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MARCH, 1982EDITOR : BOZ A .K .A . Barry Solt z

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COMMENTS

It's almost time for springvacation and the annual invasion of Ft .Lauderdale beach . Christ! I'm 25 already andwhere have I been spendin' my weekend nites ?Ft . Lauderdale strip! The prospects for thenext two months don't look bright . MaybeI've been hanging around bars for too long.I've become some sort of lounge lizard(notice how I manage to tie in all the name sof these hip bands) .

What's happening with our scene ?After a slow period over the past*.3 monthsthings may be on the upswing again. At thetime of writing this the Eat are scheduledto play next weekend at a new club on thestrip . What this all means is that bands atleast for the temporary moment eould hav ea regular place to play . I do wish to emph-asis temporary however . Nothing's eve rreally permanent here . . . is it? Venue sopen and close, change management, alte rtheir booking policies . . . . Ultimetly themain problem is that none of the peoplerunning the clubs have any concept of th escene and what the fans want . Until eneof us (a fan) gets in that position ofpower I see little hope for our club scene .

As dismal as the. club scene mayappear the future for South Florida vinylhas never looked better . Upcoming thi syear : Charlie Pickett Live LP (the tape ssound hot!), the Florida compilation LPan Essentials EP (it's about time guys! ,an LP by the Eat, and possibly somethingfrom Crucial Truth (Throbs) on Bad Brainsrecords . Wow! Sounds too good to be truedoesn't it? This could be what we've beenwaiting for .

I guess I better wind things up .Sorry that there's not a whole lot of localstuff this issue . There Will be much mere ,next time I promise . Also I wish to than kall of our friendly advertisers who havestuck with us . They all deserve yoursupport and please make sure you tell themwhere you found out about their place from .Well that's about it . . . see ya in 2 months .

P .S . Last minute news : the Stick Figure sfrom Tampa have broken up . I'm really sorryt• hear it but I'm counting on at leas ttwo or three new bands to come out of this .

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BrainOn January 9th of the New Year something unusual happened i nTampa . On that date a fairly well known group from England was schedule dto play . . . this in itself was not unusual . . . there had been others . . . . butoutside of a few exceptions those groups never played . . . always at thelast moment something happened and once again the Tampa faithful weredenied. This time was different though because Brian Brain was scheduled t oplay and they did indeed play on that night . It was a small miracle tha tthey did though . Things messed up on this end . According to the group them -selves Blitz Productions over- extended themselves on their previou sevent and Brian Brain was cancelled . It was up to the group on their ownto spend over $350 to rent a hall and a P .A . and basically book themselvesinto Tampa.The location for this event was the FCA, a private clubdevoted to the perpetuation of the Confederacy it is rumoured. The back-drop to the stage is a confederate flag. The first group to play wa sOperation Bellbottom, a group who proclaim . . . "not just for immigrants" .Many of their vocals reflect this as they are either in a foreign lang-uage or sound like they are . The emphasis is on RHYTHM with Robert onbass and Nadim (a British Pakistani) on drums . Tony dances franticall yon stage in a manner that brings to mind Hollywood movies set in th e

Mediterranian . This group is too good for Florida and will probably soonmove to New York where their music will be at home and appreciated .After O .B ., Your Relatives played, a catchy name cause everyone like theirrelatives afterall . They are a new group and this was their second publi cappearance . Nonetheless they had a sound that was encouraging for a grou pso new .

Finally at about 1 :30 Brian Brain came on stage . Some of theaudience may have been puzzled because there was no drum kit . This is be ..cause the drums, played by Martin Atkins, are on tape . Martin is also th evocalist and uses the tape to free himself to concentrate on vocals . Asthe group goes on stage the tape begins . You are just getting excite dwhen you realize . . . God! The sound is SHIT! . . . the vocals are barelyaudible . "Working Classes" is a good song and Martin Atkins moves excitedl yabout the stage . The band later confessed to me that they get somewhatambarrasaad 'cause some people believe that it's more than the drums tha tare on tape . This sound was too bad to be on tape . Each song was almost

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undescernable from the previous*+ l9l r .-crowd didn't seem to care though . . .this was the big event . . . the one that didn't cancel . "Flies" came aboutmid set . . . probably the groups next single . Martin Atkins waived hisfingers around and looked sinister like a character from Aristophanes 'play. For some reason maybe it was just the beer . . . the sound seemed toclear for their last two songs, 'Nature" and their hit 'Jive Jive" . Thes etwo were great . Then the tape ended . After a short break which feature dpre- recorded hand clapping the group returned to play "Flies" and 'Jiv eJive' . Again the tape ended and with it the ooncert . Despite the soundproblems the group reached the crowd with it's enthusiasm and ability toproceed unflinchingly.

