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The Get Up Kids Koo's Art Cafe Wednesday, July 7 Listen to: The Get Up Kids Real Audio Format Coming Clean Don't Hate Me Fall Semester Download the RealPlayer FREE! So Kansas City's Get Up Kids, one of the monster underground/indie bands of the moment, were all set to play a low-key, hush-hush, fake-name gig …
The Flaming Lips The Soft Bulletin Warner Bros. Your band has worked long and hard, building a near-fanatical cult following. You had a guest appearance on 90210. You released an album that was spread out across four separate CDs, which need to be played all at once (on four separate boom boxes, natch) to reach …
The Chris Perez Band Resurrection Hollywood Records Forget Ricky Martin mania for a minute. Or, better yet, forever. For if this is a just world, guitarist Chris Perez and his band will become the next Latin-music sensations. Perez has tasted fame before: he was married to slain Tejano singer Selena and was a member of …
On a humid March afternoon, U.S. Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez (D-Garden Grove) found herself in a rather uncomfortable position:squatting in the heat of a mosquito-filled jungle clearing in Cu Chi Province, a rugged, forested area located a few hours northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, the Democratic Republic of Vietnam's sprawling southern metropolis. Sanchez hadn't come …
So we get this CD in the mail by this guy named White Dawg. He's this badass-looking cracker, and he's decked out in FUBU gear and wearing a bandanna around his head just like Tupac used to. We read his poorly penned bio, wherein we learn that he has written songs with titles like “I …
Peepshot Welcome Self-released Long Beach's Peepshot feel like a 10-cent beer in a million-dollar town. Like the last drag off a cheap ciggy, right before you accidentally suck the filter down. Like blowing through speed limits on lonely, endless desert back roads. Like slovenly drunkards who root themselves to their favorite barstool and don't move …
Art by Todd StarksIn 1994, a year after Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol, David Magdziarz received a disk containing the symbol font along with instructions that stated “[This] is now the Artist's legal name and should be used whenever referring to him in print.” The disk was defective, and Magdziarz (day job: …
Dodge Dart So American Raw Power Records Dodge Dart have been piddling around in local clubs for about five years now, so it's about time they put somethingout. Probably a good thing they waited, though—toned down on So American are the gratuitous Ramones guitar knicks, now splintered off into more of an Iggy/ Stooges approach, …
Joe Davis was born in 1970 in Pinehurst, a small mining town in the northernmost reaches of Idaho's panhandle, a region more famous for its infusion of survivalists and neo-Nazis than potatoes. He grew up there as any precocious tyke would, breathing Pinehurst air, drinking Pinehurst ground water, kicking up Pinehurst dust. But Davis had …
June Carter Cash Press On Risk/Small Hairy Dog June Carter Cash—niece of A.P. Carter, daughter of Maybelle Carter (who both basically invented country music), and doting wife to hubby Johnny Cash (happily so, too—read her “Recipe for a Happy Life” essay in the CD insert, in which she tells us that she keeps herself submissive …
One of the great disadvantages of the Internet, its critics say, is the ease with which people can spread misinformation. They fret that teenagers doing research will assign a white-supremacist tract the same value as, say, the Encyclopedia Britannica. They point to the recent PairGain hoax, in which an employee of the Tustin company allegedly …
In a surreal and tragic two weeks, Orange County's press relentlessly whipped up terror that Littleton-style school slaughter perpetrated by dark-side fuzzy-lipped gunboys brandishing heavy steel “could happen here” (even though none had) and then was blindsided by the county's first real school murders: a grisly massacre of preschoolers by a middle-aged man wielding a …