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Thursday, September 28, 2000
m Get Up Kids, Anniversary and Koufax, Friday at
Cat’s Cradle. Emo poster boys Get Up Kids use guitars
to break girls’ hearts. Free pre-show performance at
The Record Exchange. Call the store at 933-6261 or
Cat’s Cradle at 967-9053.
■ Vandermark 5, Saturday at Go! Studios. Critically
acclaimed Chicago avant-jazz group swings between
noise and melody. Call 969-1400 for information.
■ Flaming Lips, Monday at Cat’s Cradle. Indie-art
pop rockers are almost as old as your parents, but prob
ably a lot cooler. Call 967-9053 for information.
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DIVERSIONS
Pop Music More Than Product for Mayflies
By Josh Love
Staff Writer
Talk about pop music with the TRL
demographic, and you’ll probably hear
about 98 Degrees, Britney Spears and
other flavors of the month - assembly-
line products
engineered just
to sell records.
Talk about
pop music with
Matt Long of
the Chapel Hill-
Mayflies USA
Cats Cradle
Tonight
9 p.m.
$5
based pop rockers Mayflies USA, and
you’ll hear about something completely
different, and far more wonderful.
When asked to define pop, Long
tosses around names like Yo La Tengo,
Modern Lovers and Big Star - both as
sources of influence for the Mayflies
and as objects of his own fandom.
Sent. 10-16
1) Barbara Manning - Under One Roof:
Singles and Oddities (Innerstate)
2) Inner Circle & the Fatman Riddim Section
- Heavyweight Dub/Killer Dub (Blood and
Fire)
3) Da Lata - Songs from the Tin (Palm
Pictures)
4) Rosa Passos - The Best 0f... (Velas)
5) Shins - "When I Goose Step" 7“ (Omnibus)
6) - "Worldwide" 12" (lllgore)
7) Dymaxion - Intonarumori EP (Room Tone)
8) Hank Penny - Crazy Rhythm: the Standard
Transcriptions (Soundies/Bloodshot)
9) No-No's - Tinnitus (Animal World)
10) la Momposina - Carmelina (Indigo)
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These are bands that, for Long, exist on
another plane of stardom from mass
produced teen idols and redeem pop
from the machinations of Billboard and
MTV.
“I don’t really think of ‘pop’ as a bad
word,” Long said. “We’ve all been fans
of pop for our whole lives and all have
fond feelings for that music.”
With that sense of history in mind,
the Mayflies continue their own pop
music preservation campaign with the
release of the band’s second full-length
album, The Pity List
With another collection of radio-per
fect gems just like the band’s debut,
Summertown, the Mayflies seem duty
bound to uphold the ideals of pop, how
ever far removed from the mass-market
definition of the term.
“These broad generalizations of
music don’t really mean anything any
more,” Long said. “For us, pop is about
great songwriters that can write the kind
of melodies and lyrics that place a song
in the upper echelon.”
To achieve that end, the Mayflies
boast three songwriters, guitarists Long
and Matt McMichaels and bassist Adam
Price. Drummer David Liesegang fills
out the bill.
“You really need filters when you
write a song,” Long said. “When you
only have one songwriter, there’s real
ly no one there to challenge that person
and make the music better.”
Pop craft is one thing, but the
Mayflies also wanted to capture the
energy and spontaneity of their live
shows on The Pity List and depart from
the pristine sound of Summertown. And
so the band sought out revered college-
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in celebration of their second full-length release, The Pity List.
rock producer Mitch Easter to assist
Summertown producer (and former dßs
frontman) Chris Stamey.
“The Pity List is like a snapshot of a
live show,” Long said. “With this album,
you’re going to hear much more of what
you hear in concert.”
Though sonically less restrained, the
lyrical concerns of The Pity List represent
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“The inspiration for the songs on this
record isn’t always the most uplifting,*
Long said. “But I think the sound and'
content are aligned really well, and.
that’s why I love this record.”
The Arts & Entertainment Editor can ,
be reached at artsdesk@unc.edu.