The next day I visited the group at their room in the Day' sInn. Present were Pete Jones who plays bass, Bobby Surgeoner who play slead guitar, John Madden who produces their music and is a roadie andMartin Atkins the drummer/vocalist . The group has taken great pains not t olive off Martin Atkin's association with PIL (Editor's note : Well howcome he's wearing a PIL T shirt on the record then?) . Atkins claimsthat their record and performance contracts have provisions prohibitingany mention of a connection to PIL . Martin has dozens of tales of ho wpeople will be nice to him in order to get a chance to talk to Johnnyor Keith . Even Pete tells of people asking if Martin ever mentioned wha tJohnny thought of some topic . Brian Brain's first single was recorde d

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tour . They say that they don't play much in England . . . "England is a pi tto play in . ." "It's flavor of the week" where people like what they shoul dlike . They want to move to New York or Boston . 'New York would be nicebut I wouldn't want to get in with Keith, Johnny, and Jeanette' say sAtkins, who claims that Johnny is fat and a waste . The main thing tha tkeeps them in England is Secret , their record company which has bee ngood to them. 'We couldn't afford this tour without them . "

Martin explains the group's attitude about their music byexample, "have you ever interviewed the Gang of Four" he asks? One of u snods . He goes on to criticize groups like the Gang of Four who use inter-views to espouse their political opinions and treat their songs as avehicle for political expression . . . 'not one government has ever beenchanged because of some group's lyrics . . . but what do they do with thei rmusic?' One of the boys add we do more by just giving people pleasurethrough entertainment than the Gang of Four or the Au Pairs do with thei rpolitics ." Yet if you examine the lyrics of Brian Brain's songs closelyyou will find elements of political thought fulness . . . apparently it' s

Vthe manner it's conveyed that's important to the group .

Brian Brain as individuals are very personable fellows . Thewhole time that we talked I felt that they were on stage to some degree . . .joking, telling stories and generally entertaining . They seemed to beenjoying themselves immensely . Pete Jones said that if he never did any -thing else in his life the last two years would satisfy him to death. The ywere warned not to come to Tampa . . . warned that it was to amateurish. . .things too easily messed up . . . they came anyways because they wanted thevacation. They came also as missionaries to spread the music to barbari clands . When we left they all got up and shook our hands and sincerel ythanked us for coming . They seemed mature for guys fairly young . . . out-wardly polite in contrast to the image of PIL who so often make sport o ftheir public contacts . . . and so until some other group or set of folk stake a chance the big time once again leaves Tampa .

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by Adam KleinThs music of CABARET VOLTAIRE, THROBBING GRISTLE, and TUXEDO -

MOON have incorporated the intricate web of correspondence andassociation to attack more of, and at a purer level, the dualitiesthat so possess the spirit of contemporaries . As I have heardthese bands termed "Art Damage", I will assume that such termino-logy is derived through the dynamic form and structures of th emusic (this concern for form having, indeed, references to th enature of art) and though the fact that the music, generally, haslittle regard for the dance rhythmns that have become base in muchof the New Music, often its only means of propellation, pulse .There is no damage here, Certainly not to the art world .

What is most important to recognize about these bands is theirunspent vocabulary of the peripherals . CABARET VOLTAIRE's hollow ,sucking, vacuous sounds - sounds like the cracking of matches an dthe specific darknesses implied before the necessary "light" (thereare many darknesses for each band the way the eskimos have man ywords for "types" of snow) . THROBBING GRISTLE'S urban, synthetic ,industrial sounds - the hypertension, the menace, the conscience . . .and TUXEDOMOON's more linear expressions of isolation, nervousdespair as the mind questions its own control . The dreamlikequality of the music is often endowed with ironic or pathetic lyrichumor which, perhaps (if in quantity alone) seta TUXEDOMOON off fromthe other bands . The sound (often visual sound) correspondence s(juxtaposition and/or chance) create the tensions on which circum-stance (the drama) reveals itself full scale, with its emotive powercoming from the concretism inherent in musical form and the looseconjunction of uncertain sounds (which comprise the music) creatingsensory images far related . These images may be related throughcreative processes set in motion by the listener, or left alone ,accepted and appreciated as a pattern, or puzzle, of hybrids .

