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KRS: A.S. Presents aims to attract more hip-hop fans "We weren't disappointed with it, but it wasn't exactly a success in our the past,.he said, "I'm real with what eyes," said Dave Kleinschmidt, A.S. I'm rapping about," and that's never Presents program coordinator and the changed. show's booker. And the more money KRS-One But Kleinschmidt said he's not made, the more he learned about politics worried about ticket sales this time and black history. The more KRS-One around. learned, the more he articulated his "I consider him a legend," views through music. Kleinschmidt said. "A lot of people Sean Cummins, program coordinator grew up listening to KRS-One. He's for the Chico State Women's Center, still in the game and still touring." said KRS-One's performance is part of Hearing what KRS-One has to the center's annual Breaking the Silence say is "something Chico needs," event, a day used to raise awareness Kleinschmidt said. about violence. "Don't go party," he said. "Come Cummins said KRS-One was a watch a legend." good person to bring to the event KRS-One will be performing at 7 Photo courtesy of wmt.com because he is a "conscious rapper," p.m. Thursday in the Bell Memorial From left, drummer Yuri Ruley, bassist Mike Henrera and guitarist Tom Wisniewski set out to make MxPx's musk more raw on its latest album, "Pank." and his views are in line with those of Union Auditorium. Student tickets the Women's Center. are $10 and general tickets are $12. As for the concert, Associated All tickets will be an additional $2 MXPX: Music now more diverse Students Presents hopes this show will at the door. attract more fans than the last hip-hop indie label, the band' set out to region, but the shows were packed show in Chico, the Gold Chain Music Josh Brodleit can be reached at transform its energetic, bubblegum with thousands of screaming fans Tour, which only brought 267 fans. the focus of the band's lyrics. pop-punk sound to something in small clubs rather than arenas. The band sings about love, more raw and punchy, he said. "Sometimes on tour you don't skateboarding and politics. "The sound is more like us know if you're going to have a Its songs draw from personal than the last album," Ruley said. bed to sleep on that night," Ruley jBfperiences that the band needed "It's the largest departure from said. "But it's not often that it freedom to express and explore, ourselves." happens." he said. The goal of "Panic" was to make The band will be glad to pull up in <"When we left Tooth & Nail, a more diverse album where each a cozy tour bus that finished taking it was for a business reason not a song is personalized, he said. them through Canada and now the spiritual reason," Ruley said. "It's "Some albums were all one» United States. That is, when it's not been a misconception." sound before," Ruley said. "Now broken down, he said. ^"After the release of "Before all the songs come from a different MxPx will be celebrating 14 Everything And After" in 2003, sound and have their own vibe." years of music-making this August people thought MxPx might be on Ruley speaks for the whole but has no intentions of slowing the decline since it was out of the band when he says he's excited down, he said. The band's career public eye, he said, about the tour for "Panic." It has keeps opening up and changing. t Instead of leaving its career become both an important and "We still like doing it, and it fcehind, the band spent more than ordinary part of his life after 10 helps us make a living," Ruley said. jv year brainstorming song ideas years, he said. "We've been lucky enough to sell and producing its latest album, Music has taken the band our records and tickets for shows." "Panic," Ruley said. to corners of the globe it never MxPx will be playing at 7:30 The band signed with thought it would experience. One p.m. Sunday at The Senator SideOneDummy Records and of the most memorable locations Theatre. Advance tickets are $14 recorded in its own studio was a brief tour through South or $16 at the door. rather than a large studio in Los America, Ruley said. 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