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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The words "pop music" usually don't bring to mind the most disturbing of images (unless you count Britney Spears). Singsong melodies, plaintive boy-girl vocals, an occasional drum solo and the whine of an organ can't do that much damage. That is, unless they're placed in the...

Author: By By R. Adam lauridsen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concert Review: Following the Quasi Model | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

Musically, Quasi take seemingly mundane pop influences (The Beatles, The Carpenters, The Monkees) and feed them through a blender of late '90s noise. Without a guitar on the majority of their songs, Quasi focus on the interplay between the roxichord (Coomes' organ-like instrument) and drums. What they lack in...

Author: By By R. Adam lauridsen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concert Review: Following the Quasi Model | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

Yeah, so Iggy Pop proceeds to do a spoken word jive. He's all about "I'm so worried about turning 50" and so forth. Tosses in "shit" here and there, for credibility, I suppose. And I was worried about bringing earplugs. Gets worse, though: Iggy starts--there's no...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Concert Review: Pop Goes the Rock Star | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

I'm not so thrilled to have to sit through this new stuff, and neither is anyone else. Iggy's new album (Avenue B) is a collaboration with Medeski, Martin and Wood of all people --and they're a terrible combination. Iggy crooning these songs is boring and bad; he...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Concert Review: Pop Goes the Rock Star | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

Watching guitarist Dean Ween rattle off a blatant parody of a Soundgarden solo, tongue out with Michael Jordan-like abandon, any doubts about what was to be taken seriously and what was a joke were gone. It was all a joke and a good one at that. Dean and Jordan...

Author: By Taylor R. Terry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Concert Review: Ween -- That's Entertainment | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

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