The discovery comes in the dynamic links, a world between thesensorial and mental processes best described in the "instances "of listening, often the same way in which we are surprised by suddenclarity in amassed thoughts in perios just before sleep . In similarperiods the rational linkage of thoughts is unecessary, certainlyunattainable in moments the bands describe, moments of exhaustedpossibility .

The night stretches on and on, you are further from slee pthan waking .

Seeing the many approaches of the unsettled, we have determinedtheir validity - sought the shadows, our dark shapes always behindus (erased by night when they are part of us and we must prowl) .The form of "Art Damage" is more assuming in its retirement of th ebinary musics of the past, the formulaic return, the Chorus . Inart damage melody and harmony are often inseparable, fragmentar yand without the functional aspects of composition . This, as ithas convinced us in the classical music of the 20th Century, has

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given rise to the expressive, expansibe nature of our thinkin gand our feeling. And so, though the music has become more dif-ficult to tailor to our own shape (often I hear "yes, I like the mbut can't listen to them all the time"), the shadow becomes thick-er, endowed with its own processes of thought, its own moments ,tensions, releases - it is more than a shadow now - it is a soul ,a dark soul to be learnt by, to exchange with .

Music . Companion to man's consciousness . Freed by its un-conscious as man is freed from reality by the dreams, from thedream by waking .

Our worlds are interchanged . I see that there is a certain pointin form where we reach life . A certain point in life where wereach change . We have more than a shadow, more than the dream -we have an alter image comprised not just of circumstance but o freason.

Things become more clear . I almost see myself in everything .

NICK LOWELP --- Nictrivia qu ithievery awinking a twhere I s tisn't a t Ythat you l'but that' :tossing h iagain andt h, , ,, back.(And yeah ,Boz . . . . )

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SELECTED ALBUMS :CABARET VOLTAIRE : MIX UP (ROUGH TRADE )THROBBING GRISTLE : FUNERAL IN BERLIN (ZENSOR )TUXEDOMOON : HALF MUTE (RALPH )

"Mix Up" is Cabaret Voltaire's first album and probabl ytheir most successful in its transmitting the network of ques-tions behind experience, which the objective of the band was a tthis point . The band has maintained the same sound vocabulary(the sound of the static void) with some additions to it in late rworks . This is the best application, though . Many of the songsare narrative tales . "Fourth Shot" and "Photophobia" are excep-tional works on this album . The music is meshlike, hollow, in-finite and working around the mystery of the recited lyrics .

Throbbing Gristle's "Funeral in Berlin" is the last album bythe band before splitting up . It is their most accomplished workcompositionally . Hot on the heels of "Can the Wort. Be As Sad A sIt Seems" in its unrelenting horror show vision, the fogged awa yguitar working a frenetic backdrop for the howls of Genesis P .

-Orrige or the destructive innocence of Cosey Fanny . This is theirmost anarchic in form . Full of foreign elements, comments on com-ments .

Tuxedomoon's first album on Ralph records after some evolutio-nary singles with and without Winston Tong ."Half Mute" deals withinteriors, space . Motive, rhythmic blend of synthesizer, electro-nic percusiion, electric violin and saxaphone . Internal confron-tation, loneliness, fear, all a part of the "mood" music . Cohe-sive elements found in repetitions and gradual change (found inworks of Phil Glass and Steve Reich) . Texture is thick but clean-er than the albums of Cabaret Voltaire or Throbbing Gristle .

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So many nights spent wrecklessly on rock and roll . The Irishman

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f what's almy favorites . Simply the communication of music ." He laughs again, his

' ,. mt.mouth curled in humor . He orders another drink . "You're telling the poetr y of the bars like that French guy, Genet. There' , no point in triing tJ -Jo

TJ ~obscure about smoke, poor lighting, and drinking and music, now is there?

411%4 72.my dreYou seem to to want it all effortlessley like so many miniature paintings ."

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zine from 0any communication at all . You know ; you pay your money and get some shi tshow .

445 Grave, rI'm on a roll now . I'm getting my ideas across . "Exactly! And

"NAILthere should be mystery and fun. There should always be fun . Fun seems to

1r FALLOUThave disappeared lately .The Irishman wants to play : "it would sound like you both want

% a zineto be standing in the center of time with all the partitions removed . You

bands tremind me of how there is nothing worse than the pseudo- artists ; their

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this? Nness give off an odor peculiar to lazy men ."

think nDancers in the crowd are relatively scant . Their movements,

it up .their paroxysms, and their devotion remind me of the crowd depicted in the

,, ,`"Almsgiving of Saint Rocco" by Annibale Carracci, a painter of the eclectic

~RIPPER # 6Bolognese school . Jim is cautious of the Irishman guy and waits for me to

zinc from Cput him straight .

