Buzz – Oct 27, 2005

Oct. 27. 2005 Oct

Music, Movies and More

MUSIC USIC:: Hot Hot Heat, Weezer and Foo Fighters attack the LLBC BC MOVIE: ‘Stay’ makes audiences wish they had stayed home MORE ORE:: Girls That Rock, Part 2, plus the latest entertainment news

2 THE BUZZ Contents 02 The Inside Buzz 03 Girls That Rock Series Part 2 04 Juliette Lewis Interview 05 Hot Hot Heat, Weezer and Foo Fighters review, photos 07 HelloGoodbye Interview 08 Flashback Favorite New Movie Review ON THE COVER: Dave Grohl, singer and guitarist for the immensely popular Foo Fighters, sang, joked and ran around for his fans on Sunday night at the Long Beach Convention Center.

Grohl, who previously served as drummer of Nirvana, even played drums during the set. (Photo by Jamie Flanagan/Daily Titan Staff)

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THE INSIDE BUZZ

By MAHSA KHALILIFAR Daily Titan Asst. Entertainment Editor

Time to bring back the oldies but goodies: People you might have forgotten are making headlines once again … Van Halen’s lead singer, David Lee Roth, is taking over controversial Howard Stern’s morning show. The takeover will happen on Jan. 3.

Don’t worry about Stern, he will

be heading his own show on Sirius radio … MTV also reports that rapper DMX will be spending time in jail. The 33-year-old, real name: Earl Simmons, has been out of the music spotlight for a while but now will be spending time under a dim cell light. While in possession of cocaine, he allegedly posed as a government official to attempt to steal an automobile at New York’s Kennedy Airport last June. DMX pleaded guilty Tuesday to “reckless endangerment” and will likely spend at least a month behind bars; he will be back in court on Nov. 17 to hear his official sentence … A group organized by Najee Ali of Project Islamic HOPE, protested 50 Cent’s new movie “Get Rich or Die Tryin,’” on Crenshaw Tuesday morning. The protest by the coalition was sparked because the movie evidently includes a substantial amount of shooting violence … Nelly is bringing out the

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goods again with a new combination of his last successful albums Sweat and Suit, simply renamed Sweatsuit, the rapper includes top singles from both of his albums. It will feature those songs and newer ones such as “Fly Away,” which was only released on “The Longest Yard” soundtrack. … New notable CD releases Tuesday ...

Destiny’s Child #1’s [Dual Disc] … *Nsync’s Greatest Hits… Sarah Brightman’s Love Changes Everything … Aerosmith Rockin’ The Joint … new DVD releases this week include … Lindsay Lohan’s “Herbie – Fully Loaded” … Nicole Kidman and Will Farrell in “Bewitched”… Jennifer Garner in “Alias – The Complete Fourth Season” … Celebrity sighting of the week: Fashion Designer Betsey Johnson at Costa Mesa’s South Coast Plaza last Saturday… Stay tuned for more news and gossip on the next Inside Buzz …

Quote of the Week “It’s always frightening when that kind of talk happens this early.

People get crazy.

Madness ensues.”

– Charlize Theron, on Oscar buzz for “North Country,” to Entertainment Weekly.

GIRLS THAT ROCK

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Female rocker keeps music real PART 2: Rock Chick Kristen May plays with the boys, still remains fem-tastic

By KELLI FADROSKI Daily Titan Staff

With the spotlight shining so brightly on male figures in rock n’ roll, females might think they have something to prove out onstage. In reality it only takes one bright personality, male or female, to break into the business. Some female artists rise to the top by showing off their bodies and selling their sex to the audience during a show, but that’s just not for vocalist/guitarist Kristen May from Kansas City, Missouri’s Veda. May rocks to an entirely different tune. Although Veda isn’t a screaming metal band, they’ve been able to keep up just fine in the rock world out on tour with Thrice and The Bled. May hopes that the female influence in the band Rilo Kiley, artists Tegan and Sara and Bjork help to balance the sexes in rock music.

