The News Review:
- Glass Heroes keep Valley old-school punk alive
- … Against Want To Educate Audiences – News Story | Music…
- Paint it red simply
- Better Than Ezra | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones…
- TV on the Radio: Turn on tune in
- Punk-o-Rama
Glass Heroes keep Valley old-school punk alive
East Valley Tribune – Jul 19, 2006
They’ve been playing together as Glass Heroes ever since writing tunes that are true to the original punk ethos. So what does an old-school punk such as Jackson think of today’s punk rock scene? Is it full of radio-friendly corporate poseurs with funny haircuts and lame tattoos? “Let me start off by addressing the ‘poseur’ thing” Jackson says. “It would be unfair for me to judge anyone on their musical taste but it’s hard to look back at my life experience and the feeling that ‘punk music’ had for me in the late ’70s and early ’80s in Detroit and to see what has happened to the pure influence (of early punk) without being a little jaded. “Punk now seems about as dangerous as a garden hose” Jackson laughs. Friday July 21 at The Brickhouse Theatre 1 E.
… Against Want To Educate Audiences – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jul 19, 2006
addEntry({} {button:true} );While it’s K to spend hours discussing Pete Wentz’s naughty Sidekick photos or to listen intently while Panic! at the Disco explain the proper way to coordinate spats and ascots remember that there was a time when the term “punk rock” actually meant something. Rise Against frontman Tim McIlrath remembers that time and the bands that epitomized the era — sociopolitical acts like Fugazi Earth Crisis and Los Crudos. They’re the reason he started playing music in the first place and their legacy is why he’s not ashamed to say he plays punk rock. “I come from the real viable punk-rock world where the bands ask a lot from their audiences” McIlrath said. “I used to go see Los Crudos in abandoned buildings or in a basement in Evanston Illinois and it was eye-opening. I’d listen to them talk about the conflict in East Timor and it was incredible. r I’d go to an Earth Crisis show and learn about animal rights.
Paint it red simply
Baltic Times – Jul 19, 2006
RIGA – Everyone who has seen ?24 Hour Party People? ? the film that made you a scholar of the ?80s Brit punk music scene ? knows about the notorious Sex Pistols gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester which brought together the men who would later form such bands as Joy Division The Smiths and Buzzcocks. Among those present was 16-year-old Mick Hucknall who would later lead Simply Red a blue-eyed soul group that kinda sorta defined their decade. Quite a journey: Manchester to the Baltics. Simply Red will be playing in Estonia Latvia and Lithuania. Keep in mind this is the Baltics where everyone really loves the music of the Thatcher-Gorbachev era.
Better Than Ezra | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones…
MTV.com – Jul 19, 2006
) by merging rock with melody and creating a more easily digestible form of alternative music for the masses. riginally formed in 1988 as a roots rock outfit with slight elements of country and punk the group consisted of four college students from Louisiana State University: Kevin Griffin (vocals guitar) Joel Rundell (guitar) Tom Drummond (bass) and Cary Bonnecaze (drums). The band’s first performances were expectedly held at college bars and fraternity houses and their debut cassette-tape recording 1990′s Surprise received positive press and comparisons to such alt-punk stalwarts as. Despite these accolades Better Than Ezra’s future was suddenly thrust into doubt when Rundell committed suicide on August 8 1990… Although the album was musically similar to its predecessor it failed to match the commercial success of Deluxe and departed rather quickly from the charts with the singles “Desperately Wanting” and “King of New rleans” only achieving modest rotation on modern rock radio. The group proceeded to create their own recording studio in New rleans (dubbed Fudge Studios) where they recorded 1998′s How Does Your Garden Grow? The album failed to re-establish the group as commercially viable rockers and Better Than Ezra parted ways with Elektra before issuing a compilation of rare tracks Artifakt through their official website. Undeterred the trio then signed with the independent Beyond Music label and issued their next release Closer in 2001. “Extra rdinary” fared well on several charts but Beyond Music declared bankruptcy before the band could issue a second single. Understandably Better Than Ezra took a break before resurfacing in 2004 with a live album documenting a hometown show at the House of Blues. A greatest hits collection was issued the following year but to the delight of the group’s devoted fan base (the “Ezralites”) Better Than Ezra were not finished. After signing with the New York-based Artemis Records the band released Before the Robots in May 2005 and departed for a summer-long tour.
TV on the Radio: Turn on tune in
Independent – Jul 19, 2006
I play it about three times a week which is like saturation level for me. ” That’s David Bowie acknowledging that there is nothing quite like the sound of TV on the Radio. Like their ambiguous name the music of the Brooklyn-based group is a paradox of disparate elements that takes all the vicarious strands of music culture to date and mashes them up in spectacular fashion. If people were surprised by their first album effort Desperate Youth Bloodthirsty Babes then the follow-up Return to Cookie Mountain is a revelation that marks the band out as the US answer to Radiohead: intelligent enlightening rock music that thrives on experimenting with ideas forms and recording techniques. ne of the biggest media draws to the band’s new album is the fact that Bowie appears on the track “Province” and marks one of the few vocal appearances since his heart surgery in 2004. It’s something that the band – as collective Bowie fans – are keen to talk about but no doubt will start to irritate them after a while. The bespectacled lead singer Tunde Adebimpe remembers the day when Bowie turned up at their Brooklyn studio: “He walked into the studio and headed straight for the recording booth and didn’t leave until he was done… Everything else sounded stupid. Suddenly I’d found a vessel for how awkward I felt and I met people who were in the same boat as me. “Considering his hardcore punk roots Adebimpe’s voice is remarkably soulful finding a melodic path amid fuzzy guitar swathes and complex rhythmical time signatures. “I think it’s the flip side of being a really disgruntled punk who wants nothing to do with the world” he says. “There are times in your life when you’re exposed to real beauty whether it be aesthetically or whatever. That goes for beautiful music and I suppose that singing a few harmonies sounds better to me. “Sitek confides that making their second album was a painstaking process because “we didn’t want to be misunderstood.
Punk-o-Rama
Riverfront Times – Jul 19, 2006
: rganizers cleverly placed the John Lennon Songwriting Contest booth next to the Trojan condoms stand. (Instant karma anyone?) The people-watching proves more compelling at this point than the music. A mom and a preteen boy walk past wearing matching My Chemical Romance camouflage T-shirts. A glut of people wearing ill-fitting swimsuit bottoms waddle through the parking-lot gravel including two guys wearing Speedos shoes — and nothing else… : Ska-punk vets Less Than Jake land the day’s first stage-banter zinger. Noting the airplane dragging a banner trumpeting Underoath’s impending album release frontman Chris Demakes laments that LTJ’s label couldn’t afford such advertising after drummer Vinnie Fiorello’s hip surgery. “You old cunt” he spits at Fiorello in mock anger. Unwilling to quit while he’s still amusing Demakes then opines that Kansas City is slightly superior to Minneapolis “because the chicks are a little sluttier here. ” Not exactly an endearing compliment from a thirtysomething dude with a teenaged fanbase.