zTo gush is not a crime . "I saw the Psychedelic Furs once . Their

Youth . Exc eugliness is special, like mine . I really got off on them . Their music was

story .European neo- Baroque, with vision that left an indescribable sorrow in

, ~.my heart . It sorta made me want to die dreaming of the sun ." Jim is pop-

BORINGT (eyed at my artsy pose . I can't help it though ; this Irish guy is pissing

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` finallyinto me . Jim doesn't want to be left out ; 'on stage their bodies were

issue t !arranged like some undeciphered ancient writing, lacking any common

/ Us or isymbol ." If I gotta be drinking to rook and roll in a bar let it always

To getbe with Jim, I think to myself . The guy plays the game so well .

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'now is it? You make it sound as though if you died before experiencingrock and roll, dying afterward would be impossible ."

JETLAG #21 ("Sure!" I jump on it ; "and conversely, if you died after

be around fexperiencing it, dying before would be out of the question . Why be such a

Hick James ,mean fuck? Can't you have fun but be intelligent too? ' HeHe looks at me no malice, just appalled . 'There's fun, an dthen there's fun ." His chastisement is just meant as bar talk I'm sure, 1ibut fuck, it hurts anyway . "And instead of mystery, to my way of thinking,

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*Listen, sweetheart ; your conversation has been an unbelieve-ably ably generous feast of holiness . This time spent with you is controlle dby light, when the contours of all things are perfect .' I screw up myface : "but I'm an American asshole, right? '

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A-LIVEBAD BRAINS THROBS (CRUCIAL TRUTH) ,BLOOD CLOTS at MISS LUCKEYS, TAMPA,JAN. 15--. Three hundred miles toTampa- I figured something had tofuck up. Sure I'm a pessimist but I' malso seldom dissapointed . Would i tbe worth it? Well 20 hours later, th eanswer was of course ; yes, Yes, YES !Although the crowd was rather smallthe Bad Brains gave it their best ,opening up with a shreiking blas tof sound that threatened to attackthe walls of the club. Offstage H .R .was quiet and withdrawn but UP THEREhe was all motion ; screaming andpleading, skankin' to the spasti crhythm, challenging the audience .Inbetween the fast stuff they work-ed in 3 or 4 slower reggae jam sgiving everyone a chance to cool out .Although their reggae was very goodtheir hardcore stuff was the rea lattraction ; a violent blend of over-kill and volume that left me phys-ically and emotionally drained . Whatelse can I say . . . . an incredibl eshow! The Throbs (now known as Crucia lTruth) and the Blood Clots (someroadies plus a Throb) opened thingsup . The Throbs played their usual setof fast and furious hardcore . TheBlood Clots had only been togetherfor 2 days and even tneagh their so twas brief they kept up the momen-tium of the other two bands . (BOZ )

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1 3MONKEY FARM at CHEZ LOUISE, MIAM IFEB.12--- Friday night . John LeeHooker and John Hammond playe dd,wntown at a respectable time an dplace . Monkey Farm began the firs tset of their second ever gig at 1 1PM in an establishment that is theclosest Coral Way will likley eve rget to a juke joint . Although th eclub's patrons were predominetl ygay the atmosphere was extremelycomfortable for anyone . Just as wel las it happens, cause the initialbursts of music obviously too kparts of the audience by suprise .Those listening who had neverheard anything outside the bound sof straight disco were a littleshocked by the band's cross cutsaw funk . The songs are all rhythm ,but harder and noticeably moreprimitive sounding than the glossysyncopation heard all over theradio today . Monkey Farm playedall original material except forChris Kenner's 'Land of 1000 Dances° .The first set suffered from ba dsound, but after a break, the bandreturned and gave an inspired per-formance . Visually they were hap-pening too . Darla, late of the Hay-heads, effortlessley mixing grac eand abandon in her dancing andvocals, her brother James played alot of vehement rhythm guitar wit hthe occasional spider and fly solo .Drummer John Galway and JohnnySalton on bass upped the stakes ontheir already considerable talen tand David Hill played tenor sax withan elegant gusto which unfortunetly ,never always got a fair shake fro mthe sound system. A great night ,nontheless . Now, hopefully th eband will persevere with keepingtheir act fresh, finding gigs, andwill radiate as good a feeling asthey did this time . (Frankie Twist)

