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ACROSS
1 Start of
something
4 Know-it-all
9 Sticky roll
13 Title car in a
Ronny & the
Daytonas hit
14 Michelangelo’s
“The Last
Judgment,” e.g.
15 Australian export
16 Like Gen. Powell
17 Vito Corleone
talking
bobblehead?
19 N.T. book before
Phil.
20 Denver-to-
Wichita dir.
21 Oppressive
atmosphere
22 Goal of a holistic
chiropractor?
26 Renewal notice
feature, briefly
27 Like a well-
written mystery
28 Hammer user’s
cry
32 Payment in
Isfahan
35 Chem. and bio.
37 Drift (off)
38 As a group,
emulate Popeye?
41 Singer DiFranco
42 Pop
43 TV oil name
44 “The Good Wife”
figs.
46 Fabric rib
48 Its home version
debuted at Sears
in 1975
50 Maiden aunt
mascot?
54 Israeli prime
minister after
Barak
57 “__ Gotta Be Me”
58 Way to go: Abbr.
59 Enjoying the new
car ... or what
four puzzle
answers are
literally doing
62 Great Basin
native
63 Saharan
64 Hydrocarbon gas
65 Rx item
66 Inheritance factor

67 Tends
68 Humanities maj.

DOWN
1 Way out
2 Mike or Carol on
“The Brady
Bunch”
3 “I guess the
moment has
finally arrived”
4 Impetuous
5 Find a new table
for
6 Nile slitherer
7 It’s here in Paris
8 Anchored for life,
as barnacles
9 Word in morning
weather
forecasts
10 Mil. mail drops
11 It faces forward in
a stop sign
12 Big name in jazz
14 Like IHOP syrup
18 Alabama
Slammer liquor
23 Type of tide
24 Troublemakers
25 Often
29 Bridge bid
30 Glasses with
handles

31 One working on a
bridge: Abbr.
33 Fleur-de-__
34 What a kid is
prone to make in
winter?
36 Farm mom
38 Pastoral call
39 Early exile
40 Ones with clout
45 Variable
distance
measure

47 Hand-held allergy
treatment
49 Insatiable
51 Very long time
52 Political
columnist Molly
53 Island bird
named for its call
54 Doe beau
55 Long-eared critter
56 Similar
60 Snacked
61 __ Na Na

By Jeffrey Wechsler
©2016 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
11/04/16

11/04/16

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Arts
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1

. Joyce Manor

The California punk

group is one of the closest

throwbacks to The Ramones
I’ve ever heard, with a killer
combina-
tion of
catchy mel-
odies, loud
guitars and
brief songs.
As The
Ramones
sped up
girl-group
and surf-
pop sounds
and ran
them through a darker, New-
York-nightclub filter to create
bizarre guitar music, Joyce
Manor slices up the last few
decades of SoCal pop-punk,
turning the snotty stylings
of Billy Joe Armstrong and
Tom DeLonge into breakneck
surf-and-skate songs that can
barely be contained.

The band’s most recent

album, Cody, is its most
focused and evolved work yet.
The band’s longest release to
date at 25 minutes, it features
full-fledged character sketch-
es, more developed (and pop-
pier) songwriting and Barry
Johnson making references to
Kanye that may be ironic or
may be completely sincere.

While they seem inter-

ested in artistic change, Joyce
Manor realizes that what you
leave out of your work is just
as important as what you put
in. The band knows exactly
what makes a good song, and
they won’t add any BS to an
already-perfect formula.

2. Car Seat Headrest
Will Toledo’s prolific DIY

project is pop-punk for grad-
school students, delivering
wry, introverted observation to
those who are wild rulebreak-
ers on the inside, even if they
wear thick glasses and like
Wes Anderson movies.

Toledo, only 24 years old,

has been self-releasing albums
under the name Car Seat
Headrest for over five years
now, delivering almost a dozen
records to a small-but-devoted
online following before being
signed by indie giant Matador
Records and becoming a name
to know in the alternative
mainstream. His low, mostly
monotone voice and sometimes
inscrutable, sometimes snarky
lyrics call to mind ’90s slacker
god Stephen Malkmus, while
Car Seat’s simple instrumenta-
tion bely an intellectual bent
familiar to any anxious person
who can’t help but constantly
read multiple layers in every
sight and situation.

“Drunk Drivers/Killer

Whales,” off this year’s Teens
of Denial, takes a few chords
and an old-school loud-quiet-
loud dynamic and sets the
stage for an intense yet thrill-
ing meditation on parties,
discomfort and the desire to
make destructive decisions.
“Here’s that voice in your
head / Giving you shit again
/ But you know he loves you /

And he doesn’t mean to cause
you pain,” sings Toledo, who
somehow manages to turn
this subject into the most epic
indie-rock anthem of the year.

