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ENCORE INTERVIEW, PAT STULL/Dftily Ne*u> MIKE D, AD-ROCK AND MCA DISCUSS THE NEW ALBUM, THEIR EXTENDED LAYOFF AND THE HIP-HOP POTENTIAL OF NIRVANA. PAGE 4A 2 A Thursday, April 16,1992 ■BOOK REVIEW Anarchy in the U.K. New Book Traces Roots of Punk Phenomenon

o future!” screamed the crass, leering Johnny Rot­ Featured are numerous interviews and commentaries ten at the end of “God Save the Queen,” the sec­ from a wide assortment of pop stars including Chrissie ond vitriolic single from London’s infamous Sex Hynde, Siouxsie Sioux, Billy Idol, Adam Ant and Morris­ N Pistols. Hie song emerged at a crucial time during sey —all of whom experienced the British punk scene firs­ the Queen’s Jubilee in 1977, when the majority of die Brit­ thand and lived to tell about it. ish population blindly and buoyandy celebrated Queen Savage emphasizes the scheming antics of Malcolm Elizabeth’s 25 years on the throne. Oblivious to the devas­ McLaren, the shrewd and manipulative art school tating economic recession that left nearly 1 million unem­ dropout-turned entrepreneur who was ultimately respon­ ployed that year, the British people had no idea that they sible for tiie Sex Pistols’ audacious assault on the staid, were celebrating the veiy institution that contributed to conservative British population. These legendary market­ Britain’s economic disaster. ing tactics are all hilariously described, though McLaren England’s Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock emerges as a corrupt Fagin-like father figure who used the and Beyond is a fascinating new book about the Punk Sex Pistols as media pawns in his merchandising scheme to movement that exploded in the mid-seventies as an angry shove Punk rock down the throats of the masses. reaction to Britain’s conservative political and social cli­ The author clearly believes that Punk merits a place in mate. Former rock journalist Jon Savage devotes a rather the annals of popular culture, and in the tradition of Greil lengthy 600 pages to the evolution of the Punk phenome­ Marcus’ Lipstick Traces, England’s Dreaming attempts to non, beginning with its roots in the anarchist rhetoric of the condense decades into one concise volume. For this rea­ „1968 student uprising in Paris and terminating with the son, the book often becomes cluttered with unnecessary rather sudden demise of the media-obsessed Sex Pistols in trivialities. 1978. Nevertheless, England’s Dreaming succeeds as a well- In between, England’s Dreaming leaves no subject un­ written and complete document of the entire Punk era. treated. With a sassy, staccato writing style that reads like Savage does a remarkable job of tying together music, poli­ an extended Melody Maker article (i.e. there are a lot of tics and popular culture, allowing England’s Dreaming to big, pretty words), Savage tackles such diverse topics as emerge as much more than just another look back at the ex­ anarchist politics, the British recording industry, Punk plosive era that brought Anarchy to the U.K. This dapper gent, Jon Savage, explores Punk fashion and the rival American Punk scene centered ar­ in his latest book, England’s Dreaming. ound the nightclub CBGB’s in New York. —Andy Bailey This Week at The Anaconda (From left) Groove-rockers Phish play tonight with Widespread Panic; Hardcore stalwart Social Distortion headlines Saturday night. 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It With the backing of Wechs- took him a second to ex­ ler and several others, he Thursday plain that his train of made his directorial debut April 16th thought had moved on from with The Rapture. authors to bands that he en­ Thefilm’s strong religious at 8:00pm joyed. He liked the Feelies. comment attracted a strange Look at screenwriter/ collection of critics. I.V. Theatre novelist/director/joumalist “When it came out, it had Tolkin’s life, and every as­ attackers and supporters,” $3.50 pect of it seems to have this Tolkin said. “The suppor­ leap-first-and- tell-people- ters liked it because it sup­ JFKThe Story That Won’t Co Aumy' about-it-later approach. His Kimberly Cullen (left) and Mimi Rogers In ported a need for religion or first profession was that of a Sponsored by: Royal Residence filmmaker Michael Tolkin’s The Rapture. it portrayed a cold universe of San Nicolas Hall journalist. 