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Featuring: The Captain and Neal, The Visible Men, B.R.O (Turbonegro tribute band), Ty Conner, Moustache Rides, Parades, Tributes, Awards & Much More Friday 11/26 9 PM Doors FREAKS IN THE HOUSE FREE D J DANCE NIGHT!!! Saturday 11/20 9 PM Doors Imnmlmoumimni JERRY JOSEPH SOLO CHERRY TOUR WITH THE GINGER HUSTLERS Saturday 11/27 9 PM Doors mm vs. hip-hop VJ KAL-EL VS. VJ TEKNEEK IN A VJ BA TTLE: COME SEE TWO OF 'w EUGENE’S BEST GO HEAD TO HEAD the legendary dance party ^BO's NIGHT John mm Bmm Rim mk EUGENE'S ONLY LIVE & BURLESQUE SHOW chick our m sssr local, mioHAi, matiohal AMD IHTCRMATIOHAL TOUKIHO SAHDS S DJ'S, VISIT OUK WSSSITC W TULL CALCHDAKIISTIMOS ■ CD review 'Suffer, Survive' can be added to the heap of mediocre music Machine Shop's debut release offers an overproduced, pop-punk album started by none other than Linkin Park BY RYAN MURPHEY PULSE REPORTER Throughout the history of the commercial record industry (or as I like to call it, the fourth Reich), major labels such as Warner Broth ers, BMG and Universal have led a rapacious crusade to befoul any kind of worthwhile musical move ment. In the past three decades, music lovers seeking refuge from this plague of mediocrity have seen stronghold after stronghold come crashing down before the on slaught of drivel churned out by these musical barbarians. Corporate necromancers then added insult to injury by resurrect ing the fallen heroes as zombie slaves to the god of profit. Punk transformed from a defiant culture of angst and DIY ethics to some thing you could purchase in a mall. Hip-hop, a poetic form of positive dissonance that sprang from the minds of inner-city resi dents interested in the values of personal integrity, education and racial awareness, has been reduced to repetitive, stereotype-enforcing garbage for rich white kids to “bump” on the way to the next roofie-fest. Even metal was some how beaten into submission, turning leather-clad, long-haired metal warriors into the enemies of online music and lovable reality television stars. In the past decade, the success of grunge bands such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam gave the big bad five a fresh new target: the American underground. Now that these big labels have caught on to the allure of “independent” music, they buy out smaller labels and use them in their elaborate scheme to make everything suck. Machine Shop Recordings is the latest of these wolves in sheep's clothing, started by none other than the pioneer of boring bands with misspelled names — Linkin Park. Machine Shop’s debut release, “Suffer, Survive,” by hard-core turncoats No Warning, marks the beginning of New York-style hard core’s forced defloweration. “Suffer, Survive,” is the first’release since the band’s jump from the highly reputable hard-core label Bridge Nine to Machine Shop. It demon strates how, with enough money and a little help from Sum41 and producer Greig Nori, a decent hard core band that has shared the stage with legends like Cro-Mags, Sick of it All and Bane, can become just an other chunk of corn in an ocean of musical diarrhea. The pop-punk overproduction of “Suffer, Survive” and Machine Shop’s corporate ties make the • album a little less than DIY, but that doesn’t mean No Warning can’t be marketed as a band right off the streets and making it the hard way. Machine Shop even went so far as to publicize the release through a company called Indepen dent Music Media, whose name and contact info appears at the end of No Warning’s press release, just three pages after the huge WB logo. The press release describes No Warning’s sound as “equal parts punk, hard-core and a secret song writing ingredient all their own.” Well guys, the bad news is that the secret got out long ago and every wifebeater-wearing-shaved-head pointy-beard-tribal-tattoo-sporting angry-inner-child-jock-metal-band in Vin Diesel’s record collection picked up on it a long time ago. The good news is that you will probably sell a lot more records now that you suck. ryanmurphey@dailyemerald.com Diablo's: Fetish Nite allows clubbers to experiment a little Continued from page 8 Compared to more mainstream bars like Rennie’s Landing and Taylor’s Bar & Grill, the venues seem to cater to an alternative crowd. On this particular night, I found a range of clientele from college students to punk, pierced aging men. While the combination of colors, lighting and decorations is creative, the smell of cigarettes was hard to ignore. Coming on Nov. 28 is Diablo’s Fetish Nite, an interactive showcase of body modification and spanking. “It’s discreet and clean,” Morales said of the Fetish Nite. “People can come and experiment a little bit.” natchilingerian@dailyemerald.com Ben Sherman‘Three Dots‘Angela Adams‘White & Warren‘Mitzi Baker 3 I o3 ~o < ^ Accessorize... £ B O U X 541.485.4891 2827 Oak St. wwwtboim.com' • 4Or3«O5:30/Monckjy«F^k)ay t 41-4/Saturday Walker Bags • Ben Sherman • Three Dots *
