The News Review:
- Music Critics Must Die: Art of the Recording Engineer – Matt Forger
- Music Review | ‘Gigantour’
- Hyphen Magazine – Asian America Unabridged – Music Moments
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Music Critics Must Die: Art of the Recording Engineer – Matt Forger
eNewsChannels – Sep 30, 2006
As trends continued the influence of ethnic and world beat came to be an interesting movement. There are too many styles of music to name and say that they have all influenced me but quality has always been a factor. I’ve worked on sessions from Classical to Country New Wave to New Age Pop to Punk music from all parts of the globe and it’s still exciting and a challenge to work on something new. If there’s a form of music I don’t care for it’s the manufactured mediocre crap that gets sold as having something to say when it’s just pretentious drivel. G-Man: Again thanks for making those statements. When you record live I know you have a preference for a certain recording technique. Can you tell us about it?Forger: When the situation allows there is a technique that I love to use because of its elegant simplicity.
Music Review | ‘Gigantour’
New York Times – Sep 30, 2006
The band played songs from across its catalog many about the shame of not living up to your promises and suggesting violent retribution of one kind or another. It was a 90-minute immersion in a style that felt old and decorous sprinting in its verses and ballooning into big-melody choruses. The supporting lineup could give you a fast education in the music’s last 25 years including the early thrash-metal band verkill; the Swedish progressive-metal band peth which gets into sophisticated dense and gorgeous sonic territory; and the latest metal band to crack the Billboard Top 10 Lamb of God from Virginia. Lamb of God occupies another hard-rock position that was first struck shortly after the invention of speed-metal: the equal balance between hardcore punk and metal. It has become the new standard-bearing band for that crossover area and live it transmits the idea constantly musically and otherwise. The band’s guitar solos were baroque and technique-heavy; meanwhile its singer Randy Blythe short-haired and skinny and not your typical metal guy threw his middle-pitch voice down into the metal growl making specific between-song appeals both to the hardcore kids and the metalheads in the crowd. Gigantour continues through ct… It was a 90-minute immersion in a style that felt old and decorous sprinting in its verses and ballooning into big-melody choruses. The supporting lineup could give you a fast education in the music’s last 25 years including the early thrash-metal band verkill; the Swedish progressive-metal band peth which gets into sophisticated dense and gorgeous sonic territory; and the latest metal band to crack the Billboard Top 10 Lamb of God from Virginia. Lamb of God occupies another hard-rock position that was first struck shortly after the invention of speed-metal: the equal balance between hardcore punk and metal. It has become the new standard-bearing band for that crossover area and live it transmits the idea constantly musically and otherwise. The band’s guitar solos were baroque and technique-heavy; meanwhile its singer Randy Blythe short-haired and skinny and not your typical metal guy threw his middle-pitch voice down into the metal growl making specific between-song appeals both to the hardcore kids and the metalheads in the crowd. Gigantour continues through ct. 8 with shows at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel N.
Hyphen Magazine – Asian America Unabridged – Music Moments
Hyphen Magazine – Sep 30, 2006
1967: After befriending Beatle George Harrison sitar player Ravi Shankar plays at the monumental Monterey Pop Festival popularizing South Asian classical music in the West. 1968: Ben Fong-Torres begins writing for Rolling Stone Magazine and is promoted to news editor in 1969. He continues to be a major journalist in the American music scene. 1968: Asian Music a magazine dedicated to scholarly research on Asian musical art forms publishes its first issue. 1969: The San Francisco Taiko Dojo is founded by Seiichi Tanaka as an extension of the teachings of the eko Sukeroko Daiko School in Tokyo. " The avant-garde album is considered a forerunner to modern punk rock with no’s improvisational screaming vocals… 1969: The San Francisco Taiko Dojo is founded by Seiichi Tanaka as an extension of the teachings of the eko Sukeroko Daiko School in Tokyo. " The avant-garde album is considered a forerunner to modern punk rock with no’s improvisational screaming vocals. 1973: Charlie Chin Chris Iijima and Nobuko Miyamoto create the folk trio Yellow Pearl. Their first album "A Grain of Sand" spreads a political message championing minority rights immigrant rights and an anti-Vietnam War message. 1974: In the wake of popular kung fu movies arriving in American theaters soul artist Carl Douglas releases the novelty hit "Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting. " 1975: Latin soul pioneer Joe Bataan releases "Afrofilipino" one of his best-selling albums and a tribute to his bi-racial heritage.
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Montreal Mirror – Sep 30, 2006
The rent started really going up in the early ’90s and little by little it got to the point where even CBGB’s wasn’t safe. True to form though a punk rocker’s perpetual thirst for change and renewal challenges Ryan’s desire to lament the defilement of such a symbol. “But you know I don’t mean to sound selfish but CBGB’s had kinda lost what it used to be anyway. It was just kind of a lot of shitty bar bands playing there. It wasn’t the newest coolest bands playing there anymore. Sometimes I think maybe it’s better for places to I don’t know… “The bloated rock stuff had to end so that something more vibrant could come along” says Ryan. “It’s a good time because people are realizing that you don’t have to be one way or another. It seems like people who are making music now are people who are into everything. A lot of people I talk to who do electronic music they have a history of punk. With Mstrkrft Shir Khan and Jordan Dare at I Love Neon at SAT on Saturday Sept.