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...SEBADOH...
Topless girl and all, Sebadoh's Tuesday night show was a rocking good time. The Roxy was packed with an extremely eclectic mix of fans--everything from aging rockers and suited 20-somethings to clean-cut alterna-boys and their hipper chicks. Even teenage rave kids were to be found bumming cigarettes and acting cool. Nobody paid much attention to the opening acts; instead they swarmed around the six bars that service this converted ballroom. Playtopia, the second opener, got some attention by the sheer volume of their amps. Despite much heckling and hooting to the contrary, I thought these...
...indication of his mainstream appeal, then perhaps grunge hasn't died the torturous death that its critics all seem to lament. If Mascis' music possesses any one quality, in fact, it is staying power: after 13 albums, (the first in 1985 with bassist Lou Barlow, who departed to create Sebadoh) he still gets the same screamed requests for the same four or five songs every set he plays. Although it must be a huge responsibility to be credited as one of the fathers of alternative rock, Mascis manages to keep churning out the high decibel hits while maintaining the slackjawed...
...Helium sound" came from some combination of the bands Sebadoh and come (I'm guessing), from hanging out with other guitarists and engineers, and from the previously-unlooked-for depths of somebody's soul. And it translates on record into the most moving emotional document you'll hear in any popmusic this year. Aautoclave songs didn't really have subjects--the lyrics were often excuses for wordplay, or repeated single phrases. (Slant 6 lyrics are still like that...
...last issue had cover art by Chris Knox!) is neat, too, but the meat of the magazine is interviews--with Peter Jefferies, Barbara Manning, Madder Rose, A. Snail, Crystallized Movements, S. Moxham and various lesser lights worth learning about. Other record reviews are by one or more members of Sebadoh. If I've convinced you to check out one and only one commercially available fanzine, Popwatch should probably be it. Can't find it? Unlikely, but if so, write to P.O. Box 440215, Somerville...