The News Review:
- DVD Review: “We Jam Econo – The Story of the Minutemen”
- … : a new documentary chronicles America’s hardcore punk…
- The Sunshine Underground: ut of the shadows
- Radio Birdman rises up like a phoenix.
- Summer music medley compilation
- It’s No 1 it’s Top of the Tots
DVD Review: “We Jam Econo – The Story of the Minutemen”
politicalaffairs.net – Sep 1, 2006
My teenaged son is of the opinion that Green Day is the epitome of all that is good and pure about music and that they continue the essence of punk music in today’s post-Nirvana world. Now I am not going to take issue with my son because I have been a music lover since I was a toddler. I also know that the music one enjoys is a matter of taste and I think it’s great that my son likes listening to music — even when his opinions on these subject seem to come from the former planet-now-downsized Pluto. But I couldn’t resist going to my music collection and taking out a CD that I originally owned as a long-playing vinyl record. (I have resolved never to buy music I’ve now purchased at least twice even though it is now available for download — but that’s just an aside).
… : a new documentary chronicles America’s hardcore punk…
Free with registration – W – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 1, 2006
(HEADLINERS MVIES) –>CPYRIGHT 2006 Fairchild Publications Inc. i’m documenting the American hardcore punk music scene because it’s being forgotten” writes Steven Blush in the introduction to his 2001 book American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Blush’s detailed chronology was enough to inspire music-video director Paul Rachman: Five years and more than 100 interviews later his documentary of. CPYRIGHT 2006 Fairchild Publications Inc.
The Sunshine Underground: ut of the shadows
Independent – Sep 1, 2006
Wellington who was in punk bands as a teenager and then spent time clubbing sees no contradiction between these genres. He wants to follow in his heroes’ footsteps into the unknown. “All the best music I’ve liked doesn’t have any limits” he says. “I quite like the attitude of punk but I find it limiting musically and you can’t deny the beats of dance. The Sex Pistols were great but then Public Image Ltd happened from the Pistols – a better version of it if you ask me. I like the way they went from punk into this dance thing. Especially Metal Box.
Radio Birdman rises up like a phoenix.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 1, 2006
(01-SEP-06) Chicago Tribune (Chicago IL). 1–Radio Birdman one of Australia’s first and best punk bands broke up in 1978 before they ever got a chance to tour America. Now the reconstituted Birdman–with four origi… In the early ’70s when Younger and his future Radio Birdman sidekick Deniz Tek began playing in bands the clubs were teeming with rock ‘n’ roll steeped in ’50s and ’60s nostalgia. Younger set out to be different. He was an avid reader of Creem and other U. underground music magazines.
Summer music medley compilation
Brandeis Hoot – Sep 1, 2006
Although May had just barely begun, Pinback filled the nightclub with shimmering and beautifully orchestrated pop that made it seem like the July sunset would greet concertgoers when they left the club. Although the band lacked some considerable stage presence, their music took command, as they rolled through tracks such as Syracuse, Penelope, and Microtronic Wave to the delight of the crowd. Pinback wrapped up their tour before recording their next album, their captivating set offerring only a taste of the musical experiences to come. While Pinback offered sweet-tinged Indie pop to sold-out crowds, indie hip-hop took a leap into the world of sold-out musicians. While Crazy had been circulating around the internet for half a year, Gnarls Barkley managed to drive the world insane over the summer after an appearance dressed in Evil Empire garb. For the following months, the duo of super-producer Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo broke records and were praised for leaping genres and stunning millions… Despite dust clouds rising from mosh-pits that would often consume the image of whatever band was onstage at the time, the day-long concert had a number of stand-out performances; Gym Class Heroes, Pink Spiders, Less Than Jake, Saves the Day, and Thursday all put on excellent, if not completely engaging, sets. While NoFX managed to lose steam after an energizing performance of The Brews, Joan Jett managed to steal the bands steam, if only an hour later, with a performance that kept most of the crowds parents from keeping the usual concert carpool duty. ne show that kept the punk kids away, but brought out many thirty-something punks, Jeremy Enigks set at the Axis on August 9th was as electrifying as any he could have put on before commercialization seeped into punk culture. Touring in support of his upcoming album World Waits, his first since 1996s brilliant low-fi orchestral-punk album, Return of the Frog Queen, Enigk put on one of the most captivating performances. Although there was a noticeable lack of a twelve-person orchestra, Enigk did just fine with an array of talented musicians and his un-human falsetto. The same voice that screamed through Sunny Day Real Estates Diary is alive and well, as Enigk reached unparallel heights of vocal flexibility that fleshed out his emotionally raw and vulnerable lyrics. Enigk soared through new and old material alike, letting his voice guide the way with glimpses of the hardcore kid within him breaking through often; as the show reached its climax with Shade and the Black Hat and Enigk repeatedly belted out wont you stay tonight against the clash of a chaotic musical menagerie, the entire band and crowd let loose, with Enigk setting the pace as he slammed his head repeatedly on his keyboard.
It’s No 1 it’s Top of the Tots
Times nline – Sep 1, 2006
” He’s right. If there was I would know about it by now. As a music fan fighting to ensure that my children have a modicum of taste Colours are Brighter comes as valuable ammunition against the tween-pop tyranny of Hi-5 and the soon-to-be-everywhere High School Musical soundtrack. In the past five years I’ve gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that I can take pride in the songs my kids like. At times I’ve created fictional back-stories to records with a view to tickling Dora and Eavie’s curiosity. Hence in their world the Beatles’ Help! was inspired by the time John Beatle ate too many pies and got stuck in a manhole. I enlivened Neil Young’s Helpless by convincing them that the line “Big birds flying across the sky” actually referred to Big Bird from Sesame Street… Right now it’s easier to find someone who will own up to being a Gary Glitter fan than a lover of Travis. But during Eavie’s first year no CD would pull her out of a tantrum and into a serene reverie faster than Travis’s The Man Who (1999). Phillips might not have approved but even he would have plumped for Travis over the bafflingly popular Punk Rock Baby series of CDs which is designed to bridge the gap between your baby’s apparent needs and the sensibilities of the post-punk dad. The outspoken Phillips rightly described ambient plinky-plonky versions of Smells Like Teen Spirit as the equivalent of puréed mush. But for the parent eager to find music for children it’s a market that remains sparsely populated. The world is full of children and parents so why are there so few decent records aimed at them? Charlie Leach is the managing director of Whatmusic a brand consultancy firm that sells compilations ideas to record labels and chainstores. “Children don’t have a disposable income” he says “so everyone is marketing to the mums selling them what they think the mums will think their kids will want.