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He narrative. It is a personal Beauty file until my editors helped show. titled it The Player. film, allowing only for per­ The most beautiful -pv and the to make it less amiable. “I learned about movie For some strange reason, sonal interpretation. If The love story ever told. (McGwin) wasn’t too making and helped to de­ Hollywood decided it liked Player is an attack on Hol­ Beast happy about it. ... I didn’t stroy a TV series,” he said. being viewed in such a cyni­ lywood, The Rapture es­ Sponsored by: American Institute of have the stomach to go on Meanwhile, “The Spiel­ cal light. It liked it so much, capes it. Chemical Engineers & A.S. Underwrite mugging people like that.” berg side got angrier from it bought the rights to the “Younger audiences So, in 1978, he up and 1978 to 1985,” at what book, and made a movie. don’t know what films can moved to Los Angeles with Tolkin described as “stupid­ Robert Altman directed it, it be. 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The Multicultural but... the x i iX Center Presents: "Hymns of Praise" truth is Thursday, April 16 12 Noon FREE w e w ere This film records the annual pilgrim­ age to the m ousstm or sanctuary, o f ju st Moulay Idnss I, who founded the first Islamic Kingdom of Morocco. The festival is inaugurated by several jam m ing in Sufi brotherhoods with a night time ceremony called the Kharma. As they spin to die music of drums and A dam shoes, the Sufi followers reach the ecstatic state of mystical communion with God. (26 minutes, 1987) (Ad-Rock)’s at the Multicultural Center bedroom .” - Mike D The Boys Are Back Frankfurt $335* After a Three Year Hiatus, The Beasties Return Amsterdam $309* Paris $349* With a New Attitude and a Double Album. Tokyo $300* Bv P.E.A.C.E. * Fares from Los Angeles and are each way based on a roundtrip purchase. r es, la d ie s •a n d could only jam there for president of the company knew, we were on tour with Check Your Head by the Restrictions apply and taxes not in­ \ / gentlemen, b-boys three weeks ’cause then the went into shock, and this Donny Osmond. Beastie Boys. It’s cornin’ out cluded. Student status may be re­ and b-girls, the downstairs neighbor who secret clone of the president Mike D: But now they have in April. We wanted it to quired. second hiatus is has a gun and a Harley actually took over and ran this new thing at (Capitol) come out before that but the over. The Beastie Boys called the cops. the company. And even where they give the employ­ record company kept hea­ Council Travel have returned three years ENCORE: What happened though he seemed like he ees at the label No-Doz so tin’ us down and holdin’ us 1 4 5 1 5 Ventura Blvd. #250 after the release of Paul’s with Paul’s Boutique in re­ was awake and running the they stay up all the time, and back. It’s gonna be a double Sherman Oaks, CA. 914031 Boutique (one of the most ference to License to 111? company, the real president they’re fust gettin’ hype over album. underrated hip-hop re­ Stylistically, they were a lot was sleepin’. He was in a the Beastie’s now. I don’t ENCORE: Will there be a 1-800-888-87861 cords in history). Their new The student travel experts. different. coma — he was fast asleep. folk about the other things single? a lb u m is Check Your MCA: Adam personally ENCORE: Is this after hear­ that keep them awake at Ca­ Ad-Rock: The single is Head, due next Tuesday. wanted to take it to a higher ing demos from P a u l’s pitol ... called “Pass the Mic” and ST A TRAVEL ENCORE caught up with level. B outique? ENCORE: Let’s folk about it’s cornin’ out late April. the elusive Beasties to Ad-Rock: I went through a Mike D: No, this is when the Young and the Useless. Mike D: But we’re going to We've teen there! “shoot the shit” about re­ lot of emotional and physi­ the album was released. Mike D: Ahhhh ... that’s sneak (college radio) cuts verse sex changes, Nir­ cal changes through that MCA: As it was released, my Adam’s band. R O U N D T R IP F R O M L A X ’cause you’re more hooked vana’s unreleased hip-hop period of time. man suddenly turned into Ad-Rock: That was my first up than the people who go record and the new LP. P A R IS 579 MCA: Sex change into a wo­ Rip Van Winkle instantly. band, and then the drum­ s h o p p in ’ at the ENCORE: It’s been a