The News Review:
- Music Review: Warped Tour all about punk
- Mary Harron: The notorious queen of cool
- Documentary on Dixie Chicks uproar premieres at Toronto International…
- Now hear this! – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- ‘Miami Vice’: Drug Bust By Kurt Loder
- Zep Eternal: Why Is Led Zeppelin Still Popular?
Music Review: Warped Tour all about punk
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jul 28, 2006
K so those numbers are all estimates except for the first one but who even knows about that for sure as it’s humanly impossible to see every band at the Vans Warped Tour. As usual if you stood at a certain spot on the grassy hill at the Post-Gazette Pavilion Thursday you could actually hear five or six bands playing at once. It’s the ultimate in noise rock — but this is more about punk. The band that the most people seemed to see at one time was AFI down on one of the main stages in the parking lot. The band which the singer from Less Than Jake described as being from “Team Eyeliner” covered the bases between pop-punk and screamo and in a way it was the one set screamed out for a full-blown stage show. Two of the day’s best sets came from bands with local connections Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and Anti-Flag. The legendary Jett hit the stage with “Bad Reputation” looking as young and punk as the day she started in black bra and leather pants… Same goes for Christian hardcore metal band Underoath. The Living End changed the pace with a high-spirited rock ‘n’ roll complete with stand-up bass. The Casualties delivered a wild set of mohawk punk capped by an awesome cover of “Blitzkrieg Bop. William Beckett the long-haired heartthrob who fronts The Academy Is had his mostly female contingent in the palm of his hand with sensitive songs and sing-along emo hooks. The gothed-out Aiden took emo into thrashier territory with fright makeup horror vocals and whirlwind of action on stage. For pure fun no one tops the cartoon punk of NFX led by vaudevillian frontman Fat Mike. They spent most of their half-hour just goofing off (after the first 1-minute song Fat Mike declared “We have one more song!!!”) but did get down to business with “Murder the Government” a dubby cover of Rancid’s “Radio” and a little ditty called “The Crystal Meth Lasts Longer in Burgettstown.
Mary Harron: The notorious queen of cool
Independent – Jul 28, 2006
I was there to meet with John Holmstrom the co-founder and editor of Manhattan’s infamous Punk Magazine the publication that in 1975 dedicated itself entirely to the fledgling punk music scene that was brewing in the depths of Lower Manhattan and Harron one of the publication’s founder journalists popped in to say hello. I was there to meet with John Holmstrom the co-founder and editor of Manhattan’s infamous Punk Magazine the publication that in 1975 dedicated itself entirely to the fledgling punk music scene that was brewing in the depths of Lower Manhattan and Harron one of the publication’s founder journalists popped in to say hello.
Documentary on Dixie Chicks uproar premieres at Toronto International…
Monsters and Critics.com – Jul 28, 2006
” The film from David Leaf and John Scheinfeld is a look at Lennon’s transition from music pop star to anti-war activist. The festival will also feature Paul Rachman\’s “American Hardcore. ” The film examines the 1980s hard-core punk music scene. scar-winning director Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck new documentary “Dixie Chicks – Shut Up and Sing” is set to receive a “high-profile gala screening” at the annual event.
Now hear this! – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Jul 28, 2006
THE VEXED question of a “Melbourne sound” has fuelled many afront-bar debate. Are the Dirty Three with their hybrid of CelticEuropean and punk roots led by crazed violin-wielding frontmanWarren Ellis the quintessential Melbourne band? r the psychedeliccowpunk stylings of the Cosmic Psychos with farmer-musician RossKnight singing about his favourite pubs and road kill?This is one of the crucial questions raised in StickyCarpet a documentary about the Melbourne music scene(unconnected to this writer’s EG column). Inspired by the Seattle grunge film Hype and Julien Temple’s SexPistols doco The Filth and the Fury first-time filmmakerMark Butcher set out two years ago to document and analyse theMelbourne music scene with the same independent DIY chutzpah as thebands he features. His aim was to capture the sound of an edgy isolatedmulticultural city of 3 million people. In the process he trackeddown such stalwarts as Rowland S. Howard and Ross Knight plus hisfavourite emerging bands such as the Eddie Current SuppressionRing My Disco the Stabs and Ninety Nine… Jones BrianHooper the Beasts of Bourbon and emerging bands the Drones KillDevil Hills and Black Pony Express. Why such a fine focus on Melbourne bands? Because he believesthey are the best in the world. “Melbourne and New York are thebest places in the world for live music at the moment” Iturrartesays. It might seem incongruous that a Spanish label distributesMelbourne rock CDs around the world – including some back toAustralia – but he believes the music he’s found here is withoutpeer. “It goes straight to your heart and your guts” Iturrarte sayspounding his chest with his fist. “It’s not the notes or thetechnique but the feel and swampy sound and the sincerity thatmakes Australian music different. European music is mostly fake -they are all sheep.
‘Miami Vice’: Drug Bust By Kurt Loder
MTV.com – Jul 28, 2006
‘Brothers of the Head’: Double TroubledA movie about a pair of Siamese twins who are turned into a pop group by a seedy band manager but who then revolt into punk-rock stardom is a movie we definitely want to see right? Well you’d think. What you actually make of “Brothers of the Head” may depend on the expectations you bring to it. Those utterly unfamiliar with the mid-’70s British music scene may wonder if the film is relating a true story. (It’s based on a 1977 book by sci-fi writer Brian Aldiss. ) Those hoping for edgy sensation may expect the brothers Tom and Barry Howe to be played by actual Siamese twins.
Zep Eternal: Why Is Led Zeppelin Still Popular?
Rolling Stone – Jul 28, 2006
“I said ‘If someone started a band now that was just like thisit would fucking go off’ ” says the frontman now twenty-eight. Stockdale who sings about unicorns and carnivals on his band’sdebut was especially intrigued by Plant’s lyrical approach. “People go onstage and pour their hearts out and no one wants tohear it—why not sing about ‘Gollum and his evil ways’instead?” Even Nashville punks Be Your wn Pet whose squawkyteenage riot couldn’t sound less like Houses of the Holycredit Zep as a touchstone and titled a song on their debut album”Stairway to Heaven. “Everyone I know in music is into Zeppelin—they’re justsuch a necessary band to know about” says eighteen-year-old BYPguitarist Jonas Stein. And while the original punks saw Zeppelin asirrelevant dinosaurs (Clash bassist Paul Simonon once said “Idon’t have to hear Led Zeppelin—just looking at their recordcovers makes me want to throw up”) Stein finds that hard tounderstand. “If no one had told me otherwise I would have thought that someof the punk stuff is sort of influenced by Zeppelin” he says. “They’re solid they’re concrete… Stockdale who sings about unicorns and carnivals on his band’sdebut was especially intrigued by Plant’s lyrical approach. “People go onstage and pour their hearts out and no one wants tohear it—why not sing about ‘Gollum and his evil ways’instead?” Even Nashville punks Be Your wn Pet whose squawkyteenage riot couldn’t sound less like Houses of the Holycredit Zep as a touchstone and titled a song on their debut album”Stairway to Heaven. “Everyone I know in music is into Zeppelin—they’re justsuch a necessary band to know about” says eighteen-year-old BYPguitarist Jonas Stein. And while the original punks saw Zeppelin asirrelevant dinosaurs (Clash bassist Paul Simonon once said “Idon’t have to hear Led Zeppelin—just looking at their recordcovers makes me want to throw up”) Stein finds that hard tounderstand. “If no one had told me otherwise I would have thought that someof the punk stuff is sort of influenced by Zeppelin” he says. “They’re solid they’re concrete. Zep’s music will lastforever.