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In Stores Now And Coming Soon: Quarashi, Goo Goo Dolls, Mooney Suzuki, Neil Young, 764-HERO & More

9 Apr 2002 07:56:00 EDT

Quarashi
Photo: Sony

Does the world need another rap/rock act? The latest band to break into the genre is Quarashi, an Icelandic outfit that could pass for the children of the Beastie Boys and Limp Bizkit, if that were biologically possible. They've already made a name for themselves with their single, "Stick 'Em Up." Their U.S. debut, Jinx, hits stores this week.

Hoping not to get jinxed by - Jinx are the Mooney Suzuki, a four-piece garage band (and crowd favorite at this year's South By Southwest) from New York City that derived its name from those of former Can singers Malcolm Mooney and Damo Suzuki. They've just issued their second full-length album, - Electric Sweat.

If you're more MTV than MTV2, no doubt you're familiar with Heather B., the tough-talking, dog-walking cast member of the first season of "The Real World" ... and the "Real World" reunions ... and the "Real World/Road Rules Challenge." She's stepping back into the spotlight with her first love, music. Heather's third album, - Eternal Affairs hits shelves on Tuesday. Just like reruns, the title suggests she'll probably be around for an eternity.

Out Tuesday April 9:

40 Below Summer - Invitation to the Dance (London/Sire)
764-HERO - Nobody Knows This Is Everywhere (Tiger Style)
98 Mute - After the Fall (Epitaph)
Angelic Upstarts - Bootlegs Live and Rarities (Cleopatra)
Arcturus - Sham Mirrors (The End)
Avoid One Thing - Avoid One Thing (Side One/Dummy)
Azure Ray - Burn and Shiver (Warm)
Heather B. - Eternal Affairs (SAI)
The Baldwin Brothers - Cooking with Lasers (TVT)
Jeff Beck & The Yardbirds - Yardbird Years (Remastered, Fuel 2000)
Big Country - Live in Cologne (Cleopatra)
Braxton Brothers - Both Sides (Peak)
Lane Brody - Pieces of Life (Scream)
Guillermo E. Brown - Soul at the Hands of the Machine (Thirsty Ear)
Brute - Co-Balt (Widespread)
Jimmy Cavallo - The Houserocker! (Blue Wave)
Bill Charlap - Stardust (Blue Note)
Choobakka - My Time.(Numillenium)
Consonant - Consonant (Fenway)
Crispy Ambulance - Scissorgun (Darla)
Crown - Crowned in Terror (Metal Blade)
D-Tension - Contacts & Contracts (Landspeed)
DJ Hiro - Local Underground Disc One (Vitamin)
DJ Victor Dinaire - Timeless Trance: Morning Sessions (Logic)
Dark Day Dawning - Nothing That I Wouldn't Give (Resurrection A.D.)
Bobby D'Ambrosio - Here I Am (Definity)
Guy Davis - Give in Kind (Red House)
The Detachment Kit - They Raging, Quiet Arm (Self Starter Foundation)
Die Form - Confessions (Reissue, Metropolis)
Die Form - Ad Infinitum (Reissue, Metropolis)
Diversiti - Diversiti (Orpheus)
Dixie Dregs - 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection (Mercury)
Dokken - Long Way Home (CMC Int'l)
Dolly Varden - Forgiven Now (Untertow)
Down By Law - Punkrockdays: Best of DBL (Epitaph)
Steve Earle - Sidetracks (E-Squared/Artemis)
Earth - Extra-Capsular Extraction (Reissue, Sub Pop)
Paul Elliot - Coming Home (AO!/Black Scorpio)
Drew Emmitt - Freedom Ride (Compass)
Face to Face - How to Ruin Everything (Vagrant)
Familiar 48 - Wonderful Nothing (MCA)
Mark Farina - Connect (Om)
Rachelle Ferrell - Live at Montreux(Blue Note)
Frankie Bones - Pro.File: Turntable Specialist Volume 2 (BML)
Freaky Flow - Keep it Live (Moonshine)
Eliza Gilkyson - Lost and Found (Red House)
Gloria Record - Start Here (Arena Rock)
Goo Goo Dolls - Gutterflower (Warner Bros.)
Gravediggaz - Nightmare in A Minor (Empire Musickwerks)
Patty Griffin - 1000 Kisses (ATO)
Djamel Hammadi - Medina (Milan)
Matt Harris - Slightly Elliptical Orbit (Leon Russell)
Haywood - We Are Amateurs, You & I (Self Starter Foundation)
Helloween - Treasure Chest (Sanctuary)
David Holmes - Come Get It, I Got It (Thirteen Amp)
Tommy Hools - Shut Up! Early Works & Remixes Volume 1 (K7)
Imani - Break of Dawn (Numillennium)
Imperial Teen - On (Merge)
Informatik - Nymphomatik (Metropolis)
Teddy Jack - Teddy Jack (Leon Russell)
Japancakes - Belmondo-Bliss Out Volume 19 (Darla)
Jaz-O/Immobilarie - Kingz Kounty (D&D)
Will Johnson - Murder of Tides (Undertow)
Bill Jones - Turn to Me (Compass)
K7/Ty Bless - Love, Sex, Money (Select)
Chris LeDoux - After the Storm (Capitol)
Life Without Buildings - Any Other City (DC Baltimore 2012)
The Long Winters - Worst You Can Do Is Harm (Barsuk)
Mad Happy - Feel Good Music... for the Broke Middle Class (Bar/None)
Masters at Work - Our Time Is Coming (Tommy Boy)
