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The Atlantic Group's Gay & Lesbian Newsletter
Summer 1996
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"Here's a band that, until recently,
we could only imagine;' TheAdvocate
wrote about Extra Fancy in a recent
issue. "[The band] plays extra-hard
rock with major mainstreamappealto
the Alice in Chains/Soundgarden/Pearl
Jam set but with extra-explicitlyqueer
lyrics screamingaway on top." Extra
Fancy is comprised of openly gay
frontman Brian Grillo, and openly
straight bandmates D.A. Foster,
MichaelHately,and DerekO'Brien.
TheirAtlanticdebutalbumis calledSinnerman.,which,as TheAdvocatepointsout,is "fullof hot,
sweaty,hornyman-to-manaction."Usingsame-sexpronounsthroughout,Grillo'slyricscovertopics
like gay-bashing,comingout of the closet,rape, and livingwithHIV.The firstvideofromthe album
is for the song"Sinnerman"and featuresactorAlexisArquette.The clip, whichcontainsa same-sex
kiss, was recentlyacceptedfor airingby MTV.ExtraFancywill be performingat gay pride celebrations in Los Angeles(June23). San Francisco(June30), and San Diego(July28). Here,the always
engagingGrillotalksto STEREOTYPE
aboutlife in ExtraFancy.
STEREOTYPE:What kinds of fans come to your shows?It's not just gay kids, right?
Brian Grillo:No, a lot of our followingis straight.A lot more straightpeople tend to go to rock
and roll clubs in general. But our crowd is so different-we also get West Hollywoodmusclebuilder guys, we get really effeminateguys, we get dykes. We get all differentkinds of people
becausewe put on a good show-it's like a freak show,full of chills and thrills and spillsand sex
and anythingelse you couldwant.
STEREOTYPE:Do you ever get any homophobesin the audience?
BG: Oh, yeah.That happeneda few weeksago, actually.This big guy kept comingup to me at the
ViperRoomin L.A., standingright in front of the stage,going,"Youfuckingfaggot!You'resick!"
I said to him, "You'reoutnumberedhere. Get out!" I was ready to fighthim, and I jumped off the
stage, but he ran out of the club. And we had a run-in with skinheadsout in the [San Fernando]
Valleyonce.They waitedoutsideour showwantingto fightus. But that night was luckybecausea
lot of our friends were there. We had drag queens in mini-skirtsthrowingtheir purses around,
whalingon them.But ultimately,I reallydon't believein violence.I don't like that kind of element
to be attractedto our showsbecauseit's more about a release.We like to createa place whereanybody can comeand feel safe.
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STEREOTYPE:How do you think Extra Fancyfits in with the so-called"queercoremovement"-bands like PansyDivision,TeamDresch,and Tribe8?
BG: First of all, I have to say I like a lot of those bands,and a
lot of thosebandsI don't like-just the way I feel aboutstraight
bands.I thinkthe queercoresceneis very importantbecauseit's
encouragingyoungkids to pick up instruments.So for that reason, it's a very cool thing,and everyoneshouldtry to supportit,
becausethere couldbe a few geniusescomingout of it. But I've
gotten a lot of flack from some people in the queercorehierarchy because l don't call Extra Fancy a queercoreband. That
was nevermy goal in the firstplace.I've neverjoined groupsor
scenes or cliques.We're a rock band; we're a punk rock band;
we're a hard rock band.I want to reach all kinds of people.I'm
sure there are a lot of straight people that can listen to my
wordsand say,"Man,I've been therebefore."
JEWELIS GOLDEN
AT LIFEbeatPARTY
"You say he's a faggot,do you want to bash in
his brain?" goes a line from "Pieces of You,"the
title song from the debut albumby Jewel,Atlantic
Records' newest star. "You say he's a faggot, are
you afraid you're just the same?" the song continues. "Faggot,faggot, do you hate him/'Causehe's
pieces of you?" WhileJewel's hit "Who Will Save
Your Soul" has become ubiquitous on radio and
MTV,gays and lesbianshave been respondingto
the provocativelyricsof "Piecesof You."
