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M Tlie Arts and Entertainment Supplement to the Daily Nexus. For the Week of June 23-29, 1993

Along with the hustle and bustle of a new quarter the campus and nearby communities are m n t offering a plethora of showings, screenings and other spectacles for the summer scholar. First of all, there is a continuing exhibition of v % paintings at the CCS gallery featuring eco-aware pieces by art students.______V Wednesday. While the Tin Idols will be % performing downtown at Toe's Tavern, Toto and Rick Reeves will play at the nearby Ventura Theater. •Thursday. For some exceptional jazz catch the Larry Karush Quartet at the Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara, at 8 pm. Also, photographer Dodie Thompson will lecture on •Seeing Straight the f/64 4 Revolution -in Photography" at the SB Museum of Art, where a photo exhibit is showcased as well. __ •Friday. Tonight's a good time to see some live music. A Swedish gospel choir, the Joybells, will sing away at the First United Methodist Church, at 7 pm. Spencer the Gardener will play at Toe’s Tavern; The Blocks, an acoustic duo, at the Green Dragon art cafe; and Liz Larin will dazzle at the Beach Shack at 9 ■ p m . ______il m Ê Ê Ê Ê a 3T~i •Saturday. A comprehensive exhibit of more than 140 works by photojournalist Werner Bischof opens at the SB Museum of A r t . This Ä M exhibit will continue through September 5. UB.ÆÊ (Remember that Tuesdays ^ f-s| are always free at the A museum, as well as the first Sunday of every month.) w % •Sunday. The Oscar ■ m award-winning film •Howard's End“ will be

showing in UCSB’s ... F Campbell Hall at 8 pm. This is the first of ten fine movies Arts and Lectures is presenting in its summer film line-up. The series will include both recent gems and premieres of newer films. •Monday. The Circus has Üstr arrived! Tonight Circus Vargas will open at 7:30 pm at the Earl Warren RAfrUMp A showgrounds, under its new big-top tent. Mention you are a UCSB student and receive a discount. MATT RAGLAND/DmIjt N n •Tuesday. At the idyllic Dollardrivers: equivalents to a dentist’s Music Academy of the West, in Montecito, some Hollywood Novocaine — just pump a little fuzzy stuff in summer concerts will there and they won’t feel a thing. From some­ feature the works of Barber, Bottesini, Brahms has some pretty where out in hyperspace they seep into our and Rachmaninoff. powerful tools. Numbing, heads, operating without invitation, directing •To get your event listed send us your our wanton hands into our pockets, and then press release or call the indeed. Money Wrenches and Daily Nexus at 893-2691. into theirs.»Hype. This is going to be BIG!!! . •-Martin -Boer. By Morgan Freeman and Valeska Ramet ...... S i H Y P E ; p." 3A 2B Wednesday, June 23,1993 Daily Nexus Rim Reviews

Don't Think. Just Watch, This The Sty Comes Back Film's Quite A Nice Ride Stronger This Time Around

First off, don’t go to Jurassic Park expecting to see If the standard summer movie fare are supposed to be something resembling a profound statement on the hu­ escapist crowd-pleasers, then Cliffhanger certainly fits man, or even biotic, experience. That’s like attempting to the bill. Fast-paced without being frenzied, and simplis­ aesthetically evaluate wallpaper — it can be done, but tic without being stupid, the film is a terrific way to with what purpose would someone attempt it? launch the annual two-month period which Hollywood On the other hand, if you are willing to shell out $3.50 devotes to mind-numbers. to $7.50 for an opulent visual escape—and many people In his umpteenth attempt at a comeback vehicle, have done just that — this is the movie for you. Yes, the Sylvester Stallone stars as a Colorado mountain rescue dinosaurs are realistic, frighteningly so. Yes, the loca­ expert forced to confront the demons of his own past as tions are fabulous, with aerial shots that are breathtak­ he makes his way up, down and through the Rocky cliffs. ing. Yes, the plot is coherent enough to not require much Sound heavy? Don’t worry. Fortunately, the script is participative thought — which is a good thing, since packed with enough random violence and monosyllabic viewers should only expend so much thought on this muttering that this film will never be confused with flick as they would on, say, a real cool cloud formation. Howard’s End. It would be foolish to do more, unless you either: a) That isn’t to say it won’t be confused with Die Hard. haven’t yet succumbed to dinosaur fever and want to Cliffhanger boasts the much-imitated, rarely improved, learn more about ancient beasts; b) want to know more terrorist on a (fill