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GAY PEOPLE'S CHRONICLE
April 20, 2007
10
ever
Kick out the jams
NO ONE
Homocore comes to
Ohio from the Land of Lakes
by Anthony Glassman
Are you ready for some homocore from the land of 10,000 lakes?
Of course you are.
Central Standard, a queer punk band fronted by musician and filmmaker Lisa Ganser, is swinging through Ohio for two dates this weekend, on Friday at Pat's in the Flats in Cleveland and on Sunday at the High Five Bar in Columbus.
Joining them for the Cleveland show will be hometown hero Amy Kasio, whose synthsational song stylings put her at the top of the class. She is, perhaps, a little too popular, since she's going to be spending summer in Sweden before running off to California.
Local band Black River Baby will join Kasio and Central Standard in the Cleveland show.
Central Standard will rechristen themselves Hey There Cowboy on April 28. The Minneapolis band exemplifies the DIY sound of homocore, with Ganser's raw, strident vocals combining with bandmates Tages' menacing guitar, Scotty Brat's moody bass and Justin's driving drums to create a palette of punk. Their dystopian soundscape melds anger with wit, disgust with disarming charm.
Take, for instance, the song "Recycle."
"Put your current lover here, and your exes over there, it doesn't matter the sexes, just ante up those exes so we can recycle," Ganser belts out.
Humorous, incisive, and it sounds great.
Of course, whether or not it can compare to Kasio's cover of Silk's "Freak Me" is another question alto-
Central Standard
gether. The layered vocals, the ethereal sound of a basic Casio keyboard filtered through guitar pedals creates the oddest sounds imaginable, and a sprightly young woman singing lyrics that qualified as . . . well... smutty if inane when the original song came out is simply surreal. She sounds a bit like Terri Nunn of Berlin ("No More Words," "Take My Breath Away") in the richness of her voice during the song.
Hopefully, she'll play her signature song, the childhood nightmareinducing "Blow Up the Ice Cream Truck." It is just plain fun.
The Cleveland show is at 10 pm at Pat's in the Flats, 2233 West Third Street. Cover is $5.
Central Standard heads down to Columbus two days later for their High Five Bar show.
Joining them there will Darynyck, the Hot Damn and Cole Thornhill.
That show will also be at 10 pm; cover is again $5. The High Five Bar is at 1227 North High Street.
For more on Central Standard, check out their MySpace page at www.myspace.com/central
standardrocks.
Amy Kasio's page is www.myspace.com/amykasio, and her music is also available at www.purevolume.com/amykasio.
Amy Kasio
Secrets
and
Spies
4/18
FOUR YEARS INTO THE WAR, ALLIANCES ARE GETTING ODD. I'M GLAD TO SEE YOU'VE COME TO YOUR SENSES
ABOUT IRAQ, ASHLEY.
FIRE
PACE
HIRE
GAYS
AS IF! I'M HERE TO SUPPORT QUEER TROOPS, NOT THE WAR, YOU CIA SPOOK.
WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT THAT? ARE YOU TRYING TO OUT ME?
WHAT'S
IMMORAL?
GENERAL
DON'2
PACE IS IMMORAL QUEERS ARG FABE
DOM
TELY
ASHM
HI, SYDNEY. I DUNNO. IT NEEDS A LOT
OF WORK.
ARE YOU JUST GETTING BACK FROM THE CONERENCE? HOW WAS IT?
YOU TWO CHAT. I'M GONNA TAKE A LOOK AT THE BACKYARD.
THIS THING WITH MADELEINE IS GETTING OUT OF CONTROL.
GOD, SYDNEY. I'M TOO OLD FOR THIS. AND SO ARE YOU! I'M TIRED OF KEEPING YOUR SORDID SECRETS.
02007 BY ALISON BECHDEL
507
HEY CYNTHIA DIDJA HEAR BIBLE STUDY IS CANCELED TONIGHT? WE'RE HOLDING A VIGIL AGAINST THE INHUMANE TREATMENT OF DETAINEES.
SHE CAN'T MAKE IT. SHE'LL BE CRAMMING FOR "ENHANCED INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES."
CAMPUS
FELLOWSHIP
VIGIL 2NITE
MEANWHILE...
SAMIA!
ARE YOU LOOKING AT THIS PLACE? WE'LL BE NEIGHBORS!
UH...HI, SWEETIE! HI, STUART. HOW WAS THE MARCH?
GINGER!
FOR SALE
EAN
FOR SALE
Call L12
MALACHIN-FARH
OH, MAN.
SYDNEY! YOU'RE HOME!
IT WAS SOMETHING! J.R.
ALMOST GOT ARRESTED. SHE WANDERED OFF AND FELL ASLEEP AT
WAY TO GO, J.R.!
THE DIE-IN.
YOUR LITTLE HOUSEMATE'S GROWING UP! SHE AND SAMIA ARE THINKING OF BUYING THIS HOUSE.
YOU ARE?!
TROOPS
OUT
Now
IMPE
GINGER, I THOUGHT YOU WERE.
AT BUFFALO LAKE ALL DAY. WHAT'RE YOU DOING HERE?