"It's a pretty straightforwardsong," the singer
recently told STEREOTYPEwhen asked about
the song's meaning. "I think a lot of people are
uncomfortable with aspects of other people,
whetherit be their sexualityor their race or whatever it is, because those aspects represent the
pieces of themselvesthat they're unsureof. I think
the more confident and secure we are with ourselves,the less judgmentalwe are with other people. It's ultimatelya song that urges people to be
kind to one another."
In the midst of Jewel's recently completed
spring tour with labelmate Duncan Sheik, the
singer was a guest of honor at a LIFEbeat party
following her show at New York's Irving Plaza.
Not only did Jewel help raise over $2,000 for
LIFEbeat-the music industry charity that raises
money to help fightAIDS-she was also presented with a gold record for her Pieces of You album
at the fete.
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VIVA LA
TEENAGE DIVA:
JORDANWLL
The One Minute Interview
EVERYTHING
BUT THE GIRL
PUTS THE SPIN
ON N.Y. GAY CLUB
AtlanticRecordsand TheAdvocaterecentlysponsoreda series
of listeningparties to celebratethe release of WalkingWounded,
the new album from EverythingBut the Girl. The CD, an irresistible blend of house, trip-hop, and jungle rhythms, has garnered the duo the most glowingreviewsof their career.EBTG's
Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn decided to stop by the special
advancelisteningparty at New York'sBarracudathe night before
the album's May 21st release.The pair was greetedwith roaring
applauseas they enteredthe club. Wattprecededto act as DJ for
awhile,spinning some of his favoriterecords, while Thorn graciouslysignedautographs.
Meanwhile, WalkingWoundedentered the Billboard album
chart at #37, their highest debut ever. "Wrong," the first single
from the album, made it to #1 on the Billboard dance chart in
little over a month. Look for EBTG on tour this summer all
over the U.S. (Check out the offer for a free EBTG CD on
oppositepage!)
Watch out, Whitney. Make room, Mariah.
There's a new diva in town, and her name is
JordanHill. Her debutalbum,JordanHill, is just
out on 143/AtlanticRecords,and it featuresthe
incendiarydance smash,"For the Love of You,"
whichis alsoavailablein a creamy,R&Bversion
as well. The eighteen-year-oldsinger is from
Knoxville,Tennessee,and was discoveredperformingat Le MondrianHotelin L.A. by superproducerDavidFoster(the man behindWhitney
Houston's"I WillAlwaysLoveYou"and countless other mega-hits).Foster produced several
trackson JordanHill,whichalso includescovers
of CherylLynn's "Got to Be Real" and the Bee
Gees"TooMuchHeaven."Hill,who will be performingat Los Angele'sGay Pride festivitieson
sixty secondsof
June 22, gave STERE<YfYPE
her timeduringa recentvisitto the BigApple.
STERE<YfYPE:
Who'syourfavoritediva?
JordanHill:Oh, definitelyWhitneyHouston.
STEREOTYPE:
What'sthe weirdestdream
you'veeverhad?
JH: The weirdestdreamI've everhad?Probablythe one whereI wasfallingout of the sky,
and I landedon a balloonand it busted,and just before I was about to hit the ground,I
wokeup.
STEREOTYPE:
Do youhaveanynicknames?
JH:Yeah."Nitty."
STEREOTYPE:
WhyNitty?
JH: Becausemy originalnameis Whitney.Jordanis my middlename.
STEREOTYPE:
Whydo youuseyourmiddlename?
JH:Um,becausethere'salreadya Whitney.
STEREOTYPE:
Whatare you lookingforwardto aboutperformingat LosAngeles
GayPride?
JH:The energy.The wholevibeis goingto be cool-really highenergy.
STEREOTYPE:
Howdid you end up recordingCherylLynn's"Gotto Be Real"for
yournewalbum?
.
