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- … Keeps Working Avoids Dating – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- Riding with Boyd
- LA’s Rockers film fest expands musical horizons
- CURRENTS: PRESERVATIN; An ld Buffalo Landmark Finds Salvation in…
- Music Preview: Goo Goo Dolls return with new record — and a Pittsburg…
- Debbie Harry and Chris Stein: Blonde on Blonde
- The Columbus Dispatch – Local/State
… Keeps Working Avoids Dating – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – Jul 13, 2006
New York dance-punk rockers the Rapture are also set to release their next LP on September 12. Pieces of the People We Love their 10-track sophomore effort was co-produced by Danger Mouse Paul Epworth (Bloc Party) and Ewan Pearson (Chemical Brothers). The first single “Get Myself Into It” is currently being streamed on the band’s MySpace page… Should a judge approve the request the suit’s reach could be extended to include additional defendants; as it stands now the city is the sole defendant. According to the Los Angeles Times the request was included within a 94-page motion that suggests that a police officer Rafael Perez was on duty at Petersen Automotive Museum the night of the killing. Biggie was gunned down on March 9 1997 following a music-industry party at the museum on Los Angeles’ Wilshire Boulevard. Perez was never named as a defendant in the suit but last spring an informant who claimed to have shared a cell with Perez said the police officer had told him he worked security detail for Death Row Records. It’s been suggested in court documents that Perez and several others may have had a hand in the murder — including Perez’s former partner fficer David Mack; Death Row Records head owner Suge Knight; and former suspect Amir Muhammad — but none have been named in the suit as defendants. According to the Biggie family’s lawyers Vincent Marella a private attorney who is defending the city said during a court hearing last week that Perez was in uniform and was involved in the rapper’s shooting. The transcripts from the hearing indicated Marella was merely repeating an informant’s contention.
Riding with Boyd
Malaysia Star – Jul 13, 2006
There is a hilarious scene in the Ramones’s End of the Century DVD in which Joe Strummer recollects how Johnny Rotten was absolutely terrified at the prospect of meeting these New York punks backstage during its first London gig in 1976. Raw rebellious scrappy seedy snotty dysfunctional the Ramones fitted all those descriptions and more. So let’s not forget who stitched the ratty punk banner and what Joey Johnny Dee Dee and Tommy stood for in the first place the fast music and the furious attitude. Despite the ironic title this Greatest Hits compilation proudly sporting the iconic band badge by Arturo Veja captures the relentless best from these renegades from Forest Hills Queens. This trimmed out Greatest Hits is an accessible option to experience the chaos and mayhem in one sitting. In the liner notes Tommy sums it up well by dedicating this CD to the fans (“they were generally ahead of the curve and hipper than the average record buyer”). Twenty cuts is definitely not enough to fire up the punk rock juke-box but each track saved many lives spanning Blitzkrieg Bop right through Wart Hog.
LA’s Rockers film fest expands musical horizons
Washington Post – Jul 13, 2006
“But hippiedom and even the punk era will be explored aswell. Highlighting the festival are “Everyone Stares: ThePolice Inside ut” a new documentary about the ’70s new wavemegagroup by its drummer Stewart Copeland and “Who Is HarryNilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him?)” a featureabout the ’70s pop singer-songwriter and intimate of JohnLennon. “Special events on tap include an exhibit at the Egyptian byphotographer Henry Diltz who captured many of the most iconicrock images of the ’60s and early ’70s; a free August 5 talk atthe Egyptian by Michael Walker author of the currentbestseller “Laurel Canyon: Rock ‘n’ Roll’s LegendaryNeighborhood”; and multiple performances of “GreatExploitation’s!” Lewis’ own one-man spiel about his life in therock business. Despite the festival’s broader palette Lewis remains atrue ’60s believer. “There really was a renaissance” he says. “There was an alchemy.
CURRENTS: PRESERVATIN; An ld Buffalo Landmark Finds Salvation in…
New York Times – Jul 13, 2006
DiFranco above recently raised $10 million to buy and restore a Victorian church which has been converted to house a performance hall offices for her recording company Righteous Babe Records and an arts center. \n\n Built for Methodists in 1876 the church above right changed congregations several times in the 1980′s and 90′s. By the mid-1990′s its facade was crumbling and the city had plans to demolish it.
