HIGH BIAS -- June 10, 2001 -- Fargo Rock City, Miles Davis, Danny Barnes, Thee Old Codgers, Jack Breakfast, The Morells, Tracy Nelson, Johnny Polonsky

Album reviews of new music by:

Danny Barnes & Thee Old Codgers: Catchy, timeless songs that balance love-is-good positivity with wry good humor, like all the best country and bluegrass writers. (more)
Jack Breakfast: Some of the most raw, unvarnished, nakedly honest tuneage you'll hear. (more)
The Morells: The Morells know how to make fun party music without being either stupid or self-conscious about it. (more)
Tracy Nelson: You wanna talk blue-eyed soul mamas, you gotta talk Tracy Nelson. (more)
Johnny Polonsky: Meat-and-potatoes power pop, with gritty guitars, super-catchy melodies and Polonsky's appealingly rough-edged voice. (more)

Loud Reading

FARGO ROCK CITY
Chuck Klosterman
(Scribner)
Once upon a time, way back in 1983, Chuck Klosterman, a skinny fifth grader living 65 miles south of Fargo, North Dakota on the family farm in extremely rural Wyndmere, made a revelatory discovery: his older brother's cassette copy of Mötley Crüe's second album Shout At the Devil. It had loud, speaker-shredding guitar riffs. It had vaguely Satanic lyrics. It allegedly had backward masking. It had a bunch of guys wearing makeup and shock therapy hairdos. In short, it had an aura of bad boy psychosis the like of which the kid had never before experienced. Young Chuck's life was NEVER THE SAME. (more)

Tripping Through the Past

MILES DAVIS
'Round About Midnight (Columbia/Legacy)
Milestones (Columbia/Legacy)
Since American music giant Miles Davis would be 75 this year if the universe hadn't fucked up in 1991 and taken him out instead of Michael Bolton, Columbia (not the only label he recorded with but the one with whom he was most prolific) has undertaken a new round of reissues, remasters, compilations... (more reissues)

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