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6 Thursday, November 21,1996 //cksofV R.A. Breitwaiser, 111 Early 'Bos Dance Tonight Cat's Cradle WX YC, UNC's campus radio station, is hosting what will be either its third or fourth annual early ’Bos dance tonight at the Cat’s Cradle. No one can seem to remember how many there have been. That’s under standable, since if one is in his or her twenties or late teens, the experience can easily be confused with childhood memo ries. Flashbacks to the early days ofMTV and the commercial emergence of hip hop are risks for anyone attending. Period-specific attire is optional though it would seem difficult to resist the temptation of donning a pair of 1984 Air Jordans and a Members Only jacket, let alone Duran Duran-style threads and contests for best costume and trivia knowledge will be held, WXYC station manager Tim Ross said. Prizes will in clude books, CDs, gift certificates and dinners at local restaurants. “This should be a ball from a nostalgia perspective,” Ross said. He expressed hope that some brave people would en ter the break- dancing showdown. Cat’s Cradle owner Frank Heath ex pressed enthusiasm about the dance as he served beers from behind the club’s bar last Saturday. “We’re always glad to support WXYC because there’s so much there to support,” he commented. “They always put on a good dance. And early ’Bos music is fun for dancing.” The Reagan-era time warp runs from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. Tickets are $4. POT”! A Fondue Restaurant $8 OFF Fondue Feast At participating restaurants only. Not valid with any other offer. One offer per ■ coupon. A 15% gratuity will be added to the original bill. Reservations suggested. EXPIRES 12/6/%. Good Sun. - Tburs. & Fri. - Sot. Before 6pm. 878-0477 mrfiNci jj™ Road at Beltline, Raleigh MonX Restaurantj Learn to write faith-centered stories and get them Carey Kinsolving's IH Good-News Writing ■■■ Jp*" Workshop FREE Saturday, Nov. 23 9am-3pm The Friday Center UNC at Chapel Hill • CBIO2O Chapel Hill, NC ' Complimentary lunch included Master the secrets to making your stories newsworthy. Perfect your skills in this free, one-day writing course. You'll learn how to: WhO will benefit: • Express your written faith • Christians who want to with creativity, clarity and .. . , .... ... conciseness ex P ress their faith ,n writin 9 • Take a story of spiritual substance & • Journalism students needing make it newsworthy to sharpen their skills for • Develop a story idea, compose a writing religion stories lead & shape the flow of the story • Self-publish or find a publisher fk ■■ ■ B 1 The courtesy of a reservation would be appreciated. I WLI H p,ease cal> tol! fr*e at IlllixJl 1-800-580-6447 National Institute for a.#. Healthcare Research or email - nihr@mhr.org The Wedding Present. Pop for all people at Cat’s Cradle, Friday. Aziz Huq The Wedding Present Friday, Cat's Cradle In a world of slackers, drop-outs and losers, The Wedding Present are the trusty proletariat of pop, mining away at their not-particularly unique vein of jangly, spangly pop for all its worth You can’t really help but be fond of David Gedgeandhistruky gnomes. They are so faithful to the pristine ideal of the starry-eyed chord change, so chaste in their dedication to the perfection of a 3- minute slice of heaven. You thought they were slightly ridicu lous ever since they released one single every month for a year (a process yield ing an embarrassingly mixed bag of re DIVERSIONS Musk sults, distributed in the States as Hit Pa rack 1 and 2). And yet, you keep buying their albums! I want to say that Saturnalia is their ninth stateside release, but I’m so wary of having missed something down the line, I won’t. Saturnalia demonstrates the ca sual mastery of the throw-away lyric, the instantly catchy snatch of song that epito mizes pop. Songs like “Snake Eyes” and “Jet Girl (acoustic version)” will haunt your every waking moment. If anything, Saturnalia plays up the “rockier” aspect, with riffs that could ha ve fallen off Slanted and Enchanted. No surprise, in retrospect, that Gedge & Cos. covered a Pavement track in their singles marathon, before even the infa mous Enchanted had hit the shelves. v v> . // , , , Do You Want To Be me. FALL CONCERT W/SPECIALGUESTS Wf the iSH Isnspel