Masters of the Hemisphere - Protest a Dark Anniversary (Kindercore)
Meat Puppets - Live at Maxwell's 2.08.01 (DCN)
Medeski, Martin & Wood - Uninvisible (Blue Note)
Mellow Man Ace - From the Darkness Into the Light (X-Ray)
Metta Quintet - Going to Meet the Man (Koch Jazz)
The Mingus Big Band with Elvis Costello - Tonight at Noon ... (Dreyfus Jazz)
The Mooney Suzuki - Electric Sweat (Gammon/Telegraph)
Gary Moore - Best of the Blues (Virgin)
Moth - Provisions, Fiction & Gear (Virgin)
Motörhead - Hammered (Sanctuary)
Must - Androgynous Jesus (Wind-up)
Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air (Touch & Go)
The National Trust - Dekkagar (Thrill Jockey)
Oppressor - Solstice of Oppression (Crash)
Oxymoron - Best Before 2000 (GMM)
Oxymoron - Feed the Breed (GMM)
Portable - Only If You Look Up (TVT)
Pretty Girls Make Graves - Is It Broken Doctor (Lookout!)
Quarashi - Jinx (Columbia)
The Queers - Pleasant Screams (Lookout!)
Rain - Get It Right (Taqa/True Life)
Bonnie Raitt - Silver Lining (Capitol)
Ralph's World - At the Bottom of the Sea (Mini Fresh)
Rasputina - Cabin Fever (Instinct)
The Reputation - The Reputation (Initial)
Mike Rizzo - NYC Dance Party (Surge/Warlock)
Patti Rothberg - Candelabra Cadabra (Double on Tundra)
Leon Russell - Moonlight & Love Songs (Leon Russell)
Rusted Root - Welcome to My Party (Island)
Saloon - This Is What We Call Progress (Darla)
Semiautomatic - Resident Genius (5 Rue Christine)
Sarah Shannon - Sarah Shannon (Barsuk)
Luke Slater - Alright on Top (Mute)
Slick Shoes - Slick Shoes (Tooth & Nail)
Soulmotor - Revolution Wheel (Sanctuary)
Soul Center - Soul Center III (Mute)
Soulive - Turn It Out (Velour)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Plastic Fang (Matador)
Superchunk - Art Class EP (Merge)
Swayzak - Groove Technology (K7)
Ty Tabor - Safety (Metal Blade)
Templars - Reconquista 1994-1998 (GMM)
Ten Years After - Anthology 1967-1971 (Hip-O)
Thick Di-- - Tribal Seduction (Subliminal)
Erik Truffaz - Mantis (Blue Note)
Undercroft - Evilusion (Crash)
Junior Vasquez - Earth Music (Tommy Boy)
Vital Information - Show 'Em Where You Live (Tone Center)
Eamonn Vitt - Old Wave New Ride (Self Starter Foundation)
David Wilcox - Live Songs & Stories (W.A.R.)
Winds - Reflections of the I (The End)
Won-G - Explosion (Orpheus)
Neil Young - Are You Passionate? (Reprise)
Read about it ... Neil Young Returns With Passion
Various artists - "1 Giant Leap" soundtrack (Palm Pictures)
Various artists - The Jam Band Tribute to the Allman Brothers (CMH)
Various artists - Night Grooves 2 (Narada Jazz)
Various artists - Perfecto Collection (Perfecto)
Various artists - Shellac Presents: All Tomorrow's Parties 2.0 (All Tomorrow's Parties)
Various artists - Soma 10th Anthology (Soma)
Various artists - Still Phishin': A Bluegrass Tribute to Phish, Vol. 2 (CMH)
Various artists - The String Quartet Tribute to the Cure (Vitamin)
Various artists - Victory Style Five (Victory)
April 23:
- Naughty by Nature - Iicons (TVT)
  Read about it ... Naughty By Nature, 3LW Save The Day
- Tina Novak - Been Around the World (Arista)
- Q-Tip - Kamaal the Abstract (Arista)
- Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport (Tommy Boy)
April 30:
- Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow (MCA)
- Donell Jones - Life Goes On (Arista)
- Various artists - "Spider-Man" soundtrack (Columbia)
  Read about it ... 'Spider-Man' Theme To Come Courtesy Of Aerosmith
May 7:
- Grandmaster Flash - Essential Mix (Warner)
  Read about it ... Grandmaster Flash Brings Back '70s, '80s Beats On Essential Mix
- Musiq Soulchild - Juslisten (Island/Def Jam)
  Read about it ... Musiq Soulchild Croons Conversation Pieces On Juslisen
- Various artists - Family Values Tour 2001(Elektra)
  Read about it ... Aaron Lewis Assists STP, Linkin Park On Family Values CD
May 14:
- Atticus Fault - Atticus Fault (Island/Def Jam)
- Various artists - Now Presents Urban Hits (Columbia)
May 21:
- Breeders - Title TK (Elektra)
- Tommy Lee - Never a Dull Moment (MCA)
- Raphael Saadiq - Instant Vintage (Universal)
May 28:
- Eminem - The Eminem Show (Interscope)
  Read about it ... The Doc's Diagnosis: Eminem Still Crazy
June 4:
- Lil' Romeo - Game Time (Universal/No Limit)
  Read about it ... Lil' Romeo Battles His Evil Twin On B-Ball Court
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- The Mooney Suzuki
- Neil Young
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Nonprofit Keeps Seattle's All-Ages Scene Alive

