Volume 66 | Issue 122 October 11, 2011

In Cue Kickin’ Out The Jams Since 1945

Manager’s Note

In Cue

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Management Station Manager: Anthony Saia Program Director: Kentaro Murai music director: Ethan Arave Prod. Director: Nick Mcgarvey News Director: Britt Kiser Contributing writers: Adrian Martin Ethan Arave Kentaro Murai Tim Berge Andria Marcussen Ted Kelchner KUOI 89.3 Fm’s Offices 709 S. Deakin Ave., 3rd Floor, Moscow, ID 83844 (208) 885-2218 or (208) 885-6433 Email: kuoi@uidaho.edu Follow Us: Webpage: www.kuoi.org Facebook.com/kuoi.fm Twitter: @KUOIFM

WHAT HAS COLLEGE RADIO

CONFINEMENT LOAF // KUOI: Yeah, I totally grew up

listening to college radio (WNUR Northwestern University) and got turned on to Black Flag, Frank Zappa, The Accused, Dead Kennedys, Echo and the Bunnymen…all kinds of underground, non commercial music.

I recorded college radio shows on cassette tapes on my boom box in my bedroom and would hear something awesome and run out and buy the record. We play some of those very records on our show! We asked a few of our favorite rockers if they had a similar experience.

JOHN SHERMAN // RED FANG // DRUMS

Yeah, the college radio station in my town was the best radio station when I was in high school! 88.1 WKNC in Raleigh, North Carolina, at NCSU.

It was mostly metal when I was growing up so it was awesome!

From 11-2 was Chainsaw Rock and at midnight was The Witching Hour and they played seriously scary death metal that I was super into back then. The DJs would talk in the death metal  voices…it was awesome! I loved it.

It turned me on to a ton of awesome shit!

MATT WEED // ROSETTA // GUITAR: When I went to college at Penn the

student station was Internet only and because the funding stream was non existent they really couldn’t have more than ten people involved.

On a campus with ten thousand undergraduates and nine thousand graduate students and ten kids running an Internet radio station…there just wasn’t room for somebody like me to get involved with that.

CONFINEMENT LOAF SATURDAYS // 11-2AM Heavy Metals, Psychedelics

… Frank Zappa.

TOM NIEMEYER // THE ACCÜSED // GUITAR: I was a DJ on KSVR, Skagit Valley Community College radio station, a mighty twenty watts or something like that.

I think it made it to the parking lot of the campus. I had a morning show there and I used to assault the campus with Italian hardcore seven inchers that I’d get through mail order.

So just the worst most vile noise that I could play from six to nine, you know right at wake up time. This was 1983. There was nothin’ but farmers there and diesel mechanics and people from the culinary school goin’ to Skagit Valley Community College.

That was my demographic and I would fuck them up with this stuff man. I lasted almost a whole quarter but not quite.

DONE FOR YOU?

JOHN BAIZLEY // BARONESS // VOX & GUITAR:

Everybody that’s in this band, we all grew up in Lexington, Virginia, which is a small city in the Appalachian Mountains in the Shenandoah Valley. There is a college there.

It wasn’t the most conducive college for great radio you know, being that it was a fairly conservative school, you got a pretty steady diet of you know, jam bands, southern rock, just the type of stuff that as a child, as a teenager,

that you didn’t want to have a fuckin’ thing to do with.

I did a little stint on a college radio station in the late nineties and I played mostly metal, that was it.

That was at J.M.U. in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

All I remember really, basically, from those few shows that I did was that there was a maximum security prison somewhere situated near the college and we got a lot of Slayer requests, a lot of scary Slayer requests.  

SCOTT “WINO” WEINRICH // SAINT VITUS, PREMONITION 13 // VOX :

Yeah, I got turned on to stuff…there were a couple good radio stations when I was younger that really helped me out a lot! That’s why a great radio station is so important!

