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A Land of Both Shado and Substance

Sophie B. Hawkins gives you her sex. Either way. Damn!

By Suzan Colon
Aug 26, 1992

(Cue Twilight Zone theme music. Enter Rod Serling.) "Meet Sophie B. Hawkins, age 25. Ms. Hawkins is a native of New York, the daughter of a writer mother and a lawyer father. At the age of fourteen she began taking lessons on African drums and moved in with her teacher...
Who's Afraid of Henry Rollins?

He doesn't hit women. His band doesn't drown puppies. But the anger is real.

By Suzan Colon
Jul 22, 1992

Yes, Henry Rollins, former singer for Black Flag and present leader of the Rollins Band, does come off as an angry young man. It's a description that sounds trite and calculated, doesn't it? Consider some of the events in Rollins's life, which he freely reveals: He remembers a man in...
Thrash Cannes

Where the elite meet to beat and receive their infernal rewards

By Suzan Colon
Jul 8, 1992

First, there were the Crusades. Then, missionaries tried to spread the Lord's word to savages in the South Pacific. Two Thursdays ago, a new addition was made to the list of Admirable Yet Thankless Endeavors: Jim Hayward presented the Slammy Awards to South Florida's untamed hordes. The Slammies -- as...
Home Grown

Spring's sprung, so it's time for our critics to reap and sow the good and not-so-good of local recordings

By Todd Anthony, Greg Baker and Suzan Colon
Apr 8, 1992

All music is local to somewhere. Here at New Times Music Central, we've always believed, and tried to express, that music should be judged by its merits, not its geographic point of origin. The recordings reviewed below are examined using the same criteria we'd use for any other release, be...
Home Grown

Spring's sprung, so it's time for our critics to reap and sow the good and not-so-good of local recordings

By Todd Anthony, Greg Baker and Suzan Colon
Apr 1, 1992

All music is local to somewhere. Here at New Times Music Central, we've always believed, and tried to express, that music should be judged by its merits, not its geographic point of origin. The recordings reviewed below are examined using the same criteria we'd use for any other release, be...

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