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Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s milestone work
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Kid Dynamite offers diverse punk sound
By Jason Hardy
Staff writer
Few bands do things like
Philadelphia’s Kid Dynamite.
This becomes pretty obvious
when you realize the band’s latest
release includes 18 songs but is only
25 minutes long, with one song only
lasting nine seconds.
“Shorter, Faster, Louder,” the
group’s aptly titled second album, is a
tight collection of aggressive tunes
that build off Kid Dynamite’s self
titled first album to redefine punk
and hard-core music.
I understand that redefining punk
and hard-core music is a pretty
sweeping statement, but Kid
Dynamite has a sound that is truly all
its own. The band combines the stab
bing precision and cohesiveness that
traditionally accompanies hard-core
bands with catchy riffs and tempo
changes more applicable to punk
groups such as Dillinger Four or the
Bouncing Souls.
The end result is a band that
defies traditional song structure by
creating tunes that seamlessly weave
from fast and explosive to slow,
infectious cadences.
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The time-tested musical format of
verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge,
chorus, done is essentially nonexis
tent for Kid Dynamite, and the musi
cal arrangements are as unpredictable
as Nebraska weather.
This is made strikingly apparent
on “Pits and Poisoned Apples,” the
album’s first track, which starts off
fast and chanty but quickly slows and
disintegrates into one of the catchiest
moments of the album.
Once this record gets started,
there’s simply no stopping it. Because
the songs are so diverse in terms of
musical arrangements, the album
retains a cohesiveness from one song
to the next that is so captivating, it’s a
surprise when you realize that you’re
12 songs into the album and you
haven’t once thought of skipping a
trarV
Much of what works for “Shorter,
Faster, Louder” is what worked on
Kid Dynamite’s first album, and the
two almost could be played back to
back without an obvious difference
between the records. Ultimately,
however, the difference is that
“Shorter, Faster, Louder” is just more
of what was great about Kid
Dynamite’s first album.
While the group’s biggest gun is
its musical philosophy and execution,
not to be overlooked is singer Jason
Shevchuk, whose voice is probably
one of the best-kept secrets in punk
rock.
He has the perfect combination of
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gritty and scratchy back-of-the-throat
style, yelling with an urgency and
sincerity that compliments the music
behind him.
Together, Shevchuk’s voice and
the rest of Kid Dynamite exist in a
symbiotic relationship that creates
and upholds an uncanny energy with
each new song. Combined with the
group’s intelligent and insightful
lyrics, Kid Dynamite is a refreshing
and welcome breath of musical ener
gy
Manager sued by pop groups
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - In the
seven years since Lou Pearlman
launched the Backstreet Boys on the
road to pop-music stardom, his record
ing studio here has become ground
zero for the country’s preteen music
scene.
It also has been beset by a string of
lawsuits involving many of the singers
whose careers he launched.
In separate lawsuits, the Backstreet
Boys and ‘N Sync have accused
Pearlman of deception and cheating
them out of money. Both groups have
since left Pearlman and settled their
lawsuits for undisclosed amounts of
money.
Yet even with the legal headaches,
Pearlman, 45, still has a stable of
young singing groups - many of them
plucked from the talent pool of singers
and dancers working at Orlando’s
theme parks. His groups include C
Note, Take 5, LFO and Innosense, a
girl’s group.
“Lou Pearlman has this incredible
track record. He’s someone you want
to have,” said Andrea Wong, a vice
president at ABC Entertainment who
Jias overseen prc^uefjpn p£ Pearlmap^,,
new television show, “Making the
Band.”
At Pearlman’s Orlando recording
studio, his groups go through dance
and voice lessons, media training and
workouts with trainers. His company
picks up their expenses and group
members often share a house.
Pearlman uses market research to test
the groups.
Pearlman received a charter
request from New Kids on the Block in
the 1980s and was astounded to learn
that the group had amassed $100 mil
lion from record sales, tours and mer
chandise sales.
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