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L The Battalion IFESTYLES r 11,19| hursday • September 11, 1997 Jatri JUST 8\JY /on’t mz 4' FOOD. ivin’ it up aywood finds its calling with latest release Flatires fa 1 on s1 \ > A MAKi By Michelle Voss Staff writer unday afternoon, in a cir- ^cus-like atmosphere, near- Jly 50 students bounced round in Rudder Fountain to tunes of local rock band laywood. At the modern-day ippie-fest, music fans splashed |i the middle of University Cen- r. The members of Haywood rummed their guitars and beat leir bongo drums, and occa- ^onally leaped off-stage to join le drenched crowd. Together since January, Hay- l/ood will release its indepen dent debut album, Flatires, to- |ay with a celebration at 3rd loor Cantina to follow. Formed by a couple of buds ho have known each other ^nice kindergarten and inger/guitarist, Stephen San- lin, who taught himself to play n his free guitar, these guys said fey have found their calling. Drummer Craig Hoenes said : Haywood was a flavor of ice ream, rainbow sherbet would ome to mind. The variety of colors in rain- ow sherbet fits all of Haywood’s longs, which represents the dif- iiifili ferent backgrounds of the band members. Chris Huntley, the band’s per cussionist and “young guy” of the group at 20 years old, said he has a dream of someday playing at Preservation Hall in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Huntley has played with or chestras and “hard-core” bands, but he said he would like to think of his current sound as “Afro-Cuban ensemble.” Before becoming a member of Haywood, Huntley went to one of the shows. “It was probably one of the funnest concerts I’ve ever been to," he said. “Two weeks later they asked me to play in a show with them. I was just like, ‘Yeah!’” Hoenes studied jazz drum ming at the University of North Texas. “He [Hoenesjis in his own perfect little world, drummer boy,” Sandlin said. Hoenes said his dream venue is in Moscow, in front of 500,000 screaming Russians. Guitarists Brandon Elan and Kris Arnold hung out on the playgrounds of Corpus Christi ever since their childhood. Haywood Elan said he admires the mu sic of Stevie Ray Vaughan and hopes of one day playing on top of Shadow Canyon. Arnold said the philosophy of the band is simple. “We are serious about our music, but we’re not serious,” Arnold said, “We’re serious about not being serious.” Sandlin said he has a simple mission when the band gets on stage. “We want to make you dance,’’Sandlin said. “We have more fun on stage than the au dience. We just wanna have fun and jump up and down.” The band members said they find musical inspiration in dif ferent places. Dogs, the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, malt liquor, pimps and mac daddys are just a few. For one tune, Sandlin said he simply opened up his dictionary and found the word “brevity,” so it became the word for the first verse. For each subsequent verse, he choose another word from the dictionary. “It’s as stupid as that,” he said. Another song entitled “Silk Sheets” found its origin in a girl who works at Hastings. “The verses are about inno cent crushes that you know you can’t have,” Huntley said. “We’re just nice guys.” Sandlin said the music has a universal appeal. “Every single person in col lege can relate to the stuff we sing about,” Sandlin said. The band members said said Haywood’s sound is hard to characterize. “It is fun college music you can jump up and down to,” they said. “We are creating our own sound.” For all those Phish fans out there in Aggieland, this might be the local band of choice. “The whole idea is to have fun,” Sandlin said. “Yeah,” Hoenes said. “Kind of like Cyndi Lauper.” Music Review Superchunk Indoor Living Merge Records ★★★ Superchunk changes pace By Chris Martin Staff writer G reat music is a lonely drifter. Ask any band who has played to an empty room. The old riddle is true — falling timber doesn’t make a sound in an empty forest. How many times has a song whispered through a pumping party stereo, only to scream through a pair ofWalkman mini phones on a sad rainy day at the bus stop? Here’s a hypothetical recipe for such a happening: Do something really stupid on a Friday night. Wake up really early with a headache to a cold, gray Saturday morn ing. Wrap up in an afghan and head to the kitchen for a bowl of instant oatmeal. As the steam from the bowl ascends your face, lock the doors, lay on the floor and give a listen to IndoorLivingby Superchunk. Indoor Living, an album that demands to be heard in the right place at the right time, is the eighth full-length album of fered by Chapel Hill’s first family of Do-It- Yourself, Superchunk. With Indoor Living, Superchunk fills out its poppy-punk past with a welcome arse nal of strings, organs, vibes and synths. It’s not exactly a punk Pet Sounds, but the ’Chunk has definitely been circling the zoo’s parking lot. Superchunk has persevered for seven years by making the ethic and might of punk music inviting. Considering that, In door Living is practically a welcome mat into the world of Superchunk. “We were struck by lightening/it was like we’d never get old,” screams Mc- Cauhan on “The Popular Music,” a song that makes sitting still seem gauche. The lyrics seem to allude to the earlier youthful days of dynamism that will always live on in seven-inch singles. Please see Superchunk on Page 6 ELECTRONIC JOURNALS Sterling C. Evans Libraries Texas A&M University Tired of walking to the library? Electronic journals are available from your desktop at the click of your mouse. 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