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Hard core punk is like a pet rotweiller: it’s cool, no one wants to mess with you, shouldn’t let young children near...
...clear—they’re set on overloading your sensory circuits, replacing sex with static, skank with slam. The music is so disfigured it’s unrecognizable as house, or anything traditional at that. “Cish Cash” is essentially post-millennial punk and opener “Good Luck” slaps a bona fide diva over drum and bass, but even she’s barely able to restrain the music’s machismo...
While most of her male rivals chug out their vocal lines in plodding pedestrian style, Dalle weaves her lyrics into songs. Her ragged-and-torn voice has a subtlety of phrasing and pitch traditionally eschewed in punk if favor of blunt assault...
Although the club is open to all kinds of musical genres, T.T.’s specializes in rock, folk, electronic and punk. Occasional hip-hop acts perform, but Millman says she tries to stay away from “kinds of music that don’t fit the venue, like reggae, jazz and extreme hardcore...
DIED. ELLIOTT SMITH, 34, perceptive singer-songwriter; an apparent suicide; in Los Angeles. Smith, who changed his name to Elliott as a teenager because Steve sounded too "jockish," got his start in the punk band Heatmiser before turning to a folkier, more reflective solo style. Influenced by Nick Drake and the Beatles, he recorded five CDs of smart, emotionally dark songs that impressed critics, inspired a cult following, and in 1998 won him an Oscar nomination for Miss Misery--one of five of his songs on the Good Will Hunting sound track...