The News Review:
- Put the long faces out to pasture
- Music Review | Trail of Dead; Blood Brothers
- Music Review | Scritti Politti
- Van Halen: Van Halen : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
- Punk rock to comics
- Throbbing band surfs Joint
Put the long faces out to pasture
Sydney Morning Herald – Nov 13, 2006
Australian horses have the typically raffish fair-skinned looks oftheir European horse forebears; Japanese horses look much the samebut in a demonstrably more Japanese way. Social problems are also a concern. The high rate of Japaneseyouth horse suicide for instance is linked to the growing problemof hikikomori whereby young Japanese horses confine themselves totheir stables for months on end and do nothing but eat sleep andlisten to punk music. As we prepare for the assault ahead we must ask ourselves: dowe really want the fine racing tradition of this great nation to beoverrun by a bunch of drink-shy stay-at-home Kitty-greetingmilk-hating untalkative Japanese horse thugs? In their differencein their inscrutability in their very foreignness Japanese horsesare the greatest threat facing our nation today.
Music Review | Trail of Dead; Blood Brothers
New York Times – Nov 13, 2006
Drawing mainly from its riveting new release “Young Machetes” (V2) the band kept up a ceaseless tumult. At times the sound pointed back to the blunt velocity of hardcore punk but it also evoked the flickering heat of experimental art-punk thanks to the stealthy control exercised by the guitarist Cody Votolato. ne of the group’s best new songs “Camouflage Camouflage” ricocheted from busy verse to cathartic chorus and back before leading to a ballad interlude that momentarily lulled the whirligig movement in a mosh pit at the center of the crowd. No moshing took place during Trail of Dead’s set though the band seemed determined to pursue a version of hardcore rawness. Jason Reece who founded the group with Mr. Keely strained to sing lead vocal on some of their tough older tunes like “Caterwaul” and “Homage.
Music Review | Scritti Politti
New York Times – Nov 13, 2006
Gartside had a panic attack during an early concert stopped performing in 1980 and retreated to the studio for decades returning to the stage only this year. In his seclusion Scritti Politti’s music changed from dissonant post-punk to gleaming keyboard-centered danceable pop aiming not for some arty in-group but for the Top 10. Scritti Politti had a 1985 hit “Perfect Way” that sounded closer to Michael Jackson and Madonna than to Gang of Four. (The band didn’t play that song at the Bowery though it did perform another major hit “Wood Beez. “)Hip-hop with its novel sounds and its complexly rhymed free-associative lyrics now feeds into Mr. Gartside’s music along with the yearning harmonically convoluted ballads of Brian Wilson the ebullience and structural experiments of the.
Van Halen: Van Halen : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone – Nov 13, 2006
They are however part of the general movement of lunacy and satire that is shaking up the music industry. A lot of people thought the Sex Pistols were going to blaze the trail into the Top Ten but the real breakthrough was Randy Newman’s “Short People. Like these two acts and unlike the punks Root Boy Slim and the Sex Change Band are both humorously and musically accessible. Their stance as over-the-hill wimps is just unthreatening enough that hopelessly corrupt radio programmers might play their music.
Punk rock to comics
Topeka Capital Journal – Nov 13, 2006
Seniors in good academic standing can attend the 40-minute session which takes place during Scot Time every Thursday. Fred Willer a social worker at HPHS oversees Senior Seminar and he along with other staff members develop topics to teach. Topics have included the history of punk rock music; film noir; the history of comics; Russian literature; and birth order. Last Thursday about 20 students gathered in the school’s collaboration room to learn about filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Willer led the session and students watched the filmmaker’s work and discussed it.
Throbbing band surfs Joint
SCSU University Chronicle – Nov 13, 2006
“As long as we know what we are doing making something different which is surf rock but aggressive” Scott said. The performance creates the aura of cruising in a car every song begins with a ride along the West Coast. As Ryan’s ferocious drumming digs in the music takes on a different identity. Their brand of punk is artistically put together. A clear example of their artistry is “Saddle Up” with a repetitious soaring bass and the stylistic plucking of lead guitarist Alex. It starts out like a opening track for a western and as the drums kick in it turns into a shootout of a thousand cowboys. “Stabbing the F–king Butcher” and “Rough Uncle” are sinister with tough blends of music which bring out this band’s true sense of the Throbbing Hot Rods style and identity.