in the blank) premise. This time the about the visual effects technology sunk into this Jaws x blank is filled by John Lithgow and his team of villains 10 Minus About 65 Million Years; c) decide you want to who have crash-landed in the mountains with $100 mil­ go to Costa Rica, where the action is set; or d) wonder lion somewhere in the terrain. why dinosaurs aren’t cute like your best friend Barney, Stallone, who plays probably the strongest man ever the only love you will ever know. to be named Gabe, and his colleagues — the overhyped The acting is pretty good. As the antihero, T. Rex, an Janine Turner and the undervalued Michael Rooker — unknown newcomer, demonstrates the consuming pas­ are the mountain climbing veterans who stand between sion and brute thuggery of Marlon Brando’s Stanley the bad guys and the loot The acting isn’t that impress­ Kowalski. The trio of villainous velociraptors are played ive, with Lithgow taking on some form of an English ac­ with a gleeful hissing nastiness that makes you believe cent for no other reason than to prove that the main vil­ these characters were really bom to kill, although you lain can never be American in these types of movies. know these guys probably never heard of Stanislavsky. Rooker, most famous for small roles in big movies like Nevertheless, it should be kept in mind before buying Days of Thunder and JFK, is Cliffhanger’s best acting your ticket that more than Jurassic Park is an action/ asset. adventure/thriller movie, more than it is a dinomatronic But all performers take a back seat to the real star of fantasy, it is a Steven Spielbeig film (and we know what the film — the setting. Director Renny Harlin magnifi­ that means). If you allow yourself to go along for the ride, cently captures the beauty and depth of the Italian alps which you should do if you plan to enjoy Jurassic Park, (which stand in for the Colorado mountains), and with a you’ll find the occasional schmaltz no more than an an­ team of rock-climbing stunt men — and some shots in noying interruption to an otherwise fine ride, like one ta­ which Stallone, et aL, are actually up thousands of feet ken in a 1976 Toyota Landcruiser over a series of rough — creates genuine excitement simply by letting the ac­ boulders floating on chocolate milk. tion do the storytelling. From a gripping opening sequ­ If you pay close attention, however, you can identify in ence on a ledge 4,000 feet above ground to a harrowing part of the uneasiness you feel, the sense of being mani­ midair exchange of passengers between two airplanes, pulated — a kind of manipulation usually felt by lonely Cliffhangefs thrills are relentless. people being clumsily seduced: You feel good, but kind Harlin is in familiar territory. After all, he solidified the of insulted that somebody feels it necessary to push your profitability of this genre with Die Hard 2. He follows his buttons long after you’ve demonstrated your willingness own formula here and has another winner. The film only to comply. lags when the mountain is not grabbing screen time, so This doesn’t mean you can’t have a good time if you Harlin will win no praise for his development of human want to. In general, people who say they didn’t like it issues. But the man knows how to direct action sequ­ either shouldn’t have seen it in the first place or didn’t al­ ences, and summer movie audiences aren’t supposed to low themselves to like it because they wanted an epic ask for much more. equal to the hype, which is foolish. Hey, lighten up, it’s —Brian Banks only a movie...... —William Toren This Film Journal Is For Real Reel Writings By Students of Cinema Prove Entertaining green and orange clothes. But when you read the bv T o n y Pierce thoughts of their brothers and sisters away in college, ommon people, let’s face it: Most interdepart­ you'll think everyone over 18 grew up in the Cleaver mental publications suck. Either they’re family. gussied-up newsletters proclaiming that “Eli­ This leads us to the latest edition of Focus, the UCSB C zabeth Jenkins in the Sociology Dept received Film Studies Dept, student publication. Although film a Fullbright Scholarship on the same day she delivered studies majors will probably get the most out of this twins!” or they're a means for associate professors to 64-page book-like journal, as a non-FS major I can hon­ publish their quarterly “discoveries” and all of their estly say that the journal has something for everyone. Let friends can pretend they devoured the journal with much me digress on two of the articles I found most enjoyable. interest The first is a diary-style narrative chronicling the much Actually, the problem with