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Summer School Applications Now Available! Students, do you need to make up a failed class, or improve a pesky “D” you may have on your transcript? Well, summer school applications are now available in the counseling center. Adult School offerings will be limited this summer, so be sure to submit your signed summer school application by April 30th for preferred placement and registration. We have some interesting new offerings available this year, so check it out. See your counselor, Mr. Brar or Mr. Smith for more information.

By Zola Boyd, Courier Staff Writer

I'm sure any student at Logan knows what's going down on Saturday, May 29th, right? Senior Ball, of course, but that's not it. Not everyone is cut out for all that high heels and limousines business. If you don't feel like going to prom this year, but still want to get your groove on, you should make your way to ETD Pop 2010, a big ass rave that just happens to be the same night as prom. There's no dress code and everyone is going to be feeling real good, so get into it.

By Eric Brown, Courier Music Editor

Reviewing Becca, the new chick rock artist from Portland, Oregon, requires somewhat of a handicap: in a music industry awash with incompetent and untalented media whores, the role of the woman in music has shifted drastically in recent years. While her debut album Alive!! is far from a musical masterpiece, Becca is able to inject some sense of creativity into what has become a truly pitiful genre.

The artist, whose biography stresses her affiliation with Nineties rocker Meredith Brooks, is not your typical Beyonce or Rihanna prototype. In the package that was sent to the Courier, Becca’s body and physical appearance is highly downplayed—this isn’t to say she’s unattractive, but her record company makes it clear that she is not being marketed based on looks. Her biography also accentuates both humble and unconventional beginnings: Becca has been playing music since her early childhood, started collaborating with Brooks in her teenage years, and has since become a sensation in Japan. Although some of her music was used for commercial purposes, such as a Japanese anime show, Becca’s package generally seemed to be a genuine and promising one.

By Eric Brown, Courier Music Editor

Just a little less than forty years ago Jimi Hendrix, the seminal guitar virtuoso prophet of the Hippie Generation, played his final concert. The musician operated from 1967 until 1970, when he died an untimely and drug-induced death at the age of twenty-seven. Hendrix only released three studio albums, which to many guitarists and rock fans are not far from musical scripture, but was actually far more prolific than his initial catalog might indicate; once he became famous, Hendrix founded Electric Lady studios in New York City, where his frequent jam sessions with other masterful musicians became legendary. Ever since his fateful demise, Hendrix’s estate has been mining this veritable wealth of recordings, many of which faithful fans consider to be travesties. The most recent installment of these disputed studio takes is the new album Valleys of Neptune.

By Jericho Faustino, Courier Staff Writer

The new CD, FrostBite, delivers cool club bangers from one of the game's hottest artists, Gucci Mane.

I've never actually been a fan of Gucci Mane, but this album isn't as bad as I thought it would be. Something I liked about this album is the song " Mi Casa Tu Casa." Gucci Mane spits so much fire on this track that it started to steam up my computer screen.

From wikipedia:
Alberta Hunter (April 1, 1895 – October 17, 1984)[1] was an American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse. Her career had started back in the early 1920s, and from there on, she became a successful jazz and blues recording artist, being critically acclaimed to the ranks of Ethel Waters and Bessie Smith. In the 1950s, she retired from performing and entered the medical field, only to successfully resume her singing career in her eighties.

Born in Memphis, she left home while still in her early teens and settled in Chicago, Illinois. There, she peeled potatoes by day and hounded club owners by night, determined to land a singing job. Her persistence paid off, and Hunter began a climb through some of the city's lowest dives to a headlining job at its most prestigious venue for black entertainers, the Dreamland ballroom. She had a five-year association with the Dreamland, beginning in 1917, and her salary rose to $35 a week.

Watch Alberta Hunter sing "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out," free from YouTube.