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YAHOO PLENTYROCKABILLY DON'T GET NO ROWDIER THAN DASH RIP ROCK

By John Blanco
Dec 5, 1995

Bill Davis got the thrill of his five-year rock 'n' roll career recently. Answering the phone at the band's New Orleans headquarters, the Dash Rip Rock lead singer-guitarist heard an unmistakable, molasses-sweet drawl on the other line that made him positively weak in the knees. The Southern belle in question?...
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HAVING SUNG EVERYONE ELSE'S SONGS, YO LA TENGO NOW WRITES ITS OWN

By John Blanco
Apr 8, 1992

Yo La Tengo does a cover of Fleetwood Mac's Dreams" that's so loving, so unexpectedly true to the spirit of the original that probably even Stevie Nicks would approve. The band also does a version of Lou Reed's It's Alright (The Way That You Live)" that bests the Cowboy Junkies'...
TURNING HER BACK TO THE FUTURELAURIE ANDERSON STRIPS HER SMOKE AND MIRRORS DOWN TO A HUMAN VOICE

By John Blanco
Nov 13, 1991

There were mushrooming clouds of smoke, pulsating lights and video images of dancing cows and Tokyo commuters. Laurie Anderson's Gammage Auditorium concert last year was a sense-stimulating cyberspectacle. Cerebral entertainment, yeah, but still more Vegas than art school. Anderson not only showed off her talents as a singer (including her...
HOLES IN THE HEADLOCK UP THE CHIHUAHUA, HIDE THE POWER TOOLS--ALICE DONUT'S BACK IN TOWN

By John Blanco
Oct 2, 1991

"I killed a man in the ten items or less lane . . . /Get your hands off my astronaut Tang, you old bastard!" Murders in supermarket express lanes. Sex with Chihuahuas. Bank robberies committed in the nude. This is all fodder for Alice Donut songs. The New York quasi-hard-core...
CHERCHEZ LES FEMMESTHE TRIO'S NEW ACOUSTIC-HEAVY ALBUM IS ITS BEST IN A LONG TIME

By John Blanco
Jul 31, 1991

Pretenders' front woman Chrissie Hynde was wandering the streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one afternoon about a decade ago when she stumbled upon three young men banging away on acoustic instruments. Hynde was mesmerized by these Midwest geeks and their sloppy, but heartfelt, acoustic punk. She proclaimed them to be the...

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