NATE CARSON // WITCH MOUNTAIN // DRUMS: Yeah, I grew up in

Corvallis in the eighties. KBVR was one of the top

five college radio stations in the country. There were some amazing

shows, some amazing DJs and for being a kid who grew up in the sticks on a farm, I feel incredibly fortunate that that station was there. So, I got turned on to a lot

of cool shit very early on and I feel very fortunate for that!

SEAN INGRAM // COALESCE // VOX: Yeah, The Little Orphan Annie

Show on KJHK in Lawrence, Kansas! Friday and Saturday night we

would drive to Lawrence, cruise around aimlessly and listen to the punk and metal shows on the radio in the car.

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October 11, 2011 Page 9

was told to write a review for the new Tim Blood and The Gutpanthers album “Summer of Our Discontent”.

Seeing as I had never written an album review before and seeing as I wanted to do a good job (I don’t like doing bad jobs) and seeing as I wanted to avoid looking like a total ignoramus, I went to

WikiHow in order to learn how to write a really good album review.

If I answered these questions I would not only have a review of the latest pop-punk album sensation, but I would have a good review of the latest pop-punk album sensation and I would not, by any means, look like a total ignoramus (thank gosh). Here is my good album review:

Listen to the album multiple times, giving yourself a chance to really understand what is going on in the music:

I can say without hesitation that I have listen to this album literally hundreds of times. I was there when these songs were written. I was there when they were learned by the band. I was there every single time they were played in concert. I was there when these songs were recorded. If there is anything “going on in the music” that I don’t “really understand” then it is something that I am likely to never understand,

REVIEWS

and any person listening is even less likely to ever understand. Trust me, you can trust everything I say in regards to this particular album. Think about what points you want to make in your review:

1) Sony needs to sign this band to

their record label and they need to do it quickly. Recently a Sony warehouse was destroyed by fire in London due to “riots”.

This band could easily make enough money for Sony that they could rebuild a bigger and perhaps even better warehouse, not only in London, but all over the world. Even in Antarctica, seriously.

2) Any semi-hot to totally hot girls need to contact the singer of this band and ask him to be their boyfriend (he will say yes). By checking out the website provided on the back of the CD

TIM

BLOOD & THE GUT PANTHERS Penned By Tim Berge

Photo  Credit  //  Kentaro  Murai  

case (ctrlforce.blogspot.com) this reviewer came across some photos of the band; the lead singer really does have the cutest little legs and judging by the lyrics to the album (also available on the website) he is just unimaginably lonely. A big problem with an easy solution. CONTACT THE SINGER OF THIS BAND AND MAKE OUT WITH HIM. Or, at the very least, sext him.

3. This album is pretty all right to listen to. It has some energy, but I can see how some people might be underwhelmed. People should ride bikes with this in their earbuds.

Give basic information about the band, such as where they are from, the members’ names,

and the instruments they play:

This band is called Tim Blood and The Gutpanthers. The album is called Summer of Our Discontent (Shakespeare reference, also Steinbeck). There are five members in the band. Tim Anderson plays guitar. Keith Feltis plays guitar. Ian Corrigan plays bass. Ryan Beitz plays

drums. Tim Berge sings. They are from Moscow, Idaho. Tim A and Tim B. have been friends since high school. Ryan and Keith have been friends since high school. Tim A., Tim B., Ryan and Keith have been friends since spring

2009. Tim Blood and The Gutpanthers started playing in a garage in summer 2009. Ian came in later and as a band they improved massively. This is their second “full-length”.

Discuss the album’s background, including where it fits in the context of the band’s career and what possible influences they might have:

These songs were written around January 2011 and recorded spring/summer of 2011.

Musically it is a pretty upbeat pop-punk album. Any individual who felt inclined could bike through streets of any town or any city with these songs coursing through their ear buds.

The last song reminds me of [the band] Jawbreaker. I have heard other people compare

them to Fucked Up even though Fucked Up is not a pop-punk band and this band is definitely a pop-punk band.