most anything written by ballyhooed UCSB film studies course that focused on anyone claiming to be the slightest bit “educated” is that the world of pornographic films. “Diary of a Pom Class” they feel compelled to prove to the reader how many big by Valeska Ramet is a wonderfully honest, insightful and words they actually know. funny look at being a student in such a unique course. College students are really our only saviors, but you'd Even though Ramet gets caught at times throwing ar­ never know from their writings, which echo not only the ound film lingo and directors that most lay readers (like style of their uninspired, burnt professors, but the sub­ me) won’t know, her thoughts are clear and concise. It’s stance of their roommates’ Cliffs’ Notes. nice how seriously she tries to ponder “Who watches Hell, there’s punk rock and gangsters in the top-10, pom? Why? When?” little kids dressing funky-fresh with those way-baggy In fact her article was so interesting — or was it the subject matter — that I barely noticed the black and white pictures sprinkled throughout of a woman giving a blow job or two men fondling each other. Once I did realize the presence of these photos I ad­ mired the two Contances (Penley, the faculty advisor, and Atwill, the editor) for including them as they not GET CA$H only belonged but pushed the envelope that should be These are some of the images Valeska Ramet FOR USED COMPACT DISCSI pushed in every student publication. Kudos describes in her article "Diary of a Porn * Highest prices paid! Constances! Class", included in Focus Magazine. * We’ll give you instant cash! The other article that interested me most was “The Cinematic Sides of the City of Lights” — an informative to go to a theatre in Paris where the concessions come to * You’ll get unlimited 10% discounts forever! look at film in Paris by Morgan Freeman. the seated patrons via vendors “much like at a sporting * Large collection? W e’U com e to y o u ! Even though the picture of Freeman makes him look event, although they don’t shout.” like Crispin Glover, the picture he paints of Paris is that While neither the editing nor the typestyle is tight, Ú it’s a town that “treats films as films, regardless of who these bring much needed liveliness to a publication writ­ I morningjory made them, placing independents on the same level as ten by people who are used to expressing themselves in the biggies. Even the advertisements are the same size.” different ways. A Freeman nicely praises Paris without hyping it too Hus publication does not suck though, thankfully. If V* “We’ll Recycle Your Music much and does what reporters are supposed to do: tell anything it tells us stories about what it’s like to watch Downtown • 1218 State Street • 966-0266 people in one place what it's like in another place. films all over the world. It gives an idea of what making !z lela Vista •*910 910 Embarcadero del Norte •*968-4665 968-4665 He does this especially well when he describes the un­ films is all about, and it shows us that all is not drab ana ^ 3 usual experimental film scene in France and what it’s like.. dull in tfre. world. And that’s something to focus on. Daily Nexus Wednesday, June 23,1993 3B

Continued from p.lA Real dinosaurs that like to eat little kids and their fami­ Batteries Not Included (one of his best). Mind control? Hyp(e)nosis? Some mightsay it Point lies. Thus, we cough up seven donuts (not including 20 Think back. This is nothing new. Remember Luke They can make us do what they want, even if we are on to more for popcorn, Good ’N’ Plenties, and a large Coke Skywalker in his convertible Land Speeder successfully them. They have the technology. Hype covers all the that won’t fit in the medium size, armchair cup-holder) selling action figures door to door? The old-fashioned bases. Whether you buy it or see straight through it, You for a tragi-comed-docu-fanta-horr-family flick that way. Will Go See Jurassic Park. We mean, “This is a movie speaks for itself as a sign of the times, luring us towards a So what do you call a ltid sporting a T-shirt featuring a times 10.” space-wagon speeding into the future. carnivorous T. Rex that dreams of severing human jugu­ Buying it is unconscious. You went. Hype worked. It Dinosaurs, Hypo saurs. lars? Some hero. What ever happened to good old won, you lost Game over. You don’t even think about What are the many components of hype? Advertising, Superman or Wonder Woman? Or even Captain your robotic tendencies and may never. Even if you smell consumerism, marketing, fascism, exploitation ... all America? hype’s fetid stench, you still lose. You wanna see the pro­ leading to political