The News Review:
- The Rapture returns with catchy follow-up
- MVIE REVIEW ‘American Hardcore’
- Macromantics – Gig previews & reviews – Music – Entertainment -…
- … Carey Shakes ff ‘Glitter’ Curse – News Story |…
The Rapture returns with catchy follow-up
The DePauw – Sep 29, 2006
substring(0 thispageresult. The popular music world is still reeling from “House” and The Rapture’s major label debut “Echoes” released in 2003; shock waves include the more commercially successful releases of bands like Franz Ferdinand Bloc Party and LCD Soundsystem. All of this weight of influence makes The Rapture’s much-delayed follow-up album “Pieces of the People we Love” one of the most highly anticipated albums of 2006. Rock geeks from all over expect more brilliance from the New York quartet especially after such a long absence. The Rapture steps up to the task albeit in a much more pop-oriented less abrasive way.
MVIE REVIEW ‘American Hardcore’
Los Angeles Times – Sep 29, 2006
Still the documentary is an enlightening journey to a dark corner of contemporary punk’s dank little basement. It also will surprise some to hear how articulately some of the former performers explain the dark impulses that propelled them. The music was an explosion of misfit frustration that often turned into violent communal flagellation. Rachman begins the film with a self-narrated primer by some of the early musicians such as Ian MacKaye of Washington D. -based Minor Threat and later Fugazi on how the scene came together. Early bands like range County’s Middle Class and Social Distortion and L… Spinning off Steven Blush’s 2001 book of the same name Rachman and Blush conducted about 100 interviews with veterans of the scene telling hard-core punk’s story through their reminiscences. They also persuaded many of the interviewees to dig deep into their closets for old videos of live shows early interviews and other memorabilia which Rachman then stitched together in a relatively seamless montage of youthful angst violence and dark often disturbing comedy.
Macromantics – Gig previews & reviews – Music – Entertainment -…
The Age – Sep 29, 2006
“Ben directed a play that I was in at school” she says. “Duringrehearsal he handed me a record and said ‘You should really listento this. ‘ It was [punk band] Bikini Kill and they changed my life. [Frontwoman] Kathleen Hanna was saying how anyone can make musicyour message is important it doesn’t matter how good you are. Funny how it all fits. Indeed Macromantics’s debut album has just been signed toAmerican label Kill Rock Stars the same label that houses BikiniKill and many of Hoffman’s heroines.
… Carey Shakes ff ‘Glitter’ Curse – News Story |…
MTV.com – Sep 29, 2006
An ctober 16 closing date has been set for New York’s iconic punk landmark CBGB. There’s no word yet on who will perform the night before but owner Hilly Kristal has been hinting at something special — an evening of music featuring some of the bands CBGB helped to break over the years — although no definitive plans have been announced yet. A crew will enter the club on ctober 16 to dismantle it piece by piece. Kristal hopes to move most of CBGB to Las Vegas where he would reopen the club this spring… In one an executive said that the goal “is to get in trouble with the law and get sued. It’s the best way to get in the news. ” The music and movie industry sued StreamCast — creators of the Morpheus file-sharing program — in 2001 and last year the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in the case ruling that technology companies can be held liable for distributing software that is used to violate copyrights. Even after the Supreme Court decision StreamCast kept fighting as fellow P2P networks Grokster and Kazaa agreed to pay multimillion-dollar settlements in copyright-infringement suits.