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HIGH NOTES

CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 18, 2001
Eminem: 'Devil's Night'
Eminem (aka Marshall Mathers) is America's teenage id made hysterical from too much junk food, too much TV, too many drugs and too little parental supervision. He is also a record company's dream. A white boy whose dysfunctional biography makes him "real" enough to market to the suburban white kids who...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 18, 2001
Edith Frost: 'Wonder Wonder'
As an artistic reference point, the music of Will Oldham -- he of the deathly pale complexion, tubercular Appalachian croak and sex-unto-death lyrics -- might teach you something valuable about mood and atmosphere, but you'd have to be crazy to copy his execution. Even Oldham himself has managed a few...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 18, 2001
Kei Akagi
Kei Akagi's newly released CD, "Palette," on the Videoarts Music label, uses the often overdone piano trio format for powerful explorations. While many pianists range across styles because they have no sound of their own, Akagi plays with a consistent voice that is strong enough to express itself in...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 18, 2001
The Beta Band: 'Hot Shots II'
The Beta Band is one of those cool artsy bands and if you like them then you must be pretty "cool" too. At gigs -- which are always attended by stacks of graphic designers, artists and French people -- home videos are played of band members doing really weird stuff like eating birthday cakes and falling...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 11, 2001
Charles McPherson
As keeper of the bebop flame lit by Charlie Parker, Charles McPherson is a tremendous alto saxophone player with his own style-within-the-style. Thoroughly saturated in Parker's rhythmic and melodic innovations, McPherson has honed an individual sound with a gleaming sharp edge.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 11, 2001
'The Invisible Band': Travis
There used to be a time when the Brits made all the heavy rock, while the Yanks turned out winsome, countryish pop-rock. Now all the heavy stuff comes from the States, while the U.K. is reduced to turning out the slow-fi, introspective rock typified by Mogwai, Radiohead and Coldplay. This new state of...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 11, 2001
Nick Currie
Nick Currie looks like a B-movie villain with his wicked black eye patch and ever-so-slightly menacing gaze. For a certain segment of Japan's music-buying public, however, he is a hero.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 11, 2001
'Discosis': Bran Van 3000
Bran Van 3000's 1998 debut, "Glee," was a clever and confusing patchwork of hip-hop, disco and pop-rock signifiers. The album produced one underground hit, "Drinking in L.A.," whose sardonic take on the snarky side of the music biz endeared the mysterious Montreal consortium of artists and musicians...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 4, 2001
The Sherbets
Concert Preview by SIMON BARTZ The day I almost joined The Sherbets was three years back when I stumbled upon my pal Kenichi Nakata in an Ebisu bar. His group was hunched around a table in serious conversation, but he pulled up a chair for me and said, "Meet Benzie, the singer of Blankey Jet City. He's...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 4, 2001
'Brotherly Love': Jack McDuff
Concord has just released "Brotherly Love," the last recording of the great soul jazz organist Jack McDuff who died in January this year.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 4, 2001
The Bordeoms
Concert Preview by SUZANNAH TARTAN Eye Yamataka is a rock god. Not the blow-dried, mincing pop star kind, and not the "significant album every three years" kind, but a Dionysian force of nature -- a latter-day shaman of rhythm and noise.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jul 4, 2001
'High Seas': Trailer Bride
Album Review by PHILIP BRASOR At first listen, Melissa Swingle's voice sounds like a joke: a fragile, sing-songy bleat that conjures up visions of anorexic country girls who write bad poetry between shifts at the local Krispy Kreme. She encourages this image on stage by wearing bright-colored shifts...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 27, 2001
Number Girl
When a band regularly starts its shows with Television's "Marquee Moon," you know what kind of standards it holds itself up to. In light of the progress Number Girl has made in its brief history, this doesn't seem too ambitious. Since forming in 1995, the band has gone from the indies to the Japanese...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 27, 2001
'Wicked Grin': John Hammond
John Hammond is a guitarist and singer who has mined the deep veins of traditional country and urban blues since the 1960s. So why he wanted to take on the contemporary street poetry of songsmith Tom Waits might at first seem curious. After all, there's no shortage of blues songs aching to be excavated,...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 27, 2001
Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur's 1973 debut album remains, for better or worse, the template for all those eclectic SoCal songbird collections by people like Linda Ronstadt and Valerie Carter; albums that included a little jazz, a little blues, one or two country songs (written by Dolly Parton, usually) and a familiar...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 27, 2001
'Go Plastic': Squarepusher
Squarepusher is twentysomething Tom Jenkinson, a one-man band, who, armed with a bass guitar and a bunch of machines, gleefully spits in the face of musical categorization.
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 20, 2001
'Miss E . . . So Addictive': Missy Misdemeanor Elliott
Picking up on the drug reference in the title of the former Hefty Bag Queen's third album, we can easily wonder if Missy Misdemeanor Elliott hasn't lately been feeding her head as much as she'd previously fed every other part of her body. "I looked down at my stomach," she deadpans in the liner noters,...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 20, 2001
'Tribute to Louis': Nicholas Payton
Nicholas Payton's new release, "Tribute to Louis" (Verve), paints the colors, shapes and textures of Louis Armstrong's tunes on a great big, brand-new canvas. The largish ensembles Payton put together on the CD re-energize Armstrong's earlier, blues-based work from the '20s and '30s on songs such as...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 20, 2001
Big Frog
Big Frog couples a love of the Grateful Dead's loose, fun vibe with their own inspiration in their improvisational workouts. And given their tantalizingly short 45-minute sets when they opened for U.S. "jam band" moe in May, it'll be a treat to see the homegrown Japanese outfit indulge in three-hour...
CULTURE / Music / HIGH NOTES
Jun 20, 2001
Hot Cha
Hot Cha has become the Tokyo home of slightly askew pop. From the arty, new-wave gyrations of Delaware to Fan Boy There's equally arty jazz inflections, the label attempts to reshape Tokyo's pop landscape in its own eccentric image.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Kishida defends planned rule to revoke foreigners' residency
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting of the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Human bone-like objects found at Nippon Steel plant’s molten iron pot, with one worker missing
Police believe it’s highly possible that human bones found in a molten iron pot at Nippon Steel's Oita factory belong to a missing male employee.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Japan to review romanization system for first time in 70 years
An advisory panel to the education ministry will consider how the Japanese language should be transcribed into the Latin alphabet, including unifying different romanization styles currently in use.
Japanese rap creates its mecca in Pop Yours
Tokyo-based artist Jumadiba says he forgoes the label of simply “rap” for his music because the Japanese rap scene isn’t confined to a particular sound.
Who’s toughest on China? Biden’s tariff tactic ups ante as election looms.
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about new actions to protect American workers and businesses from China's "unfair" trade practices, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Tuesday.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.

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