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WP Lilith Fair compilation dehuts today By Jim Zavodny Staff Reporter Women and men alike will cele brate today the release of the first Lilith Fair compilation album, titled “Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music.” The album is a double disc set and features live perfor mances from last summer’s extreme ly successful all-female arena tour. A few of the many artists included are: Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, Victoria Williams, Suzanne Vega and the Indigo Girls. The Dave Matthews Band puts out its newest full-length album today. “Before These Crowded Streets” follows in thefootsteps of its multi-platinum collection, “Crash.” A quartet of rap albums being released include new stuff from Big Daddy Kane, Big Punisher, W.C. and the “He Got Game” Soundtrack, which features Public Enemy on a majority of the album’s tracks. New Releases: April 28,1998 Big Daddy Kane: “Veteranz Day” (Blackheart/Mercury) id fF&®&hs^.rtists: “Black Dog” Soundtrack (Decca) Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer Band: “Carnival” (Margaritaville/Island) Bill Cosby: “I Started Out as a Child;” “Revenge;” “To Russell, My Brother, Who I Slept With;” “Why Is There Air?” and “Wonderfulness” (Warner Archives) Various Artists: “ESPN’s ExtremejGames” (Mammoth) |el!fi»son Airplane: “Live at the FilfmoreEast” (RCA) Various Artists: “Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music” (Arista) Steve Martin: “Comedy Is Not Pretty” (Warner Archives) Dave Matthews Band: “Before These Crowded Streets” (RCA) The Monkees: “Hey, Hey We’re the Monkees” (Rhino) Stevie Nicks: “Enchanted: The Works of” (Modem/Atlantic) Peter, Paul and Mary: “Around the Campfire” (Warner Bros.) Public Enemy: “He Got Game” Soundtrack (Def Jam/Mercury) Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Lyve” (CMC Int’l) W.C.: “The Shadiest” (Payday/firr/London) Finley cancels performances From Staff Reports The performances of Kafen Finley, a performance artist who was scheduled to perform her latest work, “An American Chestnut,” this week end at the Wagon Train Project, have been canceled. The performances were sched uled for tonight and Wednesday night at 7:30. A spokesman from the Wagon Train Project said they are working to reschedule the perfor mances, but no new dates have been set as of yet. t\ For more information about tick ets or new dates, contact the Wagon Train Project a£(402) 435-5592. WILLIAM McMULLEN, an associate professor of oboe at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, will perform tonight at Kimball Recital Hall. McMullen’s recital had to be rescheduled because of a March snowstorm. t ff—Wm By Barb'^BKchill Assignment Reporter Sometimes, getting snowed out will improve your performance. Or so William McMullen, associate professor of oboe at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, hopes. McMullen was originally scheduled to give his oboe recital on March 8. However, 13 inches of snow made getting to Kimball Recital Hall a little difficult. So McMullen, undaunted, rescheduled his recital for tonight. ; Doing a recital during Dead Week has proved to be a bit of a scheduling nightmare, McMullen said. “It’s not as if I have nothing to do,” he said. “There was the (Lincoln) Symphony concert last night. And tonight we have another rehearsal, because of the (symphony’s) conductor search. “And, of course, I still have my full teaching load, so this has proved to be a lot of extra work. But I think it’s worth it.” Keeping the repertoire current has proven to be advantageous, McMullen said. “We’re planning to record a compact disc in the next few weeks with much of the same material,” lie said: “(The delay) may actually haye helped.” -;r McMullen’s recital is subtitled “Twentieth Century British Music for Oboe.” McMullen came by his interest in British music naturally, because his family visited Great Britain during his father’s sabbatical while McMullen was in high school. McMullen spent last semester in London research ing and performing the material he will perform during this evening’s concert. McMullen will play Herbert Howells’ “Sonata” for oboe and piano, Gordon Jacob’s “Seven Bagatelles” for solo oboe, Lennox Berkeley’s “Sonatina” for oboe and piano and Richard Rodney Bennett’s “After Syrinx 1” for oboe and piano. McMullen’s piano accompanist for this recital will be his wife, Catherine Herbener. Howells’ “Sonata” was composed in 1942 for famed British oboist Leon Goosens. Goosens apparently didn’t like it very much, McMullen said, and foigot about it completely. “We wouldn’t have this piece except for Christopher Palmer,” McMullen said. “Palmer rediscovered this piece in 1978, well over 30 years after it had been composed. It’s