16 Mar 2001 08:42:00 EST

Vera Project receives city funding, works around nightclub restrictions.
By Chris Nelson

Murder City Devils
Photo: Jennifer Patrick/Sub-Pop Records

SEATTLE — On the union shield that hangs above the stage at the new rock hall called Local 46, there's a fist surrounded by lightning bolts. The symbol stands for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, but on a recent February night, it looked like it was there to catch the sparks flying off local spazzoids the Briefs.

Their singer was blasting a tune called "Silver Bullet," apparently a directive to ice one of Detroit's most famous sons, though it sounded like he was shouting, "Throw Bob Seger a bone!" Decked out in skinny ties, bleached-blond 'dos and an array of big plastic sunglasses, the band looked straight out of 1978.

Of course, a good number in the audience wouldn't remember the new-wave get-ups — that's because Local 46 is an all-ages venue, and many of the kids there that night weren't born until after 1980.

In a city known for its pioneering rock and grunge roots, where no less a name than Nirvana's Krist Novoselic has turned out to city council meetings on behalf of teens who wanna rock out — but where all-ages halls are few and far between — Local 46 is represents a potential victory.

Shows there by the Murder City Devils, the Makers, 764-HERO, the Tight Bro's From Way Back When and other bands are part of a new volunteer initiative called the Vera Project. Its aim: to give underage kids a chance not just to go to shows, but to take part in all facets of the live rock music business.

"A lot of my friends who didn't get into the whole music thing started doing drugs, and I lost them," said Amy Bower, 17. Bower volunteered at the door during the Briefs gig and has been involved in putting on shows in the Seattle suburb of Redmond since she was 12. "I wish that they could just be involved in something like this." A safe and creative program like the Vera Project seems like just the sort of activity civic leaders would want for kids with time on their hands. But local ordinances have long kept young folks and shows apart in Seattle by imposing expensive insurance and security requirements on club owners.

Last summer, the city council passed a new law to ease restrictions on all-ages events, but Democratic Mayor Paul Schell vetoed the measure, in part over concerns of young people entering nightclubs without parents. As a nonprofit, the Vera Project can work around the restrictions.

"[For] the tremendous attention that Seattle has gotten as a music center, it's very ironic that we're also not having that accessible to young people," said council member Richard Conlin, a Democrat who sponsored last year's All Ages Dance Ordinance. "For the young people, you lose not only their opportunity to participate in the artistic experience and the opportunity to participate in the social experience, but also the opportunity of some of their future careers." The city council granted the Vera Project $25,000 to fund the first of three three-month pilot runs, each of which is followed by a month of review. Conlin and other supporters would ultimately like to see the city own, wholly or in part, a permanent venue for Vera, so the project won't get priced out of its neighborhood. Last year a volunteer club called the Velvet Elvis shut its doors when rent got too high.

The Vera Project takes its name from a club in Groningen, Holland, where the local government has supported arts events for a century. In recent times, it's become a requisite stop for punk bands touring Europe.

While Seattle's Vera Project has three paid staff members, its shows are run by volunteers. Members gather biweekly to pick bands, sign up for flyering duty, request a chance to help with the Local 46's professional sound system or work on the project's 'zine.

"It's a creative alternative to the status quo extracurricular activities that are out there in Seattle," said Josh Ayala, chair of the project's board of directors and director of new media for Sub Pop Records. "The major focuses currently are sporting activities. There are a few mentorship programs out there and different counseling. But there isn't an organization providing solely music and arts." Back on Local 46's stage the raw rock of Droo Church seemed to be drawing just as many over-21 fans as underage kids. That's healthy for the music community, according to Travis Nakamura, 21-year-old drummer for hardcore band Teen Cthulu and a security assistant volunteer with the Vera Project.

"There's a lot of stuff to do in this town," he said. "People don't feel the need to support a scene. This is helping to educate, letting people know if you don't go out to shows and support, there's not gonna be any venues." For now, 18-year-old Scott Brauer is happy to do his part for Vera by shelling out the $6 admission. The University of Washington sophomore came to see the Briefs and other bands with a half-dozen friends.

"It's just a way to create something that teenagers can do," he said. "There aren't really a whole lot of things I can find that are very cheap."

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