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NEW YORK : N .Y .'s top ban : isn't from N .Y . at all, they are from D .C . 'm±c hfigures since they have the best scene on the east coast . The Bad Brain sare a talented bunch, whose musical abilities range from the fastes tthrash to outstandin g; reggae . Heart Attack have a 3 song EP out calle d"God is Dead" on Damaged Goods Records . It's fast and energetic, to ohad only 300 were printed . They put on a great show live, despite lengthydrum intros . Reagan Youth are loud, fast and chaotic . Worth seeing ,songs include :'Reagan Youth", "U .S .A .", and "New Order No Order Disorder" .The Undead are off Plan-9 Records so their EP will be delayed . The Misfitswill be putting out an LP soon which will he worth looking forward to .Their last gig was at Hitsville in N .J . with The Necros (great band fro mOhio) and Black Flag who did a suprise set . An incredible show . EvenWorse to put out an EP on Damaged Goods Records for all of you who care .Beasty Boys broke up . Kraut have a new EP which is much better than thei rfirst . The Misguided I haven't seen yet but heard they're good . As forclubs Max's and The Playroom both closed down . CBGB's is pretty sleaz ybut have or had a great sound system . Their equipment was unfortunetl ystolen recently . The Mudd Club likes to charge lot's of money like sa y$8-410 a show . Five dollars before 10 :00- generous aren't they? Thesound sucks anyway . The Peppermint Lounge is roomy with 2 levels and plent yof video screens . A-7 is a small shithole . The Ritz is a large shithole .

(Abbie Mahler )

TEXAS : At the moment the best Texas bands are coming from Houston . Althoughurn has a bigger scene in the way of bands and audience, the Houston

scene is more stable with better clubs (the Island) and a pretty goo dradio situation . The best Houston band is The Hates, a three piece whoplay a cerebral slower brand of hardcore if you can make any sense outof that . They have three great 4 song EP's available (4200 W 34th, Box 132 ,Houston, 77092) . Another great Houston band is The VastMajority, whoplay a kind of nihilistic drunk rock . I think I like this band as much a sThe Hates, but for different reasons . Heavy influences of 60's garage rock ,but totally punk . They have a 3 song EP out . AK-47 have a single calle dThe Badge Means You Suck" (about the HPD) that's really good . Austin has

one really great band, The M .D.C . Stains . They play hardcore in more of aL .A . tradition, fast and furious . They have an excellent single, "John Wayn eWas A Nazi', which you must get or they will eat your cat (2913 A Pearl St . ,Austin 78705) . They've played around alot, including a few trips t oCalifornia where they've played with Black Flag and others . The Dicks arereally good too and have out an EP . The Big Boys have available a single ,half a 12'(the other half is The Dicks), and an LP, "Industry Standard" .Meanwhile, I'm trying to get together a C-60 cassette of Texas punk, wit hThe Hates and others . I'm not sure when it'll be available, but I'm tryin gto get it out before all these bands break up . Still trying to find band sto fill it . (Robin Radical) Editor's Note : Robin puts out a neat fanzin ecalled New Musical Excess (3118-43rd St ., Lubbock, 79413), good regiona lcoverage on American hardcore bands .

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LThe Bob is going to have a flexi featuring 2 local Phill ybands . . . Ralph Records is celebrating their 10 yearanniversary, . . Talk Talk mag has gone cassette as hasSubpop, with loads of' new music in each . . . there's morein this cassette explosion than meets the eye, many peopl e

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Editor's note : Furry puts out a catalog of Independent pubs, zines, andother unusual products . For info and a catalog send stamps to Constan tCause, 679 Arbor Lane, Warminster, Pa . 18974 . The more you send the moresamples and things you'll recieve .

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Lois is no longer in the Essentials . She's been replaced by SteveSincere (don't you love these 'stage"names?) from the R .A .F . Bythe way, I was just informed that Charlie Pickett will have thei

production honors on that long awaited Essential's single . Ii,sounds like it's going to be great where does all this leavelong lost Lois Lane? She's forming a new band with DebbieRage and Carmen along with some unidentified members . This i s4

going to be an all girl hardcore thrash band speaking of1

punk bands there's some new ones currently practicing . The Abusers

4and Menstrual Cycles wire all set to play an outdoor gig in backof Broward Mall last month which was cancelled . It was to be theirfirst time out . Church and State are also working on eventually

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playing out . This band consists of Dave Fun, editor of th eBorington Journal ; David Camp, a former Throb and Rusty from th e4

R .A .F . (these guys are sure spreading themselves around slot

4lately) the Roll n' Pinz played a reunion gig the othernight at the Underground which reminds me of something else . . . .1

are we ever going to see that Bobs 12 0 ? The covers have been

1sitting in Open Books and Records for over 6 months . Crucial Truth4

recently played a very successful gig at CBGB's in NYC with theBad Brains . Everyone's anxiously awaiting the arrival of some

