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The Arts and Entertainment Supplement to the Daily Nexus, for May 4th through May 10th, 1995 UNDERNEATH 2 A Thursday, May 4,1995 Daily Nexus Doin' Weekend the It’s A Gas Special! State San Diego $151 Helium Hipster Quotient will dou ble if you buy this album, I Rndtrp Amtrak from SB, Street The Dirt of Luck 2 nts hotel, zoo passes Matador guarantee it & harbor cruise! The album features a Crawl? Matador Records seems new lineup and a new atti ★ Come In to Win A Trip ★ to be having a lucky streak tude from Timony. Obvi ★ for 2 on Amtrak! ★ Time to read lately. New releases by ously very much in crea ★ See Us to Sign Up! ★ the Weekend Come, Bettie Serveert, Jon tive control of the band, Spencer Blues Explosion she experiments with or Connection. and Pavement are lionized gans, keyboards and lots by critics and fans alike, of “drone guitar” in an at In Friday’s bands from other coun tempt to flesh out the ON CAMPUS tries such as 18th Dye and sounds that can be made 2211 UCen 968-5151 Daily Nexus. Pizzicato Five are doing by a three-piece. Less is well in the states and basi not more for Helium mem AWARD WINNING UCSB cally, Matador bands are bers, who seem to be as ML > / the current darlings of the happy as tots in a treat jpi / L STUDENT “indie” scene. shop while in the studio. Helium, a Massa Pretty, noisy and thrill FILMS chusetts band led by Maiy ing describe most of the Timony, has been with songs on The Dirt of ically and musically. rubies, pirates, angels ana SAT, M AY 6 Matador since its 1993 EP Luck. Vicious music is “Honeycomb” even has beauty; The mystery of 7:30 P.M. release, Pirate Prude. The tempered by Timony’s the oh-so-popular country how Timony associates CAMPBELL HALL group’s latest album (and good-little-bad-girl voice, touch to it, bringing wist these things in her mind is THREE DOLLARS first frill-length effort), The or else the melody is soft ful sentiment to a song ab part of tiie appeal, and TICKETS AT THE DOOR Dirt of Luck, is a fine addi and sweet while she spits out someone “slower than leads one to believe that tion to the Matador stable. Valium.” she is one smart, scary SPONSORED BY: venom at the listener. FILM STUDIES, FOCUS MAGAZINE woman. FILMMAKER'S CO OP, You may not hear them on “Skeleton” and “Baby’s While The Dirt of Luck A.S. UNDERWRITE your run-of-the-mill com Going Underground” lacks the obvious theme Helium will be playing mercial radio stations (like rawk out, while “Super that the EP had, it is still May 8 at the Troubadour most of the bands men ball” and “Medusa” are ex tied together by images in L.A. tioned above) but your amples of sassy humor, lyr and phrases such as Trixie, —Rena Tom CoppéCia! Spend Granada Thea Mother's Day with the Beastie Boys MAY 14,3:00 pm at the Ballet I still can’t believe that the end of The Roots’ set sight of a pit at one of his songs with energy that LIVE ORCHESTRA the Beastie Boys played Just in front of us, the shows that I attended, he most musicians would GUEST ARTISTS the Santa Barbara County small, “preferred seating” said, “What is that? The consider more than exces Bowl. What a blessing to section had begun to fill hot new MTV dance sive. At one point, near the * Patron's Reception have hip-hop pioneers with high school-age craze?” Boy, did I feel end of the show, a young $21 Adults 1 Siam: and the revivers of old punks with chain wallets dumb. woman took off all her $16 Sr Citizens j school in our county. The and pants with size 45 As we waited for the big clothes and got on stage. $11 Students J in show was awe-inspiring; I waists. A couple of mi act to come on, I could not Rumor has it that this was Granada Box Office: 966-2324 had a great time despite thè reason Mike D. left the Call 687-6086 for group discount»C^|», nutes later, my friend Pete, stand the anticipation. getting my ass kicked sev who had said, “If someone The lights went out and stage, but I think it was just ‘West Coast (BaCCet eral times during the even offers me $70 each for my eveiyone rushed to the because he had to pee. 1)16 Supported by Ellen Scfaipper Classical Ballet Studio ing. The merciless beatings normally spry and enthu West Coast SympHony were ironic because the siastic MCA seemed dis Beastie Boys