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THE MUSICARTPOLITICSCULTURE MARS VOLTA 22-20’s prefuse 73 breakestra mark farina ralph nader sage francis blood brothers bush vs. mother nature sound tribe sector nine mike patton vs. x-ecutioners USA $3.99 | CANADA $4.99 | ISSUE 3 Photo © 2005 Mason Trullinger WWW.WAVMAG.COM r.i.p. TABLE OF CONTENTS i had another editors’ note all MUSICARTPOLITICSCULTURE written out and planned for this PUBLISHERS issue, but the day before we went MICAH LASHBROOK to press, hunter s. thompson killed 03 QUICKBITES JIM SULLOS himself with a shotgun to the head. THE MUKLASHY BROS. hunter did to me in literature what To the Future EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 04 WASIM MUKLASHY rage against the machine did to [email protected] me in music. transformed my entire existence. so real, so visceral, the 06 PREFUSE 73 EDITORS emotion and energy displayed and MICAH LASHBROOK described were the closest things [email protected] to the righteous human soul. he 09 MARK FARINA SCOTT SHAPIRO can be chided as a drug crazed [email protected] maniac, but his substance abuse wasn’t nearly as bad as our abuse 11 Ankore JIM SULLOS of substance. This leaves him and his [email protected] ways as genius. As diffi cult as they 12 The Gramaphone ART DIRECTOR & WEB DESIGN were for some to digest, they were SHADI MUKLASHY necessary embodiments of what we, as a species, have become. this [email protected] BLOOD BROTHERS shit not only fi lled our stomachs, but 14 MARKETING satiated our spirits. there’s so much THE WAV GROUP that can be said about hunter, but Josh One [email protected] what of it has not been said already 17 STAFF WRITERS before? so easy to love, so easy to MICAH LASHBROOK hate. he was the rebel posterboy 19 Bintu WASIM MUKLASHY for free speech and expression, SCOTT SHAPIRO exploiting it for the good of raw JIM SULLOS reality. he just didn’t give a fuck. its 20 KONKRETE JUNGLE DISTRIBUTION as if he was saying ‘this is who i am, Desert Moon Periodicals, Ubiquity, this is what i’ve become, this is what Kent News, Disticor Canads, Grapevinez/H 0 Productions you’ve led me to be, so if you don’t 21 22-20’s 2 like it, fuck you, you created me!’ PRICELESS CONTRIBUTORS ASHA ASHAR, ASHER RUMACK, BOB before letting out a righteous laugh FREVILLE, JAKE MCGEE, JASON MASCOW, and a shotgun blast to a golfball... 22 SAGE FRANCIS SCOTT SHAPIRO, KRISTI CURTIS, DR. S. and eventually, to his head. hunter, GHIL, MATT HANRAHIZZY AT KINGSIZE- USA, DJ MICHELLE MAI, KIA, CARLOS we will miss you, we will never forget HERRERA, WES MIRBELLO, JT TAYLOR, you, and we will do all we can to 24 SOUND TRIBE SECTOR NINE B.FRANK, B.ARTHUR, MIKETHEPOET, MARLIN GEORGE, ORDELL CORDOVA, accomodate the survival of your KRISTINA, SIMONSEN, RIC SCULTZ, “T”, spirit...if only we can keep up. fi nally, XTRA OMNIPOTENT, DANIEL KIGER, GREG 28 MOSELEY, ADAM FURNESS, ANGELA hunter, you can rest in peace. THE MARS VOLTA PIERCE, AREILLE KILROY, SEAN MURPHY, JOEY ‘THE LOOONG ARM OF THE LAW’ SHAPIRO, MONTAGUE BITTERMAN, ERIC 32 Don ‘Campbellock’ Campbell COLEMAN, JOANNA ELIZABETH ROACH we hope you enjoy this, our fi rst newsstand issue. about a year ago, THANX we came at you with intentions of BIZ3, MYUTOPIA, AFROMAN, TISHA 34 The Lost Angeles Times CARTER, DEVIN AT H20 PRODUCTIONS, providing a true music magazine NICA AND MUSIC FOR AMERICA, for the thinking mind, meaning PIERO, SUSAN, TOM, AND EVERYONE we wouldn’t only cover music, AT AXIS OF JUSTICE,AFROMAN, JUDY @ 36 BREAKESTRA CURBSTONE, PHIL AT MYUTOPIA, DON but everything that music lends its ‘CAMPBELLOCK’ CAMPBELL, SHLOMO glorious soundtrack to, everything AND THE GETUNDERGROUND.COM CREW, NANCY CISNEROS, PIERO GIUNTI, that truly matters to you...life, art, 38 BEAT THE PRESS JOY DONNEL, ALEX GREENBURG AND politics, culture. we wanted to MSOPR, OLA & CHADI, MOM & DAD!!! give a music magazine to those PLEASE SEND ALL CORRESPONDENCE, who simply didn’t give a damn 40 Oedipus SUBMISSIONS & QUERIES TO: about pop and top 40 and the WAV Magazine radio crowd. we wanted to give a 3253 S. Beverly Dr. music magazine that cared more 41 MIKE PATTON Los Angeles, CA 90034 about quality material, and the progressive minds behind it. music OR EMAIL: Nuthin’ But a Good Time [email protected] and art and politics and a culture 43 with a meaning, with a soul, with a EMAIL FOR ADVERTISING: grounded understanding of how [email protected] we must live and what we must do 45 : TOM MORELLO the views and opinions expressed within to ensure our harmony with survival. these pages do not necessarily reflect something we can all truly relate to. those of WAV mag, and vica versa. 46 KIA THE LANDLORD This is simply a forum for expression. and you responded. thanx so much all claims and statements herein are nothing for the invaluable support and but that...statements herein. you can interpret encouragement. you’ve inspired us them as facts. you can interpret them as 48 ECOLIBRIUM fiction. all we ask is that you interpret them. to open another credit card to give you color and to grant you glossy! www.wavmag.com 50 Ralph Nader ©2004-2005 WAV Magazine let’s dance, 52 REVIEWS 55 THE NUMBERS GAME quickbites The Kyoto Protocol went into effect Feb. of the remixes have been over-hauled everything else that’s worth listening to 16 2005! The global treaty to reduce with new lyrics, music, or both, and -- but this time with the help of madman greenhouse emissions has been ratified there’s a bunch of guest spots from guitarist Daron Malakian. According by 136 countries that, collectively, members of the Hieroglyphics, Dilated to the politically charged thrash metal made up 62% of 1990s Co2 emissions. Peoples, and KRS-One himself. Check monsters, they just had too many good Yay! The treaty was ratified by every him out at www.quannum.com. songs to pick from and decided to put all single industrial nation in the world with of them out. Mesmerize will be released exception of the U.S., Australia, and approximately six months after Hypnotize. Monaco. Boo! The U.S. is the world’s I’m Rick James biggest emitter, and our (Bush’s) March BITCH!! Mother fuckin’ 2001 withdrawal from the Protocol dealt Finally! 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