correctness. And everyone knows it's But maybe this isn’t about heroes. Maybe it’s about cess, you wanna see the mensa at work, you wanna see COOL to be PC. And speaking of PC, even if it doesn’t control. Is this kid containing the monster in a Beefy-T them kick down their buckaroos, and you wanna laugh, play a role in Jurassic Park, it does in hype. cotton cage? Perhaps these youngsters are wearing on not along, but at them. CUT TO: their backs the only way out of a space-wagon tail­ At the same time, you don’t want to miss the movie of spinning into technological chaos. the decade, the movie that everyone has talked about for With this in mind, set aside your rose-colored vintage INT. UNIVERSAL MEETING ROOM years and will talk about for those to come. The truth is, shades and see just how big a dinosaur dropping can be. we are all sitting in the same theatres, and we all coughed A beveled window has opened in the iron fortress of Hol­ Several green-eyed big-shots are lywood, and with a little effort we can see what really huddled around an ivory table. churns beyond the Silver Screen: We can question the "ASTONISHING, Sipping soothing Stolies, SMITHSON, motives of promoters. “What have you done for me suddenly struck by a stellar lately?” EXHILARATING AND sensation, stands to speak. FANTASTIC! - "TERRIFIC AND ; SMITHSON This is a movie times 10." Hey, what if we pro­ ; -Tom Shales, WASHINGTON POST moted the film as PC! W HAT A RIDE1 They'd buy it, right? I This Is some of the most inventive up the same configuration of green. The real laughing emulates from the other side where the Toolmakers lurk Heads snap in his direction. filmmaking ever. It's great Spielberg!" .Joel Siegel, GOOD MORNING AMERICA —the mutant-hypal breeding grounds. In the end, we all Smithson is on to something buy it Hype is the fact that They know th at Hype is pretty hip. We’re talking powerful tools. Invis­ SMITHSON In an ever-growing world of great hype makers, where ible tools. No wires, no volts, no steel. Still, the world’s And if we tack on a happy ending, films are successful before they are screened, great film largest bulldozer is no match for a hypertool. makers are slipping into a techno-abyss, where a medio­ they might walk straight out of the Why, in 10 short days, has Jurassic Park managed to cre performance by a computer-generated velociraptor take us for 120 million fish? $12 million a day is big mo­ theaters and into a local toy store warrants more applause than any topnotch performance ney. Powerful tools. What made us say, “I’ll buy that,” to buy the action figures and by any living being. before a single review even hit the stands and then con­ Jurassic Park jeeps! And even with such atrocious acting as in Jurassic tinue to kick down even when they sucked. Powerful Park, these dinosaurs can glue you to your seats — they tools, huh? No bulldozer makes that much. FADE OUT can numb. The performers in Jurassic Park are mere Jurassic Park could have been as bad as it is and the props, filler, and could have simply been left o u t story would remain the same. Quality plays no part in Moral: Smithson gets promoted. Is the future of cinema calling for all living beings to hype. That’s not the question. The question is, is this the Question: Are good concepts in bad hands still good work behind the camera, where they can engineer make- work of a filmmaker or a hypemaker? Or are both one concepts? believe entertainers who wipe out our desire for true and the same in the hypeage? Backed by a flashy team of Paraphernalia is hype. Now available at a store near acting? hypesters, it would seem in the ’90s that one could chuck you is a line of Jurassic Park products: cups, shirts, But we digress. When it all boils down, this piece is no artistic intentions out the window — along with family lunch boxes, action figures, complete with a T. Rex with more than another form of hype. And if it succeeds in do­ values and UC funding. a removable fleshy chunk that reveals a gaping, bloody ing anything, it will probably tuck a couple more Spielberg put dinosaurs in a movie. Real dinosaurs. wound, and a man whose arm tears off with a swift tug. 10-spots in the back pocket of Spielberg’s designer jeans. From Gigs To Vinyl, Music In The Bay Area Remains Alive And Well their single “Smell.” While the Dambuilders were just about perfect, and "The Dambuilders are writing 50 songs for the 50 Small Factory was over way too fast, Richmond, Va.’s states,” Dave said, and they played their first one, Fudge kind of dragged their set out, maybe because they “Idaho.” Sounds like an inspired idea to me! It was a re­ didn’t have to leave time for the others. And