a cool two nice illustration 3a photos 6a a big black box a bitchin’ band 4a pic 7a a lovely chart 5a ufl0 AND ENTERTAINMENT College Radio First o f a Three-Part Series byadam liebowitz punk, rap and neo-pop. any college station the commercial constraints, line between commercial to create a definition of When its not rocking answer is a resounding "I has its downside. A and alternative couldn’t alternative music. The What is the sound of there’s some blues, jazz don’t know.” paradox exists where be more vague. KCSB's introduction definition is: college radio today? It is and salsa. Trying to define bands can receive music director Keith York "A blend of styles, genres best summed by that In other words, along alternative music is like enough attention to be selects albums by a and formulas of music infamous term — the lines of an unofficial trying to answer the considered non-alternat­ simple criteria: "If it’s that is vibrant (whatever alternative music. credo of filling the void question, "If an orange is ive, yet commercial radio good, it's good.” that means)." Other Alternative music is not left behind by commercial called an orange, why considers their music too Last year at a con­ criteria expand the that which is found on radio, alternative radio is isn't an apple called a esoteric. ference of University of definition to music that “post-modern MTV,” the sounds which are not red?" The appeal of alter­ California broadcasters doesn’t "sound” com­ where the cutting edge of convenient segues The quirkiness of native radio is in its (UCRN) a mini-manifesto mercial. music is somewhere between ads for car college radio, free of selection of music, but the was drawn up in an effort (Continued on p.7A) between Siouxsie and the insurance, Coca-Cola and Banshees and tennis shoes. fIREHOSE. But like the UCSB’s radio stations term post-modern, KCSB-FM and KJUC- WHAT THE KIDS ARE LISTENING TO alternative music is a FM/cable define their catch-all term for music airplay as trying to Santa Barbara Public Enemy, Revolting Cocks, that doesn't belong provide the community Swallow, Mudhoney, Loop, Beatnigs anywhere else but on with music and KCSB stations run by 20-year- programing not heard old kids. elsewhere. Elsewhere in Berkeley Pussy Willows, Fungazi, Mecca Normal College radio and its Santa Barbara being loose playlist format is KTYD and Y-97. what many in the But what are alter­ KALX recording industry natives to tracks off of consider the real cutting Led Zeppelin IV or the Iowa State Fungazi, Ramones, House of Large edge of music. latest Debbie Gibson? If This week’s playlists you pose this question to Sizes, XTC include: De la Soul, music directors (those KUSR Tackhead, Mecca Normal who pick out the best and Boogie Down albums from hundreds Rolling Stone XTC, Robin Hitchcock, Elvis Costello, Productions. College which are sent from Guadalcanal Diary, OConnels radio is lots of punk, post­ campus stations) of most Glasnost Film Festival Is Free Have some film on us! You don't have to go to L.A. to see this special screening of three films from the Glasnost Film Festival. Better still, we think these recent Soviet documentaries are so compelling that admission is free to Campbell Hall this Friday, May 5th at 3 PM. The Glasnost Film Festival has been touring the U S. to excited reviews about these provoking documentaries that show a rare side of Soviet life and current affairs. This screening of "Recent Soviet Documentaries" includes an introduction and discussion by two of the films' directors. Sharin' His Loops Adams will speak about Shaker Loops and other musical wonders in a free Composer's Forum today. The time* Music critics went loopy over has been changed to 3:30 PM (you can't composer John Adams' controversial trust those airline schedules, you opera Nixon in China. Now one of the know) in UCSB Music Room 1145. most celebrated and important composers of our time, John Adams is known for his brave and uncompromising style which has given him an earmark of respect among the musical elite. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will play Shaker Loops, one of Adams' innovative orchestral works, as part of the musical finale to Arts & Lectures performing arts season. You can hear Elvis is Everywhere LACO's brilliant violin work in this Judy Davis stars as the back-up singer and some more traditional pieces, like for an Elvis impersonator in the the rapture of Vivaldi's Concerto endearing Australian film Grosso for Four Violins, tonight at 8 High Tide. PM in Campbell Hall. She gets fired, and ends up stuck in a seaside town in this moving story John Adams' Shaker Loops is the about a young woman who is orchestral equivalent to the electronic accidentally re-united with the tape "loop." In it the players are given daughter she abandoned as a baby. melodic phrases or "loops" of different High Tide will screen Sunday, May 7 at 8 PM in Campbell Hall as part of lengths which are repeated to form a A&L's International Film Series. web of intricate textures. The result is Tickets $4 the general public; UCSB an hypnotic sonic kaleidoscope of students $3. sound. 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