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Music | HIGH NOTES Jul 9, 2003

The Pretenders: "Loose Screw"

by Philip Brasor

In "Complex Person," a reggae-metered song from the Pretenders' eighth studio album, "Loose Screw," Chrissie Hynde sings that she'll do anything "to make you adore me or deplore me but never ignore me." If there's desperation in the line itself, there is also a ...

Music | HIGH NOTES Jul 9, 2003

OOIOO: "Kila Kila Kila"

by Suzannah Tartan

As drummer and sole female in the Boredoms, Yoshimi Pee Wee has often been overshadowed by Seichii Yamamoto's virtuoso guitar playing and Eye Yamataka's idiosyncratic charisma. But listening to the fourth album from, OOIOO, her all-girl group, one wonders if Yoshimi hasn't quietly been ...