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January 22, 2004 | Susan Carpenter, Times Staff Writer
If you can imagine a band where a Cambodian beauty queen shares the stage with Rasputin, Barry White, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Hutchence and Brian Wilson, you'd have a pretty good idea of the group Dengue Fever. That is to say you'd have absolutely no idea what the band is about unless you heard it. A well-executed experiment in eccentricity, the Silver Lake six-piece is the sound of two cultures -- and eras -- colliding.