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ENTERTAINMENTpage 23 Technique • Friday, April 20, 2001 • 23 A ‘Dozen’ reasons Cross this! Come find out why this atypical If your last test of verbal ability was ENTERTAINMENT brass band from New Orleans is the SAT, check out “Onward and gaining a following. Page 25 Crossword.” Page 27 Technique • Friday, April 20, 2001 It’s hot, it’s loud, it’s nuts, it’s Music Midtown 2001 By Alan Back bill. Look for a few local alumni with more than 60 craft vendors Drinks flat Coke for fun such as John Mayer and the Josh and its own stage for cultural Joplin Group to pop up during performances. Image Film and Being on semesters has an the weekend as well. Video will exhibit short works, advantage or two over the quar- Hungry? Take three steps in and the PushPush Theater is slat- ter system, especially when it any direction and you’ll proba- ed to put on one-act plays. Pack comes to the 8th Annual Music bly trip over somebody selling the wee folk off to Kids Town in Midtown Festival. Instead of giv- good things to put in your face. SciTrek (5/5 and 5/6, noon to 6 ing up a weekend of valuable Take your pick of German (Edel- p.m.) and let them play with study time to join the party, you everything in sight. They even can wrap up all your finals and get a stage of shows just for them, celebrate by blowing out your Over 130 bands sponsored by Radio Disney. eardrums in style. One-day tickets sell for $30, This year’s hours are: May 4, from all over the or for an extra $5, snag a pass 6 p.m. to midnight; May 5, noon world will perform good for the whole weekend. to midnight; and May 6, noon Visit any Ticketmaster outlet to 10 p.m. SciTrek and the At- on a total of 11 or go online (http:// lanta Civic Center lie at the heart stages during the www.ticketmaster.com) to get of the 35-acre site, which reach- yourself hooked up. es from Piedmont Avenue to weekend music To get there, hop a MARTA Central Park Place and from festival. train down to the North Ave- Ralph McGill Boulevard to Pine nue or Civic Center station. It’s Street. Renaissance Park and a short walk from there. You Central Park are also included. cook on the pavement or grass, Over 130 bands from all over weiss), Thai (Bangkok House), the bands cook on the stages, the world will perform on a to- Jamaican (Bridgetown Grill), and the food vendors cook in their tal of 11 stages during the week- plenty of standard and South- carts—are we ready to have fun end music festival; featured acts ern fare. Those of you who want yet? include Bob Dylan, the Indigo something a little harder than Girls, the Black Crowes, and Live. Coke or bottled water can get it For updates and more informa- If local music is your thing, 99X in abundance; just be sure to tion, call the Music Midtown hot- By Jonathan Purvis / STUDENT PUBLICATIONS has a stage just for you, with the pick up a wristband at the gate. line at (770) MIDTOWN Butch Walker, lead singer of The Marvelous 3, performs during a recent Atlanta likes of Soup, the Forty-Fives, For a break from the music, (643-8696) or visit http:// concert appearance. Walker and the group are slated to return for their third and the X-Impossibles on the cut over to the Artist Market, www.musicmidtown.com. performance at Music Midtown, May 4-6, their second on the 99X main stage. Sinomatic sizzles with debut release The Spirit of ’76 is alive and well Down Under with The Living End By Andrew Pilsch the politics seems forced, not song rolls out of the stereo, and Gobbing in the wind nearly as subtle as anything Joe you almost feel like it’s 1977 Strummer ever sang. After that again. Band: The Living End song, bits and pieces of the record There is some very interest- Album: Roll On seem to show very great prom- ing genre splicing present on “Roll Label: Reprise ise, but for its first half, the al- On.” Even though the song is Rating: yyy bum wallows in the murky horrible, I think my favorite ex- grunge of 90s hard rock. ample of this would have to be 25 years ago, four guys from “Pictures in the Mirror,” the “Staring in the Mirror,” which Queens tried to record an al- second track, is just bad and will sounds so much like a Police bum that sounded like the Bay probably having you reaching song it’s scary. Most of the songs City Rollers and failed misera- for the skip track button, if not on the album reflect the Living bly, but what they did record stop, which is unfortunate, be- Ends roots as a rockabilly reviv- become one of the lasting mon- cause there are a many more al cover band in Melbourne be- By Roy Zipstein / ATLANTIC RECORDS uments of rock music in the last good songs coming up on the fore making it big, so, if Carl Sinomatic’s Rick Deak, Dave Markasky, Ken Cooper, Bryan Patrick, and 30 years. Of course I’m talking album. Perkins had grown up listening Matt Lawrence are a band of boys, but are definitely not a “boy band.” about the Ramones and the genre While the first half of the to the Clash, Sun Records prob- that their first album got rolling album more or less sucks, around ably would have reverberated By Vivian Vakili the most popular. However, Candys- was punk. the seventh track (“Dirty Man” with the sound of the Living Monarch of sizzle kin deserves some recognition as well. Now, in 2001, there are a which is great), the Living End End. Their lyrics, admittedly, could use bevy of bands with a punk sound really get rolling, and the album As unbelievable as it may seem, a little work. With lines like, “a pic- getting radio and having videos starts to click, and song after See End, page 29 there seems to be a decent new ture perfect match was what we were” in rotation. In 1998, an Austra- band...complete with self-written mu- and every song being about love or lian band, the Living End, had a sic and lyrics, a lead singer with a lust, one wonders as to the originality minor hit stateside with their spectacular voice, and most band mem- of the ideas. Sinomatic could defi- single “Prisoner of Society” (it bers appearing to sport their original nitely benefit a bit by curbing their was the highest selling single by hair colors. enthusiasm, so to speak, when it comes in Australian artist within Aus- Sinomatic features Ken Cooper on to love. After all, it is about the most tralia during the 90s). Now the lead vocals, Rick Deak on lead and cliche thing when it comes to music. Living End are back with a new rhythm guitars, Bryan Patrick on lead On the whole, however, the band album, titled “Roll On.” and rhythm guitars, Dave Markasky blends likable music with a strong Unfortunately, the Living on bass, and Matt Lawrence on drums leading voice and admirable guitar End’s new album doesn’t cap- and percussion. Amazingly enough, solos. ture the brilliance of some the they seem to have successfully avoid- The band is currently touring with bands they are trying to emu- ed the boy band plague and their sound Buckcherry and they have also previ- late, most notably the Clash. is quite reminiscent of early 90’s grunge, ously toured with AC/DC and Fuel. There are spaces on this album with a new twist. Lead singer Ken There are no Atlanta dates currently that sound positively like out- Cooper sounds somewhere between scheduled, as the tour seems to be takes from “London Calling.” U2’s Bono and the Violent Femmes’ mainly hitting the Northeast. The title track being the best Gordon Gano. It is somewhat mem- Buy the cd? Would not be a bad example of these is an insanely orable and definitely unique. Their idea. After all, we all deserve a little catchy song about a labor strike. new self-titled cd, Sinomatic, consists decent music as a retreat from the It’s chorus of “We’ll roll on with By Danny Clinch / REPRISE RECORDS of eleven tracks. The first two songs, current TRL hell we are being put our heads held high / Our con- The Australians of The Living End, the creators of the highest-selling Bloom and You’re Mine, seem to be through. science in the gutter / Our dreams single in their country during the 1990s, “Prisoner of Society,” are up in the sky” is very catchy, but making another push Stateside with their album “London Calling.” 24 • Friday, April 20, 2001 • Technique ENTERTAINMENT ...01010101101010 10101010101010101010101010... ...Two Bits As much as I depend on email, it hit by a bus. 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