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- NFX’s Fat Mike Explains Why We’ve Been Searched and Seized
- Are record stores on verge of extinction?
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Why Updike delved into suicide killers’ psyches
MSNBC – Jul 18, 2006
? He considered writing about a Christian radical but decided that an Islamic fundamentalist character would better show today’s stark conflict between the Muslim world and the West. In ?Terrorist? as well as in his other books Updike says he deals with the ?pain? of the human condition: ?To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. ?In the following interview Updike discusses his latest novel ?Terrorist? the conflict between the West and the Islamic world the role of literature in society and punk music. To listen to this interview click below. Story continues below ?advertisement |.
… : The Bronx Feist Helmet & More – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jul 18, 2006
And if you haven’t you probably haven’t been watching mtvU catching Jared Leto’s 30 Seconds to Mars on tour or monitoring our You Hear It First reports (shame on you). RJA look to make an indelible imprint with Don’t You Fake It which has their buzz cut “Face Down” plus “Misery Loves Its Company” “Cat and Mouse” and “Seventeen Ain’t So Sweet. The Bronx: The punks have splattered many a Los Angeles club with their blood sweat and beers and now it’s time for them to finally unveil their three-years-in-the-making major-label debut. Have no fear fans — even though this record is also self-titled it’s not the same batch of tracks they put out in 2003. This Michael Beinhorn-produced set has “Transsexual Blackout (The Movement)” “White Guilt” and “History’s Stranglers” and is also available as a digipak. Feist: She birthed her debut Let It Die two years ago but the Broken Social Scene singer is hoping to up the interest with a compendium of remixes and leftovers from the LP. The complementary pen Season features “Simple Story” with legendary singer and Serge Gainsbourg ex-wife Jane Birkin; “ne Evening” featuring a piano solo by frequent collaborator Chilly Gonzales; and remixes by the Postal Service Apostles of Hustle K-os and more… jam band captures its recent reconfiguration with Transformations Live for the People a two-CD set that immortalizes its February 28 gig at the Music Box at the Fonda in Hollywood. It was at that show that Particle introduced their new five-member roster a milestone event for which they were joined by Blackalicious DJ Logic and Joe Satriani. A DVD version of the show which has three more performances but does not contain either CD is also due. Alien Ant Farm are taking a similar approach by putting out their new album Up in the Attic in conjunction with a fresh DVD “Busted. ” The audio disc features “San Sebastian” “Consti2tion” and “Sleepwalker” while the DVD has 10 videos a live set from Germany and a “60-minute nude and crude documentary.
The Bronx: The Bronx < Music | PopMatters
PopMatters – Jul 18, 2006
Throughout vocalist Matt Caughthran seems determined to showcase every capability of his resilient voice from the all-out scream that propels the freak-punk moments to a raspy rhythmic chant to full-on melodic choruses. In general he is an effective vocalist if not quite conveying the drunken filth of the Drones’ Gareth Liddiard. Though they were born out of the fierce West Coast punk of Black Flag the Bronx have shown us on the second The Bronx that they are comfortable extending that legacy to a more mainstream conception of song structure and melody. Though strangled held-out screams often propel this aggressive music forward the most successful moments are straighter rock and the band has commendably faced that reality head on. Somehow in the midst of all this they’ve managed to hold onto the sense of independence and disaffection that characterizes any self-respecting punk release… In general he is an effective vocalist if not quite conveying the drunken filth of the Drones’ Gareth Liddiard. Though they were born out of the fierce West Coast punk of Black Flag the Bronx have shown us on the second The Bronx that they are comfortable extending that legacy to a more mainstream conception of song structure and melody. Though strangled held-out screams often propel this aggressive music forward the most successful moments are straighter rock and the band has commendably faced that reality head on. Somehow in the midst of all this they’ve managed to hold onto the sense of independence and disaffection that characterizes any self-respecting punk release.
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Go Certify – Jul 18, 2006
I happened upon this gem by accident & let me just say WW I’m impressed. ther people are comparing these guys to the next Daft Punk & to be fare I suppose there might be a slight likeness to their music but as a whole these guys have a sound all their own. As far as Daft Punk is concerned they haven’t made any descent music since their 1st album(ya I’m one of those guys that liked “Homework” better)and have been given.
NFX’s Fat Mike Explains Why We’ve Been Searched and Seized
Synthesis – Jul 18, 2006
” And he hadn’t had his coffee yet. Eloquence howeverdoesn’t seem to obey the unwritten laws of the AM conversation as Mike elaborated his views even at this absurd houron Christians Republicans NFX’s new EP Never Trust a Hippy and a lot of other stuff we didn’t have room for. How important do you think it is that everyone really paysattention to the politics in your music considering thatpunk rock has that dichotomy of being both activist andapathetic at the same time?That is a problem. The youth vote was up more than any othergroup of voters in the 2004 election. So even though punkersare apathetic we did get a lot of people out there. It’simportant to be political nowadays because our country is fallingapart as well as the rest of the world. But I guess that’snormal.
Are record stores on verge of extinction?
Naples Daily News – Naples Daily News – Jul 18, 2006
A decade ago the number of shoppers might have been 20 or 30 said Norman Isaacs the owner. Six people? He would have had that many working in the store. “I used to make more in a day than I probably make in a week now” said the shaven-headed Isaacs 59 whose largely empty aisles brimming with punk jazz Latin music and lots and lots of classic rock have left him many afternoons looking like a rock ‘n’ roll version of the Maytag repairman. Just as troubling to Isaacs is the age of his clientele. “It’s much grayer” he said mournfully. The neighborhood record store was once a clubhouse for teenagers a place to escape parents burn allowances and absorb the latest trends in fashion as well as music. But these days it is fast becoming a temple of nostalgia for shoppers old enough to remember “Frampton Comes Alive!”In the era of iTunes and MySpace the customer base that still thinks of recorded music as a physical commodity (that is a CD) as opposed to a digital file to be downloaded is shrinking and aging further imperiling record stores already under pressure from mass-market discounters like Best Buy and Wal-Mart… Purchases by shoppers between ages 15 and 19 represented 12 percent of recorded music in 2005 a decline from about 17 percent in 1996 according to the Recording Industry Association. Purchases by those 20 to 24 represented less than 13 percent in 2005 down from about 15 percent. ver the same period the share of recorded music bought by adults over 45 rose to 25. 5 percent from 15 percent. (The figures include CDs and downloaded songs with CDs still an overwhelming share of the market in recorded music 87 percent in 2005. )The dominance of older buyers is especially evident at smaller independent stores in metropolitan areas where younger consumers tend to be more tech-oriented and older music fans tend to be more esoteric in their tastes said Russ Crupnick an analyst with the NPD Group a market research firm. At Norman’s which is 15 years old and just around the corner from New York’s epicenter of punk St.
Free music update
Broomfield Enterprise – Broomfield Enterprise – Jul 18, 2006
com states he “must beone of the most intriguing artists on the music scene today. ” The CDblends Spanish and English languages as well as many genres of musicincluding punk post-punk New Wave folk jazz and ’70s British rockallmusic. “A myth in the making this phenomenalself-produced album is a masterpiece. The show is at 7:30 p.