“Björk does what she wants to do and she’s a very creative person,” May said. “Also Joni Mitchell and Carol King were amazing songwriters. I like Jenny Lewis

from Rilo Kiley; I think her lyr- or drive can also keep them from ics are really honest and her whole music, not just their gender.” band is great.”

Since every publicists dream May hasn’t been fazed yet by is to create a killer press packet, her gender. bands are often sent out on count“I’ve spoken to some girls who less interviews and photo shoots. want to start a band and they’ll May is a little uncomfortable say that they can’t find anyone to morphing her image and being play with them because some guys “sexed-up” when she’s being phodon’t want to play with girls,” she tographed. said. “I never really dealt with any “I go to photo shoots and if they of that because growing up I had have a hair and make-up person brothers who had to play with me I’m kinda like ‘uh … try to keep because I was family.” me, me,” she said. “All of us are May sums up the music indus- just chill people from the Midwest try as being “competitive” rather and we don’t want to be, or appear than trying to leave out female art- to be, anything more than what we ists exclusively. are.”

“There Since May has are differlately found herself ent elements out on tour with all in it for evboys, she does adI think for any musieryone,” she mit she gets a little cian ... feeling that said. “There’s stir crazy when they don’t have so much it comes to wantcompetition ing to talk about the talent or drive these days. I “girlie stuff.” can also keep them don’t know “You know just from music, not if maybe girls the simple things are a bit more you don’t realtheir gender. reserved typiize you talk about cally in rock until you’re with Kristen May because it boys all the time,” Frontwoman of Veda definitely is she said. “Oh, I a male domiwant to talk about nated scene, makeup. I really so maybe don’t even wear there’s an intimidation with that. I makeup but I want to talk about it think for any musician maybe feel- because the boy’s don’t talk about ing that they don’t have the talent it or something.”

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Kristen May fronts Veda, a pop-rock group that’s not afraid to have some strong female leadership.

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INTERVIEWS

Hollywood starlet goes rock ‘n’ roll

By KELLI FADROSKI Daily Titan Staff

In the dawn of pop-punk-boy bands, one siren refuses to take a back seat and let the boys have all of the fun. Juliette Lewis, probably better known for her obscure acting career, and her band The Licks, is ready to jump in front of any crowd and show them what rock ‘n’ roll is all about. Lewis’stage presence is like lightening. With her overthe-top stage presence and outfits inspired by comic book heroes and David Lee Roth, Lewis bares a cocky snarl and welcomes the sweat as she slithers across the stage. Last week, Juliette and the Licks made a quick stop at the Anaheim House of Blues to open for International Noise Conspiracy and Turbonegro. Although the crowd was predominantly there for the headliners, Lewis is confident that her band was able to win a few fans that night.

“We’ve been like the opener band so our shows have been hilarious because it’s mainly International Noise Conspiracy and Turbonegro’s audience,” Lewis said. “It’s been great. I love trying to win people over and we’ve been to Europe like three times this year and played all these festivals so I’m used to a strange crowd. I think it was a good show. It was a good crowd for us.”

Juliette and the Licks haven’t made it into the mainstream yet, but the audience continues to grow through word of mouth and the bands persistent touring schedule.

“We get hecklers and I love hecklers,” Lewis said. “I love any kind of energy. I’m really cocky about my band and our live show so I’m fearless out on stage. They realize ‘Wow, this is a good band.’”

Lewis flirted with the idea of music for a while before she finally decided it should become a reality.

Her taste in music is diverse and she has her father to thank for getting her into rock ‘n’ roll.

“When I was nine years old, driving with my dad running errands,” Lewis said. “He would play The Who, not early Who, but like ‘80s Who, and he would do like drum solos on the steering wheel.

He would play Steely Dan and years later I ended up buying those CDs and listening to all of my dad’s music.”

With so many other actors leaving Hollywood for the music industry – see Jared Leto with 30 Seconds to Mars and Keanu Reeves with Dogstar, among countless others – the real question is, why?

“Ever since I was a kid I wanted to be a performer and connect with an audience, and for me I thought of performing in three parts – drama, music, and performance art,” Lewis said. “When I did acting I

always felt really incomplete because I’m only doing part of this.

