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6frKiQ All NIGHTS are SPECIAL at Doc’s! DJTechneek In Your Face DJ Ty (Hip Hop) Fridays! (Top 25, House and Bring your quarters! <Live Alternative Bands) 7q's go's, 90 s Dance $3 Appetizers M-F 4 til 7 683-8101on Die comer of W. 11th & Chamefton Cocktail Research Shakespeare- & Mendelssohn March 14 & 15 at 8 pm Tickets 682*5000 Htet Canter for th* Porforrnfog Art* f S H 0 MARCH 19-24 • HULT CENTER Purchase tickets at (541) 682-5000, visit the Hult Center Box office, online at hultcenter.org or tickets.com. Discounts for 20 or more call Susan at 744-1962. ADVERTISE* GET RESULTS* Oregon Daily Emerald 346-3712 Chicks on Speed blends art with electronica at concerts ■The electronica group creates paper dresses and pink latex breasts in addition to music By Alix Kerl Oregon Daily Emerald Just when music was starting to seem boring, here comes Chicks on Speed. When this electronica trio ar rives at WOW Hall with Le Tigre on Tuesday, get ready to dance. Chicks on Speed live shows merge performance, graphic design and homemade outfits while playing their music through mini-disc players and compact samplers with video montages bopping be hind them. Chicks on Speed includes New Yorker Melissa Logan, Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and Munich native Kiki Morse. The three women, who met at the Munich Academy of Art, need no guitars to play their modern music. “We don’t like fucking guitars,” they scream on one of their tracks. The band actually began as a “fake band,” a merchandising proj ect in 1997. On stage the Chicks sometimes wear paper dresses, which they sell on their Web site for $86. “It usually lasts about 10 minutes if you are dancing, longer if you are only walking,” according to the Web site. A variety of other mer chandise is also available including bumper stickers and homemade clothing and a blow-up, pink, latex “Boob Monster.” “Just merchandising, but the band doesn’t exist — that was the whole idea,” Morse said. When they started to play shows, their original idea expanded to a full-fledged band. “We love to create works in var ious mediums, and it’s not about professionalism in any way,” said band member Murray-Leslie. “It’s Discography “The Un-Releases" Chicks On Speed Records, March 2000 “Chicks On Speed Will Save Us Ail!” Chicks On Speed Records, March 2000 “The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases” Courtesy photo K Records, October 2000 This is a remix collage of COS tracks that were previously created The Chicks on Speed/Kreidier Sessions split Chicks on Speed records, 2001 All available from www.chicksonspeed.CDm about collaborating with many different people and being cre ative together.” The Chicks have transcended the idea of a rock band. They create art shows that consist of giant breasts, and they create experimental videos. They have also released more than 15 albums, singles and compilations in the past five years, including “Chix-52,” an album of B-52’s covers. “We want to be as productive as possible in the shortest amount of time,” Murray-Leslie said. The lyrics the Chicks create are reflective of their art school back grounds as well as punk culture. On “Glamour Girl’, their 10” re lease from Go records, they sing, “Fashion victim on the air/I shaved off my pubic hair/Sometimes they think I’m vermin/I’ve got more faces than Cindy Sherman. Their modestly titled full-length “Chicks On Speed Will Save Us All!” and their recent U.S. debut on K Records, “The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases,” have fared remark ably well in their limited printing run. “Re-Releases” swells at nearly 72 minutes in length via 33 tracks. Fellow collage musicians Le Tigre will headline Tuesday’s show. Le Ti gre consists of former Bikini Kill member Kathleen Hanna, Johanna Fateman and J.D. Samson. The idea for Le Tigre began with Hanna’s solo project “Julie Ruin.” When Hanna decided she wanted to do live shows for the project, she recruited Fateman and video artist Sadie Ben ning. The live endeavor morphed into Le Tigre. Samson replaced Ben ning on the second album. E-mail Pulse reporter Alix Kerl at alixkerl@dailyemerald.com. Student Matinee SPECIAL! * Balcony scaling for only $10! CARLISLE FLOYD'S C AN AMERICAN OPERA *Stw\* youi i D, at th<j Hub Ct-nltKr Box OSkt;. March I Oth performance only. Some r«strictio*is apply. March 8th 7:3 0pm March 10th 2:30 pm Tickets by calling the Halt Center Box Office at ; 682-5000 Sponsored in part by: Umpqua Bank, Alpine Catering, QSL Printing. KEZL Magic 94,5, AT&T Broadband, & Eschelon Telecom. 01P664 Community Center tar the Performing Arts HALL 8th & Lincoln ■ Friday ■ Terry Robb, Bill Rhoades, Alan Ha^ar Acoustic Blues $13 advance, $15 door, 9:00 pm ■ Saturday ■ Michael D. Memorial, with More Time, Vibe Nation, Idielle £ the drde of Li^ht, African Km^s Reggae $5 door, 7:30 pm Sunday 1 Project/Object, with Ike Willis and Napoleon Murphy Brock Frank Zappa Tribute $14 advance, $16 door, 8:00 pm ■ Tuesday ■ LeTtyre, Chicks on Speed, Tami Hart Fetninist Rock $12 advance, $1 j, door, 8:00 pm All Ages Welcome • 6N7-27J6