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- Punk at 30
- Mama Was a Riot Grrrl? Then Pick Up a Guitar and Play
- For a Hopping Club the Beat Goes nward
- Music | projo.com | The Providence Journal
Punk at 30
Canada.com – Nov 19, 2006
Sex Pistols? They were tamer than a vicar’s pet corgi. And as fake and manufactured as any boy band too. Iknow this because I read it in Punk: The Whole Story. It’s an overviewof the music the fashion and the spirit of the times expertly puttogether by MJ magazine writers who were there when punk was more aguerrilla skirmish than a full-blown uprising.
Mama Was a Riot Grrrl? Then Pick Up a Guitar and Play
New York Times – Nov 19, 2006
“Are you crying because they stopped honey?” Mom cooed. For this set of performers and audience members indie rock is as familiar as a lullaby. “We like punk classic rock metal riot grrrl” said Hugo an elfin-face sixth grader from Brooklyn who was given her first drum set at 7. Magnolia like other bands on the Union Hall bill Care Bears on Fire Tiny Masters of Today Fiasco Hysterics is more than a novelty act. It is developing a following on New York’s burgeoning under-age music circuit where bands too young for driving licenses have CDs Web sites and managers. “h my god there’s like a huge huge kid-rock scene here” said Jack McFadden known as Skippy who booked the show at Union Hall. “It’s really very indicative of Park Slope since so many of the parents who live around here are hip and have these hip little kids that they dress in like CBGBs T-shirts… “We like punk classic rock metal riot grrrl” said Hugo an elfin-face sixth grader from Brooklyn who was given her first drum set at 7. Magnolia like other bands on the Union Hall bill Care Bears on Fire Tiny Masters of Today Fiasco Hysterics is more than a novelty act. It is developing a following on New York’s burgeoning under-age music circuit where bands too young for driving licenses have CDs Web sites and managers. “h my god there’s like a huge huge kid-rock scene here” said Jack McFadden known as Skippy who booked the show at Union Hall. “It’s really very indicative of Park Slope since so many of the parents who live around here are hip and have these hip little kids that they dress in like CBGBs T-shirts. ” It makes sense: in this family-friendly part of Brooklyn every other brownstone seems to house creative professionals who urge their children to march to or become a different drummer. Nearly every weekend 10- to 17-year-olds play shows in the afternoon at bars like Union Hall the Liberty Heights Tap Room in Red Hook and Southpaw in Park Slope which has begun a teenage rock series the Young and the Restless.
For a Hopping Club the Beat Goes nward
New York Times – Nov 19, 2006
Phelps spruced up the club which holds 750 people in the main room and refocused on live music and booking diversified bands. “We try to do music that hits on all genres” he said. “For the students we have the dance party and we have shows for both the 21-and-over crowd and under-21. We had Vanilla Fudge here and I don’t think there was anyone under 60 in the audience. Then there was New Found Glory. I’d say that audience was 14 to 16… 19 followed by Deep Banana Blackout the Bridgeport-based funk-jam band on Nov. Agnostic Front the pioneering 22-year-old New York City hard-core punk band makes an appearance on Nov. 27 and Melissa Ferrick the Boston-based singer and songwriter will play on Nov. The club’s layout has been transformed too. The main room still feels like a small hangar with fading posters of everyone from Joe Satriani to Randy Newman to Big Audio Dynamite lining the walls.
Music | projo.com | The Providence Journal
Providence Journal – Nov 19, 2006
“Neither is this. ”nce again he’s donning his “stretchy pants Lucha Goro shoes and a George Ballachine-like top” probably some bracelets and maybe a little eyeliner and at age 56 becoming the iconic frontman of the Dolls for a tour that brings them to Lupo’s in Providence on Tuesday. Like the Velvet Underground and the Replacements this glam-punk quintet from the early ’70s inspired countless oddball kids to start a rock band. ne of them was England’s Steven Morrissey who became the singer of 1980s mope-rock kings the Smiths. nce president of the Dolls’ British fan club he’s responsible for the current rebirth of the Dolls. In 2004 he invited Johansen to reunite the Dolls for a British rock festival he was curating. In Johansen’s typical wisenheimer way he responded by asking whether Morrissey would reunite the Smiths?“He said: ‘Absolutely not’ ” Johansen recalled… In the 1980s he created Poindexter a suave lounge singer who cut several albums scored the party hit “Hot Hot Hot” and performed in the house band on Saturday Night Live. In 2000 he made an album of mostly traditional folk-blues as David Johansen and the Harry Smiths. He currently hosts a weekly music program on Sirius Satellite Radio. All these disparate adventures raise the question: What inspired Johansen to write “Personality Crisis” one of the all-time great rock songs for the Dolls?The spark came after asking the Ridiculous Theatre director how he was feeling. The response was “I’m having a personality crisis. ”“I thought that was really funny” Johansen said. “At some point Johnny [Thunders the Dolls guitarist] came up with this riff and I just started singing ‘Personality crisis.