Music Preview: Goo Goo Dolls return with new record — and a Pittsburg…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jul 13, 2006
f course he’s a brilliant arranger master of musical theory. The other end was that he brought this freeing and empowering vibe to the session. Although The Goo Goo Dolls had gone back to Buffalo they didn’t return to the punk-inspired sound of old. “Let Love In” is another mature record stocked with ballads and mid-tempo songs like “Better Days” which began as a Christmas song but took on a new meaning when CNN used it for background music in its coverage of Katrina. Along with the originals The Dolls threw in one of their favorite encore songs a cover of Supertramp’s “Give a Little Bit. “We had done it as an encore song for the live show in Buffalo that became the DVD ['Live in Buffalo July 4 2004']. It was pretty crazy… Korel Tunador who grew up in Pittsburgh and was best known here for playing in the band Crisis Car has joined the Dolls as a guitarist and keyboard player. Since moving to Los Angeles Tunador has been working as a hired gun for such acts as Charlie Mars and Jada Pinkett’s Wicked Wisdom. Tunador still works on his own music but now revels in the life of a musician traveling the world and he enjoys the range of stuff he’s playing. “All these different bands that I’ve ended up playing with have been stylistically different from each other” he says. “But I really enjoy going out and playing songs and there are some good songs going on here and I was really happy to learn them. Takac says of Tunador “He’s a really unique dude really a joy to have around. Having been brought up in Pittsburgh he has the same kind of inner workings as guys from a band in Buffalo.
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein: Blonde on Blonde
Independent – Jul 13, 2006
nly people from other bands went there so everyone in the audience belonged to a band. But it gradually became apparent that Blondie had a much broader appeal. Their music was smart and accessible while Debbie Harry had a charisma that captivated both boys and girls – but especially boys. Iggy Pop recalls inviting Blondie to tour with him at a time when David Bowie was playing keyboards in his backing band. “Debbie was an American ponytail girl as seen through the lens of Roger Vadim; Barbarella on speed or something like that” Pop says. “Bowie and I both tried to hit on her backstage. We didn’t get anywhere but she was always very smooth about that… That definitely wasn’t the case. “Chapman reconstructed the group’s sound and “Heart of Glass” became a huge worldwide hit thanks in no small part to its appeal to club audiences. The punk band from CBGB’s had made the final step to world domination by crossing over to the huge and lucrative disco market. The hits continued – “Sunday Girl” “Dreaming” “Union City Blue” and “Rapture” – the latter being the first mainstream pop hit of any description to feature a full-blown rap. They should all have been making a fortune but somehow it didn’t work out that way. “verall we just got completely fucked over” Stein says. “It was a period when musicians still lived in a state of serfdom.
The Columbus Dispatch – Local/State
Columbus Dispatch – Jul 13, 2006
Friday at the Lifestyle Communities Pavilion 405 Neil Ave. (614-431-3600) Lesh made music before cofounding the Grateful Dead in 1965 and continues today long after the band ended with Jerry Garcia?s death in 1995. Granted the bassist?s 30 years with the Dead produced the music for which he is best known but the foundations came from earlier avant-garde classical-music study most notably with composer Luciano Berio during the early ?60s. Some of those lessons still inform his music. Lesh?s “Friends" ? guitarists Warren Haynes and Jimmy Herring drummer John Molo and keyboardist Rob Barraco ? are up to the challenge of Lesh?s playing and composing. The concert will feature tunes from the ensemble?s latest album There and Back Again as well as yes a Dead song or two… Sunday at the Newport Music Hall 1722 N. The group?s “outrageousness" has earned it opening slots for Rammstein a band featuring a singer who wears a flamethrower on his head and Insane Clown Posse a horror-rap group for 6-year-olds. As for Kill Hannah the Chicago band has remained close to its roots in the English alternative pop of the ?80s. 50 at the Newport box office and Ticketmaster $20 the day of the show.