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vinyl from these guys it looks doubtful that Pepe & the Smear s4

AKA Morbid Opera will ever get it together. Someone should giv ethose girls a good kick in the Larry Joe Miller & the

4Rockabilly Rockets have another single coming out shortly . Robert"I hate the Circle Jerks" Mascaro is managing the band . Dave4

Weasal is Charlie Pickett's new bass player and now I'm going t ohave to take back all those nasty things I said about the Weasal sawh i l

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played their first gig in awhile thegreat cop of Keith Richards copping4

Chuck Berry Johnny Cecka is currently residing in California .

4Rumor has it that he's taken up surfin' . Too bad he wasn't aroundto see his fellow band members, Monkey Farm at their first date s4

last weet no new news on the Eat . These guys never go out .

4I had heard that Eddie was joining an Irish Monastary but maybetheir upcoming gig at the Underground will put an end to all theserumors I had great expectations for Cats on Holiday (what

1 `a great name!) . . . boy! Was I dissapointed . . . pretty boring and

1their lead singer has got to go! I still haven't gotten%

around to seeing Radio Berlin . Frank who plays synthisizer is a

1really talented guy I still don't know if the Front have foun d%

themselves a new lead singer . They even put up flyers around townin search for one . . . . frankly I couldn't care less, their Devo/Car s%

fusion never did much for me the Screaming Sneakers will be 1S 1 moving back to N .Y . soon . I really like their record alotJeff Lemlick is trying to get local 60's punkers, the Montells

4back together again . Their version of "Don't Bring Me Down" wa sa classic Dave Camp reportedly has some Reactions' tape sin the can that are much better in terms of quality than their1 two EP's . This great band deservesto be remembered with somethin gmore memorable than what has come out . Their live shows we're

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Al (P .O . Box 2141B, PHILA ., PA . 19103 $1 .00)--- Fantastic cove rphoto of X!An incredible issue with coverage on some of my favorit e„ , bands like ESG, X, and the Slits . Also a very interesting articleSon some of the concert promoters in Philly .

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ACERTAIN RATIO'SEXTET"(FACTORY LP )--- I had almost written these guys of fafter the disjointed failure of "T oEach . . . ', but 'Sextet" shapes u prather nicely . It's a moody work thatreflects the pain and hurt we at time sdesire . Quiet but moving, ACR use therhythmic base of funk to explore newpossibilities . The mix is a real ey eopener ; the busy bass and percussionare prominent but never overbearin gand help create a trance- like mood .Intimate and personal, the cal mresonance of the vocals extend thesubliminal hurt . A rewarding albumthat's well produced and Hannet' sname is nowhere to be found . (BOZ )

D .A .F "GOLD UND LIEBE' (VIRGINLP)--This has been described as a 'sensual "album and that's very accurate . True ,synthisizers and cymbals don't gen-erate warmth for some . It's thevocals that really convey it . I can' tunderstand a word Gebi sings becauseit's all in German . It's the feelin gin his voice that comes acr .)ss . Fo rall I know he could be saying "g ohome Tanks' . (Craig Snyder )

TENPOLE TUDOR "LET THE FOUR WINDSBLOW' (STIFF LP)--- Pleasant butundistinguishable rocky Britis hpop. 'Three Bells in a Row' was abetter effort but that was a single .They also dressed better back then .Buy the T-SHIRT .

(BOZ)

VARIOUS ARTISTS "BUSTED AT OZ "(AUTUMNLP)--- An attractive compila-tion consisting of live performance sby six different Chicago bands . TheEffigies and Da (change your name! )fare the best while the rest (th eSubverts, Naked Raygun, Strike Under ,and Silver Abuse) vary in qualit ybut ultimetly have less going fo rthem . The Effigies are a good dance -able thrash band that even "nice "people like me can dance to . Da' ssingle from last year displaye dan effective Banshees influence dsound . The two songs here don' tquite reach that level although'Fish Shit" comes close . Althoughit's doubtful that this record wil lchange anyone's life it's still agood bet for anyone interested i nregional American underground music .

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FINGERPRINTZ 'BEAT NOIR' (STIFF LP)- -These guys showed some real tunefulpotential on their first two LP's .But here it's all thump- thump-thump- and- handclapping to th epoint that you don't care if there' ssome less than wretched songwritin ghere ; that incessant BEAT obliterate severything laid under(!) it . Doesthis mean `Stars On 45' will be themost influential reeord of the 80's ?Get me a razor. . .

