Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/02/87)
Really-From: hsu%uicsrd.CSRD.UIUC.EDU@a.cs.uiuc.edu (William Tsun-Yuk Hsu) >Really-From: d711%sphinx.UChicago.BITNET@BERKELEY.EDU(Dave Wilson) >Urge Overkill opened, and were hot. Yup, these guys shred. I wish they get better audience response here tho (somehow just Brad and me hollering doesn't quite do it :-)). They had the tuxes the last two times they played in Champaign. Albini in a tux? Can't wait to see that (in May)... >I did feel definitely out of place there, though. Stringy long black >hair and black leather were the attire of the day. Oh well. Hey, come down to Champaign sometime for shows. The trendies generally stay away from the cave/chapel of Channing-Murray, stronghold of hardcore people and (the pathetically few) noise freaks. :-) >--Just signed -- Laibach. Yes, those crazy Czechs (?) have a new album out > with one bitchin' Queen cover. Most danceable thing they've ever done. Actually they're from Yugoslavia. (I heard you can't get Laibach in Yugoslavia. A friend of mine had requests from Yugoslav correspondents asking for Laibach.) I don't know about that Queen cover, tho. John Hogge picked it up and he was visibly in pain when we listened to it for the first time :-). (This is pain as in "Gawd this sucks", not "Michael Gira is ripping my guts out and I can't do anything about it".) Various things I picked up recently: "One Thousand Years" by Skin is really Jarboe/Gira of the Swans in disguise. Very subdued, beautiful stuff, with enough edge that it's in no danger of degenerating into mush. I like it but really expected something more (?). Rather pricey for 2 songs and a remix. The new Karen Finley 12" is another rip-off: 4 remixes of the same song. Very offensive of course. Robert Gorl provides the disco beat. Bill