<!-- Site Design by DesertNet Designs - sales@arbiz.com --> <!-- Programming + Concept - Wil Gerken --> <!-- Web Engineers - Wil Gerken --> <!-- Art Directors - Boelts Bros + Jason Steed --> <!-- KeyBotNonFramed --> <html> <head> <title>Best of Tucson 1996: Best Band You've Probably Never Heard, But Should</title> </head> <body background="../images/bak.gif" bgcolor="#ffffff" link="#d60017" vlink="#29295a" alink="#000000" text="#000000"> <table border=0 width=575 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <!-- Begin Spacer Column --> <td valign=bottom align=left width=55 rowspan=3> <img src="../images/spacer.gif" width=55 height=1 alt=""> </td> <!-- End Spacer Column --> <!-- Begin Ad Cell --> <td valign=top align=left colspan=2 height=60> <img src="../images/ad.gif" alt="" width=468 height=10><br> <!--#include file="../../../sponsors/bot/nonframed.txt" rotate="0"--> <br> </td> </tr> <!-- End Ad Cell --><p><br> <!-- Begin Title Cell --> <tr> <td valign=middle align=left> <h2>Best Band You've Probably Never Heard, But Should</h2> </td> <!-- End Title Cell --> <td valign=top align=right> <a href="http://desert.net/tw/bot96/"><img src="../images/bot.gif" width=73 height=95 border=0 alt=""></a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign=top align=left colspan=2> <br> <!-- Begin Capsule --> <b>STAFF PICK</b>: The name ought to tip you off. That, and song titles like "Frank Sinatra Bass Boost Proximity Effect." Straight from the heart of the punk/creative music underground comes <b>Cortex Bomb</b>, a razor-sharp quartet led by razor-sharp guitarist Bill Sach, he of outfits too numerous and obscure to mention. With a line up of sax, six-string bass, drums and cosmically altered guitar, these guys can do it all. Elements of jazz, punk, funk, hardcore, and gutbucket blues all crop in the music, and often all in the same song. Neither three-chord headbanger stomps nor modal blow tunes, their highly arranged pieces combine the time/genre shifting of John Zorn, some of the noise skronk of Tom Waits and the bone-rattling freebop funk of Ornette's harmolodic crew. Is it written? Is it improvised? Is it Memorex? Who cares. For an alternative alternative to Alternative, have your synapses re-aligned by the Cortex Bomb squad. <!-- End Capsule --> <!-- Begin Navigation --> <p><br> <center> <a href="mus2.htmlx"><img src="../images/back.gif"width=104 height=40 alt=" Page Back " border=0></a> <a href="../index.html"><img src="../images/home.gif" alt="Home Page" width=48 height=40 border=0></a> <a href="mus4.htmlx"><img src="../images/forward.gif"width=104 height=40 alt=" Page Forward " border=0></a> <p> <a href="art.htmlx">Arts & Culture</a> | <a href="cafe.htmlx">Cafés</a> | <a href="chow.htmlx">Chow</a> | <a href="cl.htmlx">City Life</a> | <a href="kid.htmlx">Kids</a> | <a href="med.htmlx">Media Blitz</a><br> <a href="mus.htmlx">Music</a> | <a href="out.htmlx">Outdoors</a> | <a href="shop.htmlx">Shopping</a> | <a href="spirit.htmlx">Spirits</a> <p> <font size=-1><a href=http://www.tucsonweekly.com/cgi-bin/pop.pl?p=tw>© 1996 Tucson Weekly</a></font> <p> </center> <!-- End Navigation --> </td></tr> </table> </body> </html>