while man and back to a man. And we’re not talking about mer went to milifoiy school Wherehouse. since we last heard from you FRANKFURT 540 Ad*Rock: And I feel a lot napping, we’re talking ab­ and the bassist went to ... ENCORE: What is it going guys. What’ve you been up different but much more to sound like? L O N D O N 548 to? like the same now. Feel MCA: You know, it’s actu­ Mike D: (completely ignor­ good though. ing, the question) It’s going TEL AVIV 900 ally funny you should ask Mike D: A lot of people ask that because a lot of people to have some nice B-sides... Adam how he got the nasal "(Check Your Head)z's kinda like hip- MCA: Featuring Busy Bee. SEE JAPAN, MALAYSIA are asking us that style, but a lot of it has to do hop, punk rock, hardcore, salsa,... (inde­ Ad-Rock: Busy Bee, Biz AUSTRALIA Mike D: That’s been the big with the fact of how he Markie, all kinds of people NEW ZEALAND, question today. physically changed to a wo­ cipherable), disco, Barry White music, on the record. AND THREE MCA: “Where have you man and back into a man. reggae, funk album.” ENCORE: Would you call it SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS guys been?” That actually has a lot to do a hip-hop record? Mike D: Sometimes we’ll —M ike D . FOR ONLY $1589 with how he got the nasal Mike D: It’s kinda like hip- say like, that we’re kayak­ style. hop, punk rock, hardcore, ing, or snowboarding, but ENCORE; Let’s talk about • LOW COST ONE WAYS salsa, samba, free jazz, mar­ • EUR AIL DISCOUNT WITH really, the truth is we were something on the serious out comatose sleep. ENCORE: Nirvana. imba, (indecipherable), PURCHASE OF TICKET just jamming in Adam (Ad- side for a moment Paul’s ENCORE: Has he been Ad-Rock: He joined Nir­ disco, Barry White music, • LIMITED RESTRICTIONS Rock)’s bedroom. • TRAVELER INSURANCE B o u tiq u e didn’t get the awakened yet? vana ... and then I joined reggae, funk album. AVAILABLE MCA: I think you can treatment it deserved from Beasties: He got fired. Nirvana, but they didn’t ENCORE: Will there be a clearly see that I haven’t the record label (Capitol). Mike D: Which is kinda want me and (Mike D and video? 120 OFFICES WORLDWIDE been working on my pool Do you wanna talk about cold considering he was in a MCA did) so I joined the Mike D: We did one video game in that period of time that a little bit? coma. Beastie Boys. THREE LA. LOCATIONS: and now w e’re do in ’ Ad-Rock: I don’t know MCA: Then the new presi­ Mike D: And also, a lot of another for the B-side of the (310) 824-1574 w e s t w o o d village ENCORE: So, you guys what you’re talking about. dent came in and started people don’t know that we single. (213) 937-8722 m r Hollywood have been jamming In Mike D: Well, a lot of peo­ talkin’ about Donny Os­ did this hip-hop record with ENCORE: Do you need (310) 394-5126 s a n t a Mo n ic a Adam’s bedroom for what ple don’t realize this but at mond, next thing we knew, Nirvana that never came people to come out for that? three years now? the time the record came out we were on the back burner. out. We hooked up the Mike D: Well actually, no Mike D: Ten years! We — this is top secret — the Ad-Rock: Next thing we beats for it and not that offense but it pretty much STA TRAVEL many people know about it. just involves me. But that was before they The Multicultural Center blew up. ENCORE: Any last words? SUMMER FASHIONS ARE HERE! Presents: ENCORE: Let’s talk about MCA: Keep on truckin’. the new record. What’s it Mike D: We’d like to say Translation and Transformation: titled, when is it coming out, what’s up and send shouts The Fabulous Western Creation of the etc.? out to all the people from Thousand and One Nights MCA: You know, it’s funny the South Bay, Gardena, all you should ask that ... the way down the coast, to Lecture/Discussion by Dr. Dwight Reynolds Mike D: OK, number one, all the kids hookin’ up their EXC HANGE Dr. Reynolds, professor of Arabic let’s knock this right outta own beats; and all the MCs language and literature in the the box. The album is called and DJs out there. Great Clothes & Accessories department of religious studies at at Unbelievable Prices! UCSB, will discuss the history of the creation of 1001 Nights. Reynolds received his PhD in THE WONDERFUL WORDS OF folklore and folk life from the CASH PAID! for used University of Pennsylvania. •Ladies & Juniors