wIml - *-, * ,. The Michigan Doily - Thursday, Page 12-- The Michigan Daily - Thursday, September 8, 1988 Music DANCE Ann Arbor feet keep tapping out t Bands Continued from Page 8 scratching and deft, hurricane back- beat swirls like the Tasmanian Devil in full spin. Dissonant guitar gurus Spahn Ranch add zip to their live shows with interesting home movies. The group doesn't do too many live per- formances, but when they opened for Sonic Youth last year, the Ranchers flashed untamed movies of a band member's naked girlfriend writhing in close proximity to bizarre scenery. Musically, the group's sonic explorations are also always interesting. Another of Ann Arbor's most Ube popular bands is the Folkminers. You'll probably pass lead singer Sam Lapides many times under the West Engineering Arch - he's the guy strumming the acoustic guitar nice and sweet. While much of the, time Lapides' golden guitar flour- ishes and easy-going croon remind listeners of REM, the group actually has an extremely multi-faceted repertoire. Occasionally their music sounds like a Beat generation re- union with introspective rap-session lyrics and jangly guitars, while at other times they rock with a drunken, brow-heavy buzz, like the Replacements after eight beers in- stead of 15. Definitely a band worth checking out. Despite an extremely pretentious moniker, The Difference packs in prodigious crowds. The highlight of their live shows is the pure talent of Randy Martin, whose big, funky bass-spanking and slick, snake-like dance moves bristle with furious, funked-up energy. The Iodine Raincoats add to Ann Arbor's raucous fray with their hip, college music chart covers. Joy Di- vision, Bauhaus, and the rest of the gloom-doom classics are well mixed with originals that sting like merthiolate on an open wound. Juice, The Fugue, and especially Flashback all elucidate the psych- edelic-LSD-elight of the Grateful Dead's mellow, spacy roots-riffs. Guitar jams that burn colorful three- dimensional trails sooth and tingle the mind while the rhythms take you on exhilarating acid-trip rainbow rides. The people at these shows are earthy Dead Heads who make their own tie-dyes, frenetically flop their free-flowing hippie hair, and eat blotter-acid tabs like they were Wild Cherry Lifesavers. There is no doubt that Ann Arbor has a lot of unrecognized musical talent - "Unrecognized" meaning local bars shun certain bands because they will not necessarily pack the house. But as long as young, tal- ented bands like the above-mentioned continue to devote their creative time and energy to music, Ann Arbor's alternative music scene will forever thrive. These bands deliver a solid, steel-toed kick in the ass to lame promoters everywlere. I guess I'm still waiting for Iggy Pop to bring his ugly mug up to the greeting-mat sized dancefloor at the Count (upstairs at Charley's), grab full Corona beers off people's tables, smash them on the floor, reach down for a nice-sized fang-wedge of broken glass, and then top it all off by jabbing viciously at his forearm until blood squirts and gushes all over a nicely dressed pack of horri- fied guys and gals. Typical Iggy, huh? In the words of Alice Cooper, "Welcome to my Nightmare." BY JOY DAS GUPTA "Gotta dance?" You've come to the right place. Ann Arbor has dance classes galore with an exceptional variety of styles. If ballet is your bag, the CAS Bal- let Theatre School specializes in Rus- sian ballet tech- nique and offers pas de deux and pointe. The Community School of Ballet also features Rus- sian technique, with pointe and partnering available. In addition to ballet, modern, and jazz, Dance Gallery Studio offers ballet floor barre, a class concentrat- ing on floor exercises which stretch, strengthen, and align the body. If you want to make music while you dance, Studio 1 School of Dance offers tap, along with various levels of ballet, pointe, jazz and musical. theatre dance. Are you mostly modern? Check out the People Dancing's studio at Performance Network. Or how about taking a partner over to Dance Theatre Studio to fi- - nally do that tantalizing tango in a ballroom class? Also available are tap, jazz, and ballet, and an exciting new course, Dance Composition, allowing participants to construct their own dances. If you're anxious for some inter- national spice, try Congolese dance, taught by Congo native Biza Sompa at the University's dance school, or Israeli folk dancing at Hillel. If you dare to wiggle, Middle Eastern Beledi (belly dancing) is at Radio0 Continued from Page 8 think maintaining Detroit's rock tra- dition means playing "Old Time Rock and Roll," "Stranglehold," "Old Time Rock and Roll," a cut from Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits, and "Old Time Rock and Roll." This lack of respect for local heritage should be a capital crime. Another puzzling thing about lo- cal stations is the absence of "new music," i.e. English Pop music. For example, Echo and the Bunnymen sold out Pine Knob a year ago but have never received local airplay. Local radio does have a few bright spots. WRIF has "Get the Led Out," a guaranteed dose of three Led Zeppelin songs, weekdays at 6 p.m. WRIF relaxes its programming re- strictions after midnight for the "Rock Cafe," an excellent mix of rare classics and progressive tunes. WCSX features "Album Archives," an entire album from CD, weekdays at 11 p.m. Don't expect to find good music during the many "request" time slots though. For each person who requests "1969," five idiots will suggest a Whitesnake single. What we need is for one of the stations to go belly-up and start over with a program director brave Alarm " Bauhaus * Cure " Depeche Mode Echo & Bunnymen e Fear " Grateful Dead " Hendrix INXS e Joy Division " Killing Joke e Led Zeppelin Marley 9 New Order " OMD " Pink Floyd Queensryche e REM e Smiths " Talking Heads * U-2 Violent Femmes e Who " XTC e Youth of Today " Zappa From A thru Z we have them all! European Music Posters - Music Tour T-Shirts TAIRWAYTO HEAVEN THEmm UNIVERSirY OF MIGHCAN GILBERT AND SULUVAN SoCIETY invites you to Audition for the Fall production of U Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia Limited Singers as well as persons to work on sets, props and costumes, are invited to a Mass Meeting Sunday, September 11 at 8:00 PM Pendleton Room, Michigan Union for information call 761-7855 enough to scrap the Bon-Journey-O- Styxwagon corporate-classic-CD rock, the various White Zeppelin poseurs, and Greatest Hits albums. WLLZ and WIQB are too stable for their own good and won't be chang- ing at all. WCSX has a small audi- ence, but it consists of upscale boomers, so CSX should be finan- cially sound until they all go deaf. WRIF has been having internal fits lately and their ratings fell, which makes them a candidate for change. The most desperate station has got to be WDTX. Constant changes and low ratings make this the most likely savior of real local rock music fans. Record Continued from Page n1 meditation, relaxation, guided im- ages, creative moment. Come listen in. Relax." Okay. The store carries a wide selec- tion of music from the highly elec- tronic to the Far Eastern guru style. My favorites are the recorded sounds of cascading waves rolling in from the beach and the rustling of squir- rels through the leaves. They didn't have an extended mix of the combi- nation of the -two sounds with drowning squirrels, though - that's obviously another rare album. t114 4e WELCOME!! GO BLUE With a BLIMPY Mon.-Sat. 11-8 551 S. 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