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889.01 [cover] 10/27/04 7:52 PM Page 1 REVIEWS FLAT EARTH SOCIETY • RONDO BROTHERS • MASSIVE ATTACK • SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM • TYPICAL CATS ISSUE NO. 889 • NOVEMBER 8, 2004 • WWW.CMJ.COM NEW MUSIC REPORT® CMJSPOTLIGHT REVIEW LUNA Rendezvous TOP DEBUT TED LEO/PHARMACISTS Sheets Happen! MOST ADDED FUTUREHEADS RADIO (XTC)TATIC! ELLIOTT NEWS TO US Sirius Got Their SMITH Mojo Workin’ The late great “Anti-” hero goes No. 1 DE LA SOUL NOW 4-FEET HIGH! TOPS HIP HOP CHART RETAIL: ROCK-A-BILLY’S FEEL USED... BUT NOT IN A DIRTY, SHAMEFUL WAY. THEY EXPLAIN ON PAGE 12 889.02 [reporting ad] 10/27/04 7:53 PM Page 4 ¥ CMJ REPORTING SCHEDULE LATE 2004 – EARLY 2005 HOLIDAY BREAK There will be no reports for the period from Nov. 19 – 23. (We have biscuits and gravy to make, people!) Reporting will re-open the Friday after Thanksgiving, Nov. 25, and close the following Tuesday, Nov. 30 at 2pm EST, as always. The final reports for 2004 will take place between Friday Dec. 3 and Tuesday Dec. 7. 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Great tist DJ Zeph’s Sunset Scavenger,a RPM Editor googely moogely!” CMJ sends our powerhouse instrumental record that Justin Kleinfeld best wishes to Mojo and Sirius… Um, peaked at No. 7 on CMJ Hip Hop. Contributing Writer hey, Sirius. Remember when we used Seems the scavenger scavenged a pic- Brad Filicky ture of two garbage trucks (ew… Interns to do a cool radio show together? Jennifer Daniel Haha, yeah. Those were good times… garbage picker!) for the cover of his Reed Fischer good times. You still have our num- latest silky beatscursion. Immediately ber, right? Cool. If you ever want to upon its release, Wide Hive was ART hang out again, we’d like that. threatened with legal action from the Art Director Haha… no pressure. Let’s just be Cali-based Sunset Scavenger Garbage Steve Cassidy friends for now. We think that would Collections Company over use of be cool. Cool? Cool. their trademark. Avoiding a costly CUSTOMER SERVICE court battle (way to go Sunset Fulfillment/Business Services ISSUE 889 If you ain’t got Scavenger… going after all that indie Manager e Radio sounded much dimmer Mojo Nixon (that’s him up there), label money! The profit on those Jason Glastetter this week when we learned regal DJ your satellite radio station could use Azeem records alone must be a frig- Customer Service Coordinator John Peel passed away. The BBC icon some fixin’. Well consider Sirius gin’ goldmine!), Wide Hive agreed to Greg Burgett pushed the boundaries of Radio 1 Satellite Radio’s lack of Mojo official- change the artwork on the cover (may since the late 1960s and highlighted PUBLISHING we suggest television’s Roc?) and the ly remedied. Elvis-proponent, psy- the most innovative names in music, CEO & Publisher title of the album—now known as chobilly weird merchant and Debbie from the Smiths to Napalm Death, Robert K. Haber Sunset Salvage. Man, what’s a hip- Chief Operating Officer Gibson impregnator Mojo Nixon is from Nirvana to Birthday Party, hopper gotta do to get sued for sam- Jay B. Ziskrout going to bring his bo-day-shus self to through live performances in the stu- pling these days? Account Executives Sirius Satellite Radio’s commercial- dio, documented in countless “Peel Jerry Rubino free “Outlaw Country” station—join- Sessions” broadcasts and releases. e Greg Shaw, founder of esoterica Johnny Chiba ing the staff as an afternoon on-air John Peel was 65 and hated boring wonderland label Bomp, died on host! Nixon has done time hosting a music. If anyone should have been CIRCULATION October 19 from heart failure. Record Distribution & Fulfillment Cincinnati talk show and on a San knighted before Elton John... Diego classic rock station (so, that’s collector/fanzine publisher Shaw [email protected] formed Bomp in 1974 to release “You 917.606.1908 where he’s been! 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One of our are welcome; please enclose a self-addressed, favorite Rock-A-Billy 17 LOUD ROCK stamped envelope to facilitate return. 19 RPM Postmaster: send address changes to bands. Their struggle CMJ New Music Report, 151 W. 25th St., continues. 20 AAA / HIP HOP 12th Floor; New York, NY 10001. PAGE 12 21 JAZZ / NEW WORLD CONTENTS 22 GOING FOR ADDS 23 FINAL SAY: WERS 3 CMJ NOVEMBER 8, 2004 889.04 [now] 10/27/04 7:56 PM Page 4 THIS WEEK’S NOW ESSENTIAL NEW RELEASES FLAT EARTH SOCIETY LUNA RONDO BROTHERS Isms (Ipecac) Rendezvous (Jetset) No Time Left On Earth (Coup De Grace) Flat Earth Society—a tumultuous collective of 21-or-so “Dog day romance/Key lime pie/Valium sunset/Hazy If you've ever added pineapple to your pizza, you Belgian waffles—finally honks and splatters all over sky… Where has all the sunshine gone?” asks NYC Man know that a little Hawaiian flavor goes a long way. American shores. This demented big band swings like Dean Wareham on “Motel Bambi,”off Luna’s swan song, Long-time Dan The Automator collaborators, the jazzers, but eclectically skronk like record geeks: Wobbly Rendezvous. Channeling his best Lou Reedisms, former Rondo Brothers, take a page out of his conceptual Turkish marches bumble into Zappaesque jazz from hell Galaxie 500 mainman Wareham may have bid farewell to scrapbook with No Time Left On Earth, creating a (“Pune”), noir Mancini vibes turn the corner to sunny the moonlight, but Luna’s legacy of Velvet Underground tongue-in-cheek album of Hawaiian hip-hop instru- chorals (“Minoes Op Boodschap”), a slow vamp for (check “Malibu Love Nest”) via Yo La Tengo fuzz guitar mentals that is sure to get a few grass skirts shimmy- zombie strippers coils upward and ejaculates Sousa should tide fans until another Wareham/Britta Phillips shimmy-ya-ing. As playful as a Kid Koala, but less (“Funeral And Binche”); and Cole Porter meets disc. In the meantime, crawl into your favorite nook and ADD, this tropical salad of live instruments, samples, Morricone for 25 sweet seconds (“Naar De Emmalaan”). bask in Luna’s fantastic sunset. singers and rappers is a guaranteed lei. WEB: www.ipecac.com WEB: www.fuzzywuzzy.com WEB: www.coupdegrace.tv ATTN: Naked City-dwellers, hot rats, band geeks ATTN: Dreamy Yo La Tengo fans, Luna rovers ATTN: Luau lovers, hip-hoppers who dance the hula RELEASE DATE / ADD DATE: Out now / at radio RELEASE DATE / ADD DATE: Out now / at radio RELEASE DATE / ADD DATE: November 16 / November 25 RADIO: Shaun Macdonald, [email protected]; Sara Dempsey, RADIO: Justin Gressley, [email protected].