Performances I get off on are like David Lee Roth, Iggy Pop, Grace Jones, Mick Jagger, Patty Smyth…and Blondie.”

Being in a band and making music is more than just a side-project for Lewis. With the release of the bands EP …Like a Bolt of Lightning, and then the release of their fulllength, You’re Speaking My Language, Juliette and the Licks packed up their bus and went out on tour, even struggling through the vigorous Vans Warped Tour, to prove just how serious they are.

“That’s why I put my name in the title ...

To define me,” Lewis said. “I wasn’t going to pretend to be invisible and act like ‘No, this is just a band.’ I’m proud of where I came from.”

Lewis has never been afraid of critics coming to her shows and welcomes reviews whether they are positive or negative.

“Judgment doesn’t bother me and I think it’s funny because they come in with really low expectations, so we can’t help but to win because if your expectations are that we are going to just suck and be the worst band in the world, and then we’re not, it’s exciting,” Lewis said. “I wish there wouldn’t be preconceived things, or if we had a clean slate but that’s just not what it is and I look at things in a positive light no matter what.”

Since the album’s release in May 2005, the band hasn’t stopped touring, remaining focused on writing for their next album.

“Right now we do have songs that we’re working on, different guitar riffs that I like and I’ll work on the melody and lyrics,” Lewis said. “They usually make a CD for me then I write on the road and sometimes we’ll flush out a song during a sound check.”

Even though the band loves touring and performing for an audience, they do manage to have a little fun in their downtime.

“We go out and find things for our significant others,” Lewis said.

“If we have a day off in a town we’ll go walk down the street and look at shops or we’ll sleep in if we get a hotel room that night because we’re normally on the bus. We’re with each other all of the time, like

ABOVE: Juliette and the Licks play at the HOB Anaheim LEFT: Juliette Lewis is inspired by David Lee Roth.

RIGHT: Lewis uses dramatics. (Photo by Photo by Aaron D. Settipane, myracleworks.com)

my own band of brothers, and they all miss their girlfriends back home.

None of us are single now and it’s wired because when you’re single you can sometimes feel a kind of emptiness because you want to be connected to someone, so it’s a Catch 22 because when you’re connected with someone, you miss them and want to be with them like crazy. I think it’s good always when you’re in love.”

With a ton of real-world experience under her belt, Lewis draws inspiration from just about every extension of her life for her lyrics. “‘Pray for the Band Latoya’” was from a waitress in Tennessee named Latoya, who literally offered to pray for me,” Lewis said.

“I swear I could have started crying because her eyes were filled with such generosity and goodness.”

Since Lewis is new to the music business, she’s started to feel the time element weigh down on her work.

“Not having enough time in the studio – that’s hard but it’s good in a way because it forces you to just create in the moment and live with what you get,” Lewis said. “For the next record I want a little more time to play with the mixing and be more adventurous. The other thing is that

you’re physically on the road, like we were for two full months out of the states, and it can be taxing being away from home. Thankfully we really love each other and we really like what we’re doing.”

With their debut album on store shelves and the touring life becoming a little easier, Juliette and the Licks are now on their way to a more mainstream arena by making music videos.

“In the U.K. we did the video for ‘You’re Speaking my Language’and it was in a club with us being the underdog band and showing our energy onstage,” Lewis said. “It was really fun but I realized that I am a horrible lip-syncher.”

For now, Lewis is focused on her live show and winning over crowds one audience member at a time. When the band steps out onstage, Lewis admits the band members only have one thought on their minds: “Shake it up.”

“Sometimes I’m so filled with excitement and adrenaline and it’s really just about being with the band, our band vibe, love, like before the show we are rowdy and push each other around and our single thought is always just to shake it up and move the crowd,” Lewis said. “That’s always what it’s about

and some people get into it right away and they are just yours and it’s really exciting, but other crowds are more sedate and then I become more obnoxious, which I’m trying to work on.”

Since Lewis plans on keeping with the band, she’s setting aside her acting for now.

