The News Review:
- … Dismisses Audioslave Breakup Rumors – News Story | Music…
- Frank Black | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones and…
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- … McPhee Co-Producing Death-Row Drama – News Story | Music…
- Joan Jett Rumbles Back with ‘Sinner’
- Rollins: Summer tour is a test run for band
- Sisters of Mercy – Music – Riverfront Timespage 1 – Riverfront Times
… Dismisses Audioslave Breakup Rumors – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jul 26, 2006
“Rather than just worry about my own future and my own mortality the future and mortality of my children and the feelings I’ve had lately with the state of the world remind me of the Cold War feelings I had as a teenager. Like so many young Americans I felt a lot of helplessness and to a degree a sense that the world could end at any time. I think a lot of the angst in punk music came from that tension that just wouldn’t go away. “I feel those feelings now again” he continued. “Having a wife and children that I see every day and wanting these children to have a shot at a happy life and a future.
Frank Black | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones and…
MTV.com – Jul 26, 2006
getRhapRssFeed(945 “artist” getRhapTracksRSS); Full BiographyInverting his stage name from Black Francis to Frank Black the former. Working with former Pere Ubu member Eric Drew Feldman Black occasionally heads into the ferocious post-punk guitar territory that marked such landmark albums as Surfer Rosa and Doolittle but more frequently he plays up his considerably underrated melodic side. His self-titled 1993 debut album was an adventurous sketchbook of pop styles ranging from surf rock to heavy metal from. Black’s second album 1994’s Teenager of the Year was a sprawling and diverse album that amplified all the best points of Frank Black. Although it received favorable reviews and had an alternative radio hit with “Headache” it slipped off the charts two weeks after its release… Frank Black returned the following year with The Seus EP which preceded the mini-album SVN FNGRS a set of songs inspired by the Irish legend of Cúchulainn. setNGrp(1);lsConf. setNKw(10);lsConf.
A World of Their wn
Memphis Flyer – Jul 26, 2006
You can be cartoonish and still cool as the animated Gorillaz have proven literally. But when a band’s caricature is both hopelessly outdated and matched in its utter sincerity by its music then the effect can be a little cornball especially when the music also takes constant helpless turns toward anthemic grandeur. The four-piece punk band enjoyed its 15 minutes of rock-star fame when Rancid’s 1995 breakthrough. And ut Come the Wolves launched a couple of actual hit singles but when a better follow-up album Life Won’t Wait emerged three years later it was too late to capitalize. The band was already passé… But to the extent that Rancid has been eclipsed in their bid for alt-bred commercial success by the likes of Wilco Radiohead and their longtime rivals Green Day it’s listeners who have missed out. Since 1995 Rancid has released four full-length albums one split CD with SoCal punk scenemates NFX and two albums each from side projects the Transplants and Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards totaling over 140 songs in just over a decade. No band over the same time period has produced as much good music with less hip cachet. If you bother listening what stands out immediately about the band is a consistently pleasurable musicality: the way drummer Brett Reed weaves from locomotive force beats to swinging skank and the way bassist Matt Freeman nimbly leaps ahead of the beat drops into the pocket of the groove or steps to the side to comment on the action. Danceable at any speed they might be the most ferocious rhythm section in modern rock music. What makes Rancid corny to some listeners is exactly what’s so great about them.
… McPhee Co-Producing Death-Row Drama – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jul 26, 2006
Years 1982-1987 will come out in two versions: a 21-track single-disc collection and a two-CD edition with an extra disc of rarities including previously unreleased mixes and live recordings. The DVD titled “When the Light Is Mine… New York punk band the Casualties will release their latest album Under Attack on August 22. They’ll be touring through August 26 in support of the disc.
Joan Jett Rumbles Back with ‘Sinner’
NPR – Jul 26, 2006
Now decades later Jett and her band the Blackhearts are playing songs from her first album in a decade — a hard-rocking CD called Sinner — to a new generation of punk fans. Related NPR StoriesJul.
Rollins: Summer tour is a test run for band
North County Times – Jul 26, 2006
therwise you’re just playing retreads ?Imagine a tree that grows canned peaches. It’s nothing I want to do. “n this tour we do songs that everyone knows or songs our fans are familiar with that we are familiar with” Rollins said of the band’s hour-long set. “Then if we’re still feeling it after the tour is over we’ll sit down and go K do we want to pursue songwriting?”ne thing that helped make the reunion possible is that the band broke up in 1997 not because of any bad blood between the musicians but because the band members felt tapped out creatively. “We’d chewed all the flavor out of the gum” Rollins said. “I think we had come to the end of the trail… “Formed after the 1986 breakup of Rollins former group the seminal hardcore punk band Black Flag the Rollins Band carved out a sound that blended both the furious punk of Black Flag a considerable element of heavy metal and a dash of more experimental stylistic elements over the course of six studio albums and EP and a live CD. The band enjoyed considerable critical respect and had one minor hit single “Liar” off of the 1994 CD “Weight” before calling it quits after the 1997 CD “Come In and Burn. “At the time it looked as if Rollins might be leaving his music career altogether as well. He had soured on the music business after signing to DreamWorks Records in the mid-1990s following the bankruptcy of his former label Imago Records. “The DreamWorks period was not a very happy time” Rollins said. “It was very stressful. Those were some very tough times.
Sisters of Mercy – Music – Riverfront Timespage 1 – Riverfront Times
Riverfront Times – Jul 26, 2006
It’s an awkward-sounding scenario a newcomer commandeering a relatively successful group’s sound but Burgan says there was no resentment. “We were on course to be an entirely new band anyway with Jade and I joining so we decided to move forward” he says. “You grow up playing punk because it has all this youthful energy that is consistent with what you’re feeling — but as you get older your tastes become more sophisticated and you become better at playing your instrument. “With the old songs” Burgan continues “I was playing this identical rhythm in every song jumping from chord to chord. At the time it was challenging but now it seems like the simplest thing in the world. I’m playing less now but the specific rhythms and notes are quite complex. It’s much more fulfilling as an artist to play at the peak of my interest and my ability trying to be the best at what I do.