A Mentor
formentor
struggles to get
ahold of
herself during
a recent show
at the Stone in
San Fransisco
LANEY
Marsha
cutor
"Absolutely the Hardest Band in America"
Vertigo's new album sport some ultra-
surrealistic art, the Minneapolis-based trio
grinds out raw, feedback-ridden riff-work that
will surely please anyone who likes that kind
of drone Speaking of cover art, any band
that displays a Thrasher patch on both the
front and back of its latest Lp has got to be
killer. Hailing from Chicago, Precious Wax
Drippings rock out After History with lyrics
like "Couldn't save face to save my
soul keep two pans on every coal." Up
from the S.F. Bay-area. Vio-lence grinds out
some awesome thrash metal, chunka riffs
and ripping double bass cuts on their new
album Oppressing the Masses Other
Bay-area metal moshers, Exodus, have just
gone big time with an album on Capitol,
Impact Is Imminent In the meantime.
wildman Mojo Nixon's lyrical jab at nuevo
yup popster Don Henley on Otis originally
prompted Enigma to attach the warning:
Please Don't Play "Don Henley Must Die." It
Might Upset Him But now the company is
backing down with a softer sticker that
quotes Henley on Nixon: "I think the boy just
needs a good laxative. Maybe that's why
Mojo always wears such a constipated.
countenance. Look out for new mad-
capped adventures from The Accused titled
Grinning Like An Undertaker. Blaine and the
boys are back with more soul-crunching
mayhem that will burst your chest cavity and
suck your brain dry. Martha Splatterhead
never had it better... Meanwhile, Motor City
metaimen Integrity kick out the jams with a
new 1.p. called Den Of Iniquity on Pro-
gression Records. Maybe what you need
is a shot of The Devildogs' new album Big
Beef Bonanza, featuring tunes like "North
Shore Bitch and Time Enough For Love."
The Dwarves are heading out on a
nationwide tour to expose themselves and
wreck your local club. Check those listings kiddies 'cause if you
miss out, it's gonna be regret city.
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NEW MUSIC ON PARADE So what is the New Music
Seminar anyway? Sick thousands of musicians, label executives,
zine editors, press and people with big hair and Spandex, waving
business cards around in a hotel in Manhattan that looks like the
Death Star, provide the attendees with a bag packed with CDs
and promo knick-knacks (mostly mediocre) and hold hundreds of
seminar panels with titles like: "The Marketing of Traditional Disco
Power Pop in the 90s, and you'll have a good idea of what some
think it is. It's big business. New Music has been around, officially,
for 11 years and the seminar holds everyone involved under a
microscope, for better or worse, to see what they're up to. Major
labels, once ignorant to an entire musical movement, now appear
as guardians of the indies, distributors of the product, and co
opters of the music. During the five nights of the seminar there
are bands crawling out from under every rock to perform in
seminar showcases around NYC clubs-over 25 bands in 24
hours, playing in an average of eight clubs per night. These aren't
the bands in the 3-song rotation on your least-favorite station.
Occasionally a Peter Murphy will show up, but for the most part.
the lucky bands are relatively obscure to everyone but the people
clued in by some friend with a big record collection. The seminar
also selects a bunch of unsigned bands, stinking with raw talent.
and gives them the chance to perform before an audience of
people shopping for the next big thing. The only way to describe it
is five days with zero hours of sleep. Does anyone really get up
for the 10:30 panel on record labeling? Hopefully. The New Music
Seminar was created as an alternative to the other seminar in
town centered around the corporate music of the psi disco. At the
time New Music really was new. But with any good thing,
beginnings are small and endings can be catastrophic. As more
mainstream artists take up the "alternative music" brand and our
choices are threatened by the mad moms of the PONIARD,
you've got to decide who you'll listen to and what New Music
really is. Dig deep and get dirty. See ya next year.
There's a time to boogie and there's a time to die. On this big
blue planet of ours, many have brought us joy through the sounds
of their music, and sadly many have been taken away from us
before their time. Here in Notes we bid our fond farewell to the
legendary Stevie Ray Vaughan, a source of many bluesy
interludes in these offices. It's times like this that make you want
to appreciate what you got, while you still got it... Who was that
trampy stripper who strutted her lips on stage with the Mentors
when they hit the Stone in San Francisco. Did she really have the
hots for rocklensman Mr. Made-ho? What was that stuff on his
lens after the show? British big hairmen The Cure broadcast a
four-hour pirate radio show to premier their latest album Mixed
Up. Cure-FM reportedly pumped up the volume to listeners within
an 80-mile radius of London. Besides their own tunes, they also
sent out songs by Jimi Hendrix. Dinosaur Jr. and Fugazi....
From the City of the Angels. Funhouse busts loose with a new
Lp on Caroline entitled Generation Generator. The LA-based
metal/heavy-pop funk-thrashmen have done their time opening
for bands like Guns n' Roses and Danzig and now it looks
they're ready to step out on their own. Flipside Records
announces a new compilation record entitled City of LA: Power
The 'zine/record label claims they are "as happy as flies on a cow
farm with this slab, which features cuts by Motorcycle Boy. Bad
Religion (with Circle Jerks' vox Keith Morris singing back-ups).
Anus the Menace. Spiderbaby and L7. Not only does
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