“I love acting in [another] way,” Lewis said. “It’s more of a solitary creative process. It’s much different. Music is probably more fulfilling because it requires a lot of things. It’s every part of my expression from the cover art of the album to the lyrics, melodies, guitar solos and the band. All of these things I have a hand in. It’s really personal and also pressure filled for that reason.”

Although Lewis’s energy has been tapped this past year, she’s looking forward to another album and more tours.

“Keeping it all going is hard,” Lewis said. “I don’t do movies as much because I’m really wanting to see this music thing through and I want to get to the next record and each thing is like a challenge and test of my will. As long as I have energy and the drive to do it, I’ll do it. Some days you just want to sleep in though, and do nothing.”

MUSIC

REVIEWS

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Long Beach explodes with sound

By AMANDA PENNINGTON Daily Titan Entertainment Editor

Anyone who hasn’t seen the Foo Fighters in concert needs to. The band embraced its grunge roots and made it clear from the start of itsOct. 23 set that it meant rock ‘n’ roll business at the Long Beach Convention Center.

Rewind to 7 p.m., and the few audience members who arrived early got to see Hot Hot Heat and frontman Steve Bays, with his curly mop, bounce around stage with fervent energy. The sad part was that because the tickets clearly said the doors open at 7:30 p.m., people were trickling in as the band was already halfway through its set.

A suggestion to combat this evergrowing and alarming trend: Please let fans, who paid upwards of $40 – upwards – know what time the acts will start performing. After all, isn’t that the point of going to a concert? That aside, the openers played an amusing set and hopefully the kids who came to see them got there early.

Next came Weezer – ah, Weezer.

Some of us who have known Weezer since the first time Buddy Holly played on the radio – and remain fans, despite the newest album – BELOW: Rivers Cuomo croons as the Long Beach Convention Center crowd screamed and pumped their fists during crowd-pleasers.

RIGHT: Dave Grohl shows his true rock ‘n’ roller status. Grohl took advantage of the entire stage, running around, soliciting audience participation and headbanging during the show.

FAR RIGHT ABOVE: Vocalist/keboardist Steve Bays interacts with the audience during Hot Hot Heat’s set, making his red afro bounce to the beat.

FAR RIGHT BELOW: Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo and bassist Scott Shriner play in unison.

(Photos by Jamie Flanagan/Daily Titan)

have a certain sadness for new fans who only recently embarked on the Weezer journey. For the fans whose favorite song is “Beverly Hills,” I personally apologize.

That being said, Weezer is an uber-talented band, with crazy quirks, as frontman Rivers Cuomo displayed as he jerked his body uncomfortably around the stage. The band played well and perhaps was more in tune with each other than on past tours, but still lacked the dynamic stage presence of the surrounding acts. Nonetheless, shrieks of delight spewed from the crowd as the band played songs of a decade ago, as well as the new ones.

Bassist Scott Shriner shined during the set, keeping the band on key and making oh-so-pretty harmonies.

The grand finale, the ultimate encore was Foo Fighters. This band is successful, not only because of the grinding guitars and heavy drums, but because each guy makes it seem like he’s everyone’s friend. Dave Grohl, in between burps, began to shoot the shit with the audience.

With Grohl’s affinity for rockstardom, the band can do no wrong.

The evening came to a close with a stellar encore, warranting continued screams and chants from an excited crowd.

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Scott Shriner plucks on his bass behind the elaborate backdrop onstage. The band played classics like “Buddy Holly” and “Undone – The Sweater Song,” and showed more camaraderie than in past tours.

MUSIC

Say hello to HelloGoodbye

By CHRISTINA SCHROETER Daily Titan Staff

Hundreds of high schoolers broke curfew to line up for HelloGoodbye’s midnight show at the Knitting Factory in Los Angeles.

Outside, the line wrapped around two corners, and never inched forward.

Backstage, the band dodged MTV cameramen and fuzzy microphones on sticks to get a few minutes of privacy. But it’s a reality show, they didn’t have privacy.

The band members ran around Los Angeles all day with microphones strapped to their tight pants and cameras hovering over their shoulders, and they were exhausted.