Maybe it is because the singer says “fucked up” like a hundred times in the first song. I don’t know.

It’s better than their other albums. No contest.

Review particular tracks that stand out, either because they are great or not so great:

As the title of the album suggest most of the songs deal with discontent.

Songs 2 (The Moby Song), 3 (Ian’s Song Part Two) and 4 (Jail) make something of a narrative about a kid who is discontent living in the town he grew up in and resolves to leave.

When he leaves he goes crazy having fun and gets arrested as a result.

SEE BLOOD | PAGE 12

“People should ride bikes with this in their earbuds”

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Hauschka is the alias of Volker Bertelmann, a producer who, for a long time, made what you could call modern classic. Bertelmann's most known for utilizing a practice called prepared piano, in which you place objects on the strings of a piano to effect its timbre and sound profile in all of his releases.

For five years worth of releases, Bertelmann's strength lay in his use and skillful preparation of the piano and he made

some amazing prepared piano compositions rivaled, to my mind, by none living. Salon Des Amateurs though, far from a modern classical work, is what could loosely be called a house album. There's a driving beat here to every song and a careful construction, element by element, to every piece. That piano is still the star though, and more than ever Bertelmann tries to strain as many sounds as he can out of the instrument; even utilizing the unique harmonic structures that prepared pianos have to effect. But this isn't house. There's repetition and a fixation on the beat and a paced introduction of elements that might lead you to believe this is house, but it isn't. For one thing the instruments comprising this album are all orchestral, there's no

drum programming or synth interlude; but the thing that really makes this not house to me is it's slightness, Salon Des Amateurs may be complex and intricate, but it is not a demanding listen, it's not heavy. All the songs are cheery, upbeat even, they chug along gayly and provide no shortage of listenability, but there's very little bass, and no linear introduction of elements. There's a softness to this album that is antithetical to how house music operates most of the time. It's this unquantifiable nature that makes Salon Des Amateurs so interesting, it brings to my mind similar expansions of composers into a more beat driven area such Z's New Slaves or even Colin Stetson’s album New History of Warfare Vol. 2 – Judges -EA

HAUSCHKA // SALON DES AMATEURS

Didn't see that coming! And I am referring to myself. Mastodon totally "undersold and over delivered" me with The Hunter. I went in expecting nothing astounding, and got my ass astounded pretty hard. Shy of Opeth, I couldn't name another current band that's gone on a flawless streak of releases this long and this significant. Mastodon is in the history books, guaranteed. - McG  

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MASTODON // THE HUNTER

BLOOD | FROM PAGE 11 Once out of jail he feels

discontent again and leaves again.

My favorite two songs on the album are “Orange” and “Blue Suitcase”. Maybe if they had put colors in the titles of all the songs it would be a better album. We’ll never know.

Since this album is available for free on the band’s bandcamp site I must recommend everyone download the album simply for these two songs.

School has started up again and inevitably there are guys / girls in your new classes that you want to date and indubitably you are looking for cool songs to put on a mix tape / CD to give to the guy / girl you want to date as a means of impressing them.

Showing them how cool / cultured you are.

One or both of these songs would fit on those tapes / CDs.

So would “Ever” by the Lemonheads. I promise.

There is a girl singing on “Monster” and that is kind of unexplained, but a welcome change.

“Jail” isn’t that great of a song.

Summarize your feelings about the album in your final sentence:

In the history of Rock ‘n’ Roll this album is wholly insignificant; in the history of punk rock this album is a pebble dropped in the ocean and swallowed by a small fish swallowed by a shark shot with a harpoon.

Regardless, the album is pretty fun and definitely worth the nothing it costs to download.

After listening to the album on repeat while writing this thing I’m pretty tired of it (I actually turned it off maybe fifteen minutes ago and started listening to The Smoking Popes instead).

Remember, sext the singer. Make out with him.  

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