3. Hop Along
Frances Quinlan’s voice

is entrancing. The singer of
freaky Philadelphian folkers-
turned-rockers Hop Along
is the star of every track, in
full command even when she
pushes her voice over the
brink. Sometimes, she sounds
like a nervous breakdown over
a string section. Other times,
she’s telling stories with
weirdly specific details over
post-punk guitars. Every time,
you want to strain your ears
to make sure you’re hearing
every syllable.

Even with though they’re

just now getting notices from
mainstream press, Hop Along
have already recorded some
perfect, instant-classic songs.
The brilliantly crafted build-
up and witty lyrics of “Tibetan
Pop Stars” make it a flagship
song and easy intro point for
the Philly rock scene, while
“No Good Al Joad” is a chill-
ing, disjointed meditation on
death in which Quinlan’s has
never sounded better or more
unhinged. Contemporary
alternative rock hasn’t pro-
duced many icons of late, but
Quinlan has the singular voice
to haunt teenage bedrooms for
decades to come.

4. Modern Baseball
MoBo started as a guilty

pleasure band, one that
whined about women who
didn’t like them in the most
annoying yet undeniably
infectious ways. Their cho-
ruses forced you to sing along
even if you disagreed with the
underlying message behind
lines like, “That girl who’s
next to me, she’s friendly and
thoughtful and quite awfully
pretty / But all she has to say
is a meathead-themed mono-
logue on why Brad ran away.”

But Modern Baseball has

grown up. First, it was with
2014’s You’re Gonna Miss
It All, which still explored
romance and relationships,
but did so with a more bal-
anced point of view and even
more anthemic choruses. Now,
MoBo has gone even further
with this year’s Holy Ghost,
the band’s most complex and
thought-out work yet.

The most recent chapter

of Modern Baseball, a band
whose every lyric feels like it
was lifted from a private diary,
is intertwined with co-singer/
co-songwriter Brendan Luke-
ns’s battle with mental illness,
which he has talked about at
length during the promotional
tour for Holy Ghost.

These interviews and Luke-

ns’s honesty serve as a way to
destigmatization of mental
illness, and they showcase
rock music not just as a venue
for escapism and shared emo-
tion, as it often is, but also as
a tool for social activism and
a means for improving the
world.

5. Against Me!
Against Me! is by far the

oldest band on this list, with
recordings dating all the
way back to the late ’90s,
but you could say the band
had never existed in its best,
most authentic form until its
2013 creative breakthrough
Transgender Dysphoria Blues.
Between the group’s previous
album and TDB, singer Laura
Jane Grace, then known pub-
licly as Tom Gabel, came out as
transgender in a Rolling Stone
interview.

Since her coming out, Grace

has become a prominent
LGBTQ activist and written
a memoir, and she remains
the most widely known and
beloved figure in the still-very-
underground LGBTQ punk
scene. Meanwhile, the band
she leads is enjoying some of
its greatest success yet, most
recently with last month’s
Shape Shift With Me.

While Against Me! isn’t the

most musically adventurous
band, Grace’s personal voice
adds a new dimension to the
old punk canon. Her shouted
vocals are a window into pain
and perseverance, a lengthy,
terrifying journey into her
own soul. Her words penetrate
deeper than any chord can,
and they’ve broken down bar-
riers and opened doors that,
until very recently and even
now in many cases, remain
locked shut for a lifetime.

Honorable Mention:

Japandroids

Japandroids were rock’s

Frank Ocean, an artist with a
cult following who tantalized
fans by withholding for years a
follow-up to a beloved album.
But this week, they finally
announced a new record: Near
to the Wild Heart of Life, which
comes nearly five years after
Celebration Rock.

Celebration Rock is the most

up-front, honest album title
in music history, and Japan-
droids’ new single — the title
track to Wild Heart — delivers
more of the exact same. It’s
pounding, loud and simple, a
song that mixes Springsteen’s
highway anthems and Oasis’s
fist-pumping, beer-drinking
fun with the lo-fi aesthetics
of a scrappy, close-knit indie
community.

These six bands (and the

countless more who tour and
release records alongside
them) aren’t just separate,
cool entities — they’re part of
a movement that could change
the way we think about rock
music. What often gets clas-
sified as old, white, conserva-
tive male music could become
a new frontier for energetic
change, beauty and experi-
mentation. Right now is one
of the best times in history
for rock fans, and with Japan-
droids already lined up for a
release in January, the future
is just as bright.

Theisen is in a mosh pit at the

moment. To chat about Brand

New, email ajtheis@umich.edu.

