Dance company brings millennium piece to Lied DANCE from page 13 Pregones Theater, to be performed Jan. 21-22. For this year’s season, the Lied Canter chose Marshall because of her reputation in die modem dance world. “Susan Marshall is one of the great forces in modem dance in this country,” Bethea said. Since 1985, Marshall, her collabo rators and company members have won eight New York Dance Performance Awards. Marshall’s company began in 1983, when she presented her first full evening of works. In 1985, the compa ny began touring and gaining recogni tion. Marshall said “The Descent Uad Cater The Facts What: “The Descent Beckons" Where: Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. When: Tonight at 8 Cost: $36, $32, $28, half-price for students The Skinny: Susan Marshall and Company explore chaos and order, death and rebirth. Beckons” differed from past pieces the company has performed. “There’s a lot of back and forth with the audience. We can really feel their energy,” Marshall said. “You don’t usually feel that in modern dance.” We Have 9 Reasons to Use the Internet 1. Cinema Twin 5. The Lincoln 2. Eastpark 6. Plaza 4 3. Edgewood 7. Stuart 4. Douglas 3 8. Starship 9 9. SouthPointe Cinema www.dougtheatres.com ^DOUGLAS THEATRE CO. I 1776 WMtHWHIrwf A+mtrtinm $S ($4 tr/Sfrfef ID) I Saturday, Oct 23 8pm - lam WM-stopSwfaaf MSP' .... ____ £ Fflter “Title Of Record” Reprise Records Grade: B About halfway through “Title Of Record,” it becomes abundantly clear that Richard Patrick, the brainchild behind Filter, has been listening to more and more Jane’s Addiction and less and less Nine Inch Nails. Four years ago, Patrick was living the good life with a hit single, “Hey Man, Nice Shot,” and a winning album, “Short Bus.” Then writer’s block set in. And stayed in. For a long while. Patrick, a former member of Nine Inch Nails’ touring group, went back to basics, reforming Filter with all new members and took a long time reworking the band’s sound. Unfortunately, that’s also the problem. In all that reworking, he pol ished away some of the magic that made “Hey Man, Nice Shot” such a catchy song. In the middle of last summer, Filter covered “One” for the “X Files” movie soundtrack, and it was pretty good. It didn’t toy with the original so much that you couldn’t recognize it, but it definitely added its own flavor. But, sadly, the song made promis es that Filter’s second album, “Title Of Record,” just wasn’t up to keeping. About half of the album is the same chugging industrial-tinged rock that has become mainstream over the past few years, and here the album is about as generic as its title. It’s not that the songs are bad - they just don’t stick with the listener beyond the moment the power’s turned off. Some of that crafty pop power seems to have fallen by the wayside during the long absence. Also, many of the tracks blend together with guitars that sound virtu ally identical. Is this the Lego method of building “hit songs?” Regardless, they all sort of become one giant glop of indiscernible ruckus. When Filter decides to toy with its sound, however, it results in some of the best stuff on the disc. About halfway into “Title Of Record,” the band loosens up, chills out and decides to show its musical talents beyond just chugging at an electric guitar. “Take A Picture,” “Skinny” and “I’m Not The Only One” all have hints of Perry Farrell and Jane’s Addiction, although “Skinny” loses some of its potency partway through. It’s as though Patrick is convinced Filter fans won’t like a Filter song unless he’s screaming somewhere in it, when, in fact, his songs don’t merit his screeching cry. The sudden shifts back and forth don’t help the album flow as a whole. Usually, an album rises and falls in slow shifts, like tides. “Title Of Record” is like a rollercoaster with your eyes closed - you never know you’re dropping until you’re already half-way down the slope. As the album closes with “Miss Blue,” an acoustic number, the feel ing that there’s hope for this band yet is undeniable, but hope does not a great record make, -Cliff Hicks Michael Fredo “Introducing” Quest Grade: F Have you been feeling down since the last parking rally ended? Fret no more, my friends! There’s something new to protest, and his name is Michael Fredo. At 19 years of age, Fredo has already decided to dedicate his life to the advancement of pop music. After attending The Professional Children’s School in New York, he spent a year touring and singing with the Ellington Orchestra. When Fredo’s manager intro duced him to Quincy Jones, the mas termind behind Michael Jackson’s solo career, a star was bom. Since recording his debut album, “Introducing,” Fredo has been very active with the Tommy Hilfiger cor poration. In the Hilfiger television commercials, he dances for a couple dozen screaming girls while belting out his latest bubble-gum hit, “This Time Around.” This summer, Fredo joined lip synching phenomenon Britney Spears for a North American tour. As for his album, such unfeeling lyrics and sub-par music haven’t been released since the Backstreet Boys came out with “Millennium” earlier this year. The cliches of pop music flow freely on “Introducing,” a scant 43-minute album littered with 10 tunes of sexual desire and one song concerning the death of Fredo’s father. The music is flat and uninterest ing, recycling the same electronic drum programming over and over until it ultimately fades out. Despite this monotony, Fredo seems to think he has created yet another trendy catch phrase. “I call it ‘youthquake’ - a new form of pop music, which mixes a lot of different styles,” Fredo said in a recent press release. But the only elements that Fredo combines in “Introducing” are juve nile and uninspired lyrics (“As long as I live/I give you my word/I’ll be your everything/if you’ll be my girl”), cheaply engineered music and sex appeal. Following the toxic path of N’Sync, Jennifer Lopez, 98 Degrees and countless other disposable bub ble-gum pop acts, Fredo falls into one of the most shameful genres in the history of music. 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