12 -- The Michigan Daily - Monday, May 22, 2000 'Bnaul ows s dk progression Let's discuss the recording history of an extreme. With the exception of a few Pearl Jam. brilliant songs, the album is undoubtedly It all started back in 1991 with "Ten." the band's worst. 1998's "Yield" success- The songs on "Ten" have become so well fully returned back to the early days. So, known and were, the question is, where does "Binaural" in fact, so good take Pearl Jam? Grade: B- that they tran- "Binaural" is a difficult album to scended the Seattle judge. Lyrically, the album shows a lot of Pearl Jam grunge genre from progression in both complexity and per- SBinaural which they came. sonal maturity. The band seems to have Pearl Jam's next moved past the days of boycotting Epic album was the Ticketmaster and they make it known Reviewed by highly anticipated with lyrics such as, "No need to be void Daily Arts Wrter and highly satisfy- or save up on life/Got to spend it all" Andy Klein ing 1993 follow from "Light Years." On other songs, up, "Vs" at which Vedder sings in Allen Ginsberg-like point it was confirmed that the band was dualisms ("The sirens scream wanton a genuine musical force. But could their attention," from "Evacuation"). This momentum last? dualism is carried throughout the album. "Vitalogy" proved shocking for many "Grievance," about the hypocrisy of people as its songs strayed from the America, and "Rival," written from the straightforward rock of Pearl Jam's past. perspective of the Columbine assassins, In 1996, Pearl Jam released "No Code," are songs that are clearly political. Others an album that took "Vitalogy's" artistry to like "insignificance" at first sound like r r f r I a 1 x s political rants but are vague enough so that their lyrics can just as easily be taken metaphorically. Musically, "Binaural" has the band sounding like "Brain of J" and "Corduroy." However, there are a few songs where they attempt something dif- ferent. The first single, "Nothing as it Seems," and "Of the Girl" both ramble in a dark, blues mood. "Sleight of Hand" sounds like it could have come off of a Massive Attack album, but Vedder's voice gives it that distinct Pearl Jam sound. "Binaural" is one of those albums that you don't know whether to love or hate. None of the songs are exceptionally catchy and for the most part they are quite dark. And with lyrics this ambiguous, it will take more than a listen or two to pry inside the minds of the characters. DEMF Continued from Page 10 back when he was playing at The Music Institute, back when Jeff Mills was on the radio. Once all this stuff stopped, that's when the emergence of hip-hop came along. This is when MTV came along and showed you music instead of letting you listen to it." "You see, us underground people, who loved the music, didn't have any- thing to grab on," he continued. "So things just kind of died off. That's when Richie [Hawtin] started doing his part. He saw the cultural gap and started throwing his parties. He became an icon figure, bringing all the kids out of the suburbs and into the city. Then you had this even bigger generation gap." As artistic director, Craig seems to have acknowledged the black commu- nity's current disinterest in techno. By booking acts that appeal to this target audience such as The Roots, Mos Def, Gary Chandler and DJ Assault, he hopes to bring many down to the fes- tival to expose them to their first taste of techno culture. In addition, precon- ceptions may be shattered when tE young iblack crowd discovers thatt majority of the technso artist at many of the techno communityUd statesmen are also black. Besides bringing Detroit's cultur together for three days of techno ed cation and acculturation, this festiva underlying importance also invol' the state of electronic music America at the moment. Relative Europe, America has little connecti to the music besides a small nic market and a drug-driven ravegr Even the term "techno" gets us blasphemously to describe blatant non-techno music such as Fatboy Sli or Moby. "The club culture here is not deep as we wish it would be," Pull said. "You go over to places li London, for example, and the nation radio is geared towards dance mus You have MTV supporting dan music. It's all over the magazines. Y have so many clubs, so many di re types of music that you have a Mu over there. When you see movi being made about club culture Europe, you know that there is a de sense of knowing about the mus over there. We don't have that here the States." While this festival may help cres awareness in America for this mus the artists and volunteers want reach out to primarily Detroi*s< before expanding in coming yea "We are doing this for ourselves a for our city more than we are doi this for a global point of view," Pull concluded. "I think we've been in t shadows for too long." For more information on t artists, the event and the location DEMF, point your browser http://www.demf org. For me information about techno, vi: site with over 300 pages of rco reviews, artist bios, label histori and more. _ _ REGISTRAR'S BULLETIN BOARD Central Campus Student Service Site The Registrar's Office Central Campus Student Service site is moving. Effective May 22 we will be located in 1010 LSA Bldg. (next to Cashier's Office). The site in G255 Angell Hall will close. 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