The News Review:
- Isis: “In the Absence of Truth”
- Pop and Rock Listings
- Punk band says Friday’s show will be final one – College Football
- Jim Skafish the self-proclaimed godfather of Chicago punk has a…
- Readers recommend: self-referential songs
- … Bad Boy South Renews Block Venture – News Story | Music…
Isis: “In the Absence of Truth”
Western Courier – Western Courier (subscription) – Nov 17, 2006
From very long dramatic solos to almost completely instrumental songs that mostly last at least six minutes or more is definitely worth the buy. Not only are the instrumentals on this album great and a change from the everyday pop-punk music played on the radio but Turner has a very unique voice that can be mellow or change to a deep screaming when need be. It gives the album an overall uniqueness from the everyday norm. All the songs flow together on the album and can be heavy and hard or more mellow. “Dulcinea” is a good example of this. It starts off slightly slow and dark followed with more long and heavy riffs and some light screaming if you want to call it that.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Nov 17, 2006
Irving Plaza 17 Irving Place at 15th Street Manhattan (212) 777-6800 irvingplaza. (Sisario) ★ PERE UBU BUSH TETRAS (Wednesday) Punk rock had an unassimilable avant-garde right from the start: in the mid-70s while bands like the Dead Boys and the Ramones were perfecting the narrow sonic attack that came to be known as punk Pere Ubu from Cleveland was playing a dissonant urgent and deeply idiosyncratic variation centered on the sung-spoken vocals of David Thomas. The Bush Tetras of early 80s New York vintage have a squirmy funk take on experimental rock. Knitting Factory 74 Leonard Street TriBeCa (212) 219-3006 knittingfactory… plays bluegrass country and blues in an elegant but understated style. He performs as part of a tribute to the Friends of ld Time Music an organization that played an important role in the early 1960s folk revival in New York City by putting on concerts by rural musicians (it first presented Mr. Watson in 1962); that group is also commemorated on an outstanding new boxed set “Friends of ld Time Music: The Folk Revival 1961-1965″ (Smithsonian Folkways). Also on the bill tomorrow are the New Lost City Ramblers John Sebastian of the Lovin’ Spoonful and Jean Ritchie.
Punk band says Friday’s show will be final one – College Football
ESPN – Nov 17, 2006
Biafra told the Free Press the band will donate proceeds from the show to a charity chosen by the Schembechler family. The band was planning to make Friday one of the biggest days of its career. At the Newport Music Hall across from the hio State campus they have taken down the words “Dead Schembechlers” on the marquee and substituted “God Bless Bo. A statement on the band’s website headlined “B SCHEMBECHLER: SU’S MST VALIANT FE” said on Friday: “The band is crushed to learn of the death of Bo Schembechler. We named this band after Coach Schembechler to honor him as the face of Wolverine football. We have never wished ill will upon him in any way and have always wished him the best. When we learned that Bo had seen our web site and was amused by it we were delighted.
Jim Skafish the self-proclaimed godfather of Chicago punk has a…
Chicago Reader – Nov 17, 2006
There were lots of keyand time signature changes with synthsand keyboards washing over jitteringguitar and bass. The vocals were alwaysfront and center and the lyrics were astortured as the music was genial: in“Disgracing the Family Name” theband’s first single Skafish cataloged hisfamily members and what they allthought of him while in “Joan FanClub” he took on the persona of theleader of a group of popular kids whotormented a fat girl with acne. And then there was the stage show. ver six feet tall with an unforgettablyenormous nose and sagging man-boobsSkafish often came on dressed in vintageladies’ bathing suits or tube tops.
Readers recommend: self-referential songs
guardian.co.uk – Nov 17, 2006
My Robot Friend wrote We’re the Pet Shop Boys as homage only for the Pet Shop Boys to record it themselves and Sparks covered We Are the Clash despite being patently not the Clash. Reassuringly the Monkees (hey hey) really were the Monkees. Self-referential pop flirts with smugness but the sheer art-punk exuberance of Art Brut’s Formed a Band mitigates the smart aleckry. It’s a perfect statement of intent as is Antmusic in which Adam seizes his pop crown by decreeing that all music not made by himself is rubbish. Artists with established reputations can play games with them. In 1978 John Lydon built a funeral pyre for his Johnny Rotten persona and called it Public Image Ltd… Reassuringly the Monkees (hey hey) really were the Monkees. Self-referential pop flirts with smugness but the sheer art-punk exuberance of Art Brut’s Formed a Band mitigates the smart aleckry. It’s a perfect statement of intent as is Antmusic in which Adam seizes his pop crown by decreeing that all music not made by himself is rubbish. Artists with established reputations can play games with them. In 1978 John Lydon built a funeral pyre for his Johnny Rotten persona and called it Public Image Ltd. n Glass nion John Lennon mocks his own followers with a string of allusions to past hits and Paul-is-dead rumours attempting to puncture the Beatles myth from within.
… Bad Boy South Renews Block Venture – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Nov 17, 2006
The White Stripes hit a whole new stage Friday as the band’s music makes its ballet debut at London’s Royal pera House. The Royal Ballet production of “Chroma” choreographed by Wayne McGregor and featuring avant-garde interpretations of White Stripes songs by composer Joby Talbot (Divine Comedy) will run for five performances ending November 29. Talbot’s take on the Stripes tracks are also featured on the album Aluminium available at Alumiiinium… Against Me! the Bronx the Riverboat Gamblers and a crew of other punks are joining forces for a good cause. All the proceeds from the 2006 Rock to Roll Holiday Bash to be held December 14 at the Key Club in West Hollywood California will go to Wheels for Humanity a nonprofit group that distributes wheelchairs to disabled people worldwide. The inexpensive benefit event (tickets cost less than $20) will also feature members of Flogging Molly Bad Religion Face to Face Pennywise the Living End Social Distortion Hot Water Music and Agent range.