Contemporary Clothing Thursday, April 16 Stephen Lynne-Bachelor • Shoes, Belts, Purses & Accessories 4 pm FREE at the every other friday in weekend connection Multicultural Center Magnolia Center * 3122 Hollister Ave., Goleta * 967-0610 For more infonnatioo call the UCSB M ulticultural Center at 893-8411 ¡ore critic’s mice Thursday, April 16,1992 5 A I FILM REVIEWS League of His Own AS M B i m%p. John Goodman Scores as The Babe f p f f i T he Babe. Suiting John Goodman, films have recorded his Kelly McGillis, Trim Alvarado, and World Series heroics and Brace Boxledtner. Written by John Fuaco. Directed by Arthur M e t famous “Called Shot”. But how many people know ab­ rom bulging nose out Ruth's troubled child­ THU to bursting sto­ hood, his two marriages, or mach, John Good­ his dream of actually man­ 4 / 1 6 F man is The Babe aging a major league team? (at the Paseo Nuevo Cine­ All these subjects are treated mas on Friday). But the por­ in The Babe, but certainly trayal is more than a not to the extent which triumph in good makeup should have made this con­ and great eating. Goodman temporary version far super­ is Babe Ruth— a waddling, ior to the decades-old The shouting, larger-than-life Babe Ruth Story. HLEADHFAD i I I h A v hero whose exploits on and The current film does off the field made him He’s outta here! have the advantage of a big RED RIVER GUM BO legendaiy. sneer at our protagonist and budget, which means close The actor jumps into his crusty managers who wax period detail to costumes H H I AT THE PUB 3 PM first full-range lead charac­ nostalgic about the good ol’ and sets. But what it has in ter as if he thought the film days of the game. (This is the looks, it lacks in heart Few would be up for Oscar con­ '20s! How much older was of the actors beside Good­ sideration. It isn't, but the the game?). man seem comfortable in ONLY $1 FOR STUDENTS performance delivered by a Hiller can’t decide their roles, especially a ter­ man best known for his tele­ whether to focus on Ruth’s ribly miscast Kelly McGillis vision work will go down as historical achievements or as Ruth’s showgirl-tumed- one of the year’s best his personal life, which is ul­ lover-tumed-wife. If ever TUE The others involved in timately the film’s greatest one performance was the production will not be fault Not only it is about 20 enough to merit a film’s re­ 4/21 so fortunate. Director Ar­ minutes too long, butfails to commendation, this is it thur Hiller creates formula adequately expand on the But as any baseball fan will COMEDY NIGHI baseball fluff, complete with private side of the Bambino. confirm, It’s a team game. opposing pitchers who Countless other books and —Brian Banks FEATURING WAYNE FEDERMAN AND SUU McCULLOUGH An Existential Romp AT THE PUB 8 PM $2/$3

U ntil th e E n d o fth e World. Starring William Huxt, Solveig Donmarrin, ogy, but forced to rely on movie. Everyone seems lost Max von Sydow, Jeanne Moreau and both as the means of travel­ and directionless, trying to WED Sam NeiL Written and Directed by ing the world in her quest Wim Wenders. gain a foothold in a global for purpose. society that is too big for any 4 / 2 2 Science fiction writers The object of her quest is one person to cope with. and religious prophets have embodied in Trevor, played The film then brings the often chosen the year 2000 by William Hurt, who is characters together at the fi as some sort of reference country-hopping on a quest nal stop, the deep outback point for the future; it has of his own. Using a camera of Australia, where each come to acquire a mystical built by his father that pro­ journey turns inward. They FREE STORKE PLAZA 12 PM significance as a marker of duces video images that can face themselves and their how far society will have be seen by the blind, he is re­ dreams, cut off from all gone in the last two cording the world so his technology except that of millennia. mother, blind since child­ the camera, forcing them to 'Until the End of the hood, can see it as well. explore increasingly omin­ W orld (at the Victoria Sam Neil is Claire’s hus­ ous uses for it Street Theatre) is one of the band, a writer who has little The film takes on heavy first works to look at the identity apart from the vari­ themes, but treats them aU m ACOUSTICS year 2000 as a future that ous technological devices with whimsy, and is both