FROM THE
NOTES UNDERGROUND
DICATE
Original
gangsta ke-T
sings to a sea
of white faces
during the
Lollapalooza
concert at the
Shoreline
Amphitheater
in Mountain
View, Cali
fornia. The
soundien
called the
multi-media
shindig
Laudapa
looza" due to
the extreme
stage volumes.
200
Corporate rock coliseum concerts
are such the rage that the only
thing higher than the ticket price
are the rock stars egos. The band
rosters for Lollapalooza, Clash of
the Titans, New Titans on the
Block and Operation: Rock And
Roll read like the line-up for a
Save The World For Furry Dead
Seals Victimized By Ozone De-
pleting Aerosol Products Funded
Through Nuclear Weapons Of
Mass Destruction With Generous
Grants From The Pepsi Corpora
tion AIDS Concert By most
accounts. Ice-T and backing
maulers Body Count kicked max-
imum booty at Lollapalooza.
Siouxie and the Banshees was
another heavy favorite, as was
Jane's Addiction, who launched
a third degree acid burn of visuals
and aurals. Rollins Band honed a
set of all new material for a buture
thrust due soon. All of our music
starts off as jams and it turns into
music," says singer/writer/publish-
er Henry Rollins. "None of us can
write a rill without the other guys
twisting it or perverting it." The
much-ballyhooed rock opera
Operation: Rock 'N' Roll was a
sea of lighters, firecrackers, Jack
Daniels T-shirts and CAT hats,
says raging reporter Jake Phelps.
Motorhead blasted the only
straight-ahead, driving, no-frills,
no props, thundering ragers of the
lot. Lemmy and friends jammed
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schralping new material
and obligatory faves like
"Killed By Death" and "Ace
Of Spades into a torse thir
ty minute set. Alice Coop-
er refused to deny the clas
sics, ripping "Under My
Wheels," "Dead Babies"
and Cold Ethy in full rock
guitar glory mode. The
action glamigore madman
battled evil trolls in and out
of video screens all the
while. Not to be outdone,
Judas Priest did the
motorcycle thing to the full
support of legions of inbred
good ole boys. Says
Phelper, "And if you had
told anybody Judas Priest
were fags, you would have
got your face kicked in
New Titans On The Block
was so over-sold at the Ritz
in New York, the walls were
sweating while kids went
unbelievably nuts to the
mass of metal fury. The
brutal raw and bludgeoning
assault included Type O
Negative, Napalm Death
Sick Of It All and a full
crowd sing-along with
Sepultura. A cheesy British
tabloid was interviewing The
Manic Street Preachers
and asked if they were
punk or if the band's tat
tered, dirty appearance"
was all a pose Rhythm
guitarist Richie Edwards
replied by carving Tm for
real Into his arm with a
razon Further bloodletting
runs rampant on the
Preachers new Ep
Ned's Atomic Dustbin
pummels dual bass
psychedelic dancetasia
infusion. Bassists Alex
Griffin and Matt Cheslin
make sounds that abound
in low harmonics, while
drummer Dan Wagian
bashes straight ahead
and solid. "Simple drum
beats are as effective as
these rock bands with fifty
thousand toms," he says
God Fodder, Ned's latest
quakes soundly Tony
Lombardo played bass in
the Descendents and
wrote such teen anthems
as Suburban Home" and
"I Don't Want To Grow
Up. Together with All,
Lombardo transforms into
Tonyall, with New Girl,
Old Story, a love-lost Lp
of turbulent, sugary, pop
punk semi-harmonies...
Check Somery for a full digital rel-
rospective of the Descendents'
rocking career. What do you
get when you play ecuntry music
backwards? You get your money
back, your car back, and your
woman house and horse back.
Slang is a tight and ripping San
Francisco foursome brimming with
tastefully funky slap bass sounds.
precision rhythms and metallic
washes of guitar tone overdrive...
Canadian punk rhythm mongers
Nomeansno fathered a new stu
dio album named Thing... Alice
Donut will tour the West Coast
with an assortment of openers
including Coffin Break Cringer
and Victim's Family For home
play, check The By S Trilogy Ep
roars Vision's five-song Ep Just
Short Of Living and an impending
full Lp. An extra guitar player, Vin
Villanueva, adds mucho chunk to
their complicated rhythmic sound
Former Meatmen madman
Tesco Vee is back His new band
Hate Police has a four-song Ep.
