SHORE GONE WILD!
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Buddha Tribe is: Dan Imbimbo, Vocals/turntables, Tony Kroposky, lead guitar, Mike Lalor, Bass Guitar, Jeff Roberts, drums & backing vocals, and Alex Epstein, DJ/turntables, and they've just released their first 5 song CD called 'The Truth Hurts".
     Hardly a debut, the band's been playing around the area for about a year now, packing places with their tribal buzz from Hooligan's to the Pony; I first saw them on Lump n' Loaf night at the Broadway Central, and their new CD rings with the same live passion and hi-paced sheen that these guys bring to life like a writhing, squalling animal.
   The first cut 'Check the tribe' is a great sample or example for new fans, as its Hiphop Funk, Fishbone Metal and Rage angst serve as a cool statement, with a 'We R here, DIG it, DEAL with it, people!' attitude that just hijacks you on along. Part of this instant reaction belongs to the double-jiveslick white urban rapping attack of frontman Dan Imbimbo, as he slips styles easily in the about-face poppy ballad 'Shangri-La, a pop-skanking edge-riffed lover's anthem w/scratch tables for rhythm in full tribal mode.
     Same applause goes for Tony K's shimmering acoustic intro to 'Been in this', which meshes into a wall of funk/metal guitar and vocal, while aurally snaking into the band's neo-trademarked funky crunchin' groove; then said primally gouging groove goes into overdrive on the down-with-it anthem "12 Gauge", where it's psycho-breakfast time in suburbia for a nuclear family meltdown! Call and response vocals demand an answer from daddy about ___ing mommy, as the anger-anguished singer riffs the dysfunctional house down while the band burns away the wreckage left behind .
     Look for a full-length album coming soon from Buddha Tribe; the band's been in the studio since early November and seems dead serious (continued on page 16)

Splendors in the Grass
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   Lach @ The Secrets should be no secret to those into the humor-laced folk-rock reminiscent of Graham Parker or Ani DiFranco. "Talk of the Pity" proved that melancholy can still be hip.

Lach & The Secrets

   Singer-songwriter Lach had several odes to the decadence of the human kind: "Teenage Alcoholic," "Smoking Again," and "Drinking Beers with Mom." Lach, being the typical New York lover, paid homage to his idol Paul Stanley with the aptly titled "Kiss Loves You." They will make some want to get their Paul Stanley Halloween masks out of the closet.
   Straight from East Brunswick was Refind, a heavy (continued on page 15)