an has already arrived. he harnesses to help him in existential journey and a The latest film by German his work and his search for playful romp. Everything W/ SPECIAL GUESTS director Wim Wenders Claire, his excuse for world from the wall-to-wall pop (Paris, Texas; Wings of De­ travel. song soundtrack, to Don- sire), this movie shows us a Max von Sydow and martin’s breathy delivery, to AT THE PUB ALWAYS WED 4 PM ALWAYS FREE future that is little different Jeanne Moreau are Trevor’s dialogue that gets conspicu­ than today — the locations parents, completing the ously corny at times, serves are simply contemporary triangle of a family that has to keep the level of heavi­ scenes with the occasional become dysfunctional be­ ness down. insertion of futuristic design cause of the father’s obses­ Ultimately, we are left ex­ THU in an almost offhand man­ sion with his invention. hausted from the trip and ner. Much of the humor and Set against the backdrop wondering if the title, a 4/2 3 the drama of the film comes of impending nuclear de­ phrase used to pledge undy­ from watching the charac­ struction, the film follows ing love and commitment, ters interact with this new the characters around the can now only be used ironi­ SWERVEDRIVER MONSTER MAGNET technology. world, moving rapidly cally; the end of the world Solveig Donmartin plays across a dozen countries might always be just around ROB GYM 8 PM UCSBSTUDEN1S:$15 GENERALS 17.50 Claire, a woman bored with with unconscious ease as the comer. both money and technol­ the ultimate techno-road —Alex Maclnnis TICKETS ARflÉ É lG FAST! I TICKETS AT TICKETMASTER AND A lffiiE T OFFICE In a Dog Daze STUDENT TICKETS ONLY AT AS TICKET OFFICE

B eethoven. Starring Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver but invisible wife. Together characters are engaging. Platt and Stanley TuccL Written by they live in the suburbs with The third act, with its Edmond Dantes and Amy Holden Jones. Directed by Brian Levant their three adorable mop­ veterinarian-gone-bad pets, Ryce, Ted and Emily. (Dean Jones) wanting to use JOIN PROGRAM BOARD! Beethoven (at the Fiesta Over the course of the Beethoven’s large skull to POSITIONS INCLUDE: ADVERTISING/PUBLICIST Five) is a big, dopey, formu­ movie, Beethoven, possess­ test out a new kind of laic fluffball of a movie ing credulity-straining psy­ maximum-damage bullet COMMISSIONER, CONCERTS, CULTURAL/FINE ARTS, which only halfway suc­ chic powers, saves the day (I), is predictable and a tad DEPUTY COMMISSIONER/BUSINESS RELATIONS, ceeds in pushing the but­ time and time again, eventu­ too violent. The script has a tons of its target young ally endearing himself to sense of being written in FILMS/TICKET MANAGER, LECTURES, SECURITY, audience. George and bringing a fam­ three parts by three separate SOU N D/PRODUCTION COORDINATOR, AND The star of the film is ily back together that people. B eethoven, an showed no signs of breaking If the filmmakers had SPECIAL EVENTS/UCEN ACTIVITIES. “awww”-inspiring stray St. up in the first place. kept more of the magic that Bernard, who is adopted by Though mildly amusing children see in clever ani­ APPLICATIONS ARE AVAILABLE NOW AT THE A.S. a middle-class family in its slapstick first act, the mals and ditched the overly headed by George Newton film seriously drags cynical plot elements, PROGRAM BOARD OFFICE, 3RD FLOOR UCEN (Charles Grodin), the hap­ whenever Beethoven is not Beethoven might have been less authoritarian father on-screen (as illustrated by pleasant matinee fodder. As with a heart of gold, and the restless children in the it is, the movie barely gets EXPERIENCE IN SOUND MIXING? Alice Newton (Bonnie theater), for the simple rea­ above TV-movie quality. C A lk W A Ü C KAPLAN AT 893-3536 - Hunt), his understanding son that none of the human —Ted Mills FOR MORE INFO CALL 893-3536 6A Thursday, April 16,1992 licore lütic’s A p a c o p d a SPIKFS This week 935 Embarcadero Del Norte 685-3112 4/16THURSDAY li P P H IS H pflct at Spike's ÜiiéPREAD PANIC 4/17 FRIDAY DESMOND DEKKER Thürs—Millec Lite Long Neck i Hj LETS GO BOWLING : > $ 1 .5 0 • 4/18 SATURDAY Pine 9-12 pm SOCIAL Sat DISTORTION —Nick Pyzow 9-12 pm 4/19 SUNDAY Sun-M on—Late Nfght Happy Hour THREATENED HOPE + 4 Local Bonds ' Tue—Bill Femberg 9-12 pm w m A m f m m m m i Mfetf|Slohn Lyle 9-12 pm BOOGIE DOWN PROD, 4/24 FRIDAY With Adrenalize, Def Leppard provides music for rocking beer drinkers. 