(Cz )

BAD BRAINS (HOIR CASSETTE)-- -What else can I add that I haven' tsaid elsewhere? NO this tape cannever replace a live Bad Brain sperformance but what else can?Good reggae and some of the bes tthrash noise in the Universe mak ethis an absolute must . Buy this ,borrow it, steal it, dub it . . .use whatever means you have avail -able but make sure you get it !

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NON EROTIC MALE BONDING 'TORTURE'/'THE MIDDLE YEARS' (GREEN 7 0 )---NEMB are from D.C . and include twomembers from the Stick Figures . Cooltextural rhythm sounds similar tothe Stick Figures but different .'Torture' aptly describes it's slowhypnotic funk beat ; compelling andnot at all painful . "The MiddleYears' is more upbeat ; a mechanicalrhythm section and a wonderfull ydissonant guitar create some verydemanding but listenable music . Anincredible record, I just wish i twas longer with 4 songs on it likethe Stick Figures EP so that wecould have become better acquainted .

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GET SMART! 'WORDS MOVE" (SYNTAX 7 "EP)--- Clean sparce sounds with asharp angular beat . Slightly neuroticrock that vaguely reminds me of thefirst Talking Heads LP althoughthats probably an inaccurate com-parasion . A simple uncomplicatedapproach . Write to : P .O . Box 493 ,Lawrence, KS 66044.

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(CZ )

YELLO 'BOSTICH" (STIFF AMERICA 12 "I► SONG EP)--- I don't know why musi clike this has lyrics because the vo-cals are usually buried in productiontricks,and no one's gonna listen tothem at discos anyway. And the music' stoo passive and boring to be heardanywhere else,so who cares?

(CZ)

TJLE HATES "NO TALK IN THE 80'S "(FACELESS7' EP)--- Average wes tcoast style punk via Texas . They'reOK but how many other bands arethere that sound exactly the same ?Actually you should read about themin Robin's report from Texas ; she' smore objective and descriptive thanI am. It's just that I'm runningout of new adjectives to describepunk rock and I can't find myThesaurus! Bleaee ignore my drive land send $3 to the Hates . Thei raddress can also be found in Robin' sreport . (BOZ )

LI PER'SEXBOMB' 'BRAINWASH 'an this be a

new trend and drawn picturesleeves in crayon . . . . hmmnn . Thelast Public Image LP should havesounded like this but then thi sguy in Flipper sakes Johnny seemlike a seasoned pro . Screamingvocals! 'DO THE SEXBOMB!' What i she singing about? Maybe it's a newdance except I don't knew the steps .Yeah you guessed it this is totall yincoherent . . . . a mad genuis a twork . (BOZ )

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VIRNA LINDT 'YOUNG & HIP'/'THE DOSSIE RON VIRNA LINDT"(COMPACT ')--- One ofthe most fun singles this year . Virna' sa blond Swede who sings songs writte nby a fellow named Taylor and they'r ewith the Compact Organization, a newlabel-co . in England. Her voice i smixed down and I still haven't decide dif she can sing yet . Something ol dand something new with a dash ofmystic, atmosphere, and 60's niteclubfeel- excitement . Like I said, fun butnot for everyone . (Craig Snyder )

SCREAMING SNEAKERS "MARCHING ORDERS "(SCREAMING SNEAKERS 12'EP)--- Re-member when the Sneakers were consid-ered Cichlids' clones? That was sometime ago ; the band has since move dto NYC and their first EP has enoughammunition to silence even thei rstaunchest critics . Well recordedand produced, the Sneakers have anenergetic power pop sound tha toccasionaly reminds me of earl yBlondie circa 'Plastic Letters '(thats a compliment!) . However that' snot an accurate description as someof the material is a bit more Advent-urous similar to the Babahees . " ViolentDays" is my favorite, it featuresloud guitars and Lisa Nash (lea dvocalist) at her most convincing .Of special interest is their coverof 'I Can't Help It', the oldReactions tune . Why didn't th eReactions version sound like thi son their own EP? Yes! I think Icould fall in love with Lisa i fonly she didn't have those tatoos . . .but I guess that's my hangup. Sillyisn't it? Anyway I like this recor dvery much . Thank you . (BOZ)

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XTC `SENSES WORKING OVERTIME'f'BLAMETHE WEATHER"/'TISSUE TIGERS"(VIRGI N7')--- This one comes in a pictur e

sleeve that's as inconvenient as i tis clever-things going in all direc-tions that folds into one tidy coverthat's impossible to get the recordout of . The A-side isn't much dif-ferent with its odd,vaguely India nsounding textures and rhythmns mesh-ing into a hooky sing-song chorus .It works,really . On the flip,'TissueTigers(the Arguers)" is straightfor-ward XTC(is that a contradiction? )pop that could have been an A-side a swell,and Colin Mouldingb time "BlameThe Weather"is amiable enough listen-ing fare,but I can't remember what itsounds like .

