Soul Assassins

On John Wilkes Booze's tribute to Hearst, there's a song called "White Guilt." Although Minor Threat once sang about feeling guilty for being white, JWB seems to celebrate it. "I got it!/ WHITE GUILT!/I got it!/WHITE GUILT!" shouts the band in an almost Pentecostal call and response. While organ and guitars grind like the trapdoor to hell underneath him, Mahern shrieks with all the fevered rapture of a tent revivalist: "Whatever happened to H. Rap Brown?/His soul is on FIE-UHH!"

It could be pure rock pulpiteering, of course. Does Mahern really feel guilty about being white?

With a bullet: John Wilkes Booze members Mark Rice (from left), Eric Weddle, Aaron Deer, Seth Mahern, Jason Groth and Chris Barth.

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With Zeke and Crimson Haybailer
9 p.m. Saturday, July 19
Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer Street
$10, 303-291-0959

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"Yeah, every day," he replies, without a second's hesitation. "It's not just being white; it's being an American, a person who has these great amounts of resources and kind of wastes them. We have this king -- King George Bush -- who's basically going around destroying and terrorizing the world. In my name! So, yeah, I feel really guilty about that. And I think that's why we're doing what we do. We're trying to show the world that you can live a righteous, good life."