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Music | HIGH NOTES Aug 20, 2003

Pretty Girls Make Graves: "The New Romance,"

by Philip Brasor

'I heard a record and it opened my eyes," goes the pivotal line in "Speakers Push the Air," the opening song on "Good Health," last year's debut album by the Seattle quintet Pretty Girls Make Graves. The record's passionate immediacy opened a lot of ...

Music | HIGH NOTES Aug 20, 2003

Joe Gibbs Production

by Tom Bojko

Soul Jazz Records has issued a couple dozen outstanding compilations of unusual music ranging from New York punk-funk and Philadelphia soul-jazz to Yoruba music and Haitian voodoo drumming. Particularly great are their releases of both vintage and modern Jamaican music, of which "Joe Gibbs ...