That's Entertainment

From the City Pages, a review of local band Eufio's new album:

Eufio is not a mirthful album. Sounding more Bitch than Bust, the seven short, sharp tunes transform the band's daily frustrations into utilitarian rants. The opening track, deceptively entitled "Prog Rock," is the sound of banshees kicking down doors, critiquing "poverty chic" and dropping a wasp's nest of class consciousness onto our laps."

The album's headlong rush continues through the addictive old-school hardcore of "Stop Entrapment" and "Public Property" .... highlighting the systole/diastole between Hanson's shrill screams and Kopischke's earthier bellow.

The EP closes with...an unholy roller-coaster ride (slow ascent, fast drop) called "Capital Disfunction" that finds Eufio ranting, "Shove your rig into our Bush/And surely you will come."

"It's relating erectile dysfunction--the whole problem of males ejaculating--with capitalism," Gerend says with an artist's knack for symbolic abstraction.

Hard to believe this review is going to result in too many album sales, as the whole thing sounds like a short vacation in a previously undetected ring of hell. But then again, I'm not the typical City Pages reader. And, I do believe the reviewer is attempting to give a postive review.

For the intrigued among you (yes Atomizer, I'm referring to you), Euphio will be performing this weekend at Shake the Lakes festival, which the City Pages reviewer describes "as a power-packed weekend festival" and as an event that "promises to be one of the summer's best gatherings."

And if shrill unholy screams about the evils of capitalism don't do it for you, maybe this will:

The festival also hosts workshops with topics like " "Fashion as a Feminist Tool," "New Technologies in Contraception," and "Sea Sponge Revolution: Alternative Approaches to Menstruation."

Not exactly cheese curds and the Ye Olde Mill. But if any of these events were actually pleasing to one of the senses, it wouldn't be altenative now, would it?