while their ally great set, even if it was loud enough to throw me off album is frill of slow, memorable pop songs, they did new my balance a couple of times. songs on stage that were about as different as you could Of the three groups, I was looking forward to seeing get Small Factory the most Coming out of Rhode Island, They began with the new song “Patty Heart Machine they have to be one of the sunniest and happiest bands Gun,” which was a very noisy screech jam. They only did I’ve ever heard. Their 7” single on Slumberland Records a few tracks from their album, like the mellow “Way- has been a sing-along anthem ever since I first heard it— side.” Most of the show was more like “Fudge Jams I saw a concert on Saturday that was different than especially the first track, “What to Want.” They had a Onstage.” just about anything I’d seen before. Three bands — the track on one of the best albums o f1992, the SpinART Re­ “This is tiie show we wanted to have in Omaha, Ne­ Dambuilders, Small Factory and Fudge—played at Bot­ cords compilation “One Last Kiss,” which I listened to braska,” one of the band members said. “Where wereyou tom of the Hill in San Francisco. Fudge has an album out all day, every day for months last summer. guys then?” he asked the audience, then broke into what on Caroline records, while the other two have had Their set was fantastic. Lead singer Alex Kemp is like a seemed like an impromptu song, “I Hate Omaha, smaller releases on East Coast labels. big, lanky kid, and the combination of his acoustic Nebraska!” It was simultaneously like a larger concert and like strum, David Auchenbach’s electric guitar, Phoebe Sum- It was hard to tell it from their live show, but tiie Fudge seeing a local band. There was lots of shouting, joking mersquash’s fast drumming and lighthearted vocals by album has dreamy songs that are sometimes fixated on and communicating with people in the audience who the trio had the audience hopping up and down. They the popular culture of a certain generation. “Jr. High knew them; this was one of the things about the show definitely get across a youthful persona, singing on their Blur,” “Oreo Dust,” “Peanut Butter,” “Mystery Ma­ which reminded me of seeing the late, great Milgram’s first single, “Suggestions,” about not wanting to grow up. chine” and “Pez” fill my head with imagery very effec­ Pilgrims in I.V. And on “What To Want,” Alex sings, “Sometimes I’m a tively — maybe the band is drawing on a collective un- These were some awesome bands to see in such an in­ child, and I don’t know what I w an t... Sometimes I’m a timate setting, and it would have been a great deal even if grown up boy...” See SHOW, p.4A it hadn’t been just a measly five bucks to get in! The audience was also pretty happy when they sang a The Dambuilders opened the show. They’re usually cover version of Lois Maffeo’s song, “Valentine.” The pretty noisy— you could call them a punk band — and song appeared on her full-length album Butterfly Kiss, lead singer Dave Derby was red-faced from singing so recently released on K records. Before recording as Lois, hard. Joan Wasser added some great, innovative violin, she released three excellent singles with Pat Maley, as SUMMER FILMS which ranged from furiously scraping the bow back and Courtney Love the band, (totally different than Court­ forth, to some shining, beautiful moments on songs like ney Love from Hole). fro m UCSB Arts & L ectures Presents... FREE MEMBERSHIP “A GMM PIECE OFMOMMAKIW EMEMLB CALVIN $1.00 OFF WITH ANY RENTAL - D avid Denb)'. 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The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Cranes Trends Of Culture Don’t Know How To Party forever Trends Mercury BMG Music Mad Sounds ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ latest release is a de­ My friend once told me about a dream she had about a To understand the importance of the rap/hip-hop pressing failure, if we use their last two records as a ben­ little boy and his buddy, the talking yak, that could have band Trends of Culture, one merely needs to read their chmark. Falling away from their crossover ska experi­ been a movie off the Disney lots. It started off with the name. Trends..., their first release on the Mad Sounds ments on Devil’s Night Out and More Noise & Other camera spanning across supple, green pastures — much label, shows off an array of influences that combine in Disturbances, the Bosstones have given over to the de­ like the beginning of Sound of Music. But instead of Ju­ harmonious perfection. lie Andrews spinning herself dizzy on the top of a lull, Rooted in the Harlem experience, the album com­ there