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(12/01/00 5:00am)
As Recess music editors and two of the biggest music fans at Duke, we set out to discover Durham's music scene. We picked up a copy of the Independent Weekly, turned toward the back and found the listings for live music in Durham: a Monday open mic night, Wednesday night traditional Irish music at the James Joyce and a weekend stocked with jazz. How were we ever going to balance our demanding coursework with the time it would take to research this thriving scene?
(11/17/00 5:00am)
Imagine this: you've just settled down for a nice little nap in Page Auditorium, ready to rest your weary head, exhausted from the week's activities. No sooner has the drool begun to pool in the left corner of your mouth than you are awakened by something soft brushing against your slumbering lips. You open your groggy little lids, and what to your wondering eyes should appear?
(11/17/00 5:00am)
On Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper, Red Snapper shoot from the hip with a fusion of jazz, trance, dance, funk, rock, blues and psychedelia that doesn't sit quite right no matter how many times you listen. The songs meld the different elements into something that sounds like jazz at times, but with all the premeditated precision of trance and hip-hop and none of the improvisation usually found in electronic variations of jazz. MC Det and Karime Kendra lend solid-enough vocals to the music, though it's virtually undistinguishable from the earthy-breathy female vocal thing that's running rampant through trance and house music today.
(11/03/00 5:00am)
WXDU brings the local rock back to Duke this Saturday at the Coffeehouse on East Campus when it hosts five local bands for its annual benefit show. The show is a continuation of WXDU's fall tradition of concerts showcasing local musicians in an effort to raise money for the on-campus radio station. According to Karen Cirillo, a promoter for WXDU, the show is intended, "to raise awareness of WXDU. It's also to raise money toward an antenna fund that will hopefully one day allow us to improve our signal so that it can actually be heard on campus and its surroundings."
(10/06/00 4:00am)
Sometimes schizophrenia can be a beautiful thing. Take, for example, Badly Drawn Boy's new CD, The Hour of Bewilderbeast. The guy's soft side may sound like a sober Elliott Smith with a British accent, but don't let that fool you. True, most of the songs on this debut LP combine lilting guitars with folksy lyrics about nature and camping, but Mr. Boy, otherwise known as Damon Gough, is just as capable of letting heavy guitars do the talking as he is whispering about rain and rivers. The contrast makes for an album with a split personality, as if each song comes from a different recess of Gough's psyche.
(09/15/00 4:00am)
The 2 Skinnee J's are one of rap-rock's best kept secrets, which may explain why their live shows are still such an experience. The comfortable crowd size is great, but it's not only their fans that make them so special. It's not the homemade spacemen uniforms or razor-sharp choreography, either-it's the fact that these boys just have so much damn energy that it literally infects the crowd, bringing their own fantasy world to the masses, where every kid is a champion and every fan a potential Skinnee soldier. Constantly on tour and perpetually enlisting new recruits to bombard radio stations with requests for their songs, these guys are some of the hardest working men in show business.
(09/08/00 4:00am)
Even though a whole punk band may be limp competition for the T-man himself, you can still spend some quality time this Monday night with the band that shares his badass moniker. Just don't expect a Mr. T-style rumble. The Mr. T. Experience's style is more romance than riots, with songs that address the age-old topics of heartbreak and lovers' woes in an unexpected East Bay punk fashion.
(07/19/00 4:00am)
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(07/19/00 4:00am)
On Out There and Back, Paul Van Dyk finally seems to have figured out the evasive balance between the hardcore and the candy-coated, bringing us brilliant tracks that deliver haunting vocals and melodies without skimping on trance sounds and beats. The album strikes a blissful deal between Van Dyk's trance pedigree and the more vocal and melody-based dance music that has become popular stateside with the help of Brits like Moby, Fatboy Slim and the Chemical Brothers.
(04/21/00 4:00am)
For students and visitors alike, the Sarah P. Duke Gardens represent tranquility: a place to study, take a nap, toss a frisbee or even complete an unofficial graduation requirement (for the adventurous). On weekends, you can sometimes see a bride and groom posing for wedding pictures. But tonight, an entirely different celebration will be taking place amid the willow trees and carp pond-a rave in the Gardens.
(03/31/00 5:00am)
Hey radio listeners: tired of all those alterna-rock radio tunes that sound edgy and mysterious until you actually listen to the lyrics? Well, get ready for some more.
