The News Review:
- If you like my politics flash the devil horns!
- The Ketchup Song – Kidz Bop Kids Ruiz
- Saturday Night All the Time | Bob Mould and Richard Morel start a…
- Alejandro Escovedo: Defying Boundaries
- Scream Club – Nibble Please Don’t Bite
- Punknews.org | Stream Sex Pistols’ “Spunk”
- Meet Park Slope Kid Band Care Bears on Fire — New York Magazine
If you like my politics flash the devil horns!
Seattle Times – Aug 14, 2006
It takes on a much stronger political tone. Metal artists “have responded to the culture and politics of the day” said Donna Gaines a sociologist and author of “Teenage Wasteland” a study of working class New Jersey metalheads. Metal music in the 1980s was often homophobic and “very white” she said but current bands tend to be socially conscious and suspicious of political power. There’s also more women in the audience — and fronting the bands. “This is another generation rising” Gaines said. Heavy metal has always touched on social and political issues. Metal grandfathers Black Sabbath criticized the Vietnam War in songs like “War Pigs” and “Children of the Grave… ” Iron Maiden’s “Run to the Hills” was an angry denunciation of the displacement of Native Americans. But much of the criticism was blunted by dark imagery that panicked parents and led to the now ubiquitous “Parental Advisory” labels. Metal’s punk brethren were seen as having a more learned world view. That began to change when hardcore punk and metal fused in the late 1980s with bands like Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Nuclear Assault. But metal was still primarily known for the excessive lifestyles and racy videos of glam bands. The popular view of metalheads as mentally deficient goons was memorialized with the MTV cartoon “Beavis and Butt-head” about two teen metalheads who terrorize their pudgy neighbor Stewart who wears a T-shirt of the glam rock band Winger. More meaningful music was coming from the underground as popular culture embraced grunge and metal lost favor.
The Ketchup Song – Kidz Bop Kids Ruiz
TheCelebrityCafe.com – Aug 14, 2006
) December 4 2005 5 out of 7 found this review helpfulLet me ask all you one-star reviewers out there something: IF YULIKE PUNK-RCK GREEN DAY JUMP-ARUND-WITH-AN-ELECTRIC-GUITAR TYPE MUSIC WHAT THE HECK ARE YU DING CHECKING THIS UT IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?!?!?!?! kay. That said I’ll start the actual review now. Starting off: Bring Me To Life. Talk about a good song! There are those of you saying that this isn’t an appropriate song’cause it’s about death. ?!? If you wanna shelter your kid completely you do that.
Saturday Night All the Time | Bob Mould and Richard Morel start a…
Play by Play – Aug 14, 2006
" "From the beginning" he explains "it was friends and people who we wanted to party with: it’s predominantly gay predominantly men predominantly in the 25 to 50 age range. Having said that we get a lot of gals that come to it a lot of straight people. I think it’s a tough call because we’ve always seen it as a music thing first and foremost. [The audience] is a lot of people who love indie rock and love house music but didn’t like the gay club scene as much or maybe didn’t feel as comfortable in it. And we gave them a place where rock was K. "ne of the reasons it’s been so successful" Mould theorizes "is because Rich and I have a vision of what we want it to be and we’ve actually made it that. We did exactly what we wanted to do: We took the idea to people that we thought would be approachable and would enjoy it and would feel like they could be a part of it and that’s what happened… We didn’t try to create an event that catered to a specific audience. " Fairly or not Mould has been categorized in the past as a control freak. His first band the 1980s punk trio Hüsker Dü famously imploded over a power struggle between Mould and the band’s other songwriter drummer Grant Hart. Later Mould’s power-pop threesome Sugar would perform a handful of songs by bassist David Barbe but there was little doubt that Mould was running the show. Which makes it all the more surprising that for the first time since Hüsker Dü’s debut Land Speed Record 25 years ago Mould and his collaborator share all songwriting credits. "There’s no singular vision driving this thing" Mould explains. "It’s a unique situation.
Alejandro Escovedo: Defying Boundaries
NPR – Aug 14, 2006
Set List”Arizona”"Dear Head on the Wall”"Evita’s Lullaby”. He blends rock folk blues and classically influenced music into a boundary-defying style that has won him a devoted following all over the world. Born into a large Mexican immigrant family in San Antonio Escovedo was heavily influenced by his father who loved music and often sang in local mariachi bands. His career began with The Nuns a mid-’70s punk outfit from San Francisco; later he co-founded the country-influenced punk band Rank and File. He began to make a name for himself in True Believers with his brother Javier with national tours supporting the likes of Los Lobos and his solo career took off with 1992’s critically acclaimed Gravity. Since then Escovedo has recorded eight albums under his own name in the process winning numerous awards and accolades including “Artist of the Decade” from No Depression magazine… He blends rock folk blues and classically influenced music into a boundary-defying style that has won him a devoted following all over the world. Born into a large Mexican immigrant family in San Antonio Escovedo was heavily influenced by his father who loved music and often sang in local mariachi bands. His career began with The Nuns a mid-’70s punk outfit from San Francisco; later he co-founded the country-influenced punk band Rank and File. He began to make a name for himself in True Believers with his brother Javier with national tours supporting the likes of Los Lobos and his solo career took off with 1992’s critically acclaimed Gravity. Since then Escovedo has recorded eight albums under his own name in the process winning numerous awards and accolades including “Artist of the Decade” from No Depression magazine. Health problems and personal tragedies have slowed Escovedo in recent years but his newest album The Boxing Mirror ranks among his most powerful and affecting work. Backed by a strong band — including a string section — he has crafted a beautiful and heartbreaking set of songs.