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Keeping this or four years between creations are spent in mind, you might havefo bring two light­ ■ M N D A * building and crafting what they believe to l\T IG G O D S ers to tiie concert this year. be art. Tear-jerkers aside, this is true-to-form rO L D Def Leppard is another band that allows Def Leppard. It has all the three-guys- 6/22 FRIDAY for huge gaps of time between master­ singing-in-tune-but-without-harmony, all DEFIANCE pieces. However, where Boston is working the computerized backward-sounding KRONIX hard, Def Leppard is living hard and, sub­ drum beats and guitar work (new guitarist R#IVU sequently, dying hard. INDICA Phil Collin seems to have mastered the dif­ EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT . 5/26 TUESDAY Adrenalize, this British band’s latest ef­ ficult orchestration that Def Leppard tunes RIDE fort, makes it painfully obvious that the call for.) band has spent the last four years breaking So, if you expect some sort of symphonic 9:30 pm - Midnight w/slowdive beer bottles and not new ground; develop­ 5/29 FRIDAY brilliance, perhaps you should look else­ • All you can Bowl $10/person ing not new music but being with deve­ where. But if you want to drink pitchers of 2 NICE GIRLS loped nude women. • KTYD DJ Plays the Latest Hits beer, annoy people who drink coffee, feign TICKET INFO: 685-5901 That’s not a bad tiling. It’s great. This is intellectual superiority and most of all • P riz e s fro m »yteaMiSQ music by beer drinkers for beer drinkers. “rock,” they’ve got an album for you. Def Leppard has completely abandoned —Denis Faye • 99< Beef & tape store • Domino's Pizza Specials MMTMU / ■ACXMMRO / Tried to Be True ORCH/D BOWL = • Arkansas Traveler tends to disappoint, 5926 Calle Real • Hwy 101 at Fairview in Goleta • 967-0128 Michelle Shocked Shocked’s talent for honest, Polygram Records intelligent words and sweet, Michelle Shocked is the unassuming vocals makes Horatio Alger of the mod­ the album worth more than em alternative “folk” move­ many. Most of the stronger ment Discovered acciden­ tunes come in the first quar­ tally, singing and playing by ter of the album with num­ a campfire, Shocked never bers like “33 RPM Soul” and even tried to be famous. “Over the Waterfall”. “Pro­ Now the warbling singer/ digal Daughter (Cotton songwriter has come out Eyed Joe),” in which with her third album, A rk­ Shocked laments about be­ ansas Traveler. Judging ing a woman with some­ from the photo on the al­ thing to say in a man’s bum’s cover — in which world, is one of the few Shocked poses like Huck­ songs with any lyrical leberry Finn in front of a artfulness. Walt Disneyesque Appalac­ Miss Shell-Shocked hian shack, it seems that somewhere between Emmy- In “Secret to a Long Life,” she’s not about to give up lou Harris and Tracy Chap­ Shocked whimsically posits hying to be famous. Tragi­ man, her songs foil to in­ “The secret to a long life’s cally, much of the heart and voke the same emotion and knowin’ when it's time to soul of her storybook rise to dark genuineness of past ef- go” ^— words that seem stardom has been mysteri­ forts like Short Sharp applicable to this new al­ ously bled from her music. Shocked. With countless bum. Rather than going for­ In this latest effort, a ma­ instrumental runs of coun­ ward in her musical future, jority of the cuts utilize the try fiddle and washboard, it the talented Shocked has sounds of mountain music, seems like she’s just going gotten lost. Though she country and Celtic folk through the motions of be­ does not die with this effort, without possessing any of ing one of the few remaining there are many better places the emotion and depth that folk artists still producing in for her — and her listeners these styles are intended to this metallic, industrial — to be. carry. Though she has the generation. tremendous gift of a voice While the overall package —Dylan Callaghan Contributors Andy Bailey ENCOREsiai Dylan Callaghan Assistant Editor Denis Faye Anna Kent Pax Wassermann P.E.A.C.E. Red Squares Ted Mills Limpopo is a Russian street band now based in Venice, GA. Who says Alex Maclnnis glasnost is dead? Catch them Tuesday at noon in Storke Plaza. 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