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Fri. AMANDA JANE KELLEY, Soprano
1/7 DAVID ROGERS, Lute
Guest Artists 8 p.m. Bead Hafl
15 General Admission, 13 Students 4 Senior Citizens
Mon. RECORDER MASTERCLASS
1/10 Guest artist Peter van Heyghen 4:30 p.m., Room 178
$10 General Admission
Mon. “LE TUBA FRANQAIS" / Faculty Artist Senes
1/10 Musk by French composers 8 p.m. Baal I Had
15 General Admission, 13 Students 4 Senior Citizens
Thur. THE EMERSON QUARTET
1/13 Chamber Musk Senes 8 p.m Bead Hall
Reserved Seats 120,117,18 (667-5000),
Student Rush tickets 19 and 15 at the door
Sun. IRKUTSK PHILHARMONIC ENSEMBLE
1/16 Instrumentalists Irom Siberia, on their American tour debut
4 p.m. Bead Hal. Reserved seats 18.112, with 13 discount
for students, senior citizens Cal 687-5000 for tickets
Tue. KATHRYN LUCKTENBERG, Violin
1/18 Faculty Artist Series 8 pm Beal Hal.
15 General Admission. 13 Students 4 Senior Citizens
Wed. JAZZ COMBOS I
1/19 UO Ensembles 8 pm. Beal Hal.
14 General Admission. 12 Students 4 Senior Citizens
Fri. ZIYIA-Fdk Music of Greece
1/21 World Musk Senes 7:30 pm EMU Ballroom
$10 General Admission, 18 Students 4 Senior Citizens
Thur. OREGON STRING QUARTET
1/27 Faculty Artist Senes 8 pm. Beal Halt
15 General Admission, 13 Students 4 Senior Citizens
Jan. “SOARING AT THE SORENG’-Oance *94
28,29 Faculty Dance Concert 7:30 p.m. Soreng Theatre
$10 General Admission, 16 Students 4 Senior Citizens
Sun. OREGON WIND ENSEMBLE
1/30 UO Ensemble 4 p.m. Beall Hall
14 General Admission, 12 Students 4 Senior Citizens
Mon. FRENCH MUSIC FOR FLUTE
1/31 UO Flute Students 8 pm. BaaU HaN
14 General Admission. 12 Students 4 Senior Citizens
WORLD OF
NOISE
★★★
GROUP Evercieif
LABEL T*m K*rt
For the past two year*, the
city of Portland has been
seemingly on the verge of
hitting the big time, much like its
sister city Seattle did three year*
ago
An ungodly amount of bands,
magazines, studios and clubs
have continued to grow in the
City of Roses During the past two
years. Portland band after Port
land band has received the label
as 'The Next Big Thing."
First, it was Sprinkler Then,
it was Pond. Then Hazel And
most recently The Spinanes (see
other review).
The one thing those bands all
have in common is that they all
ditched Portland fo sign with
Seattle's infamous Sub Pop label.
But that is not the only thing
those reasonably successful
Iwnds have in common. They all
play pretty wimpy music
Not to say that's all bad. but
expecting these bands to hit the
big time is ridiculous because
they simply don't play the type
of music that constitutes MTV
videos and gold albums. They're
all good hands, but are lacking in
true musical force.
However, now there is a band
| from Portland that gives the city
some true hope. They are Ever
clear. and they are Portland's
finest, or at loast the band with
the most potential to actually
gain some serious exposure for
the Portland music scene.
The fraud's first brilliant move
was to sign with Portland's Tim
Kerr Records. Although the rest
of the!Kinds from Portland clam
ored for the opportunity to sign
with Grunge Central. Everclear
stayed in Portland with the local
company. They released a single.
Nervous and Weird, that con
tained five songs, including one
of the liest songs ever written by
a Portland hand ("Elektra Made
Me Do It") and a hatch of catchy
tunes that were loaded with
equal parts distortion and
crunch.
Only five months later. T/K
Records put out Everclear's first
full-lenglher. World of Noise.
This album contains as much
fore* as the KP. but also includes
a mellower (not wimpy) side of
the band that was not heard on
Nervous and Weird.
While everyone else in Port
land is trying to do something
different, the three-piece Ever
clear has stu< It to solid, hook
heavy songs with meaningful
lyrics and memorable music, and
it just may pay off for them in the
end.
World of Noise opens with
"Your Genius Hands." a song
with drunken, but effective gui
tars. with lend singer/guitanst Art
Alexakis' signature voice coming
through brilliantly.
"Hie laughing World" has the
trademark guitar distortion, a
catchy chorus and is just scream
ing for an MTV video. The song
"Nervous and Weird" also
appears on the disc and is still
one of the bands' best songs
"Invisible" and "FireMaple
Song" are the two songs where
Alexakis dominates the sound.
On these two songs in particular.
Alexakis sings with such con
viction. it 's as if you bumped him
the wrong way on the street and
he's getting in you faco.
Alexakis. along with bassist
Craig Montoya and drummer
Scott Cuthbert, are what Portland
hns been needing for the past
couple of years. Hey, there's even
a lyric: sheet with the CD! Take
advantage of it and appreciate
what great a song writer Alexakis
is.
Humor has it that these boys
may lee on the verge of getting
signed to a major label (and I
don't mean Sub Pop), so catch
them now while they're still in
the same ranks as Hazel, Pon, and
Sprinkler, because soon, they'll
lie a notch above.
- Dave Charbonneau
Oregon Daily Emerald
THE BEAVIS AND
r~'
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#uvh
fen**
BUTTHEAD
EXPERIENCE
★ ★
GROUP: Vanous
LABEL: Geflen
If you like Nirvana, you'll love
thuir song.
If you likt> Aerosmith. you'll
enjoy their song.
If you like Sir Mix-a-Lot. you'll
dig his song.
Everything’s covered in The
Heavts and Butt head Expert
rnce. There’s rap {Sir Mix-a-Lot,
Run DMC), metal (Anthrax.
Megadeth. Jai kyl, White Zom
bie). alternative (Nirvana. Primus.
Red Hot Chili Poppers) and even
( her singing with the long-head
ed boros.
The problem is. most people
will end up buying this album for
two or three songs, which moans
that the only thing that could jus
tify buying this CD is to hear the
wackiness of Beavis and Butt
head.
If you think that Imying a Boav
is and Butt-head CD will put you
on the cutting edge of pop cul
ture, you missed the boat about
six months ago. Besides, the con
versations between the two on
the CD aren’t even their best
work (their old stuff is way bet
ter).
So there you go.
P.S. This is the last thing 1
review that has anything to do
with these two dudes.
- Dave Charbonneau
Oregon Daily Emerald
MANOS
GROUP: Spmanes
LABEL: Sub Pop
he Spinanes' new olbuni
Marios is all the rage.
i Three, count 'em three,
separate reviews in a single
issue of Spin, a feature story in
the Omgonian and a whole lot
of talk around the Northwest
has circled the band since the
release of its debut album two
months ago on Sub Fop.
The Spinanes are a two-piece
band with Rebecca Gates on
vocals and guitars and Scott
Flouf on drums. They come
from Portland, and are another
signee in an attempt by Sub
Fop to ‘'break" the Portland
scene
This band's brand of mellow
er pop punk is good music.
Gates has an almost dream like
voice, and Plouf's drumming
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