Tesco and the equally wacky
White Flag put out a single that
covers Black Flag's 'Nervous
Breakdown" and Blue Oyster
Cult's 'Hot Rails To Hell"
Celebrity Skin scored cheerlead-
er suits to celebrate Good Clean
Fun, which sounds like Abba
meets Sweet in a punk drag-
queen bar. Drummer Don Bolles
is spinning discs on an alternative
radio show in LA. Saturday nights
on Mars FM. The old Germs
stickman pushes blasts from the
past like Iggy and Blon-
die...Don't think The Dwarves
are getting older and kinder just
because their new album is called
Thank Heaven For Little Girls
while their old one was called
Blood, Guts & Pussy. Their songs
are still about thirty seconds long.
and they still jump around naked.
They recently chased a promoter
around in the buff during a partic-
ularly balls-out nightdub show
Massacre. From
Beyond, CD. The eye of the
ke a derailed Southern Pacific
railway tanker, subtle irony leaks
from the darkly rocking Real Good
Life by Don't Mean Maybe.
Gongs of bored youth dealing with
harsh real ties boil from this four-
tee song slab... NYHCalder
statesmen Agnostic Front are
back and hellbent for action. One
Voice is forthcoming, with The
Tombs about Roger Miret's eigh
teen-month prison stint, New
Jack about NY gang violence and
a old moshcore blast called Force
Fed Busting hard out of Jersey
RICKTER SCALE label
Hole, Pretty On The Inside, pit is never quiet, due to con-
Lp. Yeah, but it's pretty on tinuing excavation of ear
the inside of their ovulating canals. Another Florida-based
black holes of warped sans grind unit where Satan is
core led by Courtney Love days. At least they obliterate
bilities. Toxic female pop- obviously recruiting these
spitting out wads of fero- Bolt Thrower Prong.
cious impurities that will Prove You Wrong. CD Killer
crush any white male rock metal sculpture cover by
posturing... Paster Child Pushead This guttural bat
res. Daisy Chain Reaction. tering expands all senses and
Lo. Here's the follow-up to explores the outer limits of
their underrated single on industrial metal. Best yet.
Sub-Pop Pulsating -noise Daddy Longhead. Cheatos
psyche that reminds me of CD New on Touch & Go, put
Bitch Magnet, with more together by Butthole Surfers
energy and diversity... bassist Jeff Pinkus. Rey
Chemical People, Angels N Washum (ex-Scratch Acid
Devis, 10. These guys have and Rapeman drummer)
dipped into porn sound plays along with other super-
tracks. doing instrumentals stars. Crazy mixture of heavy
for stuff like "New Wave rock, fiddles, tapes and homs
Hooker 11. More great pop- that funnels into a thick.
1-you-drop blasts. There's a churning wave of noise-
cool rap number, and all in quote. Very worthwhile...
all it's consistent with previ Metallica, Eater Sandman,
ous releases. These guys rule All formats. This wins mar-
live Billingsgate, No keting scheme of the mon
Apologies. Lp. This premier There's a CD single with box
inois HC unit has plenty of to collect three more CD sin-
energy and good lyric con- gles, a picture disc 7, a regu-
tent Outstanding live far 12 with bonus track (not
-Brian Brannon
town, 7. Third single by this
band from parts unknown.
Worth getting if you're into
the grunge alternative scene
Somewhat melodic severe
political content with lots of
Something new on C/2 (Seat
variation Hammerbex. Lp
tle label) by a group that's
getting a lot of attention.
funeful, melodic, female vox
noisy, good lyrics
David. 10 UK innovators of
crushing riffs with distorted
feedback and heavy percus
sion that need no introduc
tion, except they have a drum
machine now. Each song has
a
Head of
different vibe. It's eerie in
some songs (Human Feel"),
metallic in others ("Primi-
tive") and tamer than past
efforts. AC Temple, Be
da Backwards, CD. A cross
between Sonic Youth and
Throwing Muses. Sensitive
female vocals, cool drifting
guitars and probably their
best release to date, but I'm
still partial to Sourpuss...
Pearl Jam, Ten. CD. Former
Mother Love Bone members
new outfit bred in Seattle.
M.L.B. and Temple of the Deg
Influences carry over from
hardcore reminiscent of Bad autographed photos. It's all categories. Let the 70s rock
Religion (it's even on their black, so buy it. Jones again.
Pennywise. CD. No frills on CD), and special 12 with
-Rick Ros
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