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July 10-16, 2003
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Looking for smart rock without the smarm of art rock? There’s plenty of bands that make metal clang without the Kerrang! Tool, Helmet, Tin Machine (only the first album), Queens of the Stone Age (ignore the bald dude’s weird beard) -- all of these guys made or make crunching rock that isn’t sloppy or slobberingly cliche. The Mars Volta (which includes Omar Rodriguez and Cedric Bixler, the crazy half of the departed At the Drive-In) -- follow that lineage into the valley of darkness with a magnificent Rick Rubin-produced debut CD, De-Loused in the Comatorium (Universal). High, clear vocals headed toward Robert Plant planet (near the Geddy Lee system) and rhythms careening with impossibly complex speed and riveting precision make De-Loused brilliant. It’s as if a sleek, hyper-Zep live record had been taped at the Mütter Museum, with At the Drive-In’s rambling poetics as tour guide. The band often races to gauzy bridges, while crisp, fast tunes like "Inertiatic ESP," "Roulette Dares" and the space-folky "Tira Me a las Arañas" employ lots of silly medical references and pretentious psycho-babbling lyrics. If you yearn for the old Latin speed-shuffle of Drive-In, check out the rapid-fire Hammond organ and drum-and-conga freakout "Drunkship of Lanterns" -- guaranteed to knock the porkpie off Carlos Santana’s head.
Wed., July 16, 8 p.m., $14-$16, with Saul Williams and Rye Coalition, The TLA, 334 South St., 215-336-2000.
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