The News Review:
- Panic! Carrying Emo-Punk Banner Into VMAs – News Story | Music…
- What once was punk is now Americana
- … Chili Peppers Lead List f VMA Noms – News Story | Music…
- Punk-Rock pioneer Dika Newlin dead at 82
- MTV wants a quiet 25th birthday
- FREIGN DEVIL: Foreigners in Foreign Lands Part I: Exotic rientals
Panic! Carrying Emo-Punk Banner Into VMAs – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jul 31, 2006
It’s certainly opened the door to a whole new batch of opportunities” Ross said. “I mean we’re already beginning to think about album number two and we want to work with Jon Brion or Kanye West or Danny Elfman and they all are possibilities. And now with a load of nominations in tow Panic! head into the Video Music Awards as both the outsiders and the carriers of the emo-punk banner. And for all that’s been said (and blogged posted and podcasted) about them perhaps the best statement about the band’s huge year is actually from last year. From the 2005 VMAs nonetheless. It was a quick shout-out Wentz gave to the band during a press junket on the day before the Awards and upon reading it now it’s prescient. “I’ve got a couple of bands coming out soon on Decaydance one being this band called Panic! at the Disco” Wentz said.
What once was punk is now Americana
CRegister – Jul 31, 2006
” After a brief break the show wrapped up with the band’s cover of “Breathless” “Blue Spark” and “The World’s A Mess; It’s In My Kiss” sending the audience everyone from fortysomethings who’ve followed the band since the beginning to teens not even born when it broke up the first time home satisfied with the night. The punk-nostalgia motif also played out on stage before X when the reunited Rollins Band led by former Black Flag singer Henry Rollins played a set that featured songs from this lineup’s heyday in the early to mid-’90s. Rollins has avoided the nostalgia trap by refusing to do Black Flag reunions or similar music. He’s a punk rock renaissance man. In spoken word performances and radio and television shows he shines thanks to his sharp insights biting humor and passion. In the Rollins Band though the music an amalgam of metal funk and punk is used almost as a very heavy groove and backing for his spoken-sung lyrics. The songs sound similar with only his impressively intense vocals the main difference from song to song.
… Chili Peppers Lead List f VMA Noms – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jul 31, 2006
addEntry({} {button:true} );The list of nominees for the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards includes a familiar mix of hip-shakers funky Californians ambitious blondes — and one group of tight-trousered gatecrashers. Swivel-hipped Shakira and the rejuvenated Red Hot Chili Peppers lead the field with seven noms each followed closely by the majestic Madonna and upstart Las Vegas rockers Panic! at the Disco both with five nods. Christina Aguilera is next with four. Videos from all five artists — Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie” the Chili Peppers’ “Dani California” Madonna’s “Hung Up” Panic’s “I Write Sins Not Tragedies” and Aguilera’s “Ain’t No ther Man” — will go head-to-head for the coveted Video of the Year Moonman at the 2006 VMAs which will air live from New York’s Radio City Music Hall on August 31. Panic! are also one of the first artists confirmed to perform on the show joining an all-star cast that also includes Justin Timberlake Beyoncé T… ” Chris Brown’s “Run It!” and James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful”) plus an Art Direction nom (see. “It was kind of mind-blowing when we heard that the Red Hot Chili Peppers got a few and then Madonna got a few and we were right there with them” Panic! frontman Brendon Urie said Monday (July 31). “It’s crazy to see us up there. It’s been a year of firsts for us: We did our first album and we got our first big sales and our first gold record and now we got our first five VMA nominations.
Punk-Rock pioneer Dika Newlin dead at 82
curlio.com – Jul 31, 2006
She helped form punk-rock in the early stages as a fan of Punk Rock music I give my salute to Dika Newlin for all that she meant to the music-art. com wish strength to her family and friends. She was a woman never afraid to follow her own opinions. Someone to be proud of.
MTV wants a quiet 25th birthday
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jul 31, 2006
“ur audience was not even born” back in 1981 the network’s president Christina Norman says. “They want to know we’re going with them where we are taking them not so much where we’ve been. Five years ago the Music Television network celebrated its 20th with a day-long extravaganza capped with a three-hour concert from New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. It released a 288-page coffee-table book called “MTV Uncensored” with looks back at the channel’s history and memorable events over the years including on-air meltdowns at the Video Music Awards and hotel-room drinking bouts with Nirvana. n this birthday there will only be one hourlong video-clip show in the morning with video snippets from 1981 through 2006. The theme is anything but the hair-metal bands and Michael Jackson videos that made the channel a pop culture phenomenon: The message is how young the channel is as if 25 years ago it had been programmed by diaper-wearing babies. “This summer MTV is turning 25″ the show’s host says… The network helped spur the reality genre with the launch of “Real World” in 1992 but even five years ago there was no indication of how much the network was about to change. Music at the channel — for years the highest-watched cable network for viewers 12 to 24 — is a small part of the programming now. Spurred by the success of 2002′s “The sbournes” and 2003′s “Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica” most of the lineup is reality shows about rich and pretty teens (“Laguna Beach” “The Hills” “My Super Sweet Sixteen”) outrageous makeover shows (“Pimp My Ride”) and comedy-reality hybrids (“Yo Mamma” and “Punk’d”).
FREIGN DEVIL: Foreigners in Foreign Lands Part I: Exotic rientals
PopMatters – Jul 31, 2006
It was a striking bit of visual tension: The punk aesthetic of the foreground’s band image and typeface against the quietude of the brushstroked calligraphy. The calligraphy though spelled out a stream of invective cursing the viewer as well as his family and ancestry. It was a nice touch and a great way to simultaneously agree to and punk the conditions of their first overseas jaunt. Subs know that being from China helps them get gigs in the West. But it pisses them off… They played 10 shows in Norway and Finland in August 2005 including gigs at slo’s ya Festival as well as at Finland’s best rock club Tavastia. In ctober they played one of Amsterdam’s top clubs (Melkweg) as well as hitting four German cities and Paris. And while their music if I may say so myself — as an obviously biased source — is great it is not their music that is getting them gigs across Europe. In the days leading up to our departure one of our European contacts reminded us that this time around Subs’ merchandise ought to have some Chinese letters on it somewhere. But the band had already designed t-shirts and CDs free of any Mandarin — indeed their band name and their lyrics are in English. Sometimes a t-shirt is just a t-shirt but when it comes to linguistic concerns a t-shirt it seems to me isn’t just a t-shirt. The band sells the same shirts and CDs in China but Subs is screwed on both sides of the planet anyway.