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  Mockin' Bird - Patti Page comes out swinging

  As half a dozen gaudy koi fish shimmy beneath a blue glass dolphin that appears to leap from the mosaic fountain dominating the front bar of Rancho Mirage nitery Basin Street West, a crush of flashy suits and svelte furs crowd to their tables. Semifa...

  by Jonny Whiteside on March 5, 1998

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  Demolisten Derby

  Record-label A&R execs devote their days to appraising usually excruciating demo tapes and their nights prowling the clubs, searching for that hoped-for Next Big Thing and often spending their careers without once striking platinum. But that future N...

  by Mara Schwartz on March 5, 1998

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  Music Reviews: - Union, Fu Manchu, Sixteen Horsepower

  Union (Mayhem) It was only natural that when voxman John Corabi and guitar slinger Bruce Kulick got dumped by Motley Crue and Kiss respectively they would marry each other. Now the question is the fertility of the Union, and their debut album leaves...

  by Music Staff on March 5, 1998

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  Nothing's Definite - Slurring sound with a Beatsystem

  BEATSYSTEM Beatsystem (Emit) The name suggests everything tedious about new electronic music: robotic repetition, formulaic compositions, dead ideas stitched together and shocked into spasmodic, zombified life. But this comes from Emit, the curious E...

  by Glen Hirschberg on March 5, 1998

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  Come and Get These Memories - Holland-Dozier-Holland and the sound of young America

  "Standing in the Shadows of Love." "Bernadette." "Baby I Need Your Loving." "This Old Heart of Mine." "You Can't Hurry Love." "I Hear a Symphony." "(Love Is Like a) Heat Wave." "Nowhere To Run." "Jimmy Mack." If you have a working set of ears, you pr...

  by Dan Epstein on February 26, 1998

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  Security to the Stage

  His figure emerges from darkness in the hour before sunrise. He's there in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven, a backpack tight on his puffy white work shirt. His shoulders hunch forward in mimicry of a purposeful walk. The lunch-money kid. Nice, neat A...

  by Donnell Alexander on February 26, 1998

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  Notes From Underground - The Red Elvises join the party

  It's raining, December, well after midnight, and inside Rusty's Surf Ranch, the Russians have stormed the floor again. They come in a torso-wriggling, leg-jiggling wave. They are smoking, laughing, shouting to the music. The girl with the perfect pal...

  by Glen Hirshberg on February 19, 1998

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  Music Reviews

  KAREN DALTON It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You the Best (Koch) Once heard, the voice of Karen Dalton creates a fascination. Everything about her transcends familiar presumptions - her race and even gender are not immediately identifiable. ...

  by Music Staff on February 19, 1998

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  Looking for Blood - The Donnas: Lean, mean teens

  THE DONNASAmerican Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine (Lookout!) Let any first-time Donnas listeners be forewarned that this record delivers a serious ass-kicking. These four teenage girls from Palo Alto have spent an enormous amount of time in a shitty l...

  by Adam Bregman on February 19, 1998

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  Feinstein Lite - Jane Harman tries out the open primary

  This year, California will experience a new kind of election. And as of last week, it may just have a politician who'll be able to exploit it. In June, Californians will encounter a primary ballot unlike any seen in this state since the '40s. Under ...

  by Harold Meyerson on February 19, 1998

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  Confessions of a Tender Pervert - Momus' doppelganger loves you

  The name Nick Currie, much like his alias of "Momus," draws little more from most Americans than a confused head tilt, clouded eyes or general disinterest. Until now, Momus - who took his appellation from Greek mythology's sarcastic little god who ve...

  by Lawrence Ferber on February 19, 1998

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  Highway 65 Revisited

  So I get this 12-inch record in the mail; front cover proclaims "Not if You Were the Last Dandy on Earth!" The vinyl itself has no artist names or song titles or words at all on its white label. The A-side does appear to be an actual song, but the B ...

  by Chuck Eddy on February 12, 1998

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  Old Flames - Riverside jazz: An invitation

  THE RIVERSIDE RECORDS STORY The year Charlie Parker died, 1955, Riverside Records founder Orrin Keepnews signed Thelonious Monk, who would stay for six years and record much of his definitive music for the label. It's a mark of jazz's post-bop desp...

  by Greg Burk on February 5, 1998

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  Music Reviews

  ATTICA BLUES Attica Blues (Mo Wax) Much like the bizarre R&B/New Jazz album and song "Attica Blues" that brought saxophonist Archie Shepp acclaim in 1972, England's trio Attica Blues has cultivated a style that's sure to move you in all-new ways...

  by Music Staff on February 5, 1998

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  Sealed - Tuna Bolero

  Given the singularity and popularity of the late Frank Zappa, it's surprising how little has been done to keep his music alive since his passing in 1994. There have been several post humous Zappa albums released by Rykodisc, a couple of all-Zappa tr...

  by Rip Rense on February 5, 1998

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  Built for Speed - Fastbacks: Punk in the present tense

  The Fastbacks may well be the last, best unsigned band in America. Nineteen years after its formation, the Seattle-based quartet that no less a sage than Greil Marcus has called "the best punk rock band in America" is again shopping for a deal. So ...

  by Gina Arnold on February 5, 1998