good for (oboists’) repertoire that he found it, because it’s a great piece.” Jacob’s “Seven Bagatelles” also has been per formed mft€quenfly;%^MuHeh sqid. “Jacob wrote five pieces for oboe and key"- : board, one oboe quartet and one piece for solo oboe. They are all fine works, but I like this one the • best,” he said. Bennett’s “After Syrinx 1” was inspired by the much more famous flute solo “Syrinx” by French impressionist composer Claude Debussy. In order to better show the delineation between pieces, UNL flute professor John Bailey will play “Syrinx” off stage with minimal lighting. Then the lights will be turned back up, and McMullen and Herbener will immediately follow with “After Syrinx 1.” “We just thought this up (Monday),” McMullen said. “It’s something new and different to do.” Doing this recital now is worth it, McMullen said, even though he had intended-to have this recital over with by now, because the music is so valuable. “I enjoy playing recital literature that hasn’t been heard before,” McMullen said. “It’s an educa tional experience for the students and for the gener al public. They’ve never heard this music before, and they should enjoy it ” McMullen’s recital will be held tonight at 8 in Kimball Recital Hall. Admission is free. Massacre melds ’60s rock, no-nonsense show By Jason Hardy Senior Reporter The Brian Jonestown Massacre is a spooky band. Consider this: In 1969 Rolling Stones founder and member Brian Jones drowned indie swimming pool of his home, which was previously owned by die author of “Winnie the Pooh.” Almost 10 years later, Jim Jones led several hundred people into a mass sui cide by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid in a jungle. In 1989, yet another 10 years later, Anton Newcombe founded the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Tonight die band will bring its suici dal style of mid-’60s rock ’n’ roll to Dufly’s Tavern, 14120 St, as the last date on its spring ’98 “Get Your Love” tour The band’s spooky ambiance is rid dled with legends of shows gone horri bly awry. Common stories include tales ofst^es abandonedaftertheband’s second song because the bassist left to go to the bathroom, and stories of onstage physical fights that led to the entire band being thrown out of then own gig by bouncers. For some reason chaos seems to ensue quite easily with this band. Maybe that’s why they’ve had more than 60 people join and tove the band in its 10-year existence, melatest being a drummer who left die band after a show in London a few weeks ago. Joel Giom, tambourine player for BJM, said the group enlisted the drum mer from current tourmates Swoon 23 to finish the tour. He said the first few performances were pretty sketchy. “No practicing; he just jumped in and did it,” Giom said. He said the drummer they had was a hired gun of sorts, and Giom expected he wouldn’t last “He doesn’t drink much.” Oftheir makeshift drummer, Marty Smith, Giom said he is more the band’s Style. _ ftiS!-»o/av-8u,rnoa{9fl8.w»-¥. “Great guy; drinks like a fish.” Despite the constant juggling of members and the band’s self-destruc tive nature, Giom said members are still able to pull things together for honest live performances. Not an easy task with six strong-willed musicians on stage at one time. “We’re all different planets that gravitate around the same sun,” Giom said. “We’re very much into music and thflt’k the main thing “If people want a no-bullshit, no nonsense type of show, we’re it” Giom said being totally honest isn’t always glamorous, but it is always real. “It’s within you,” Giom said. “If you’re tired, you’re tired. If you’re sad, you're sad “It’s about what you believe in and what gives you purpose. Nobody’s going to be Elvis every day ofthe week.” In keeping with its morbid theme of disheveled celebrities whoVe thrown it all away, BJM plans on releasing its seventh album and major label debut, “Strung out in Heaven,” in early May. Giom said the new album is a com pilation of tunes that lack a central thane, much like the band itself. “This is more of just a collection of songs put together to get this first album out,” Giom said. “There are more conceptual things in the making.” The new album is said to be a much cleaner recording, and all but two songs are new. The band will release a new EP in about five months. For now, Giom said he is anxious to play in Lincoln tonight because “it’s always cool to go somewhere new.” Of course he’s not entirely sure that his is BJM’s first trip to Nebraska. “I tend to go through tours in one drunken blur.” First time or not, Giom had a simple message for Lincoln residents who have the chance to take part in tonight’s weirdness. “Dig he revolution, baby.” Tonight’s concert begins at 10 and _ has a $4 cover charge, ayn-su ueo rea sm w