JH:Well,I heardit on the radioone day drivinghomefromthe studio,and I thoughtit was
a cool song.And I askedDavid[Foster)whathe thoughtaboutit, and I hadn't any idea that
Davidhad writtenand producedthe song-the originalone. So, he got all excitedthat I
wantedto do it. And so we wentto SoulShockand Karlin,who producedMonicaand Toni
Braxton,and we had themdo it withme.And it turnedout great!
STERE<YfYPE:Last question.If you and Monicawere to duke it out, who wouldwin?
JH:I wouldbecauseI'm takingboxinglessons!
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the song, in early July. (Someof you may have alreadyseen promoonly vinyl copies of "Before" with its-ahem-eye-opening cover
art.) Atlantic will be premieringthe video of "Before" at five club
parties in July.We'll be giving away posters and CDS's so be there!
Here is the scheduleof parties:
July 11............Minneapolis...........Gay90's,408 HennepinAvenue
July 12............Houston..................
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July 13............NewYork................
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July 14............SanFrancisco........Pleasuredome,177Townsend
July21............Chicago...................
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7 YearBitch will be talcingtheir singularbrandof chugging,fury-drivenpunk-metalon
the road this summerto promotetheir Atlanticdebut, GatoNegro.The band will be the
opening act on the Tracy Bonham-Spacehog-Everclear tour from June 26 until
August2. Here are someselecteddatesand venues:
June26 .......................
Portland,OR....................
RosegardenCenterTheatre
July3 ..........................
St. Paul,MN.....................
RoyWilkinsAuditorium
July5 ..........................
Chicago,IL ......................
AragonBallroom
July 11........................
Detroit,MI.......................
PineKnob
July12........................
Cleveland,OH.................
NauticaStage
July23 ........................
Atlanta,GA......................
MasqueradeMusicPark
July28 ........................
Dallas,TX.........................
BroncoBowl
July31, Aug.1............SantaMonica,CA ...........Civic Center
Aug2-3 ........- .............SanFrancisco, CA...........The Warfield
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Peter Galvin .......................................................................... Editor
Marc Mannino ...................................................................Assistant
Stereo Type Headquarters: 75 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10019
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THE REALSISTERS
WITH VOICES
Keep an ear out for the August release of So Many
Ways, the highly anticipated debut album from the
Braxtons,a stunningtrio of true sisters with voices that
will have you shalcingyour groovething for manymonths
to come. If the Braxton name sounds familiar, that's
becauseTamar,Towanda,and Trinaare indeedthe siblin~
of that R&B siren Toni Braxton.But this Braxton troika
has their own thing going on, as evidencedby the sultry
title track from their new album,whichis currentlyscaling
the R&Bcharts.
So ManyWaysalso includesa gorgeousstring-drenched
coverof DianaRoss's 1979danceclassic"The Boss."At a
glorious8 minutesand 8 seconds,the Braxtons'versionof
"The Boss" tips its hat to the decadent disco era yet
remainsfirmlyrootedin today's club soundswith its stateof-the-artremix by Mastersof Work("Little"LouieVega
and Kenny"Dope"Gonzalez).
------------------ ---., CONTEST!!!
To receive more information about Atlantic artists,
please fill out and return to: Atlantic Records,
75 Rockefeller Plaza,
New York, NY 10019
ATTN: Marc Mannino
CITY __________
STATE__
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ZIP __
Name that BraxtonJ
_
Okay, so t,10U'veobviously heard of Toni Braxton,
and you're going to be hearing about sisters
Towanda, Tamar, and Trina-known
as The
Braxtons-all
summer long. But, there's a fifth
Braxton sister, whose name also begins with a ''T."
The first person to send us the name of the fifth
Braxton sister, will receive l O of Atlantic's most
happening CD's. Ten runners-up will receive
Atlantic's limited-edition Gay Pride '96 CD, which
includes The-Braxtons' stunning version of Diana
Aoss's "The Boss," plus music by Everything But
the Girl, Jewel, Tori Amos, Extra Fancy, Michael
Feinstein, and Jill Sobule.
Send entries, along with your name, address and
phone number to: The Braxton Sisters Contest
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New Yorli, NY 10019
Attn: Marc Mannino