are staunch Christopher Story VI • Conductor tracted during the perfor advocates of friendly mance. Maybe the Santa crowd etiquette. They Barbara crowd didn’t even published friendly quite do it for him. I ex crowd suggestions with pected a little more punch diagrams in their free tour from MCA, the man who IMPORTANT NOTICE !! magazine. But all that mat hosted MTV’s 120 Mi tered last Friday was see nutes disguised as the fic ing MCs Michael Dia titious Australian intellec mond, Adam Horovitz tual Sir Stuart Wallace. and Adam Yauch. The tickets, I’ll sell ’em fast,” front of the lawn section, Ad-Rock was as crazy as Beastie Boys are more showed up. No one had smashing me and Morgan usual with his whiny, 900 Embarcadero than a band to me — offered. against the fence. When I D el M a r nasal scream. He seemed they’re the only really suc We all stood and pushed back using the to enjoy giving those who Isla V ista cessful guys I know of who watched the incredible fence, a small, son fist jumped up on stage a light manage to be total smar John Spencer Blues Ex nailed me in the spine and kick in the butt The fun tasses and get away with it. plosion set. Spencer a small, boot-clad foot niest part of the evening We almost got left be looked really drunk as he struck me four or five was when a junior high- THE TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR JUST hind by the geniuses of moaned and strutted. The times in the calf. I turned aged girl got on stage and Bill’s Party Bus, because combination of his and Ju around to see who it was, ANOTHER @#%*1 VIDEO SHOP gingerly jumped off, as if to the number of people in dah Bauer’s exploding gui but all I saw was a sea of say, “Everyone please WAS PRINTED INCORRECTLY IN THE our party didn’t match the tars was so exciting that I people. Oh, well. Beating catch me. I’m worried.” To UCSB CAMPUS TELEPHONE number on our reserva didn’t notice the gang of number two. this Mike D. replied, tion. After what seemed ' angiy muscle boys smash The show went on and I “Take that shit to Beverly DIRECTORY. THE CORRECT like an hour of riding that ing into each other just be couldn’t have cared less Hills 90210.” NUMBER IS: bus with drunken guys in hind me. Bamm! An elbow about the pain in my head, After the show my Mossimo T-shirts whis right in the back of the spine and leg. They friend Jason said, “I can’t 968-7227 tling the beginning of the head, he didn’t even know opened with “Stand even describe how great Beasties’ “Flute Loop,” we he hit me. Beating number Together” and ended with that was!” Exhausted and PLEASE MARK THIS CHANGE arrived at the Bowl. My one. It was the words of “Sabotage,” and in be pummeled, I couldn’t help ON PAGE 66 OF THE YELLOW PAGES. girlfriend Morgan and I Fugazi’s Ian Mackaye that tween was a thoroughly but agree. rushed to the front of the ended my “slamming” enjoyable experience. XT ■ n n iiiiiiiiii lawn section and caught days in grade 10. At the They played nearly 30 —Noah Blumberg And Today's Best New Rock n1 Roll Daily Nexus Thursday, May 4,1995 3A Cory Sipper Makes Associated Students Program Board H e r M a r k Cory Sipper Szuimology Drumdrum Records With an impressive re EXTRAVAGANZA cord of musical experi ence, Coiy Sipper’s debut re le a s e Swimology breathes genuine acoustic rock. Out now on local May 13 - Harder Stadium label Drumdrum Records, the 10-song LP is essential for those who appreciate candlelight-crispy music and poetry that rummages in the comers of your right brain. sublime Having written songs since she was 12, Sipper has persistently dedicated her career to creating music. At age 18, she at tended the Berklee School COOLIO of Music. In addition to playing gigs in the Santa Barbara area, Sipper wrote and co-produced two cas settes: Life Affirming and Bloom. Now after the release of Swimology, Sipper is fi nally receiving the local at THE UNTOUCHABLES tention sher deserves. Us- ing unorthodox struc said. “There’s no real notice her insistent pre FREE ADMISSION Doors Open at 11:00 am ture?,-’ Sipper’s music is chorus, just a voice. It sence. Having played live varied and not typical of could be anything from gigs since she was 18, Sip anything I have ever meditation to drug use. I per has done exceptionally J a n d d ) heard.