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- Get Loaded Festival Clapham Common London
- Music Listings
- The dance punk jazz grunge garage rock sound of Supersystem
- An oral history from Scratch
- Sole survivors: the legacy of shoegazing
- ne Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
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MTV.com – Aug 30, 2006
Duran Duran and Daft Punk will co-headline the Bang! Music Festival and Common is also joining the ranks of previously announced performers Gnarls Barkley Modest Mouse and Tiësto. Thievery Corporation Roger Sanchez and Kinky have also been added to the November 11 Miami fest lineup.
Get Loaded Festival Clapham Common London
Independent – Aug 30, 2006
It finished with a face-off between two iconic modern British songwriters. The crowd’s mood was caught by the excellent De La Soul and their raucous positive hip-hop. They were followed by three largely female acts with Northern Ireland’s The Chalets’ playful punk-pop the pick. Their bratty energy wasn’t quite matched by the Pipettes whose simulation of Spector girl groups was more impressive than their songs. And though Lily Allen’s “Smile” is the song of the moment her laughing demeanour here undermined its urban-underside lyrics. The Young Knives’ were equally chirpy their musical resemblance to The Futureheads somewhat redeemed by their comics attitude. But the lack of any pretence at threat unimaginable at a rock festival pre-Coldplay continued with punk veterans Buzzcocks… Doherty was singing his own national anthem “Albion”. He looks a fragile sort to have such a storm of expectation placed on him and his voice and songs are similarly wispy. But he let that music state his case especially with the Clash-reggae clatter of “What Katy Did Next”. “No one’s been shot yet” he noted before falling to the floor for “Fuck Forever”. Though Babyshambles weren’t brilliant it was a necessary statement of professionalism. Between them Doherty and Gough also reminded an amiable festival that rock’n'roll involves rage and risk.
Music Listings
New York Press – Aug 30, 2006
) Brooklyn 718-388-8090; 4 free. Rancid Big D & the Kids Table The Lordz Rancid wasn’t the first band to mix Jamaican music and punk—hell they weren’t even the 30th. Still their 1995 LP And ut Come the Wolves was hands down one of the best punk records of the last 20 years so you know at least they have that going for them. King’s Blues Club & Grill 237 W.
The dance punk jazz grunge garage rock sound of Supersystem
New York Press – Aug 30, 2006
The twirling guitar stutter of last year’s Always Never Again? Thank trained flamenco player and afro-pop guy Rafael Cohen. The head-swiveling drums on “Defcon?” Josh Blair the band’s lone grindcore lover also drums for DC-noisies rthrelm. Even more keen on DJs and electronic music keyboardist Pete Cafarella moonlights as Shychild while Moyer cops to liking tough stuff like punk rock and The King. f course such a profusion of influences could never make it through in every song—there’d be enough trouble jamming flamenco guitars into rthrelm’s skree. But Supersystem’s latest Touch & Go release A Million Microphones points in a million of musical directions over it’s forty minutes refusing to stand still even for a second: weirdo rock turns to beat-heavy vanilla-hop funky dancefloor freak makes way for afrobeat and somehow it all makes sense. “We don’t think much about fitting into a particular music store bin or iTunes category” says Moyer. “It’s hard enough to write material with half the band in NY half in DC.
An oral history from Scratch
Austin 360 – Austin 360 (subscription) – Aug 30, 2006
My father was an Air Force pilot. I lived there from ‘75 to ‘88. I think my seminal punk rock experience was going to Raul’s on Halloween night seeing the Huns. Seeing bands like the Dicks the Big Boys and the Surfers made me rethink music. I was in Toxic Shock soon after. I started going to Raul’s started going around the time ‘60 Minutes’ did that report about punk trying to make it sound like the most awful thing that ever happened… I lived there from ‘75 to ‘88. I think my seminal punk rock experience was going to Raul’s on Halloween night seeing the Huns. Seeing bands like the Dicks the Big Boys and the Surfers made me rethink music. I was in Toxic Shock soon after. I started going to Raul’s started going around the time ‘60 Minutes’ did that report about punk trying to make it sound like the most awful thing that ever happened. They showed some footage of Johnny Rotten and it was something I’d never really heard before.
Sole survivors: the legacy of shoegazing
Independent – Aug 30, 2006
Q: How can you spot an extrovert indie guitarist? A: They stare at your shoes rather than their own. Shoegazing was the rather dismissive term given by the music press to Britain’s indie scene circa 1989-94. The music was characterised by a six-string drone quiet harmonies and an introspective take on the rock ‘n’ roll sneer. Q: How can you spot an extrovert indie guitarist? A: They stare at your shoes rather than their own. Shoegazing was the rather dismissive term given by the music press to Britain’s indie scene circa 1989-94… The vocals on “Pearl” by Chapterhouse are so low-key they’re lost in the fuzz. Also-rans include the prog-influenced “Mercy Seat” by Ultra Vivid Scene not unlike some of the more psychedelic outings of Robyn Hitchcock and Great Yarmouth’s own Catherine Wheel whose “Black Metallic” is as cool as a raspberry ripple on a North Sea beach. This was the first pop movement since punk to prominently feature women. Anderson who formed Lush with a schoolmate Miki Berenyi found that the fact half the band was women was neither a boon nor a bane. “We used to be asked by journalists if we had problems with our label but there were plenty of other women on 4AD” she says. “So no we didn’t have a problem.
ne Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This
ChicagoPride.com – Aug 30, 2006
August 30 2006The New York Dolls weren’t the first rock stars to wear makeup and women’s clothes. Little Richard probably gets credit for that. What the Dolls did do first though was to infuse rock music with a kind of raw attitude and anarchic energy that has since become the spiritual thread that ties all modern rock bands together. The Dolls were punk before there was any such thing as punk and their fast and furious take on rock produced two bona fide classics their 1973 eponymous debut and the follow up 1974?s Too Much Too Soon. Critically acclaimed but woefully underappreciated commercially at the time the Dolls lasted another couple of years in various incarnations before breaking up for good in 1977. Subsequent years saw Dolls leader David Johansen embark on a solo career including a trip up the pop charts during the 80s as the lounge-singing Buster Poindexter. Now fast forward all the way up to 2004 when former New York Dolls fan club president Morrissey asked the band if they would regroup to play at the Meltdown Festival a rock show he was curating in London that year… Little Richard probably gets credit for that. What the Dolls did do first though was to infuse rock music with a kind of raw attitude and anarchic energy that has since become the spiritual thread that ties all modern rock bands together. The Dolls were punk before there was any such thing as punk and their fast and furious take on rock produced two bona fide classics their 1973 eponymous debut and the follow up 1974?s Too Much Too Soon. Critically acclaimed but woefully underappreciated commercially at the time the Dolls lasted another couple of years in various incarnations before breaking up for good in 1977. Subsequent years saw Dolls leader David Johansen embark on a solo career including a trip up the pop charts during the 80s as the lounge-singing Buster Poindexter. Now fast forward all the way up to 2004 when former New York Dolls fan club president Morrissey asked the band if they would regroup to play at the Meltdown Festival a rock show he was curating in London that year. “Basically we got together to do a one off show and have a coupla laughs” says Johansen.