appeared Jeremy the Boy and Hobart the Talking bines R&B, jazz, pop, rap and hip-hop with an under­ Yak frolicking through the grass. ground spirit This fusion is so complete that it is difficult As the story went, Hobart was a large, unwieldy ani­ to distinguish much more than rap and hip-hop. Solid, mal who troppled through the forest and destroyed the monotonous drum beats are looped through the various homes of the little forest animals. I always imagined he tracks to give the record the musical backbone it needs. possessed the same mannerisms and personality as Breaking new ground, the band samples the likes of Ste­ Alfred Hitchcock. Except Hobart walked on four legs and wasn’t bald. And frightened small creatures in the forest And didn’t have a British accent. Anyway, Jeremy, the child with the cherubic face, also

cadent trend which has ruined coundess punk bands in the past decade— metal. Although they’ve always had a metal influence, it has always been Balanced against frantic ska beats, wailing horns and irreverent punk voc­ als. This record’s overriding feeling is one of weight. Whether it comes from Dicky Barrett trying to sing, the oppressive metal guitar parts, or the spick-and-span re­ cording of Mercury records, they are putting out rock an­ vie Wonder as well as the Eddie Harris rendition of “On a thems now. Clear Day.” At least if the Bosstones are going to be a rock band Touching on all the themes that make up a great rap/ they will be one with homs. Dennis Brockenborough, hip-hop group, Trends of Culture runs the gamut of so­ Kevin Lenear and Tim Burton are the greatest part about lived in the forest and spoke the language of the animals. cial issues. In "Valley of the Skinz,” contemporaiy issues this band and one of the few redeeming qualities of this It turned out that Jeremy’s little friends thought Hobart of racism are juxtaposed with religious images. Nastee, record. In some of the better moments they hint at the was an evil yak, and they had a big problem with his habit one of the group’s outspoken members says, “We want to energy the Bosstones used to have. Unfortunately, Don’t of stampeding through the forest and destroying their use the opportunity to tell the kids to keep away from the Know How To Party is much more guitar-centered than homes. drugs and stay in school.” any of the others. It turned out that Hobart wasn’t an evil yak after all! The record is chock-full of examples of this educated The Bosstones were an exciting and innovative band. He was just a clumsy oaf who ran into a lot of things, like perspective. Positive role models for young men are gi­ Now they have gotten tired and started to devolve. Even animal homes. “I like the creatures and don’t mean to de­ ven in the song “Let the Big Boyz Play” with lyrics that the lyrics to one of the best songs “Almost Anything stroy their homes,” Hobart explained to Jeremy, the boy claim, “I keep on flowing not fearing no man, I hack and Goes” suggest this: “It’s 4:30 in the mom’— I’m tattered, with the cherubic face. slash boom bash wack trash like Conan.” tired and tom. Trying to keep up the pace, this ain’t my Feeling compasion for the poor yak, Jeremy, the boy Intellectual issues are not the only ones tackled by home, this ain’t my place. The candle keeps on burning with the cherubic face, gave Hobart lessons in grace and Trends of Culture. The group’s mature sexuality and —at this point there’s no returning... I wanna wake up in proper posture. After that, Hobart was able to elegantly street savvy can be seen in lyrics like: “Nastee’s the name, a city that likes to go to bed. Where they know what time glide through the forest without destroying the homes of and yes, I eat the motherfuckin’ cat.” The group’s ability of day it is but I’m stuck here instead.” the animals. He made friends too because he was no lon­ to segue from subtle sexual innuendo to poignant social Maybe they do need to go back to Boston, away from ger smashing them under his hooves. commentary without ever sounding sexually retarded or New York’s huge record industry and back to their origi­ Anyway, if Disney did make a movie out of my friend’s politically naive is uncanny. nal label. dream, the soundtrack would sound a lot like the This release is possibly of grave importance. —Chris Dunlap Cranes’ Forever. —Anita Miralle —Duane Bing

