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Miles Davis Agartha era.

Rob Jones, in particular, has been instrumental in spreading the word about the Court Taven's legal hassles, and is thus excited about the recent standoff with the local bureaucrats at a town meeting. Jones explains, "Oh yes, we won this round. Over 250 people showed up at the town council meeting. For now we are safe." He urged everyone to come out and "celebrate our victory in style." The good news and enthusiasm of the community at large definitely enhanced the group's performance.

Akasa, who were celebrating the release of their CD "Open the Sound" opened with their minimalist rocker about the lovelorn "Quicksand," featuring honest, sincere vocals from guitarist Gerry Perlinski and a hotter than Hades bass solo from Anthony Kroposky.

Kroposky, along with drummer Alex Sipos (who replaced Raj Sharma), provided superb back-up to Perlinski's songs, which often look at relationships from left-of-center perspectives.  "The Messenger," for example, confronts the issue of being that "friend, but never lover" syndrome that haunts many a lonely lad or lass.

Don't let the morose nature of their songs fool you, for the band can really funk out on songs like "Bound." In general, the band really came through on their coming-out party.

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Jane Says...
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started, was in college radio.R.E.M., U2, Lou Reed; they were all broken nationwide thru college radio. Today, there's not really many acts being broken that way. It's so segmented, you know, there is no use for college radio today because the tastes are so varied that noone wants to listen. There should be a streamline of DJs with similar tastes, instead of all indie, all punk, all this.. Or
J.T.:  Oh, it's too messy...
S.S.: It's too messy, noone wants to listen. It means nothing. Except for BJB [90.5 the night] now, they're ushering a whole new format.
J.T.:  Yeah, I was gonna mention...
S.S.: Because they're taking HTG songs that the new HTG is not playing. I heard, last night, Sonic Youth on Bruce Springsteen on Ola Dara. [I shake my head and he fills me in.] He's the new jam god.
J.T.:  Do you think there's less enthusiasm among young college students today, than, say, when you were in college?
S.S.: There's no direction. Mike Sauter, comin on board from HTG, he's taking all the
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