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MUSIC COLUMN

ADAM
THEISEN

The 5 rock bands you

need to hear now

These artists are part of a movement that can change rock ‘n’ roll

In 1969, five plucked notes on

John Paul Jones’s bass would intro-
duce Led Zeppelin to the world as
the new hot thing, a group capable
of assuming The Beatles’ vacated
role as the greatest band on the
planet. “Dazed and Confused”
encapsulates an entire musical
movement and gave birth to a wave
of bands trying to copy them. The
thumping opening bass line is one
of the catchiest and most iconic in
rock ‘n’ roll history, a perfect way
to introduce the next six minutes
and 29 seconds of hard-rock nec-
tar. Plant’s shrieking, soulful vocals
complement the yearning lyrics,
while the shredding solo and pierc-
ing guitar twang replay in my ear
for hours. It is truly a benchmark
for the hard rock genre.

In
1993,
Richard
Linklater

(“Boyhood”) used the same name
for his ’70s-based high school hang-
out movie that included only the
best of adolescent debauchery and
hormone-fueled self discovery. On
paper, the movie sounds lackluster
and uninspired: several groups of
rising seniors celebrate the start
of summer by hazing freshmen,
partying and crusin’ around in the
suburbs of Austin, Texas. Linklat-
er’s movie, however, still proves to
be the greatest high school movie
since “American Graffiti.” “Dazed
and Confused” is a true benchmark
of all coming-of-age stories.

Using my childhood friend

Dylan’s dad as a reference for
what high school was like in
1976, “Dazed and Confused”
is apparently as accurate as a
period piece can be. Obviously,
not everyone was hot-boxing in
the school parking lot or flirting
with teachers, but the overall

attitude is replicated well.

The main character, Randall

“Pink” Floyd (Jason London,
“The Man in the Moon”), is some-
one everyone knew at this time,
a seemingly prototypical high
schooler
with
nonconformist

undertones and doubts about his
purpose. As he struggles to decide
whether or not to give in and sign
a contract for the football team
claiming his devout abstinence
from alcohol and drugs, he ques-
tions the meaning of sacrificing
individuality for an undeserving
cause. It is not so much about the
drinking and smoking as it is the
forced submission.

Like any Linklater movie, the

conversations
and
messages,

although always engaging, some-
times seem to be vacuous and
pseudo-philosophical, but actu-
ally reflect many insightful ideas,
especially for a group of stoned
and drunk 17-year-olds. “Pink”
defines what it means to be an
independent teen searching for
an epiphany of what life is really
about without ever coming across
as pretentious or preachy.

Like any quality coming-of-age

movie, “Dazed and Confused”
launched the careers of some of
the biggest stars today, such as
Matthew McConaughey (“Dallas
Buyers Club”), Ben Affleck (“Gone
Girl”), Parker Posey (“Best in
Show”) and Adam Goldberg (“Sav-
ing Private Ryan”). The ensemble
cast is divided up into different
groups just like any typical high
school: the football players, the
burnouts, the geeks and the ris-
ing freshmen. “Pink” meanders
between these groups as a media-
tor for their vast differences.

Particularly,
it
is
Rory

Cochrane’s (“A Scanner Darkly”)

character Slater that steals most of
the laughs, which says a lot. While
standing on top of a water tower
at night, Slater looks out into the
vast, single-family home scattered
suburbia and ponders something
always on the mind of a promis-
cuous teen: how many people out
there are currently having sex. All
jokes and immaturity aside, this
brief scene is so brilliant because
it actually sounds like something I
heard (or said) at some point dur-
ing high school. This will always
be engrained in my head as the
movie’s finest moment.

“Dazed
and
Confused”’s

soundtrack features an arsenal of
some of the biggest hits of the time,
like Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotion”
and War’s “Low Rider.” But, it is
Bob Dylan’s “Hurricane” that car-
ries the film the most. The song
plays in the local hangout spot for
the high schoolers and acts as the
perfect soundtrack to this moment.
The scene seamlessly flows like it
was orchestrated to the song, each
development in the song oddly lin-
ing up with the characters’ move-
ments and gazes.

Linklater’s decision to name

the movie after the Led Zeppe-
lin shred-fest likely was not done
in arrogance. However, it only
makes sense to me that it was; the
song is the best hard rock song of
all time and the movie is the best
high school movie. You can play
the movie during a casual group
hangout or watch intently on your
computer alone with headphones,
staring into the characters’ souls.
As “Dazed and Confused” is one
of those songs that is always enter-
taining, the movie is pure cine-
matic bliss, an experience that will
always lighten my day from even
the most somber of depths.

WILL STEWART

Daily Arts Writer

The pure bliss of ‘Dazed’

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That’s what I love about Richard Linklater characters. I get older, they stay the same age.

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