out of Olympia, Wash., guy, Bill Peregoy. Bill is a which has been one of the regular presence on a ra­ Show mainstays of the move­ pidly growing electronic Quite The Quartet ment, is phasing out vinyl, mail network accessed by Continued from p.l he said. modem, an indication that The acclaimed pianist Larry Karush percussion. conscious of early 20-year- Still, for the moment, this is one of the ways that and his quartet will perform a rare concert The program spans the breadth of Kar- olds who watched there’s no shortage of great small record labels and at Center Stage Theater for local jazz en­ ush’s interest It includes three new origi­ “Scooby Doo” on TV in stuff in this medium. Small their bands’ listeners hook thusiasts Thursday titled “New Music for nal compositions “Solar Cells,” an adap­ 1984? Factory has so far released up. I told one of the lead­ Jazz Trio and Percussion.” Because Kar­ tation of Miles Davis’ “Solar”; “Men m just 7” singles on Slumber­ ers of SpinART records ush is widely recognized as one of the the Maze,” a tune with Afro-Cuban VINYL’S NOT DEAD land and Collision Time. that I’d only heard of the most talented jazz composers and impro­ rhythms in a Hopi-inspired structure; and The Dambuilders released “One Last Kiss” compila­ visers on the West Coast, this show will “Keep a-Knockin’,” a combination of I got to see a few people a recent single on Pop tion because of the net­ undoubtedly strike a pleasant chord with folk, ragtime and gospel. at this show, including for­ Narcotic before their new work, and he remarked all those who attend. Two jazz standards will also be per­ mer KCSB personality Ke­ SpinART material. And that “electronic mail saved The latest album of the Larry Karush formed: “Whisper Not” by Benny Golson vin Boyd, and Mike, the Fudge had a 7” single on our life,” creating mail or­ Quartet, Mokave has ween widely and “I Love You” by Cole Porter. Some head of Slumberland re­ Bus Stop before their ders that wouldn’t have lauded. While the Village Voice deems pieces by contemporary jazz composers cords. Along with K, Spi- album. happened otherwise. the musicians “exciting,” the Santa Bar­ include “I Remember Me” by Jan Ham­ nART, Simple Machines Slumberland’s most bara Independenfs Josef Woodward mer, “Parable” by John Abercrombie and and others, Slumberland famous offspring at the Aside from the Fudge warmly suggests the four make us feel “Leather Cats” by Glen Moore. has been one of the driving moment are Velocity Girl, single, the Bus Stop re­ “well out of harm’s way.” So whether jazz is your first love or forces of an underground who recently signed to Sub leases that I’ve seen have This will be the quartet’s first reunion you’ve listened to Thelonious on occa­ revival of the 7” single (for­ Pop, home of popular been music by Charlie after a two-year hiatus. From Carnegie sion, Karush will do you right. And isn’t merly known as the “45”). grunge such as the huge Dold and the wonderful Hall to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art that what music should do? I asked him what the commercial success Nir­ English band the Dentists. Karush has performed jazz, world music source is for his devotion vana. While they seem to Bus Stop is run out of a and new music with many of today’s most The Karush Quartet will be perform­ to the record, when a large be on their way to greater Champaign, 111., record notable innovators. Besides Karush on ing at Center Stage Theater in Paseo portion of the world seems fame, they were part of store and mail order firm the piano, the foursome consists of Randy Nuevo on Thursday, June 24, at 8 p.m. to have given up on it. Slumberland’s staple of Parasol. This seems to be Tico on the bass, Tom Lackner on drums There are student discounts. It’s a matter of principle, excellent, relatively little- another method of getting and Junior Homrich on the Brazilian —Martin Boer Mike said, to continue to known bands just a year the word out, as little give th e consumer a ago. Velocity Girl and labels double as mail order choice, while someone Small Factory have Slum­ outfits, carrying and publi­ buying the new Eric Clap­ berland singles in their cizing the others while ton, for instance, can only past, along with the likes they sign bands of their Artstfeek get a CD or a cassette. It of the Lilys, Honeybunch, own. hasn’t been easy economi­ Black Tambourine, Loreli, I don’t know if the me­ cally. Mike described los­ Whorl, Jane Pow and the dium will survive in its ing money on Slumber­ Swirlies, who have gone new, underground con­ Contributors: Brian Banks, Duane Bing, Kevin Carhart, land as a given— he “loses on to release CDs on text, but there’s certainly the most money on the Taang! records. an abundance of talented Chris Dunlap, Rusty Gantt, Anita Miralle, Tony Pierce, fewest records,” he said Pop Narcotic is a small and creative bands getting Matt Ragland, Valeska Ramet, William Toren jokingly. 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