“I’m going to pass out any second,” HGB’s lead singer/guitarist Forrest Kline said as he unloaded equipment from the band’s van.

Just before 11 p.m., MTV officials ordered HGB affiliates to exit the backstage area and enter the venue through the front entrance.

HGB performed with pop-punk band Over It for MTV2’s “Dew Circuit Breakout,” a reality show that will air in November.

The contest could be the band’s next big break into the MTV world if it wins. Although the band has already been featured on “The Real World: Austin,” this is the chance to further the band’s professional career.

Just before midnight, HGB walked onstage one by one. Some of the crowd cheered as each set up equipment. Others scoped out the booty shorts and fanny packs for sale. Although the band is unusually energetic, Kline explained the band’s rough day to the crowd.

“Our heels are tired and our spirits are weakened,” Kline said. “I’m going to be tired, just act like you guys are having fun.”

The crowd doesn’t have to act,

and not Kline – nor anyone in the band – acted the least bit fatigued.

During the set, Jesse Kurvink whipped his brown mop around while tickling his keyboard’s plastics and shuffling his feet.

Marcus Cole rocked large red headphones DRIVE-THRU RECORDS while plucking at his bass guitar. Chris HelloGoodbye films a reality show for MTV. Profeta’s springy afro bounced with every dynamic comparison,” Kline said. “And drum beat. HGB’s merch seller, there are some songs that are more Steve Castillo, hopped onstage in organic and classic sounding. But I a poncho, squirting fans (without guess they’re all still love songs.”

The band is working on its first avoiding MTV video cameras) with a Super Soaker. Kline energetically full-length album and touring with played each of HGB’s classic-pop- bands like The All-American Rerock songs and passionately voiced jects and Limbeck, but the HGB boys are some of the most down his love life in the lyrics.

Kline began HGB by digitally to earth guys around, even though creating songs on the PC in his they’re rising to a world of fame, room and singing along very shy- and getting recognized in public.

“It’s always kind of uncomly.

“A lot of that was that I was liv- fortable,” Kline said. “You’ll see ing with my parents at the time re- somebody and they’ll give you that cording in my bedroom, singing all weird look like, ‘I know you, who quiet and weird so I wouldn’t wake are you?’ and then you’re like, ‘Oh crap, do I know this person?’ and them up,” Kline said.

After recording and rerecord- it’s scary. I hope I don’t sound like a ing in his bedroom, HGB, who pretentious jerk-head nowadays.”

After playing some pop gems recently signed with Drive-Thru Records, is getting its first taste of like “Bonnie Taylor Shakedown,” studio recording for an album due and “Call and Return,” HGB played newer songs like “Dear Jaout in March.

“I’m working out of a home mie…Sincerely Me” and a Hawaistudio with Matt Mahaffey [of the ian-guitar-style love-song, which band Self], who is one of my big- will released on the new album.

When the venue shut the sound gest musical idols, so the vibe is ... similar to the way I’ve always done off on the bands and the fans at the it,” Kline says. “But ... we’re mak- end of the night, it was evident that the guys were exhausted, but they ing something permanent here.”

The not-yet-titled album will still hung out onstage to sign autographs and give fans sweaty hugs. boast a wide spectrum of songs.

The fans say “goodbye,” but this “There are some songs that are real synthesized and, you know, is only the beginning. HelloGood‘80s-ish, if you must draw that- bye is just starting to say, “Hello.”

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Concert Calendar Fri. Oct. 28, 6:30 p.m.

Strung Out House of Blues Hollywood Sat. Oct. 29 6:15 p.m.

Danzig with Doyle Universal CityWalk Universal City Sat. Oct 29 6:30 p.m.

KROQ presents Waking the Dead with Suicidal Tendencies – The Germs – Fear Grand Olympic Auditorium Los Angeles Sun. Oct. 30 7 p.m.

Priest Feast – Judas Priest and Rob Zombie Long Beach Arena – Long Beach Convention Center Sun. Oct. 30 8 p.m.

Cypress Hill House of Blues Hollywood Sun. Oct. 30 The 88 Coach House – Capistrano San Juan Capistrano Mon. Oct. 31 6:30 p.m.

