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■ Album preview r Courtesy From left to right: guitarist Juan Camacho, singer Lisa Blue, bassist Terri Parrish and drummer Maya Chernobyl of The Crimes of Ambition are releasing “Spinning Hearts in Perpetual Orbit” Friday. The Crimes of Ambition: a melodic post-punk band The group's dehut album will be available at a CD release party at the Black Forest on Friday BY ANDREW MCCOLLUM PULSE REPORTER The seeds for Eugene post-punk band The Crimes of Ambition were planted back in the late '90s when then-University philosophy graduate student Maya Chernobyl found her self spending her days atthe now defunct cafe Sandino's Fonda. "Something kept me in acade mia, but I knew it wasn't right for me and it was keeping me stunt ed," said Chernobyl. "So I wentto this Marxist coffee shop where they blasted punk rock music. I would smoke, drink strong coffee out of a bottomless cup, and get ex posed to all this music." At Sandino's Fonda, Chernobyl met The Crimes of Ambition's songwriter and guitarist Juan Camacho, who owned the cafe. The two started dat ing and eventually co-owned the next generation of the coffee shop. "We lost that shop because we're not good business people," ex plained Chernobyl. "But everyone loved it." In 1999 the pair decided to form the band. Atthe time Chernobyl didn't know howto play drums. "(Camacho) taught me howto play drums, and I taught him howto write poetry," said Chernobyl. "And I got the fuck out of Philosophy." The band has gone through vari ous incarnations since its birth. "Over six years we've been through many singers and bass players," said Chernobyl, adding, "we never fired anybody." Two years ago the band's current singer, Lisa Blue, answered a classi fied ad she found in the Eugene Weekly that read "VOCALIST NEEDED for rock band." "I came in grabbed a microphone and something crazy came out of me," said Blue about her audition. "And they liked it." Like Blue, bassist Terri Parrish, the most recent addition to the band, also responded to an ad in the Weekly. The Crimes of Ambition's self-re lease debut album "Spinning Hearts in Perpetual Orbit" is due out Friday. Parrish describes the band's sound as melodic post-punk. "It's got punk's drums, but not necessarily punk's guitars," Parrish said. "It's punk in spirit, but it's not sung by a punk rocker." The band will be having a CD re lease party Friday evening at the Black Forest, located at 50. E 11th Ave. in downtown Eugene. The band will perform songs off of their album, and Station Wag and The Perverts will perform as well. The band plans on touring the Northwest and Eu rope to support their album. For more information, lyrics, and MP3s, check out the band's Web site at www.crimesofambition.us. amccollum@dailyemerald.com IN BRIEF 50 Cent's entrance into film is worth about half a dollar As Eminem's protege, 50 Cent got the introduction to rap superstar dom and all the automatic wealth, fame and credit that go along with it. But apparently he didn't get any act ing lessons. And so the film debut from 50 Cent (real name: Curtis Jackson) plays like a feeble retread of Eminem's film debut "8 Mile" — not just because it's arriving in the aters only three years later and it's so similarly semi-fictional, which it is. Mainly, "Get Rich" proves once again, as in "Glitter," that standing in front of a camera and portraying a thinly veiled version of yourself is harderthan it sounds. 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