The News Review:
- Happy Hollow
- Works in Progress Take a Big Step Forward
- Liars | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones and Lyrics…
- A stirring mix of music turns a dreary day festive
- … Are Ready To Be Booed By Meatheads – News Story | Music…
- … To New rleans To Provide Relief – News Story | Music…
- … Charlotte Roll ut US Tour Dates – News Story | Music…
Happy Hollow
Punknews.org – Aug 22, 2006
The true thematic summary of the album however comes in the penultimate anthem “Rise Up! Rise Up!. Despite the inclusion of several of the best songs in Cursive’s extensive catalogue the true selling point of this album is that it contains nearly no filler. In fact the most lethargic and uninspired song on the album is probably its first single: “Dorothy at Forty” which is by no means bad. The record from start to finish never strays from its concept and keeps its listeners continually captivated. Apparently those three years off were a good thing because Happy Hollow is Cursive’s most complete work to date and arguably its best.
Works in Progress Take a Big Step Forward
Washington Post – Aug 22, 2006
Actor Marcus Kyd a founder of Taffety Punk is a self-described “aging punk rocker” as well as a cast member of “Shear Madness” and a graduate of the Shakespeare Theatre’s Academy for Classical Acting. He and the Taffety Punkers want to lend the passion of punk to Shakespeare. They’ll perform “The Phoenix and Turtle” an allegorical ode to love and constancy with dance and live music the text mostly sung. (The name Taffety Punk derives from a phrase in “All’s Well That Ends Well. ” It means according to Kyd a kind of well-dressed prostitute. )”There was a wonderful energy that I’ve found in the rock-and-roll scene that I don’t see in the theater” notes Kyd. “There was such a camaraderie among artists and the people that went to see the artists in the punk scene that I miss.
Liars | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones and Lyrics…
MTV.com – Aug 22, 2006
Bassist Noecker and drummer Albertson make up the Liars rhythm section. Combined they write music — surprisingly formulated after the beats are laid down on the drum machine — exhibiting fundamental elements of punk rock. Synthetic keypads vocal modulation and interspersed prearranged compositions mixed with their guitar-bass-drums equation create angular yet melodic songs. Liars are reminiscent of U.
A stirring mix of music turns a dreary day festive
Boston Globe – Aug 22, 2006
But why the Wailers — reggae royalty and principal architects of a sound whose echoes could be heard from main stage headliners 311 G. Love & Special Sauce and Pepper — were stuck playing the Tweeter Center parking lot was a fair question. There were other themes uniting this bill including hometown jam band popsters (State Radio) and Irish punks (Dropkick Murphys) funk-metalheads (Pepper) and rap-metal alchemists (311) blues-conjuring soul providers (G. Love) and old-school hip-hop heads (Jurassic 5): song narratives that celebrated a grassroots call-to-arms perseverance and yes having a good time. Although the premise of the British-spawned Download was ostensibly a showcase for technology as well as live music the emphasis remained on old-fashioned guitars amplifiers and musicianship to sell the goods. Love & Special Sauce’s greasy-as-grits blend of blues and hip – hop was a homespun highlight and offerings such as the gospel-tinged “Back of the Bus” and the sassy slide-guitar showpiece “Baby’s Got Sauce ” belied the band’s Philadelphia-bred pedigree… Headliners 311 couldn’t match the Dropkicks for pure aggression but then they didn’t have to. Although less compelling than 311’s second vocalist SA Martinez singer Nick Hexum projected the glossy star appeal of Gwen Stefani crossed with Bryan Ferry. n selections such as the ska-laced “All Mixed Up” the Eastern-tinged “Beautiful Disaster” and “Creatures (For a While)” the rap-metal fusionists employed a mix of funk-metal skate-punk and even crooning boy-band pop to beat back the storm.
… Are Ready To Be Booed By Meatheads – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Aug 22, 2006
But there’s no delusions that by doing this tour we’re going to come out on the other side being a much more popular band. Most smaller bands that open for a bigger band are likely to gain some new fans but they’re just as likely to be heckled off the stage. Isis — who got together more than eight years ago — are a monstrous thick and spiritual assemblage of musical experimentalists whose sound contains elements of heavy metal punk and hardcore. Their complex compositions make them a perfect fit for the Tool trek which winds down September 29 in Mansfield Massachusetts (see. “We’ve done tours with a wide array of bands with the intent of trying to capture a really eclectic audience” Turner said. “I think that any band that has a style even slightly outside the box or a little bit difficult in some way or another those types of bands — which I see Isis as being — are more likely to garner a really hard-core following because it takes a person who’s willing to dig beneath the surface to find out about these bands and get intimate with their music… “We’ve done tours with a wide array of bands with the intent of trying to capture a really eclectic audience” Turner said. “I think that any band that has a style even slightly outside the box or a little bit difficult in some way or another those types of bands — which I see Isis as being — are more likely to garner a really hard-core following because it takes a person who’s willing to dig beneath the surface to find out about these bands and get intimate with their music. That kind of listener’s more prone to a more devoted almost slavish obsession with a band. While on the road with Tool Isis will be promoting a pair of new releases: the band’s debut DVD “Clearing the Eye” which will be in stores September 26 and In the Absence of Truth the follow-up to 2004’s Panopticon slated for release this Halloween. (”We picked a good date to release a heavy metal record I guess” Turnerlaughed. ) The DVD contains live footage the band started culling back in 2000.
… To New rleans To Provide Relief – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Aug 22, 2006
Cassie lands on newsstands Tuesday (August 22) for her first stint as a cover girl. Cassie and Nick Cannon are each featured on alternate covers for Rap-Up magazine’s summer 2006 issue. Inside the singer explains that she’s learned a lot from Diddy including an unflinching passion for music. “I would hold back a lot ’cause I didn’t want to look or feel weird around people but he taught me to let go” she said. Cassie listed Will. Am Scott Storch and Gwen Stefani among her dream collaborators and revealed that Jamie Foxx is the most famous name in her cell phone.
… Charlotte Roll ut US Tour Dates – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Aug 22, 2006
addEntry({} {button:true} );They may not have selected a title or a firm release date for it yet but that hasn’t stopped Good Charlotte from announcing a slew of tour dates in anticipation of their fourth album. The trek kicks off on September 27 at the Fillmore in San Francisco and wraps on ctober 22 with a gig at Sonar in Baltimore (which kinda makes it a homecoming gig for the GC guys whose hometown is Waldorf Maryland). Glammy Nashville pop punks and You Hear It First band the Pink Spiders will serve as support on all dates (see “You Hear It First: Pink Spiders”). The tour announcement comes a little more than a month after news of GC’s upcoming album first broke (see. In the weeks following the announcement a publicist for the band confirmed that the still-untitled album would be in stores in early 2007 and that songs set to appear on the disc include “Misery” and “Victims of Love.