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Friday from 7-9 p.m., the YMCA Center for the Creative Arts will host Band Night III, featuring the areas top local hardcore/heavy metal bands in the Y at 301 W. Bloomfield St. Heading the series will be Structured To Collapse. Opening will be Eyes Of The Colosseum followed by Emoria.

Pat Boone just can't keep his mitts off other people's stuff. In the 50's he ripped off Little Richard and other black artists to produce watered down rock and roll that white people could listen to without turning into chest-beating savages and destroying the fabric of the family and democracy. Sound familiar? Of course it does. Every generation has its white sheep. If you want to get all spiritual about it, you could argue that without the moralists there'd be no one to piss off. And i

Gene Pumphrey MOBILE, Ala. - Gene Sargent Pumphrey, 84, formerly of Jackson, died Saturday, March 21, 2009, at the Mobile Nursing Home in Mobile, Ala. She was born Feb. 11, 1925, in Derma. She was retired from the Veterans Administration in Jackson.

ROCK, ETC. A2 — Located over wine restaurant Assemblage Actuel, the new club orientates toward live music. A brainchild of Svetlana Surganova, frontwoman of rock band Surganova i Orkestr, A2 aims at some of the best-known bands and fine sound quality. 300-700 rub., free entrance on Mon.-Wed.

While I haven’t discussed it with Cody, this is the first post in a new feature on AMR which I am entitling “ The State Of The Band Address .” Consider it an editorial and a review of a band up to the current point in there careers and what the future may hold for them. The first band I have selected is the 25+ year death machine that is Cannibal Corpse . With the release of Evisceration Plague this year, their eleventh album, I felt now would be a good time to talk about what Cannibal Corpse