by Holly Day, "I've been involved in music since I was like, 10 years old," says War-N Harrison of the band Hungry Lucy. "Most of my family's musical, so that's where I picked it from. It's just in my blood, I guess."

Vocalist Christa Belle and Harrison met while he was performing as the solo act Fishtank No. 9, and soon, Harrison was begging Christa to perform with him. "I just heard her sing, and I was like, uh-oh," he laughs. "She was just singing around the house, and it was kind of a shock when I heard her voice for the first time, because it was like, wow, this is excellent!"

Musically, their scope is guitar, non-danceable eclecticism, skirting pop and rock while feeding in enough melody and feedback to sink a DJ. Chemically, they are more emotionally disturbed, and hard to pin down. Like a kid who loves cartoons, yet could the next minute sit and stare at the wall like Michael in the first Halloween. Yeah, it can get scary if you think about it. So don't. Just listen to the grey areas.

Call Her Ms. Cherry If You're Nasty
by Mark Kirby,   "Bitch, you know me! You know how I get down! Your girl done already got her ass whupped ... Got yo' ho holdin' you down. They better let yo ass go! It's whatever, bitch, it's whatever, ho!" From the first lines of Ms. Cherry's "It's Whatever," her new single on Streetwize Recordz, everybody knows not to mess with her, 'cause she ain't the one. Ms. Cherry brings the noise and brings the krunk. So confident is her label in her abilities as a rapper, a performer and a singer, that she is not only the queen of the crew, but the label's first buckshot into the world of independent hip hop. While the field of female rappers is crowded, ! who really stands out? Jean Grae is the darling of the intellectual/political wing of underground rap; Eve, of the Ruff Rhyders crew, had a T.V. show; Foxy Brown still commands respect and is modeling; and L'il Kim, rap music's X-rated sex machine, is on her way to jail. Except for Jean Grae, where are the records and the rhymes?

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by Ben Ohmart,   There's a new old kid in town, plugged in from Power Voltage Records, that updates the textbooks in the old school of electronic music. Just Offshore is a good candidate for being the archetype of personality in music. There is nothing original, there is only progression, evolution and personality; as defining as a new voice on a new cartoon character. Just Offshore's element turns new age into electronica, building on the theme of persistence in pleasure. We aren't meant to relax, we aren't meant to think, while listening, we're meant to learn a new language as the waves lap over us, as steady as a timer and poetic as modern art.

"Think Bruce Lee mashed up with Amitabh Bachchan. One of the most innovative new tracks of 2004." - DJ Adil Ray, discussing r-H's song, "Tim Sum Vindaloo," on BBC Asian Network's "The Adil Ray Show"

Growing up in Singapore, Rajesh Hardwani (a.k.a. r-H) fed himself musically on everything from funk and soul, to blues and hip-hop. This wide variety of influences would later play a vital role in his work as a musician, though he eventually expanded his creative palette even further to include electronica, big beat, drum and bass, jazz, and much more. It's no surprise that some people find it difficult to classify his style. However, what may come as a surprise is how easily r-H takes these countless influences and meshes them together into a remarkably cohesive and wildly infectious sound that is all his own.