The News Review:
- Even within the world of womyn Tribe 8 was a little too punk for…
- Barrett’s influence
- Johnny Cash Scores Billboard #1 – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- The Columbus Dispatch – Local/State
Even within the world of womyn Tribe 8 was a little too punk for…
San Francisco Chronicle – Jul 12, 2006
Fornicating angels on a Jesuit university’s airwaves? Not a problem. Voted best documentary at the 2003 San Francisco LGBT Film Festival “Rise Above” is an anomaly in the rock-doc genre. Not because it traces the usual travails of a struggling punk band or even because it captures a moment in music history when it seemed — as it does every two decades or so — that something revolutionary might come from combining three chords and attitude but because it’s less about music than it is about the people who make it. The film opens in 1994 embarrassingly labeled Year of the Woman by numerous rock magazines and in “Rise Above” the women at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival are up in arms about Tribe 8 whose live show depicting fellatio castration and S&M shenanigans is deemed misogynist. Earnest young feminists picket while the band — Breedlove Mah rhythm guitarist Silas “Flipper” Howard bassist Lynn “Tantrum” Payne and drummer Slade Bellum — ponders how in the heart of what should be their community they still manage to be outsiders. Tribe 8′s outsider status and its members’ journey toward embracing that identity in both their personal and professional lives is really what “Rise Above” is about. Neither a music documentary nor a documentary about gender politics the film offers an animated portrait of five defiant misfits finding themselves through the catharsis of punk rock.
Barrett’s influence
guardian.co.uk – Jul 12, 2006
From there I went on to Barrett’s masterpiece Pink Floyd’s 1967 album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and my ideas about music’s possibilities were never really the same again. To understand his place in modern music you probably have to first go back to punk rock and its misguided attempt to kick aside what remained of the psychedelic 1960s. Given that the Clash and Sex Pistols had made brutal social commentary obligatory there seemed little room for any of the creative exotica that had defined the Love Decade – until slowly but surely singing about dead-end lives and dole queues began to pall and at least some of the previous generation were rehabilitated. Barrett was the best example: having crashed out of Pink Floyd before the advent of indulgent “progressive” rock and succumbed to a fate that appealed to the punk generation’s nihilism he underwent a revival. The green light for that was a 1981 single I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives by the Television Personalities. From then on his influence became built in to the music we now know as indie rock.
Johnny Cash Scores Billboard #1 – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – Jul 12, 2006
1 Life & Relationship. American V was one of only four new releases to crack the top 200 this week and one of only two to debut in the chart’s top 10. The latest Rick Rubin-helmed release from the late music legend contains “Like the 309″ the final song Cash wrote and recorded before his September 2003 death. A Hundred Highways is the first of Cash’s acclaimed American recordings to reach the top 20 on the Billboard 200. The Sufferer & the Witness the fourth studio release from Chicago punks Rise Against scores the #10 spot after selling more than 48000 during its first week of release. The two other newcomers to the chart include the soundtrack to last weekend’s #1 film “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. ” The record opens at #24 with sales of 30000 and change… The latest Rick Rubin-helmed release from the late music legend contains “Like the 309″ the final song Cash wrote and recorded before his September 2003 death. A Hundred Highways is the first of Cash’s acclaimed American recordings to reach the top 20 on the Billboard 200. The Sufferer & the Witness the fourth studio release from Chicago punks Rise Against scores the #10 spot after selling more than 48000 during its first week of release. The two other newcomers to the chart include the soundtrack to last weekend’s #1 film “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. ” The record opens at #24 with sales of 30000 and change. Latin sensation Diana Reyes’ Las No. 1 de la Reina bows at #143 with 6000 scans.
The Columbus Dispatch – Local/State
Columbus Dispatch – Jul 12, 2006
The film is a painstakingly crafted portrait of the folk singer?s life the roots of his music and Guthrie?s political and artistic legacy. It was Frumkin said a labor of love whose seeds were planted many years ago. “When I was growing up I listened to a lot of music by people who were influenced by Woody Guthrie” Frumkin said. “He was this sort of mythical presence in the background; you heard the name but nobody really knew that much about him. At some point I bought an LP copy of the Library of Congress recordings interviews he did with Alan Lomax. I thought they were weird and cool. Then about 10 years ago I read Joe Klein?s book (Woody Guthrie: A Life) and it struck me that there was a really engrossing tragic arc to Woody Guthrie?s life and it would make a good film… ” It?s that simple imperative delivered in plain-spoken language in what is thought to be between 2000 and 3000 song lyrics that continues to draw a remarkably broad cross-section of contemporary musicians to Guthrie?s songs. This month the Klezmatics will release a collection of Guthrie songs inspired by the melting-pot life in Coney Island where the songwriter lived during the late 1940s. In recent years artists as diverse as Wilco with Billy Bragg the American-Indian rock trio Blackfire and the Boston punk band Dropkick Murphys have set Guthrie?s words to their own music. “These songs will remain rallying points for generation after generation after generation” Bruce Springsteen says in the film. “Some people are going to rap them. Some people are going to thrash them out. But people are going to return to them and find something in them.