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  Dances With Ants - City of Angels beats the scientific method

  Listen to White Noise Vol. 2: Real Audio Format Uberzone Lunatic Calm Tipper Download the RealPlayer FREE! This must be some new variety of techbeat compilation, I thought. Normally I load 'em up and brace for the artistic death rattles, whi...

  by Greg Burk on August 27, 1998

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  Music Reviews

  THE BEASTIE BOYS Hello Nasty (Grand Royal/Capitol) "Fifty cups of coffee and you know it's on!" Yass, yass, haute smokin' sassafras, an' if'n de nex' 22 jamz on de bran-van-plank-spankin'/shockin'-de-funky-funky Brass Monkey bawlsy new Beastie Boys ...

  by Music Staff on August 20, 1998

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  Into the Cauldron

  When it was released in 1973, the first Headhunters recording changed the shape of jazz fusion to come. Welding electric funk and steel-plated instrumental improvisation in ways that recalled both Miles Davis and Sly Stone, Headhunters, with its fami...

  by Bill Kohlhaase on August 20, 1998

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  Third Ear - Bossa Nova Hunchback Corpses on the Moon

  Beanfield: Beanfield (Streetbeat) Munich trip-hop techno-funk electro-whatsit trio, tres cool due to their ultra-controlled thoughts about the space surrounding their oily pulses and airy, mechanical voices. Beanfield's got plump synth bass and funk-...

  by John Payne on August 13, 1998

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  Screamin' Jay Hawkins - Rockin' Off the Wall

  Listen to Screamin' Jay Hawkins: Real Audio Format I Put a Spell on You Orange Colored Sky Frenzy Download the RealPlayer FREE! "Screamin' Jay's the shit," proclaims Eszter Balint as she lugs a boom box blaring Screamin' Jay Hawkins' 1956 re...

  by Chris Morris on August 13, 1998

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  Space Sparks - Vinny Golia's not blowin' in the wind

  Vinny Golia's improvisational trio was in a small European town one time. "There was actually a chicken fluttering around. We had a gig in this old church. And I said, 'No one's gonna come here. At least it's a cool church.' But by the time we were f...

  by Greg Burk on August 13, 1998

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  Tramp on Your Street

  Billy Joe Shaver, widely recognized as one of country music's greatest songwriters, is continually beset by a cycle of professional and personal woes that seems weirdly inevitable. The former hard-bitten outlaw brawler has seen some spectacular high ...

  by Jonny Whiteside on August 6, 1998

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  Cosmic Things - The return of the B-52's

  "Let your freak flag fly! Whatever you are, don't be afraid to let it come out. We support people's individualism . . . and freaky-deakyness." This proclamation comes not from Abbie Hoffman or Bill Clinton; instead, look to Kate Pierson, one-fourth o...

  by Lawrence Ferber on August 6, 1998

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  Sing Now, Die Later - The Ballad of Chalino Sanchez: Part 2

  Return to part1 At Cintas Acuario, Pedro Rivera's other son, Juan, devised a series of compilation albums with photographs of staged drug deals and drug robberies: Puros Corridos Perrones (Badass Corridos, more or less). Volume 5, with no promoti...

  on August 6, 1998

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  Sing Now, Die Later - The Ballad of Chalino Sanchez: Part 1

  Saturday slides toward Sunday at Rodeo de Medianoche, a cavernous nightclub in Pico Rivera, as the duo Voces del Rancho sing the story of how Lamberto Quintero died. A drug smuggler in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, Quintero was killed in a 1976 shoot...

  on August 6, 1998

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  The Six-Strings Mystique - Better living through metal

  A few years ago, bored by grunge and late speed metal and still lamenting the loss of pretty glam in prettier haircuts, I thought loud guitar bands had entirely run out of both options and steam - the only stuff I was liking was sung in Spanish, whic...

  by Chuck Eddy on July 30, 1998

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  Marx and Duchamp for Beginners

  You've probably heard of the aberration referred to as "the '60s" (which actually ended sometime in the mid-'70s), when the impossible seemed imminent. Threats to dump hallucinogens in big-city reservoirs by wild-haired anarchists may have turned out...

  by Michael Simmons on July 30, 1998

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  Music Reviews - Unwritten Law, Broadcast, L.A. County Line, Ralph Towner - Gary Peacock

  Listen to Unwritten Law: Real Audio Format Teenage Suicide Sorry Lonesome Download the RealPlayer FREE! UNWRITTEN LAW Unwritten Law (Interscope) In the two years since the release of Oz Factor, San Diego's Unwritten Law has tak...

  by Music Staff on July 30, 1998

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  Honk if You're Hungry

  Los Angeles tenor saxophonist Clifford Solomon is one of the cool ones, a jazz and R&B man whose 53 years of bandstand experience follow him, like an exotic perfume, into a room. Solomon and his sax loom large, a presence characterized by warmth, spo...

  by Jonny Whiteside on July 23, 1998

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  Beyond the Reality Asylum

  While the Sex Pistols encouraged a lot of bored kids to stick safety pins in their noses and be punks for a few years, Crass, who also debuted in 1977, were an articulate band of anarchists who provoked a vital political movement that still exists, e...

  by Adam Bregman on July 23, 1998

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  Music Reviews - Sloan, Other Dimensions in Music, Smith and Mighty, Ultra Bide

  Listen to ODM: Real Audio Format For the Glass Tear Download the RealPlayer FREE! OTHER DIMENSIONS IN MUSICNow! (Aum Fidelity) When the first track is a 33-minute improvisation, you know you're dealing with absolute fearlessness. Th...

  by Music Staff on July 23, 1998

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  Spellbound - Siouxsie & Budgie's Creature feature

  With her bewitching profile and seductively shrill voice, Siouxsie Sioux is a mysterious and magical icon. Partnered with drum master Budgie, the singer is known for the kind of stark melodies one might hear in the background of a dream -- ethe...

  by Lina Lecaro on July 16, 1998

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  Free Bird - Susan James plays (and sings and records and mixes and releases) it her way

  Sitting around House of Pies talking the big issues with Susan James, scorching guitarist, transcendent vocal stylist and ace musical thinker. Loaded with talent, she is, and a hard-charger, too: This week she's releasing a new CD, Fantastic Voyage, ...

  by John Payne on July 16, 1998

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  Thunderbox

  Mother Superior woulda been the absolute coolest band in my high school: three dudes, all knife-sharp on their chosen instruments, laying down a brutal version of a post-Cream/GFR bloozoid guitar boogie. They woulda been hosting bong-a-thons in th...

  by Johnny Angel on July 16, 1998

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  Wild Angel - The Hard Ride of Davie Allan & the Arrows

  DAVIE ALLAN & THE ARROWS Fuzz Fest (Bomp) Although this album was first released (for about 15 minutes) in late 1996, the subsequent demise of the Atomic Beat label effectively rendered Fuzz Fest stillborn. Reissued by the indie titans of Bomp...

  by Jonny Whiteside on July 16, 1998