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Music Reviews Wakeland “Magnetic” Giant Records Grade: C+ Power pop is a field that seems to be left alone right now. Whether it’spunk or metal, it’sstill not power pop. Wakeland tries to bring power pop back on its debut album, “Mag netic.” The problcnT-with power pop, however, is keeping the listener’s undivided attention. “Magnetic” has that problem, too. A full album of power pop has got to have good hooks and strong vocal melodics to keep the listener 1 istening. Only a few songs get both of those points. “Don’t Worry (Star Song),” “Half OfYou” and “Falling Again,” which are the first three songs on the album, capture all of the best aspects of the album. The rest of it just kind of blends into a blur of music. Not to say it isn’t pleasant listening, just that it all kind of slides together with noth ing distinct. Everything else on the album becomes background music, not reaehing^utaTnd graBBing,but slid ing across, like oil on water, with out making an impact. A lot of Hash and no substance, “Magnetic” simply isn’t, or listen ers are non-ferrous. Ian Moore “Modernday Folklore” Capricorn Records Grade: C Ian Moore wants the ’60s back, it’s plain to see. “Modernday Folklore” stumbles between the folk aspects ofthe ’60s to the basic blue oriented rock. Some of his best stuff on “Modernday Folklore” is short, like the gentle “Daggers” which is al most two whole minutes long. When he carries on too long, such as in “Today” or “Lie,” he tends to me ander too much to get the point of the song across. The album spans a bit too much music for my liking. One moment he’s playing slide blues, the next he’s attempting to bring crashing electric rock in and then he changes to just him and a simple acoustic guitar. “Modernday Folklore” tries to encompass an entire era in the pe riod of an hour. One docs not span 10 years of music in an hour, at least, not well. Moore’s pacing also lends to fail, occasionally, with his songs feeling as if t hey were jay ecjQur_ minutes before they were, or that they just started when they end. “Modernday Folklore” is some thing to listen to in a store and see i f you enjoy before you buy, but chances are, you’ll pass. —Cliff Hicks i —Cliff Hicks I DOUGLAS THEATRES 1 Movie Info: 441-0222 Call for Showtimes! 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Lincoln COMPLIMENTARY l£M«III-< TMHOUOH ICilJANAS tj *| ’ ’ " Undergrad art makes impression By Patrick Hambrecht Senior Reporter Wild, unfettered talent has been wrenched and squeezed out of young artists by the UNL Art Department and is now on display at the Annual Under graduate Exhibition in Richards Hall. Brad Callon won the Jean R. Faulkner Memorial Award for his“Self Portrait on a Chair,” a sketchy painting of nervous, bright-orange and red brush strokes. The quick lines of the painting seem to twitch independently, while the work dares the viewer to surmount the distance between its enigmatic image and the artist. Callon said the painting was just part of the slow journey needed to discover himself as an artist. “I think you need to know yourself before you can start working on other things,” Callon said. He spent most of last semester painting his own image. “Last semester I found out what I wasn’t, more than anything else,” Callon said. “1 found out I wasn’t half i-- --- as dark and depressing as I thought I was. I’m still trying to figure out who the hell I am.” Gallon said his search for self-iden tity had provided no easy answers for his artwork. “It made me scatter artistically all over the place to try and find some thing I want to do for a while.” Nate Wedergren said he had tried a different sort of self-analysis in his work, as seen in his painting “Untitled X,” done after he fell and smashed his head on cement. “Last September, I fell off a railing in my apartment and hit the pave ment,” Wedergren said. “It ruptured an artery above my ear.” Wenderen said the injury had af fected his art work. “A lot of my paintings have been head-injury pictures,and it’sbasically about what stuffs been like, nausea and everything else.” Wedergren said. “A lot of them kind of cut off right across the nose.” The accident victim said he painted only some of his head to represent the dimensions of his injury. An especially strong showing of photography helped make the show a success, including works by Stephanie Lehman, Heather Phillips and Melissa Borman. Borman’s “Untitled” is an insight into the boredom and listless melan choly of college town culture: a dirty glass table displaying an empty ciga rette package, an ugly out-of-season Halloween decoration and an empty bottle of alcohol. Through the windows on each side of the table, a blunted view of the crammed cheap houses and white emp t incss of a Nebraska winter captures succinctly the slow drag of a mini mum-wage college town. Comparable to the exciting work of local Rob Walters, Borman is one to watch. Art fans planning to see the show should visit before the exhibition’s closing date of March 21. The gallery is open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. If your cholesterol level is over 200, you could be at risk for heart disease. See your doctor. 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