Page 10-The Michigan Daily -Weekend etc. -April 8,1993 Seattle takes a back seat to Boulder, BOULDER Continued from page 1 became the place to hang out," said Nevin. More clubs addedlive music, stress- ing original material, and eventually there were at least 10 places with four to six nights of live music weekly. The Boulder Theater, a venue similar to Detroit's State Theater, has sold outacts as diverse as the Spin Doctors and Shawn Colvin long before they were popular anywhere else. Colvin thanked the city by featuring the Subdudes on her new- est record. A year ago, another major hall, the Fox Theater, opened, and in a move only Boulder is hip enough to make, the inaugural attraction was the Meters. David Jacoby, drummer of the funk band Water, has noticed some changes around town. He said, "There are three times as many bands in town now, and half the number of gigs. The Fox has helped to put Boulder on the map, but since so many people go there every, night, the other places don't know how to compete." A few places have reduced the nights they feature live music to two nights, McCabe's has discontinued live music entirely, and the Jacoby, however, is very excited about the increased atten- tion Boulder has received. He hopes that his band will be helped greatly as a result of their friendship with the Samples and Big Head. Another local band, Acoustic Junction, hopes for the same, as they are the opening act on the Samples' current tour. The town's transient population, which acts as a traveling PR firm for the local bands, is another important factor in the scene's popularity. Nevin said that the last they played in California, each show was like a Boulder reunion. The word about the Samples has even traveled all the way out here, and they have been one of the Blind Pig's top drawing national acts over the last two years. "They kill here," said Lee Berry of Prism Productions. "We're going out on a limb and booking them at the Michigan Theater this time." The Samples, as well as the other acts responsible for the Boulder scene, deserve every spare limb they can get. THE SAMPLES and Acoustic Junction will play at the Michigan Theater Monday, April12 at 8:30. Tickets are $12.50 in advance from icketMaster and $15 on the day of the show. Call 763-TKTS for more info. Colorado For more information on how to get a hold of these bands' releases: The Samples - The W.A.R. re- leases should be available at all local record stores, but if they are not, they can be ordered. If you want the first record, W.A.R. is in the process of re- quiring the rights. If you sign up for the mailing list at the show, or give the record labela call at 212-964-3703, you will be notified of the release date. Leftover Salmon - They have a single disc, "Bridge to Bert" on their ownlabel, Whirled Beets Records.Write to the label at P.O. Box 4882, Boulder, CO, or call Mark Vann at (303) 459- 3567. Water - To be on their mailing list, or to get their self-released "Don'tBurn Down the House" call (303)449-8618, ext. 2, or write to Water, P.O. Box 974, Nederland, CO, 80466. Go to hell, she-devil by Kimberly Gaines Go to hell - or at least come visit hell's waiting room at this weekend's Basement Arts production of "Hopeful Interview With Satan." Written by OyamO, a very well-known African-American playwright and faculty member here at the University, the show will be performed in the Arena Theatre. From the title of the play, you might be wondering about the plot.The main character, Satan (surprise, surprise) is in hell (yet another shock) - but she (would you say this is a win or a loss for feminists everywhere?) wants to get out. Yes, that's right - Satan is aspiring to get to heaven. Satan, played byjunior Sarah Hauck, has been atherjob forabout900 years, and basically, she's pretty bored. As she ushers people into hell to deliver their punishment, she runs into a character named Icarus Asphalt (sophomore Paul Molnar). He suggests to her that maybe she could get out of hell. The story revolves around this scheme to get to heaven. Joe Gold, a junior in the Theater department, is directing the show. "The show deals with some issues like racial prejudices, the nature of sin and the existence of hell. It basically takes the stance that hell does not exist," he said. The show will feature a lot of dramatic special effects - in particular, light and magic. At one point in the show Satan will vanish from the middle of the small blackbox theater. Gold, who began performing magic in middle school, explained, "I have a big background in magic so we're incorporating some of that into the show." The one-act play will last a little over an hour with its cast of nine. It should be very funny, yet it also touches on some deeper issues. "The show makes fun of itself- it makes fun of the notion of hell. It's definitely a comedy, but if you look deeper you would see these other things," Gold said. "Hopeful Interview With Satan" places the audience in the waiting room of hell, so there will be abit of audience participation. The show is being produced by college students, so they have also added some college jokes we all know and understand so well. "It's very vulgar, so I wouldn't take your