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I learned two valuable lessons from the Stills/Ryan Adams show at First Avenue last December: 1. I’m a weak person, at least musically. 2. Ryan Adams is akin to a coddled baby with one too many eight balls of coke in his carriage. The past couple of years have produced band after band of ‘80s revivalists borrowing from The Smiths, The Cure and Joy Division. Interpol, Hot Hot Heat and The Rapture have all enjoyed …
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Four Fingers: Self Titled (RPO-SUBACA)Listening to this album gave me the impression that I’d somehow stumbled into a late-night, opium-induced Turkish escapade with a back alley belly-dancer. Self-Titled, the group’s debut album, shakes with the kind of raw Moorish sexual passion that you’d expect to hear wafting through a Moroccan street market. Employing acoustic instruments to convey a multitude of sounds, the members of Four Fingers passionately rip through their wordly art-jazz, creating the closest …
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Mason Jennings is from Minnesota, and it shows. In his latest album, Use Your Voice, the rustic singer-songwriter serves up ten tracks of northern living, Dylan-style. Like the prophetic folk-rocker before him, Jennings basks in the simplicity of song. Much of the album features only Jennings’ gutsy acoustic guitar and harmonica, backed by a subdued drum and bass rhythm section. Fortunately for Jennings, his songs are able to hold up to such sparse instrumentation. Songs …
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Igloo is a side-project of Adam Pierce and Doro Tachler of Mice Parade. With eight whimsical tracks delicately simmered with shimmering atmospherics, carefree counterpoints and the occasional vocal stint, the duo’s self-titled debut is one warm, modest mouse of an album. The album is so warm, in fact, that even the songs in the minor key evoke that fuzzy feeling. Picture a baby chimp with a bib, and you’re halfway there. And it doesn’t hurt …
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The Micranots (I Self Divine and Dj Kool Akiem) have launched an album of social upheaval with The Emperor and The Assassin, full of messages of motivation, truth, inner-city life, love, and resilience. After waiting five years since their last release Micranots’ fans will be glad to hear that I Self is back in full-stride with forceful, staccato, innovative, poetic form and Kool Akiem has developed on the production side while still maintaining that original …
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The story of Mason Jennings’ decade-long musical start is the picture of indie rock perfection. Through patience and restraint, he has nurtured a following all his own with no help from major labels. While many artists may stay as true to their artistic visions as Jennings, they’re usually too busy waiting tables to be heard of by the casual concert-goer. Jennings grew up in Pittsburgh, but when he was 19, he came to Minneapolis as a …
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Printmaking is beating and moving in new directions. A glimpse of this is currently at The 4th Minnesota National Print Biennial from January 13 to February 19 at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery, which is located in the Regis Center of Art, University of Minnesota. The exhibit shows the vitality and evolvement of printmaking in the United States with the help of artists from across the nation. “The Minnesota Nation Print Biennial is a …
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Rugby isn’t just bald, gap-toothed hooligans the size of boxcars playing overseas. Women at the “U” have a lot of that hooligan gene as well. But forget all that bald, gap-toothed, boxcar stuff. The University of Minnesota Women’s Rugby Club is the No. 1 team in the nation for Division II rugby programs and is participating in the national championship this spring. These women could pass through security posing as a gymnastic squad or even …
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And the list goes on and on for Gophers’ hoops star Lindsay Whalen. The senior guard surpassed Carol Ann Shudlick’s career-scoring record with one of her seven three pointers in the Gopher women’s loss against Michigan State January 25. Whalen, a senior from Hutchinson, MN, should be used to personal accolades and achievements by this point in her career. Before the start of this season, Whalen was named to the prestigious Wooden Women’s …
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The University of Minnesota’s synchronized swimming team can be seen practicing on Mondays and Wednesdays in the diving hole of the aquatic center. There are nine girls who all look alike, dressed in very similar bathing suits, wearing matching swim caps and twirling in circles at the same time. It looks like they are practicing for underwater foosball.The synchronized swimming’s a-team is made up of eight girls, coached by Sarah Nelson and Jessica Kampa. …
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When Amber Struzyk was a freshman on the University of Minnesota Dance team, she witnessed the end of a historical run of nine straight championships by the University of Memphis dance squad. Struzyk, now in her third season as dance coach for the Gophers, hopes her team can make its own mark in the history books. So far, things are going according to plan. The team took first place in the College …
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I find that our relationships often parallel other aspects of our lives. Just as teenagers and early twenty-somethings change rapidly as people, their romantic needs are apt to change as well.A student myself on the cusp of graduation, I feel glad I had a largely single college experience. As I now reflect, snow falling and John Coltrane playing, I realize the single life kept me free to grow personally and socially during these four …
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Quickly approaching a close to my college career, I know what typical Holiday tradition I’ll see evidence of in January: engagement rings. If you haven’t heard it already from the class a year ahead of us, proposals are the trendy holiday gift for your college girlfriend. And in the wake of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and the war in Iraq, when people tend to become closer in crisis, engagements are to be expected. …
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When investment and consumer spending is not strong, the only way to create the essential growth needed for a healthy economy is through tax cuts. Reagan and Kennedy implemented this strategy and the effect was prosperity for all. With President Bush’s tax cuts, America will again be reaffirmed that trickle-down economics works. When people get to keep more of their own money, they spend it. This increases sales and profits for businesses. With increased …
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Where’s the party? Apparently, not on campus during break. During last year’s intersession, Stub and Herb’s atmosphere was much different than a typical Friday or Saturday during the fall and spring semesters. Two winters ago, my group of friends and I hit up Stub’s for a monumental 21st birthday extravaganza. While we made it a good time, there was a clear shift in the age and attitudes of other patrons. The following winter break, the …
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