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Michael Roberts, John Young and Justin McLean
Published: July 6, 1994
Michael Hill's Blues Mob Bloodlines (Alligator) In blues circles, Michael Hill is being lauded as a musical revolutionary, and given how resistant to change most of the...
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LOLLAPALOOZA JACKSON
Michael Roberts
Published: July 6, 1994
The songs recorded by the talented quartet called Luscious Jackson feature some of the freshest, least categorizable music heard during the past several years. But because the...
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ROCK AND POLE
A DENVER FIRM BUILDS A MUSIC EMPIRE IN POLAND.
Michael Roberts
Published: July 6, 1994
Some guys from Denver own the biggest record company in Poland. It sounds like a bad joke in search of a punchline, but it's not. Last month, A.B. Goldberg, the man in charge...
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Michael Roberts, Susan Dunlap and Linda Gruno
Published: June 22, 1994
Various Artists What Is Bhangra? (I.R.S.) Bhangra, according to this disc's liner, is traditional music from the Punjab region of northern India that immigrants to England...
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CRITIC'S CHOICE
Michael Roberts
Published: June 22, 1994
Gil Scott-Heron, Friday, June 24, at the Ogden Theatre, may not be the father of rap music, but he's certainly been a major influence on those current hip-hoppers who are...
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SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES
THE EAGLES AND PINK FLOYD BRING BACK THE ME DECADE.
Michael Roberts
Published: June 22, 1994
For anyone who thought that punk rock would destroy the popular music of the Seventies, last week was an enormous repudiation. The Eagles, who appeared June 14 through June 16...
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CRITIC'S CHOICE
Michael Roberts
Published: June 15, 1994
Cynic, Monday, June 20, at the Gothic Theatre, with Cannibal Corpse and Sinister, looks like your standard-issue death-rock act, from the players' long hair to their sullen...
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BECK TO THE FUTURE
Michael Roberts
Published: June 15, 1994
For Beck, the backlash is in full swing. There's no telling when--or whom--this kind of adverse reaction will strike, but the last two months of singer-songwriter Beck...
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LIGHTNING STRIKES AGAIN
Michael Roberts
Published: June 15, 1994
In promotional materials intended to hype its latest album, Mustang Lightning is called "unmistakably the most energetic and hard-driving band to emerge from the Denver music...
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Michael Roberts and Linda Gruno
Published: June 8, 1994
David Byrne David Byrne (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.) Apparently this is the season for faded new-wave stars to search for their roots. Like Elvis Costello, whose recent Brutal...
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KEYS TO THE KINGDOM
Michael Roberts
Published: June 8, 1994
Although rap music became commercially viable only a few short years ago, the style itself has been around in one form or another since at least the late Sixties, when the Last...
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BACK TO THE BEACH
THE BEACH BOYS' MIKE LOVE ON MUSIC, MONEY AND SUING COUSIN BRIAN.
Michael Roberts
Published: June 8, 1994
Mike Love: The name conjures up a particularly Californian image of sun, fun, peace and happiness. If Love, the longtime vocal anchor of the American institution known as the...
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THE BITCHES ARE BACK
THE WOMEN IN 7 YEAR BITCH DON'T WANT TO BE YOUR DOGS.
Michael Roberts
Published: June 1, 1994
Many of you men and women out there probably think "bitch" is a bad word. According to the members of the punk quartet 7 Year Bitch, you're wrong. "It's a compliment,...
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FRETTING ABOUT MEANING
AN ANTHROPOLOGIST WINDS UP DIGGING GUITARS.
Michael Roberts
Published: June 1, 1994
In 1989 the life of fortysomething anthropologist Rebecca McSwain was changed by MTV. "The video of `Dr. Feelgood' by Motley Crue really struck me," she says, laughing at...
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Michael Roberts, Brad Jones, Linda Gruno and Susan Dunlap
Published: May 25, 1994
Kokane Funk Upon a Rhyme (Ruthless/Relativity) I admit it: When I saw the cover of this album, I figured that the disc would bite. The reason was simple--there's too much...
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PLAYING IT COOL
Michael Roberts
Published: May 25, 1994
Sweet De, the lead voice for Denver's Cool eMCees, is at the microphone at Aurora's Platinum Studio, freestyling a new set of rhymes meant to conclude "The Funky Joint," a tune...
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Michael Roberts, Susan Dunlap and Brad Jones
Published: May 18, 1994
Maggie Estep No More Mister Nice Girl (NuYo/Imago) Calling Ms. Estep a spoken-word artist is tantamount to describing Richard Nixon as a former congressman from California: It...
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ALL HAIL DICK DALE
THE KING OF THE SURF GUITAR IS BACK ON THE BOARD.
Michael Roberts
Published: May 18, 1994
After asking guitarist Dick Dale a question, hold on. This rock-instrumental innovator, this creator of surf rock, this influential wild man beloved by players as disparate as...
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CRITIC'S CHOICE
Michael Roberts
Published: May 18, 1994
Barkmarket, with Spongehead, Tuesday, May 24, at Seven South, is a band that inspires strong opinions. Relatively meek listeners likely will hate this trio--hate it with a...
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Michael Roberts, Linda Gruno and Jason Horwitch
Published: May 11, 1994
John Trudell Johnny Damas and Me (Rykodisc) No getting around it: Trudell is dogmatic, didactic and driven to say more about most topics than many listeners are eager to hear....
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