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888.01 [cover] 10/20/04 4:38 PM Page 1 REVIEWS YOB • BLUEPRINT • MF DOOM • DANIEL JOHNSTON TRIBUTE • ULYSSES ISSUE NO. 888 • NOVEMBER 1, 2004 • WWW.CMJ.COM NEW MUSIC REPORT® CMJSPOTLIGHT REVIEW DOMENICO + 2 Sincerely Hot TOP DEBUT Jimmy Eat World Take That, Galactus! HIP-HOP TALIB KWELI NO. 1: EATS THE D.A.I.S.I.E.S. NEWS TO US TOM WAITS Olympics! Olympics! Olympics! (See You In Court) Evades Interpol … Takes Over Top 200 (See, kids? Smoking is good for you!) TED LEO/PHARMACISTS HOLY SHEETS! NEW LEO MOST ADDED CMJ MUSIC MARATHON GALLERY: FIRST PIX FROM THE SHOWCASES... LIMITED TO FIRST 500 BADGE HOLDERS 888.02 ad [skates/isi/sage/gr] 10/21/04 1:50 PM Page 27 888.03 [news] 10/21/04 12:26 PM Page 3 CMJ New Music Report® EDITORIAL Editor Steve Ciabattoni Retail Editor NEWS TO US Gerry Hart Associate Editor Christopher R. Weingarten motivation to verify the veracity of Retail Assistant Editor that particular piece of esoterica Kory Grow Assistant Editor beyond a fruitless Google search. Owen Strock Editorial Assistant e Mr. Sandman, bring us a dream… Matthew Field a smoky, sober, moody dream with Loud Rock Editor lots of skronky saxophone solos. Hi- Amy Sciarretto N-Dry Records (someone teach these RPM Editor guys about apostrophes, geez!) is Justin Kleinfeld releasing Sandbox: Mark Sandman Contributing Writer Original Music, a two-disc/one-DVD Brad Filicky Interns collection of music from the late Jennifer Daniel Morphine vocalist/two-string-slide- Reed Fischer bassist. The box collects previously released tracks, rarities, live footage ART and more from the gloriously modal Art Director trio Morphine and Sandman’s bluesy Steve Cassidy pre-Morphine injection, Treat Her We assure you, somewhere towards the edge of this crowd is shit-hot indie-poppers Rilo Kiley. Right. 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Honor the mem- ory of the exited Sandman by donat- PUBLISHING ISSUE 888 Kool Keith foil, changing the name of his new ing some cash… or going into Boston CEO & Publisher master of illusion and bump-ariffic record to Redneck Games (we music classes and cutting two strings Robert K. Haber off all the bass guitars. Chief Operating Officer producer KutMasta Kurt has already assume his next legal imbroglio will come to blows with triflin’ amateurs be with Games Rednecks Play author Jay B. Ziskrout e Account Executives who write "like slouches puffin Jeff Foxworthy, who apparently has Where Dean Wareham goes, cos- mic destruction follows. In 1992, he Jerry Rubino blunts on studio couches" with Dr. many humorous insights on the Johnny Chiba was witness to the death of a galaxy Dooom. However the KutMasta has unique things that disenfranchised, (Galaxie 500, that is), and now he’s CIRCULATION recently met his greatest beef yet: the rural white people do). 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The Late Great Daniel Johnston “I hope we find eternal rest in the bed that we’ve made,” Moreno + 2) cooks up this more beat-centric Brazilian One disc of Discovered Covered compiles gems from 20 shouts Mike Scheidt shrilly on Oregonian doom trio funkfest. Moreno has quickly become a leading voice in years of Johnston’s lo-fi recordings, displaying equal Yob’s latest, The Illusion Of Motion, a fitting epitaph that the sound of new Brazil and his amigos help him expand parts brilliance and aesthetic naiveté. The other disc embodies the disc’s funeral aesthetic. Following up the borders of bossa nova, infusing the tracks with beats features tributes from behemoths who also emerged out 2003’s menacing 50-minute, three-song Catharsis disc, and bass you’d only expect from experimental dance or of tape hiss (Beck, Bright Eyes) and icons simpatico with Illusion contains four crushing, elongated songs—one hip-hop. Domenico Lancelotti likes to push the rhythm Johnston’s cracked, catchy songwriting (Tom Waits, Vic cracking 26 minutes and each sinking to new infernal into the red on tracks like “Allegria, Vai La,” where sam- Chesnutt). With the Eels, Death Cab For Cutie, Starlight depths as the trio increases its sprawling heaviness. As plers thump out a groove that’s sexy and sordid. Mixing Mints and Guster also in tow, our fave cult artist will be long as Hell’s embers still burn, Yob will never find rest. in a few breezy Moreno seducers makes the album a great all over the WB and The O.C. in no time! overview of how broad Brazilian music can be. WEB: www.luakabop.com/plus_two/ WEB: www.hihowareyou.com WEB: www.yobdoom.com ATTN: Bosses of nova, patrons of Café Tacuba, lovers of ATTN: Those who do it themselves and have a fondness for ATTN: Sludgeaholic doom fans; stoners with attention spans Brazilian wax (records, we mean) drawings of duckies RELEASE DATE / ADD DATE: October 19 / October 26 RELEASE DATE: Out now / at radio RELEASE DATE/ ADD DATE: Out now / at radio RADIO: Jeneral PentaGraham, [email protected] RADIO: Rob Ceccarini, [email protected] RADIO: Dan Sampson Koplowitz, [email protected] KEY TRACKS: “Doom #2,” “Exorcism Of The Host,” “The Illusion KEY TRACKS: “Allegria, Vai La,” “Te Convidei Pro Samba,” KEY TRACKS: “Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievience” Of Motion” “Sincerely Hot” (Clem Snide); “Go” (Sparklehorse with the Flaming Lips); OF NOTE: Yob has played gigs with Isis, Soilent Green, Electric OF NOTE: Moreno Veloso is the son of Caetano Veloso. If you “Story Of An Artist” (M. Ward) Wizard, Botch, High On Fire, Bongzilla, The Locust and more. don’t know who that is, you need to get your ass some OF NOTE: Johnston still lives and breathes... a new song from his Expect west coast touring for the rest of 2004 and a full-U.S. Tropicalia muito rápido.