Scream Club – Nibble Please Don’t Bite
The Skinny – Aug 14, 2006
In the traditionally male-dominated misogynistic world of US hip-hop Scream Club offer a much-needed breath of fresh air; their sound reassuringly free of bling cliches and aggressive posturing. Rapper Cindy and producer Sarah started Scream Club in 2003 when Cindy applied for a job at the appropriately named Desire Video of which Sarah was the manager. The romantic chemistry was instant and although the pair have since parted ways their musical alliance has gone from strength to strength. Not seeking mainstream approval for their music Scream Club have nonetheless managed to produce an appealing and challenging debut album the fabulously-titled ‘Don’t Bite Your Sister’ out now on Tiny Sensational… Rapper Cindy and producer Sarah started Scream Club in 2003 when Cindy applied for a job at the appropriately named Desire Video of which Sarah was the manager. The romantic chemistry was instant and although the pair have since parted ways their musical alliance has gone from strength to strength. Not seeking mainstream approval for their music Scream Club have nonetheless managed to produce an appealing and challenging debut album the fabulously-titled ‘Don’t Bite Your Sister’ out now on Tiny Sensational. “If you are a guy it means don’t be a sexist jerk if you are a lady it means it’s time to end femme competition in negative ways” states Sarah. “We are already oppressed we don’t need to work against each other. It means be original as opposed to biting someone’s style. ” The album and most importantly Cindy’s lyrics refuse to pigeonhole Scream Club as a quote-unquote lesbian band.
Punknews.org | Stream Sex Pistols’ “Spunk”
Punknews.org – Aug 14, 2006
Castle Music is an imprint of Sanctuary Music responsible for a number of notable classic punk releases including box sets from Discharge and GBH. Spunk was a set of demos recorded by Dave Goodman that captures the band over a year before the release of their groundbreaking debut Never Mind the Bollocks. It features prototypical versions songs from that full length many bearing different titles. The material from those sessions has shown up on nearly every of the numerous Pistols bootlegs since. You can check out the stream.
Meet Park Slope Kid Band Care Bears on Fire — New York Magazine
New York Magazine – Aug 14, 2006
Rather than being cause for rebellion grown-ups are rock mentors. Several in the great tradition of Jack Black have even become coaches teaching teens and tweens the rudiments of rocking that normally take several alienated years to fumble through. Nowadays punk isn’t just sanctioned by parents and school teachers; it’s good clean fun. The Care Bearssinger-guitarist Sophie Kasakove 11 bassist-singer Lucio Westmoreland 11 and drummer-singer Isadora “Izzy” Schappell-Spillman 10 all classmates at Park Slope’s Berkeley Carroll Schoolcouldn’t be better poster children for this burgeoning movement if they’d been carefully pre-auditioned for a reality show. They wear standard rocker gearjeans Converse All-Stars Black Sabbath T-shirtsbut they’re also polite overachieving kids cramming in band practice between art class homework and Hebrew school. “Izzy didn’t want to be on the soccer team didn’t want to play field hockey didn’t want to be on any team” her mom Elissa Schappell says of the girl who co-wrote the lyrics to “Don’t Wanna Be Like Everybody Else” and who pounds her drums with startling ferocity. “And suddenly her friends wanted to play music… They wear standard rocker gearjeans Converse All-Stars Black Sabbath T-shirtsbut they’re also polite overachieving kids cramming in band practice between art class homework and Hebrew school. “Izzy didn’t want to be on the soccer team didn’t want to play field hockey didn’t want to be on any team” her mom Elissa Schappell says of the girl who co-wrote the lyrics to “Don’t Wanna Be Like Everybody Else” and who pounds her drums with startling ferocity. “And suddenly her friends wanted to play music. From the very beginning all we’ve ever thought is that this is a chance for Izzy to have playdates with kids who share the same interests. ” “It’s not like soccer” Izzy says. “It’s more of a thing kids choose instead of a pushed thing. ” The band began life as Nada Clue in 2004 after Sophie and Lucio had taken a music course at Berkeley Carroll’s creative-arts camp and Izzy had attended Rock Camp for Girls (her family spends a lot of time in Portland where Tin House the literary magazine her parents co-founded is based).