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Ska Fest brings funky beat to Dixie Theati
with MU330, Mddlefinger and Johnny Soda
By Chris Martin
Staff writer
U330, Johnny
Socko! and Mid-
dlefinger will come
together tonight at 8 at the
Dixie Theatre in downtown
Bryan for the Marooned Fall
Ska Fest 1997.
“People are going ska
crazy,” Chris Penn of Ma
rooned Records said.
Breakout acts like
Goldfinger, Reel Big Fish
and the Mighty Mighty
Bosstones have brought
middle-of-the-road ska to
mainstream audiences.
The Marooned Ska
Fest tonight will bring
underground ska to
3rd General Meeting
Wednesday, November 19
MSC 225 @ 7:00pm
speaking:
Coach Barone
and
Basketball players
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Johnny Socko!
Texas A&M students.
Ska is a banner under
which numerous musical
styles are filed. Though of
ten characterized by
punk-infused reggae, the
sounds of ska bands like
MU330, Johnny Socko!
and Middlefinger often in
clude funk, jazz, glam rock
and polka.
St. Louis’ MU330 is "the
Midwest’s hardest working
bunch of chumps next to
truckers,” according to
their press release. The
band was formed in 1988
by grade school friends
Dan Potthast (lead guitar
and vocals) and Ted Moll
(drums). The ranks were
later filled out by Chris
Diebold on bass, and Rob
Bell and Gerry Lundquist
on brass. Lundquist was a
former member of ska
band Skankin’ Pickle.
MU330 characterized its
sound as ska tainted with
rock, punk, noise, sing
along lyrics, pop hooks and
hard pounding double-
bass drum rhythms.
The band members said
they tour nearly 7/8 of the
year, and they are current
ly supporting their third al
bum Crab Rangoon.
“(The tour van) is what I
consider to be my home in
stead of St. Louis,” Moll
said in an interview with
music paper Mean Street.
Johnny Socko! was
formed Halloween night,
1990. The Indianapolis-
based band is currently
winding down their 1997
tour schedule of nearly 250
live shows.
The band’s latest album,
Full Trucker Effect, is a full
blown concept album
soundtrack to a forgotten
‘80s trucker movie. The al
bum spoofs Pulp Fiction’s
“Royale with Cheese” mono
logue with its own “Chewing
Tobacco in Paris” routine.
Mike Dawson of U. Mag
azine said Johnny Socko! is
a mix of Parliament, the
Madness and the Clash.
“Backed by a trumpet,
saxophone and a trom
bone, Socko! races through
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Roni Size/Reprazent
New Forms
Talkin’ Loud/ Mercury Records
★ ★★★ (out of five stars)
R oni Size/Reprazent’s two-
CD offering New Forms
brings electronica one step
closer to mainstream. The masses
will want to shake their collective
booty to one of the best electron
ic albums around.
The ascension of electronic
music is considered the next “Big
Thing.” With that lofty goal
comes a steep price, the possibili
ty of the techno equivalent of
Bush.
Luckily Roni Size/Reprazent
are no Bush of the break beats. All
Size and his Reprazent crew want
to do is boogie.
English born Roni Size and his
Reprazent collective, made up of
DJs Die, Krust and Suv, and vo
calists Onallee and MC Dyna
mite, have produced one of the
most accessible and ambitious
albums to come out of the elec
tronica era.
New Forms is not of the same
synthetic-sounding cloth as
Prodigy and Chemical Brothers.
Size and Co. ply their trade in
the genre known as drum n’ bass,
sometimes called jungle. The best
way to describe drum n’ bass is
techno with lots of drums, lots of
bass and the personalized signa
ture of the mixing artist.
The genre was brought to the
forefront of the dance scene by
artists like Goldie, Spring Heel
Jack and LTJ Bukem.
Size belongs on the dance
floor with those drum n’ bass in
novators.
New Forms serves up an elec
tronic porridge sound just right
for all the bears and Goldilocks
out there.
New Forms also has quite a
mix of trip-hop, acid jazz, scat
and rap.
The first CD in the set offers
smooth mixes of rap and dance
music guaranteed to please fans
of either genre.
Philadelphia based rapper Ba-
hamadia lends her vocal support
to the “New Forms” track with a
sultry, scat-cat grace.
Regular group vocalist Onallee
contributes on several tracks. Her
voice is smoky, yet eloquent.
Think Eartha Kitt on ecstasy. Her
pipes always seem right on track
with hyper-fast break beats and
snare drums.
The other half of the album
offers an instrumental drum n’
bass mixture that gives Spring
Heel Jack a run for its money.
Barbie to get ‘plastic surgery' with realistic figure
In Celebration of
National Children ’$
Book Week,
MSC Literary Arts
presents:
Campus Leaders
Read
Sliel Silverstein
Monday through Friday
Nov. 17-21, 1997
12:15 to 12:45 p.m.
Rudder PMuntain
How To Write
A Children’s Book
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1997
7 p.m.
MSC 292A
The Challenge
of Children’s Books
Thursday, Nov. 20, 1997
Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform
us of your special needs. We request three (3) working
. days prior to the event to enable us to assist you to the
best of our abilities.
7 p.m.
MSC 292B
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A less busty Barbie is on
the drawing boards at Mattel Inc. in a makeover
designed to give a more realistic profile to the cur
vaceous, best-selling doll that has rankled femi
nists while becoming an icon for generations of
young girls.
Barbie’s new look also will include a thicker
waist and slimmer hips. Changes above the neck
will include a new nose and softer, straighter hair,
Mattel said Monday.
Some features of the new Barbie already are on
store shelves. The “Rapunzel Barbie,” a long-haired
variation based on the classic fairy tale, has a more
refined nose and closed mouth — part of the new
design, said Lisa McKendall, Mattel’s director of
marketing communications.
Other features will be introduced during 1998.
By the end of next year, six of 24 versions of the
11 1/2-inch doll will have the new look. The rest
will have the old face and body.
The plastic surgery is part of a continuing evo
lution for Barbie, which got a face lift in 1967 and
another in 1977, said Ms. McKendall. More than
a billion dolls have been sold worldwide since Bar
bie was introduced in 1959.
“Barbie’s kind of like Betty Crocker. She gets up
dated to make her look more appropriate to the
times. She is a fashion doll first and foremost,”
said Chris Byrne, an analyst with Playthings Mar-
ketWatch, a monthly toy industry magazine.
“She hasn't been updated for a while and I
know the Barbie franchise is critical to Mattel, so
keeping it vital is important,” he said.
In 1996, Barbie generated $1.7 billion in sales,
about 44 percent of Mattel’s total revenue. Sales
rose 24 percent during the first three quarters of
1997 and were expected to finish at least 25 per
cent higher than the 1996 figures, putting sales of
Barbie dolls worldwide near the $2 billion mark.
Those figures suggest that demand remains
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strong for Barbie in her present dimensions. By
dating Barbie’s looks, Mattel is trying to anticipi
a change in preference, analysts said.
“I think the company is trying to figure
how it’s going to keep the brand going,” said
an Eisenbarth, an analyst with Collins & Co
San Francisco.
But part of Barbie’s success, he said, has
the desire of mothers who want to give their cl
dren a toy that’s just like the dolls they played wf
The changes could dampen some of that enthu
asm, he said.
“They’ve got to keep the Barbie line growici
That’s one of the things about success. It’s
to duplicate,” he said.
Over the years, Barbie has come under shafffn
criticism from feminists and child advocates,
contend that her shape is unrealistic and createfiij
the wrong ideal for young girls who may aspire
a body type they can never achieve.
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