March 2006 - Malcolm Shabazz City High School, Madison WI

March 3, 2006 9Artist of the MonthSculpting the FutureBy Katie CroninAfter taking ceramics,painting, and art metals,artist of the month AdinaMoore (12) admits that herfavorite part of these classeshas always been seeing whateveryone else creates. Sheenjoys ceramics and art metalsbecause she prefers usingher hands to build 3-D art.Moore keeps herself verybusy by staying involved inschool and also volunteeringin the community. You mayrecognize her from the manyplays and concerts here atLafollette where she ishouse manager for the auditorium.Outside of school Moorevolunteers at the SalvationArmy. She helps out at thecommunity center at leastthree times a week andteaches an art class once aweek.Next year Moore plans tostudy art therapy atHillsbourogh communitycollege. Her plan is to attendHillsborough for two yearsand then transfer to theUniversity of SouthernFlorida. She wants to helppeople deal with difficultissues in their lives by usingart to express their emotions.Moore would considerteaching art because she hasfound that art more than anyother subject helps peoplefigure out who they are.“I can use anythingaround me for inspiration,”Moore said. Her art reflectsher emotions and views onlife. “It frees me to makewhatever comes naturallydepending on what I feellike,” Moore said. Sheencourages underclassmento also use everything in lifeas inspiration.The ceramic house that Moore built.Photo by Andrew NebelYellowcard Makes MoreMature, Mellow MusicBy Cari HaugeYellowcard has grown up. Their new album, Lights andSounds, was released late January and debuted at numberfive on the charts, higher than any of their previous albums.In the first week, the album sold just over 90,000 copies.The new album is much different than the previous album,Ocean Avenue. The new mature sound features piano in theintro and continues their unique use of the violin. Thoughhaving a violin seems to be a slightly bad omen in the rockcommunity, Yellowcard uses it with more success than anyband since Dave Mathews Band.The bands lyrics have also matured. In the song TwoWeeks from Twenty the band takes a political stand againstthe war. It tells the story of a how a man was forced into thewar, of his death, and how it effects those close to him.The band’s opinion of the war is very obvious in the chorus.“Your heroes say that miles away, we lost another onethat we sent with a gun. They’re gonna miss him, he was twoweeks from twenty and there’s still no shame from theman to blame.”Their overall sound has begun to move away fromtheir original pop punk sound. Though they continuetheir characteristic guitar riffs at the beginning of themajority of their songs, the layering of the instrumentsis perfectly balanced throughout most of thealbum. The layering provides an added mellow feelingthroughout the CD.While making the album, the band created a characterto take out their aggressions on. They named herHolly Wood and she is featured in a couple songs onthe album, including the song Holly Wood Died. Thecharacter seems to represent the celebrity life andtheir distaste for it.Lights and Sounds is an album that can be playedover and over again, and each time there is somethingnew to be found within the music. Yellowcard producedmusic that can be appreciated by people of allages.New Album Doesn’t PleaseOld Three 6 Mafia FansBy Kyle Mooney“The Most KnownUnknowns” by Three SixMafia is a very uniquealbum.It features three of theoriginal six members of thegroup, DJ Paul, Juicy J, andCrunchy Black.“The Most KnownUnknowns” contains twentytracks of Memphis style rap.The fast backgroundbeats are easy to listen to,but can get repetitive attimes.In there earlier CDs thebeats were darker and hadslower rhythms that fit theirmusic better.The lyrics and many ofthe songs are questionable.Instead of using their “gangster”approach, they arebeginning to go commercialwith party music.Seventy percent of thenew songs are about goingto the club or dancing onpoles.The thirty percent of theother songs have greatlyrics, the smoothness of thedelivery is horrible, it goesfrom screaming to mellowthen back up, very random.They seem to be usingCrunchy Black a lot on thisalbum too, he is known forbeing a beat maker not a rapper,so his rhymes are not upto par.This album doesn’t meetmy expectations as a longtime fan. If you’re new tothe group, try it; the musicmight be for you.If you’re a long time fanof the group, go with all oftheir older albums, “MysticStylez”, “Choices”, “WorldDomination”, “When theSmoke Clears” and “DaUnbreakables.”On a one to ten scale , ISupport student journalism.Advertise with The Lance.Culver’s of Cottage Grove4401 Cottage Grove RoadMadison, WI 53716Soup & Flavor Hotline 608-268-0216Phone: 608-268-0211 Fax: 608-268-0217give this album a six. I recommendthe songs, “StayThe new Three 6 Mafia album.Fly” “Roll With It” and “Gotit For Sale.”