(CZ )

SUBVERTS "INDEPENDENT STUDY "(CLANDESTINE7'EP)--- Rathe rroutine hardcore from Chicago, th eSubverts can also be heard on the"Busted at Oz" LP reviewed else -where . Stronger production woul dhelp although "Radiation Nation' i sdecent Damned influenced punk . (BOZ)

PYLON 'M-TRAIN"/"CRAZY' (DB7 ' )---From the cover (featuring a pris msticker of a jumping fish . . .you knowthat kind that are usually plastere don trucks) to Vanessa's wild voic ethis is a neat single . Pylon seem sto be more accessible,without losingany of their mystery . They still soun dspooky and dangerous . 'M-Train'feature sVanessa providing the woo-oo of a traingone almost out of control . 'Crazy 'sounds like a lively dirge of a menta lpatient about to give up and give into her illness . This is another quali-ty record from DB recs, a label to besupported!

(Mary )

THE DANCING CIGARETTES (GULCHER 7 " EP )--- Their press release describes thi sas 'mental theatre dance music' . Wel lI'm not sure what that means but theCigarettes do bear some resemblence t oPere Ubu back in their early days .Good forceful funked up tunes and asquealing sax on "Mr. Morse" mak ethis worthwhile . The Cigs are fromIndiana and can also be heard on 'Re dSnerts" an Indiana compilation o nGulcher .

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oes is a mini-epic, an anthemof one sort or another. Last year' s'Nero" sounded like it was made inHell but 'Westworld' reminds me o fuhh . . . . cowboys . Theme music for amodern day western? Perhaps . ActuallyI can never seem to make out whatKirk is singing (not that it reallymatters) so I'll have to assumeinstead. Really terrific though, afaster tempo reminiscent of earl ySkids but delivered with that poison-ous spite . Love their sax player-almost unhuman emotions in his play-ing . I bet they're great live . (BOZ )

FOUR SKINS 'WHITE NEIGHBORHOOD "(BEATNOTE 2'EP)--- Not to be con-fused with the-English Oi band the 4Skins are a NYC white (well 3 of thek members are) funk band . JamesChance comes to mind but I'm stillnot convinced. A hip AWB . (BOZ )

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regular single . It's a story song ;a story with a great beginning and arotten ending ;a song with great musicall the way through . the subject i srape . Just the word chills the heartsof most women and here's a whole son gabout one woman's experience . The mu•sic sets the scene,weavee in and ou tof the story line punctuating th ewords and actions,and sadly trails offat t end/ Rhoda has a fine voice . Sheplays the parts of the woman and man ,piping high for the first and growl-ing low for the second . The specialA .K .A .(what is left of the originalspecials)support the words with ex-cellent musicianship . This is not asingle for everyone . It's very dis-turbing because it reminds us thatrape is a crime of brutal violence .This well crafted single is highl yrecommended .

(Mary )

POPE UL POT 'ADVENTURE§ IN PLASTICTV LAD' NO FIDELITY EP)-- - From theSan Francisco Bay area, the same plac ethat gave us the Residents and the DeadKennedys,comes Pope Paul Pot,soundingslot like the Residents with lyrics b yJellow Biafra or something like that .The standout cut is "K-K-K Carolin aOn My Mind"-'well the mud feels good onmy leather boots as I goosestep throughthe hills' . Fun lyrios,but watered-downResidents music ain't my cup of 4ep.(No Fidelity Reoords,1029 Pardee St ., .Berkley CA 94710) .

(CZ )

VIC GODDARD 'STAMP OF A VAMP"/.'HEYNOW . (CLUB LEFT7 ' )--- Vic, now aniteclub singer with a new niteclu bband and their own niteclub somewherein England . Wow. Well, Vic's finallyfound his notch? In a lot of his re-cent interviews he's been saying h ewould rather sing for middle age dpeople . With his new style and lyric she's a lot better off doing that .Nothing to go apeshit over but it' scertainly charming. (Craig Snyder )

START (L-ERT 7 ' EP)--- New wavefrom Kansas . Jazzy upbeat tunes wit ha Holiday Inn piano player . I thinkthey're trying to be mode though .I'll pass . (BOZ )

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