Haymarket Riot EP short but sweet"
By Jason Hardy
Staff writer
In a market flooded with new, up
and-coming bands, it is easy for groups
to get swallowed by the shelves qf
America’s record stores. But despite
only having a combined nine songs
available for musical consumption,
Chicago’s Haymarket Riot refuses to be
just another name on the shelf.
The group will be releasing its sec
ond EP later this summer, but judging
from the quality of its first self-titled
five song EP and the number of live
shows it has played in Lincoln during
the past year, many fans probably wish
it was a full-length.
Nevertheless, this four-song, post
punk collection is more layered, tight
and connected than a lot of full-lengths.
It also has an aggressive and spon
taneous energy that Kevin J. Frank, the
aymarket Riot
TITLE: As of yet
untitled EP
LABEL: Divot Records
GRADE: A
FIVE WORDS: Melodic,
powerful four-song offering
group’s guitarist, said was probably a
result of the way Haymarket Riot goes
about writing songs.
“We really keep it open,” he said.
“There’s really no set way of doing it. I
prefer more of an open-ended arena.
That way it offers each member of the
band to contribute on a musical level.
There’s really no main songwriter. It’s
all a group effort”
He said the group’s unstructured
approach to writing songs helped the
band to continue creative song writing
without the redundancy of just one per
son’s musical input. Each song is an
intricate weaving of elements that show
strong signs of unselfish collaboration.
One of Haymaricet Riot’s strongest
assets is its ability to pair driving robust
and repetitious riffs and melodies with
ambient breakdowns and crescendos.
Frank said the group was very ded
icated to including musical elements
that make each song stronger, regard
less of what those elements are.
“All four of us make a conscious
effort to realize that the song comes
first,” he said. “We all follow where the
song tells us to go.”
The EP’s final track, “Super
Network,” is an incredible ending to a
short but powerful collection of songs.
It combines the essence of Haymaricet
Riot with flawless precision, creating
beautiful subtleties that grow into
focused power and catchy repetition.
The only thing wrong with this EP
is that it’s an EP. Luckily, the band plans
on recording a full-length sometime
next year.
Bemis opens library tor public perusal
By Emily Pyeatt
Staff writer
Tucked away inside the Bemis
Center for Contemporary Arts in
Omaha is a small library packed with
more than 2,000 books.
This library, the Clare Haas
Howard Art Research Library, recently
has accumulated more than 300 bools
to contribute to the collection.
Amanda McIntyre, assistant to the
executive director of the Bemis Center,
said all the books are art-related.
Saturday night, the Bemis Center is
holding “An Art Book Affair.” The
event gives the public a chance to
browse the library’s collection and per
haps purchase one of the 300 additions.
Yet instead of purchasing the books
for ownership, they can then be donated
to the library.
“We buy books all over the place,”
McIntyre said. “And since the Bemis is
iAn Art Book Affair,
undraiser and
xhibition
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