GB - TheMichigan Daily - Weeken ,etc. Magazine- Thursday,September 14, 2000 --- - FACE TO FACE WITH FACE TO FACE o 0 0 * * _ &he MichiganDaily- W end, etc. Maga etc. Site of the Week Hang up on high phone bills with new Int By Gabe Fajuri Dauly Arts Editor Punk rock on the Internet? What a concept. Sid and Nancy would be pissed. But not Trever Keith. The lead singer and guitar player for Face to Face, a SoCal punk rock band ( from Victorville, Calif. to be exact) has welcomed online music and file sharing with open power chords. The group's latest release, "Reactionary" (Vagrant/Ladv Luck), which hit record shop shelves this past June, was recorded by the band in three weeks. The music sounds punk rock enough. And what's more, the tracks that made 't to the record were selected by fans. Sixteen tracks, recorded by the band last January, were posted on MP3.com for six weeks. During that time, fans had a chance to vote on which 12 cuts would eventually appear on Face to Face's new record. Nearly two million votes later, the people had spoken. The record is a punk rock opus, akin to the group's most popular telease, 1995's "Big Choice." Keith, who founded the band in 1991, came up with the idea of putting the new music online for fans to hear. "We care about what our fans think," Keith said in a recent interview with The Michigan Daily. Fans'opinions were the reason behind putting the contents of "Reactionary" to a vote. "We've been building a fan base for the last nine years." Keith said. And he couldn't be happier with the results. "Being able to (to it on the internet was awesome," Keith said. Staying closely attuned to fans' \N ish- es, on the band's seven week, cross- country tour, not much new material will he heard. "We're only playing five or six new songs," Keith said. 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That's why the band will be reaching as far back as its first full length release, "Don't Turn Away" to create its set list for tonight's appearance in Detroit at St. Andrew's Hall. In addition to its association with MP3.com, the band's record label, Vagrant Records, has teamed up with the now infamous Napster to promote Face to Face's tour. Keith, a Napster user himself, says that while he doesn't see the file sharing com- munity as a sale booster for the records he releases, it certainly makes the band more visible to the general public. "I doubt they're (Napster) increasing record sales," he said. "But they're spreading word about the band. And that's the whole point" "If we thought Napster was hurting our record sales we wouldn't be support- ing it, he added. It's "a promotional tool." he said. So does Keith think Napster and its spin-offs are really "punk rock'?" - "Absolutely. Punk rock to the nth degree because it's grass roots. 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