four-year-old. It's very sick, very demented," Gold warned. Gold described the play as a "hellish experience," but if you are looking for a few laughs, it should definitely provide them. Basically, Gold summed it up best when he said, "It's funny as hell." HOPEFUL INTER VIEW WiTH SA TAN will be performed April8 at 10 p.m., April 9 at 10:30 p.m. and April10 at 2:00p.m. in the Arena Theatre in the basement of the Frieze Building. Admission is free. 0 RIECORDS Continued from page 3 have some idea of Poison's desired new direction. "Stand" is "Something To Believe In Part Two" both musically and lyrically - now that you've found the cause, stand up for it. More advice is given on "Bring it Home," "Ain'tThat the Truth"and "Stay Alive," wherein singer Bret Michaels reveals his strong belief that incorrect grammar somehow enhances soulful- ness ("Take me down where the sun do shine, take me back things be different ..."). Give him credit for trying, though. It takes guts to seriously sing a preten- tiously laughable song like "Bastard Son of a Thousand Blues" when until now you have been best known for party songs like "I Want Action." Poison's new sound is more elabo- rate than that and the words express an angst of unknown origin. "Until You Suffer Some (Fire and Ice)" and "The- atre of the Soul" are most successful because their tunes are slower and more singable, as Michaels drops the raving preacher act (hallelujah). As always, though, some of the lyrics are lacking, relying tooheavily on meaningless line- fillers such as "Oooo," "Kick it," "Dig" and "Alright you gotta listen now."'The ambiguous "Said" is also a favorite. (What is that?) These usually lead into the characteristically heavy choruses, which are also still in place. All in all, "Native Tongue" is an interesting addition to the Poison col- lection. It is certainly more mature and perhaps morerespectable, but corn-pop or corn-blues, it is still Poison - all at once sensational and pathetic. -Kristen Knudsen Julian Cope Peggy Suicide Island records Julian Cope has been a lot of things in his musical lifetime, from the starry- eyed leader of power poppsters Tear- drop Explodes in the early '80s to the environmental visionary of "Peggy Sui- cide" and from thejittery drug addict of 1989's "Skellington" to the cross-lov- ing critic of the Christian church on his latest, "Jehovakill." Sixteen songs long, and divided into three "phases," the album is a70 minute meditation on life and "natural" reli- gion. "Embrace the cross. Reclaim the cross," Cope writes in the liner notes. "The Christians only want it as a weapon" Sound pretentious? It is. But since the death ofJimMorrison, theworldhas been sorely lacking a charismatic source of pompous music and self-righteous poetry and Cope is trying desperately to fill that role. Witness, for example, the tasty, but melodramatic "Fear Loves This Place," or the 10 minute "The Tower" in which Cope intones "Until I was old, I was very old and I was an elder of the tribe." Unfortunately, while phase one and two contain some of Cope's best mate- rial, phase two is a throwaway, with the possible exception of "Julian H. Cope" in which the narrator shamelessly com- pares himself to the New Testament figure who shares his initials. Sure, perhaps Cope should tackle less weighty subject matter on future I.- - Hey Wolverines! 2510 COME OFF COIN CLEAN F UP I Each wash YOUR ACT (limit 3 washes albums and sure, he should definitely hire a new photographer, but he cer- tainly means well and when he moans "My God, my God, baaaaaaah" on the not-quite-chilling coda "Peggy Suicide is Missing," he is obviously taking him- self seriously, even if no one else is, and that counts for something. - Dirk Schulze Fini Tribe An Unexpected Groovy Treat Epic/One Little Indian Fini Tribe was once one of the pio- neer bands of percussion oriented in- dustrial music, along the lines of Test DepartmentorEinsturzendeNeubauten. Once fronted by Revolting Cocks vo- calistChris Connelly, they created some of the most intense, threatening sounds around, most notably on their Wax Trax single, "MakeItInternal." But that's not the only reason that "An Unexpected Groovy Treat" is such a disappoint- ment. Every bit of "industrial" has been filtered out of their sound, leaving be- hind some generic pseudo-ambient dance music that is anything but "unex- pected." Nearly every musical idea on this album has been used much more effectively already by'The Shamen, The Orb, and any one of countless ambient- techno dance outfits. When they slow down the beat on songs like "Mellowman" and "101," they occa- sionally catch a shred of the spacey- psychedelic dance trip that they're clearly trying so hard for, butmostofthe album is filled with Shamen/Orb hy- brids such as "Hypnopaedia" or "Ace- Love-Deuce." And this is so frustrating, because so many of the songs begin truly hypnotic sounds that always seem to disappear or get smothered as soon as the beat kicks in. There are enough interesting moments for at least a few listens, and maybe even enough to keep this album in your music collection, but ultimately, it's likely that you'll find your "groovy treats" elsewhere. 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