THE ACADEMY IS… Fast Times at Barrington High (Decaydance) So sue me, I love the Academy Is… And believe me, I don’t go for this crap. I don’t DO teenager music. But seriously, if you’re a 13 year old girl, or the parent of a 13 year old girl, you have my (esteemed, ahem) seal […]
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CYRUS FELL DOWN “Son of the Sun” from Damn Dude, Damn (LOCAL, self-released) This album escaped the radar upon its release last year, for reasons unknown. Now, months later, not a day passes at work that this track isn’t heard emanating from my office (much to some coworkers’ chagrin). No band in Spokane is as innovatively-minded
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The Winter Camping Handbook Stephen Gorman The Countryman Press, 2007, 224 pages. The Winter Camping Handbook falls dead center in between Camping For Dummies and Freedom Of The Hills. On the one hand, an outdoorsman with a foggy recollection of Boy Scout preparedness could still siphon a good deal of knowledge from this book. On
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ADRIAN ORANGE & HER BAND Adrian Orange & Her Band (K) Adrian Orange is a man. And an admirable one at that. Instantly a love-or-hate situation, Adrian keeps the interested listening with an array of instrumentals and plenty of quirktastic vocals. Initially grating, Orange’s voice is humbled nearly-instantly; reflective, needy, and endearing. With a crew
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ELIZABETH LICHTMAN JUST HAD her bike stolen. “I just hope that someone is using it and getting around on it,” Lichtman says. Clearly she’s not bitter. “I had a nice red Schwinn-old school-a really cool bike I built. I’ve had many bikes stolen. It’s not the first time-in other cities too. It’s a problem in
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If you want to know what’s up with urban cycling you’ve got to talk to folks who put rubber to the road everyday. OTM recently sat down with four bike commuters who are all dedicated to the idea of bicycles as transportation. We got a great roundtable discussion-including some crash stories. Henry Seipp Shadle Park HS
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7000 Dying Rats Season in Hell (Hewhocorrupts Inc.) The Band is 7000 Dying Rats. Their influences include Slayer, Journey, and farts. They have a songs entitled “We had “Dying” in our Name way Before all Those Metalcore C*cksuckers Came Along” and “The Thought Bubble Above My Head is Filled with Golden Rotating Shotguns.” Their website
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THE BLOW Paper Television (K) You know the frustration you feel when you KNOW a piece of music sounds EXACTLY like something else you’ve heard but you have NO idea what it is? Enter the Blow’s latest disc. This voice sounds so familiar, these beats, reminiscent. I have suspicions that I have heard something similar,
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CAROLYN ALROY Gorgeous Enormous (Wussy) Girls are great and everything, but if I’m supposed to like their music it has to really be something. Female singer/songwriters make me want to gag. There are exceptions-Stevie Nicks, Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Regina Spektor (see below). But this-this is no exception and holy crap is it unbearable. ART
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ARCTIC MONKEYS Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not (Domino) 360,000 Britons can’t be wrong, can they? Arctic Monkeys have shattered UK sales records with their debut album and ride a wave of hype into America’s consciousness. Their songs are crisp and tightly-wound, moving rapidly through a gambit of musical ideas (albeit none
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