Hot Hot Heat May 11, 4pm Meow Meow “I think the connotations of warmth roll off the tongue; it’s kind of neat,” says Hot Hot Heat’s bassist, Dustin Hawthorne, of his band’s devastatingly accurate moniker. “But half the time when I tell people, they think it’s ‘Ha Ha Hee.’” Laugh if you want, my friends, […]
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Amber Gayle
Book Review
Amber Gayle WHO: Amber Gayle, who lives in Southern Oregon, publishes the zine My Evil Twin Sister, with her twin sister, Stacy Wakefield. She’ll read from Notta Lotta Love Stories on Thursday, May 2, at Reading Frenzy, 921 SW Oak, 274-1449. Amber’s writing is very personal and intimate, with much integrity, while still being vivid […]
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Cute Vaginal Birds
We Love Kevin Blechdom
Kevin Blechdom Fri May 3 Meow Meow Remember how simple and weirdly pixilated video games used to be, vintage-Atari era? It seemed every game was about a duck or an alien, and instead of the elaborate, graphically correct role-playing games of today, the only thing those video games ever did was get faster and faster. […]
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Moody, Melodic, and Metal, Maybe
Pom Pom Meltdown: Not Just Loud
Pom Pom Meltdown Mon April 29 Meow Meow “I have a friend whose dad came to see our show, and later, he called and asked why it was necessary for us to play so loud. I guess we gave him tinnitus in one ear,” confesses Terrica Kleinknecht about her band. She’s the drummer for Pom […]
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On Some Next
Antipop Consortium Checks the Future
Antipop Consortium Thurs April 25 Berbati’s Pan Halfway through Antipop Consortium’s new record, Arrhythmia, there’s a skit called “Tron Man Speaks,” in which a robot calls into a radio show to play his music, declaring, “It is called Tron Man Stigmata; I sampled static from a Victrola and processed the sounds.” Aside from being pretty […]
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Start a Beating Heart
Feeling Innocent For A Change
Fridge Fri April 19 Dante’s One thing that is often missing in the young American’s musical experience is willful innocence: the kids are overexposed, and it’s making us all tough inside. We’re so overexposed, in fact, that we’re beyond jaded–we’ve crossed such a weird, uncrossable line of dis-attachment that it takes two guys in creepy […]
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The Process of Hair Removal
Human Nature Doesn’t Quite Get it All
Human Nature dir. Gondry Opens Fri April 12 Various Theaters In America, people neurotically wax, shave, and pluck their eyebrows, upper lips, pits, nipples, toes, chest, butt cracks, hands, backs, and pubes. Body hair is an American repulsion, seen as a barrier on the road to beauty, desirability and, ultimately, getting laid. Similarly, body hair […]
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Sound Glue
Menomena is Rockin’ the Remix
Menomena Sat April 13 Berbati’s Pan At first, it’s tough to figure out the way Menomena’s piano, guitar, drums, and bass converge in on each other like electrical patchwork. Their sounds fit together, snug but sparse, fleshing out into reflective pop and instrumental music that is both strangely skeletal and panoramic. Their stellar bass and […]
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My Heroine
Edith Frost’s Gentle Charm
Edith Frost Tues April 16 Blackbird If you believe a person’s music is the truest expression of their soul, then it’s obvious that Edith Frost is a sweetheart. What I mean is, I think she’s a sweetheart in a ’50s heartbreaker way, with a kick to her ladyness. A respectable kind of gal who you […]