Music to Your Ears

By Laura Marrich

Girls Rap!

It's too easy to disparage New Mexico for its lack of youth-empowering, School of Rock-style summer camps like the one featured in Girls Rock! (read Marisa Demarco's film review, then see it at the Guild June 6 through 12). We've got music programs, all right, but they're, uh, not quite synced up with the iPod generation. Lord knows Hummingbird Music Camp would be a lot cooler if your counselors were Carrie Brownstein (Sleater-Kinney) and Beth Ditto (The Gossip). But—for now, at least—we just don't have those kinds of resources.

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Music Interview

Sweetness

Sugar with a spoonful of E.E. Cummings

By Simon McCormack

Can you sneak literary references into ear candy? Self-described power-pop four-piece Sweetness doesn’t see why not. You might be too busy nodding your head to notice, but the garage-anthem “Angry Candy” is a reference to a stanza in an E.E. Cummings poem. The American wordsmith isn’t the only literary figure alluded to on the sly. “I think you can have pop songs with interesting lyrics that go beyond, ‘I want to hold you until the day I die,’ ” says guitarist and English major Chente Rimorin. “The lyrics can be intellectual innuendos.”

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Flyer on the Wall

Fwends

Unit 7 Drain, The Oktober People and Ghostkimo braid each other’s hair this Friday, June 6, at the Moonlight Lounge (Central and Second Street SW). $3 makes them holler. (LM)

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Music to Your Ears

Girls Rap!

Music Interview

Sweetness

Sugar with a spoonful of E.E. Cummings

Flyer on the Wall

Fwends

Sonic Reducer