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	Nirvana, Foo Fighters, and Eyes Adrift by MATT ASHARE

Brit-hop Driving on the wrong side of the Streets by FRANKLIN SOULTS

Local Anesthesia: Mutual of Ohana Blackstone Valley Crew lays it down by BOB GULLA

It's been some time since the Beastie Boys have put out a record; it's been 16 years since they've put out one like Licensed to Ill. So give thanks for Northern State, three rhymin' and stealin' Strong Island ladies who may just beat those nasty little men at their own ill game. Still unsigned, the gals are getting attention thanks to Dying in Stereo, an eight-song demo that finds them slinging cutting couplets ("Step off, your flow is weak/Save that talk for Dawson's Creek") and stoopid old-school jibber-jabber ("dum-da-dum-da-dee/one-two-three") over a slow- and low-boiling stew of plinking piano, clanging bells, and scratches you can't itch. Hesta Prynn, Guinea Love, and DJ Sprout spring from the same fertile Nassau County turf as Public Enemy and De La Soul, but their whip-smart smack-talking owes more to the college-sophomoric witticisms of MC Paul Barman and the playful gynocentrism of Liz Phair. They open for the Kickovers at T.T. the Bear's (617-492-BEAR) in Cambridge on Friday, then head to the Iron Horse (413-584-0610) in Northampton on Saturday, where they've got the stage to themselves. No word yet whether their '86-Beasties hang-up extends to being flanked on stage by writhing guys in cages.

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