20 - North Shore News — Friday, May 19, 2000 Riotorrris turn it up From Page 16 the album in Searde. The ciotgrerl singer-song- writer and the cast coast punker have fashioned a very personal document out of their long-distance collabora- tion. Mafteo began her career as a DJ on Olympia, Washington’s KAOS-FM plaving feminist punk rock as host of the show Your Dreani Girl. Over the past decade she’s worked in both electric and acoustic settings, blurzing the lines between rock and folk. Bush’s Encyclopedia lists Matico’s 1995 CD Bet the Sky, on Olympia’s K Records, in its “Great Records Not to Miss”. On the new one, Maffeo and Canty rely on sparse instrumentation to showcase the melodic gems. @ *xkxkx Sleater-Kinney — All Hands on the Bad One (Kilt Rock Stars). Passionate, intense rock and roll has come to be expected from this all-female trio from Olympia and Portland. Sleater-Kinney keep on moving to greater and greater heights. Two of their earlier CDs (Call the Doctor and Dig Me Ont) topped critics’ lists as among the best records of the "90s and their new one Ail Hands on the Bad Onc, may be ae best, work to date, parently some people can’t get into Corin Tucker's edgy vibrato vocal style but that's their problem. Witnessing her vocal and gui- tar trade-ofis with Carrie ‘. Brownstein is about as thrilling as music gets these days. Turn it up. @ *«% The Rockfords — The Rockfords (Enic). Sleater-Kinney’s producer John Goodmanson finds him- self in a much different world with The Rockfords, ostensi- bly a side-project of Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready. Members of the band Goodness (including vocalist Carrie Akre) join McCready in this awkward attempt at histrionic rock. Some of the tunes are winners (“Silver Lining”, “Adelaide”) but most of the material is too derivative and formulaic. Nancy Wilson guest vocals on one track and Pear! Jam completisis will want to check out the band’s version of “Distress” on these otherwise forgettable sessions. @ xkk* Wayne Horvitz and Zony Mash — Upper Egypt (Knitting Factory Records, Seattle keyboardist Wayne Horvitz plays different types of music in different settings. He's a charter member of John Zorn’s Naked City group as well as several ‘other ongoing ensembles. For his own instrumental funk outfit he pays homage to New Orleans’ Meters by taking the name Zony Mash from one of their songs. The quartet revolves around the sound of the Hammond B-3 organ with guitar, bass and drums filling out the groove. Most of the tunes on the new disc were written by Horvitz except “Big Shoe” by Bill Frisell and the title track which comes from Pharoah Sanders’ 1966 album Tanhid. The band dedicates their version of “Upper Egypt” te Sanders’ innovative guitar plaver Sonny Sharrock. While Horvitz pays his respects to jazz history every chance he gets he also takes music off in new directions. Follow him there. Pacific pop: Wet & Wired STEADFAST and faithful Pacific Northwesterners, we have much to be proud of. We live in, and fove, a place of gourmet coffee and microbrews, rain- forests, thinking green, White Spot and Sarah McLachlan. And for those who need to know more, Randy Hodgins and Steve McLellan have compiled it all for you in Wer and Wired: A Pop Culture Eneyelopedin of the Pacific Nortinwest. From the obvious (Starbucks, Microsoft and Frasier) to the obscure — KIRO televi- i Patches show — this compendium of B.C., Washington and Oregon state facts is interesting, entertaining, and for you, constant locals, indispensable. — Deana Lancaster ‘Celebrating. the Young at Art Pee a oe * ell ekalines ter ee ‘280- 444g. _ Z bE “sider on: tine at www. ticketmastér.ca, Visit ur webs ie at www: yourigarts: ca