The Roots House of Blues Hollywood Tues. Nov. 1 – 2 7:30 p.m.

U2 STAPLES Center Los Angeles Wed. Nov. 2 Pete Yorn and Friends Troubador West Hollywood

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Flashback Favorite

Elvira still entices Before she was Elvira she was Cassandra Peterson – a beautiful red-head with big ambitions, As night falls upon Oct. 31, which led her to stardom as a neighborhoods are decorated showgirl in Las Vegas, recording with jack-o-lanterns, scarecrows artist for an Italian rock band, and gravestones, and the freaky a writer and actress. In 1981, creatures called trick-or-treaters the birth of Elvira catapulted roam the streets in search of her into the horror history candy. Halloween is a holibooks. She became one day that, aside from birthof the biggest Halloween days and Christmas, kids icons around on comic enjoy. books, movies, action figEvery year, after going ures, video games and TV door-to-door, I separated spots. She was a model my candy and watched and spokesperson for “Elvira’s Halloween Coors Beer and PepsiSpecial.”

Cola products. She She was amazeven had a designer ingly beautiful, perfume called Evil. goth and had fans Peterson is also a from every walk of PETA-award winning life, even ones like animal rights activist. me who didn’t like Elvira’s prowess horror flicks. Her long still inspires people to black bee-hived hair, formMark Pierson dress up like her, making-fitting dress, eye-catching hers one of the besting cleavage, sensual eyes and selling costumes. Although Pelips were sexy; men wanted her terson hasn’t been doing movies and women wanted to be her, at since her 2002 “Haunted Hills” least on Halloween. and my trick-or-treating days are She wasn’t only alluring, she over, Elvira will always be the was also funny. quintessential Halloween icon.

By LISAJOYCE VERGARA Daily Titan Staff

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX

Henry Lethem (Ryan Gosling) walks away from a fiery car crash on an eerily deserted Brooklyn Bridge in “Stay.”

‘Stay’ away from this movie

By ERIC SANDERS Daily Titan Staff

In the world of psychological thrillers, there is only black and white. When done properly, like in “The Silence of the Lambs” or “The Sixth Sense,” thrillers are engaging and suspenseful. When made poorly, like “Vanilla Sky” or “The Butterfly Effect,” they are dreadful and hard to watch.

“Stay” sadly falls into the latter; sad because of the its potential with director Marc Forster (“Monster’s Ball” and “Finding Neverland”) and actors like Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts.

The problem is the film raises questions about the story and characters and never provides any answers.

That’s the crap-shoot when going to a movie about the human psyche and the limbo between “reality and

illusion, life and death.” Instead of creating a suspenseful dreamlike thriller, it accomplished a passedout-on-the-floor-snore.

The plot, or lack thereof, revolves around Henry Letham (Ryan Gosling), a disturbed and suicidal college student majoring in fine arts, who seeks the assistance of psychiatrist Sam Foster (Ewan McGregor).

The dialogue between them predictably returns back to discussions of high-faluten art or psychoanalysis, which begins to stink over time.

The redundant psycho babble makes it seem like viewers are sitting through a therapy session without the benefit of any therapy or prescription meds – both which could have been helpful after the movie was over.

The only positive aspect of the movie is the creative camera work, creepy transitions and choppy edits, which add suspense to the visuals.

Images morph and blend into one another like a Salvador Dalí painting or an upside-down staircase, reminiscent of an M.C. Escher drawing; they only add to the realization that the movie lacks a storyline.

Lila Culpepper (Naomi Watts) is a hopelessly depressed painter – enter more pretentious art-talk – who has also tried to kill herself and is filled with self doubt about her work.

Her boyfriend tries to make her feel better with profound dialogue like: “The world will remember you.

Now take your clothes off.”

The end of the movie thankfully comes after irrelevant storytelling and pointless plot jumping, making viwers wish “Stay” would just stay in one place. It never really comes together unless it’s all coming apart in this heaping pile of thriller.

Audiences should take the hint of the title and stay at home and wait for this one to come out on video.