Ch#ir Sunday, Nov. 24 at 3:30 in Carroll Hall FREE ADMISSION! Presidents elect for ‘Peaches’ sequel At 10 p.m. Nov. 5, everyone was get ting bored watching Bill Clinton pum mel Dole in the election returns. Mean while, the Presidents ofthe United States of America were waking up a stuffy and pretentious studio audience on an ob scure cable channel by cranking then amps to introduce their new single, “Mach 5,” a “Peaches”-style minimalist rocker with more hooks than a DTH headline about the UNC chancellor. The subject of this election day song: a grown man driving a matchbox car. And thus | MITCH BENNETT [ Music Review The Presidents of the United States of America II Columbia Records A+ the second full-length PUS A album was introduced to the world. If you’ve heard “Peaches,” the simultaneously annoy ing and entertaining hit, youwon’tbetoo surprised by this one. It sounds like a sequel. That’sbecause it is one. It’s even called n. Most of the songs were written at the same time as those on the first album. They involve several recurring themes: a stuffed animal named Chickie, frogs, how the band wants to rock, bugs, the equip ment the band uses, words that end in “- ie” and things that are little. But this time we become acquainted with several new themes, including hot lava, Bobby Brady, Darth Vader and voodoo, which fortunately show the Presidents are not about to grow up. We also learn what happens when the band adds keyboards or Morphine bassist Mark Sandman to a song. It sounds like PUSA, only with keyboards or Morphine bassist Mark Sandman. The album kicks off with “Ladies and Gentlemen Part I,” a happy, rocky invi tation to listen to the second and third songs on the album. It has all the style and showmanship of the late P.T. Bamum. “Twig” is one of my favorites. Ignnmi iNAiAM UM coyote LPURPEE SCHOOLBUS TOO JONES ntm '1 COLLEGE ID ■i • * * I * Bi:. MSB i P 1M:!.! LlI j ■ I Ulj J>Lj; ■ rtnEWTER I I r-— ■ 501 SOUTH COLLEGE STREET J -STARTS AT 8:00 7 WfflTH-MBOLim STATE— i Buy Tickets Now at I Blockbuster Music, Peaches, Marshalls, Sound Shop, Hecht’s, Kroger & select Camelot Music (704) 522-6500(1. (910) 722-6400ws Online Infonmtion: (910) 852-1100<;so (919) 834-4000rai. l ' , !P ://w " wli ‘ k n>‘ster.com _ *?ts subject to convenience charge. It sounds like a part child and part drug addict attempting stream of conscious ness poetry. “I’m shoulder high in crap, and my water wings are flat, ” sings Chris The Weekly Barometer Tm 1. Various Artists Roots of Reggae Volumes /Et //(Rhino). One disc ska, another disc rocksteady. Rhino continues to repackage the history of recorded Western music. 2. Various Artists Ethiopian Groove ( Blue Silver). Excellent reissue of '76-77 afro-pop interpretations of American soul from Ethiopian label Kaifa Records. 3. Sun Ra Singles (Evidence). Double-disc set of 1956-1983 singles from Saturn's major export: keyboard wizard Sun Ra, and his earthbound Arkestras. 4. Azalia Snail Deep Motif (Candy Floss). A swirling marsh of femme-led psyche from NYC's Azalia Snail. 5. Yo La Tengo Genius + Love =Yo La 7engo(Matador). Sure, a two-disc set to highlight a 10-year career seems odd, but the feedback makes you forget that. 6. John Barry The EMI Years Volume 111 (Scamp). And you thought the James Bond theme was his only claim to fame; the kitsch keeps coming. 7. Large Professor — 'Mad Scientist" (Geffen). Producer Extra P tries hand at the mic, one of two singles hailing from forthcom ing album. 8. Medeski Martin and Wood Stack-man ( Gramavision). Organ-driven jams somewhere between Booker T and the Fat Albert gang's junkyard band. 9. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Now / Got Worry (Matador/Capitol). 110 percent perspiration from the Elvis of today's generation. 10. Various Artists— Red Hot Et Rio (Antilles). T rip-hop/space pop nerds rework '6os bossa nova hits; the latest installment in the AIDS benefit series that can't be killed. practice safe Mex! (The Clean Bean Cuisine) 110 N. Columbia St 929-2828 Kitchen hours... Mon-Sat Ilam-lOpm, Sun 4-lopm efjr Saily ear Hrrl Ballew, who is bald and married. He and the band will be taking theholidaysoffto spend time with their families in Seattle. They will begin touring in January. WXYC's Top Ten Albums of the Week
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