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Jazz Band 2.0
The Pat Metheny Group makes music for the new century.
-Nate Chinen

Silvertide/Brando
-A.D. Amorosi

Philomel
-Peter Burwasser

Zero 7
-Nicole Pensiero

Sparta
-A.D. Amorosi

April 11-17, 2002

music

Tanya Donelly

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Also this issue:

Jazz Band 2.0
The Pat Metheny Group makes music for the new century.
-Nate Chinen

Silvertide/Brando
-A.D. Amorosi

Philomel
-Peter Burwasser

Zero 7
-Nicole Pensiero

Sparta
-A.D. Amorosi

April 11-17, 2002

music

Tanya Donelly

Rock/Pop

As if they didn't have enough on their minds, female musicians who take a few years off to get married and have a baby are often dismissed as soft. But Liz Phair, Patti Smith and Courtney Love have proven that rock moms can come back fierce. Returning from a five-year hiatus with her second solo album, Tanya Donelly will be subjected to charges of losing her edge. She deserves them. Part of Belly's appeal was the way Donelly sang like a little girl recounting her death-drenched dreams. beautysleep (4AD) upholds that tradition, but doesn't stick; it's a wasteland of pretty coos and riffs that go nowhere. The sole standout, "Moonbeam Monkey," finds late Morphine singer Mark Sandman shadowing Donelly from the grave. "I'm Keeping You" is a frank mash note to daughter Gracie, but it's not the primal drama that Donelly undoubtedly has in her. After all, what's a family but more people you have to worry about dying?

Thu., April 11, 9 p.m., $15-$17, with The Dirty Triplets and Chris Lee, TLA, 334 South St., 215-922-1011.

÷M.J. Fine




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