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Show T . * -*'^ • - ; •.; v ^ i . Monday . January 19, 2009 New this week CD Andrew Bird: A/od/e Seasf, Jan. 20 Shark Speed rawks i vV3a rtfMhi FT JACKWATEHJT i Amazon.com • Editor-in-Chief Antony and the Johnsons: The Crying Light, Jan. 20 Amazon.com Bon Iver: B/ood Ban/c, Jan. 20 Amazon.com Jane Monheit: T/?e Lovers, The Dreamers And Me, Jan. 20 Amazon.com Mariah Carey: The Ballads, Jan. 20 te&_. Donkey Punch, Jan. 23 Yahoo.com Inkheart, Jan. 23 Yahoo.com Kiilshot, Jan. 23 Yahoo.com Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans, Jan. 23 With a slow trumpet and percussion melody, Shark Speed's Seasick Music starts with a feel-good rhythm to contrast with its overtly ominous title. The album is set to be released Jan. 24 at Velour Live Music Gallery. Seasick Music sounds the way James Brown boogies - fluid movement - a description that also doubles for the image invoked by the band's name. Add vocals from Thayne Fagg to the swathing instrumentals and the album gives the local music scene a reason to dance in 2009. The album truly makes a dancer out of anyone, skills or none. Listening without moving in one way or another would seem to be a denial of the senses. Las Vegas native Thayne Fagg croons through the lyrics even when he escalates, leaving listeners begging for a verse offering a crescendo. Fagg offers his talents as a trumpeter for some songs, which makes for a great reason to see the band live. • After a securing a fan base in the local scene, Shark Speed moved into the studio to record their debut album. The band has already played many songs from Seasick Music live, including at the local Sego Festival. Do not let the title fool you - though Seasick Music will rock you back and forth, as the title infers, it will leave listeners at ease. The aforementioned ominous tone of the title is shown in the lyrics, with such lines as "I'm holding onto truth as my stomach stirs/ and I'm watching the destruction of things once pure," from the track And you 're in the band? Words like these display the tension shown throughout the album, yet" leave a feeling of positivity. For fans of Minus the Bear, dancing and electrifying progressive indie-rock, Shark Speed is the answer. Shark Speed is currently one of Provo's best kept secrets, but won't be a secret for much longer. The band recorded Seasick Music at Flying Blanket Recording Studios in Mesa, Arizona with producer/engineer Bob Hoag. Free CDs will be handed out after Shark Speed plays at their release conceit. ; Shark Speed will open for The Appleseed Cast Feb. 20 at Kilby Court in Salt Lake City. For more details visit www.myspace. com/sharkspeedrawks ^ r' 'X:- 1 4 SHARKSPEED CD RELEASE WITH NEON TREES THE PROTONS HOT PARENTS DJ KIDDWIDD JAN 24-8PM AT VELOUR Courtesy of Thayne Fagg | Shark Speed will be giving away free copies of their debut album at their release party at Velour. "Seasick Music" Holease dale; Jan, 24;; Free CDs for attendees: Vetour Live Music Galle., 135 North University Avenue in Provo www.my«pace.conv'sharkspeedrawks The cover of Seasick Music is an oil painting by Ryan Neely of Mode Boutique. • Courtesy of Shark Speed Respecter of Persons Yahoo.com Express, Jan. 20 Marketing God At UVU MATTHEW A. JONASSAINT Life writer /Wax Payne, Jan. 20 . Courtesy of Hazeldean Film and Michael Paul The Long Look on Life Amazon.com Moonlight - The Complete Series, Jan. 20 Story of homelessness and drug addiction shows at LDS Film Festival LZMELSUNDQUIST! Life editor RepolThe Genetic Opera, Jan. 20 Amazon.com In August of 2006, former UVU student Michael Paul moved into a home in Provo, completely unaware that in getting to know his new neighbor Alex, he would change the course of his life as well as his perspective on homelessness and drug addiction. Paul created a documentary, The Long Look On Life, about Alex and his friends. Alex, a returned LDS missionary, is a recovering meth addict. After living on the streets for over a year, Alex moved into a home with the help of his family, and created a makeshift homeless shelter. "One of the greatest needs in the world [is] for us to know one another and just feel a commonality of need and purpose with and for other people. Especially people from different walks of life or nations, ethnic backgrounds, with different philosophies or religions. We need to find a common bond with the rest of humanity. This See LONG • B4 our library was dedicated by % \ I LDS church a prophet or not." % / % / ads all over Najib Niazi, UVU's first T T UVU, is student from Afghanistan there a fair balance of reli- and a Muslim, has observed gious (and non-religious) ex- how institutional esteem of pression on campus? the church can affect interVegor Pedersen says, national students coming to "There is not a fair balance, UVU. nor should there be. My worSays Niazi, "Whenever ry would be how would we there's a new international go about achieving that bal- student, the international ance, and who would define center briefs them about the 'fairness.'" Pedersen works local culture, but their lunch in Public Relations for the is always sponsored by the UVU School of the Arts and Institute. When they go there says that he assumes the LDS they are given flyers and conchurch advertising is well in- tact information for bishops tended. and elders." For Niazi, that However, "the school might be indirect advertisseems to trip all over itself to ing for the LDS church (alappear to have the blessing though the church is one of of the church," says Peder- many beneficial sponsors for sen. "People should respect what we do based solely on See GOD • B2 our output, not on whether |