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Helium's Highly Accomplished
HELIUM Pirate Prude EP/CD (Matador) Helium is a Cambridge-based band; its nucleus is singer/guitarist Mary Timony (who used to be
Eggs Go Over Easy
You probably didn't say Eggs at the Middle East last Sunday. Your loss; this Arlington, VA trio--singer/ guitarist Andrew Beaujon,
Two Brothers from the Southern Hemisphere
This Kind of Punishment In the Same Room/5x4 2xLP/CD (Ajax) Life imitates art, sometimes, sort of. For example: when Peter
The Latest Slant on Pop Culture A Riff Off
I had been planning to use this week's space for the new Pavement LP, since it's already on the tip
ONE CHORD WONDERS
aM INIATURE Depth Five Rate Six CD (Restless) Those of you who read last week's FM will know why I
ONE CHORD WONDERS
THE RAINCOATS The Raincoats (Rough Trade/DGC CD) If the spirit of '77 was overamplified youth rebellion, as personified by Messrs.
One Chord Wonder
Regular readers of this column and of Sassy may have noticed that the new issue of the latter, which hit
Citrus and Paradise
College kids--college radio kids, in particular--go on vacation in December and January, and don't listen to much new music (myself,
Too Odd, Knox
CHRIS KNOX Meat CD (Communion) The reissues just don't let up: this week, Chris Knox, who's spent the last decadeplus
Punk Grrrls and Pittsburgh
BIKINI KILL Pussy Whipped (Kill Rock Stars CD/LP) Ever heard of "Riot Grrrl"? Probably. And if you have, you've probably
One Chord Wonders
GUIDED BY VOICES Vampire on Titus CD/LP (Scat) It's tempting to write that GBV has had "eight years to perfect
The Lyrical Moment
POETRY Hotel Lautreamont by John Ashbery Knopf, $23.00 J ohn Ashbery's lyric speakers are always trying to go somewhere, or,