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...brought the world Hobo Junction, the Left Coast's indie response to the Wu-Tang Clan, drops his third album, The Hit List. Since his first solo album, The Boxcar Session, Saafir's been busy. Between teaming up with Ras Kass and Xzibit (who'll headline the Lyricist Lounge show in Boston on the 18th) to form the Golden State Warriors crew and recording Trigonometry, his second album, under the pseudonym Mr. No-No, one wonders where the Saucee Nomad has had time to come up with the tight lyrical flow and musicality a worthy hip-hop album necessitates...
...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 hands of two ultra-depressive misfits like the ex-husband and wife duo of Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss, a.k.a. Quasi. The pair opened the evening with a blast of optimism in the form of "Smile," in which Sam and Janet start off with sugary harmonies over a bouncing beat. Then...
...albums on Seattle's independent sensation Up Records (former home of Built to Spill and Modest Mouse), Quasi have built a respectable body of work to draw from live. While a few songs sound as if they are just vehicles for Coomes' jilted worldview or a thundering Weiss drum solo, the majority manage to balance catchiness with noise. During the middle of the hour-long set, Janet Weiss took a brief but very impressive spell as lead vocalist on "Two By Two." Just in case anyone was feeling optimistic after Janet's airy vocals, Coomes returned with "California," singing "Life...
...hard and thrashy, like they're a Metallica tribute band--but the kind of Metallica tribute band that really likes Master of Puppets and other early albums and never got around to cutting their hair and so they can still do that flipping-long-hair-back-after-a-ripping-solo thing, although no one solos tonight. But to be fair, this song at least rocks electrically, if perfunctorily...
...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 seem to have the same thought in mind while doing their thing: "this is way too much fun, I can't believe they're actually paying me to do it!" Singer Gene seemed to be having an equally good time. When the rest of the band stepped off stage...