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By Chad Lorenz
Staff Reporter
Seven bands rocking out at Broyhill Fountai
will capture the attention of the entire planet
Saturday.
PlanetPalooza — featuring national acts
Dead Hot Workshop and Universal Honey,
Lincoln-born regional band Mercy Rule and
local bands Heroes and Villains, For Against,
Cloey and Blaster — is set to shake UNL for
more than eight hours.
The University Program Council, the
Residence Hall Association and 104 One The
Planet will sponsor the free marathon concert,
expected to draw up to 2,000 students and 4,00(
concertgoers total.
The show starts at 2 p.m. with Blaster. Merc;
Rule will play at 4:30, following Cloey and
Heroes and Villains. Dead Hot Workshop will
take the stage at 7:30, after For Against:
Universal Honey plays last, at 9.
Sophia John, a radio announcer at the Planet
said the show would be a unique opportunity to
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‘There’s never any free entertainment in this
city,” she said.
John said DaVinci’s will provide free food
and said the show will be competitive with othe
concerts like the
HOARD tour and
EdgeFest, which
cost $15 to $30,
John said.
She said
PlanetPalooza also
will expose
Lincoln to some
great bands.
“Lincoln is one
of the hottest up-and-coming music scenes,” she
said.
Jon laylor, guitarist
1 for Mercy Rule, said
the show would
promote the band’s
name.
‘There’s a lot of
people who haven’t
heard us yet, so we
hope to reach them,”
Taylor said.
The band will play
new songs they’re
planning to record for a
new album, he said, but
concertgoers should
' expect the signature
Mercy Rule sound.
It s the same loud,
messy rock we’ve been playing for two years.
It’s going to be a blast,” Taylor said.
John said Mercy Rule, now on Relativity
records, was an example of a quality band
working its way to the top.
‘They’ve taken steps a lot of other bands
haven’t been able to take,” she said.
Dead Hot Workshop, a band from Tempe,
r Ariz., has toured in New York and Los Angeles
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The band also will conduct an interview and
an acoustic set on the Planet at 5 p.m.
Universal Honey, a band from Toronto,
comes heralding the release of its debut album,
“Magic Basement.”
Alert magazine described the female-fronted
group as “a guitar-smart, pop-rock quartet.”
They have opened for the Goo Goo Dolls, Big
Audio Dynamite and Moist.
Universal Honey’s interview and acoustic set
will broadcast at 2 p.m.
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John said For
Against was a part of
the Lincoln scene’s
musical beginnings.
“They were one of
the first original
bands on the local
scene,” she said.
Heroes and
Villains recently was
honored by playing
at a college music
seminar in New York,
John said.
Lincoln band
Cloey, fronted by
Hurricane Manager
Troy “Bubba” Way,
will contribute its up-beat funk to
PlanetPalooza.
“We like to call it alternative groove,” Way
said.
He said he thought the free show would be a
great way to get a lot of younger college kids
into the Lincoln music scene.
“I’m not in it for the money,” Way said. “I
just want people to hear our music.”
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Courtesy of Warner Bros.
Uttle Texas members, top row from left, Porter Howell,
Dwayne 0 Brlen and Tim Rushlow. Bottom row from left,
Duane Propes, Jeff Huskins and Del Gray.
Little Texas kicks off a hot country line-uo
By Jeff Randall
Senior Reporter " ~
The Nebraska State Fair has assembled a
lineup of country music’s finest for a series of
concerts that should be enough to satisfy even
the hardest-to-please audiences.
The first group of concerts at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center features nightly shows,
tonight through Tuesday.
Little Texas will open the series at the
Devaney tonight at 7:30. Touring in support of
its third album, “Kick a Little,” Little Texas is
one of country music’s hottest groups.
The band’s first two albums have been
outstanding successes, resulting in a number of
Top 10 singles and sales of 1.9 million copies
for both albums.
Two of country music’s most popular
songwriters — and its top performing duo —
Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, take the stage
Saturday night.
Famous for their powerful writing and unre
strained honky-tonk music, Brooks and Dunn
are currently supporting their third album,
“Waitin’ On Sundown.”
The duo’s credits include eight No. 1 singles,
the Country Music Association’s 1994 Vocal
Duo of the Year award and a 1994 Grammy for
Best Performance by a Duo or Group with
Vocal.
Ricky Van Shelton will hit the stage Sunday
night aspne of this year’s fair’s most seasoned
country artists.
Since his debut in 1986, Van Shelton has
recorded eight albums, including 13 hit singles.
His music has garnered him a number of
awards, including the TNN/Music City News
Awards’ Entertainer of the Year and Male
Artist of the Year honors for two consecutive
years in 1990 and 1991.
Van Shelton is currently touring in support
of “Love and Honor.”
Clint Black, one of country music’s top solo
artists, will perform on Monday night. Black’s
soulful vocal style and distinctive songwriting
abilities have propelled him to the top of the
country music charts.
Black’s first three albums sold more than 6
million copies worldwide, and his fourth al
bum, “No Time to Kill,” was a platinum-plus
sales success that produced five Billboard chart
topping singles. His fifth album, “One Emo
tion,” is due for release on Oct. 4.
Mary Chapin Carpenter caps off the first
round of concerts at the Devaney Tuesday
night. Carpenter has made the transition from
critically acclaimed artist to multi-platinum
star and multiple-Grammy Award winner
within the past eight years, and is now one of
country music’s top draws.
Carpenter’s 1992 release, “Come On Come
On,” remained in the Top 100 Best Selling
Recordings in the United States for more than
two years and sold nearly 2.5 million copies.
Her fifth album for Columbia Records, “Stones
in the Road,” continues her established reputa
tion as an emotional and consistently strong
songwriter.
Kathy Mattea, Merle Haggard, Pam Tillis,
Aaron Tippin and Nitty Gritty Dirt Band round
out this year’s fair concerts.