrisey in it. The result is a musical dervish dervish (dûr`vĭsh), see fakir; Rumi, Jalal ad-Din. dervish In Islam, a member of a Sufi fraternity. These mystics stressed emotional aspects of devotion through ecstatic trances, dancing, and whirling. , a devilish dev·il·ish adj. 1. Of, resembling, or characteristic of a devil, as: a. Malicious; evil. b. Mischievous, teasing, or annoying. 2. Excessive; extreme: devilish heat. , iconoclastic i·con·o·clast n. 1. One who attacks and seeks to overthrow traditional or popular ideas or institutions. 2. One who destroys sacred religious images. blast of a future that's having too much fun to take itself too seriously. Technoir performs with Auditory Implant Saturday at Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner, 148 Grove St., Worcester. |
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