The News Review:
- Punk rock venues pump up the volume.
- Kanye Sponsoring Race Car – News Story | Music Celebrity Artist…
- Band’s biography details how teen angst grows up
- Live Music
- HEAVY WEATHER.
- The Singles
- CMEDY: Indie comedians leave the club behind
Punk rock venues pump up the volume.
Free with registration – Chattanooga Times/Free Press – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 20, 2006
In a basement in North Chattanooga that looks somewhat like the inside of New York City’s recently closed CBGB music club someone in the crowd yelled at the band to turn up the volume and they did until the ground shook. The energy is undeniable. It’s a punk rock show. The crowd is sweaty. The punk rock scene in Chattanooga is secretive in.
Kanye Sponsoring Race Car – News Story | Music Celebrity Artist…
MTV.com – Nov 20, 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.
Band’s biography details how teen angst grows up
San Francisco Chronicle – Nov 20, 2006
The band has long since come to terms with its own ambitions. “You’re supposed to be a superstar” Armstrong says noting that hip-hop artists flaunt their wealth and take musical risks because “they’re not afraid to be successful. ” Punk rock’s ethical dogma by contrast “ends up making for conservative music. ” A decade after “Dookie” which Spitz compares to “a Cabbage Patch Kid (or later a Tickle Me Elmo) a must-have for children” “American Idiot” found the band reaching a newfound maturity in its approach to the ageless romance of the teen years. “They’d become the biggest band in the world.
Live Music
New York Times – Nov 20, 2006
It used to play almost exclusively to the alternative scene but it has expanded its offerings to include discos blues bars and honky-tonks. The top live music venue is the Gypsy Tea Room 2548 Elm St. com) Dallas’s current standard-bearer for live performance… For live all-ages (really all-ages — if you’re under 10 you get in free!) rock and pop gigs including emo (short for emotional) punk-rock and Christian acts (sometimes a whole slew of bands in a single night) check out The Door 3202 Elm St. It has a large concert space as well as a lounge and theater. For live blues (and this is the district that cradled blues legend Blind Lemon Jefferson) check out Deep Ellum Blues 2612 Commerce St.
HEAVY WEATHER.
Free with registration – New Yorker – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 20, 2006
In the late eighties two teen-age skateboarders Camilo (Chino) Moreno and Stephen Carpenter met in Sacramento and began talking about music. Carpenter who liked aggressive heavy metal had been hit by a drunk driver while skateboarding and had bought an elaborate guitar rig with money he won as a settlement. Moreno was a fan of the morose British band Depeche Mode and the Washington D. hard-core punk pioneer Bad Brains. Eventually he joined Carpenter’s new band Deftones as the lead singer. (The name is a pun on “def” a term of approbation in hip-hop and “tone deaf… “) When Deftones’ first album “Adrenaline” was released in 1995 the group was described as part of an emerging genre called “nu metal” which also included the bands Korn (with whom Deftones toured) Limp Bizkit and several years later the extremely popular Linkin Park. These groups took pride in playing well and shared a fondness for expensive equipment and the distorted guitar sounds of eighties metal bands like Metallica and Slayer. They also tended to equate music-making with catharsis whether their lyrics dealt with child abuse (Korn) bitterness (Limp Bizkit) or cryptic epiphanies. CPYRIGHT 2006 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.
The Singles
Pitchforkmedia.com – Nov 20, 2006
So the set given its format and the slant of its liners tries to give a taste of what it meant to be following the Clash when they were vital and when they made statements a song at a time. If you want this set you either hope to re-live that era of picking up the new Clash 45s at they hit the shops– you were there– or you want to imagine you did. The music is almost uniformly fantastic. The Clash have aged very well and their appeal now is probably broader than ever. But they were always a big-tent kind of band. I was never an anglophile and I was never even remotely a punk but growing up I could still dig the Clash. They were always the most inclusive of punk bands respected by the hardcore scenesters but equally by the dabblers who saw them as one band among many… The Clash have aged very well and their appeal now is probably broader than ever. But they were always a big-tent kind of band. I was never an anglophile and I was never even remotely a punk but growing up I could still dig the Clash. They were always the most inclusive of punk bands respected by the hardcore scenesters but equally by the dabblers who saw them as one band among many. They achieved such democratic appeal in part because of the Beatles-like songwriting tension between the late Joe Strummer and Mick Jones and in part because they never stayed any one place for long. Strummer was the heart and soul of the band but Jones tempered Strummer’s bellow softening and broadening the band’s sound and appeal. Throw in strong musicianship all the way around lyrics that never took the easy path to getting their point across and an insatiable curiosity and you get a band that deserves to be called among the best of the rock era.
CMEDY: Indie comedians leave the club behind
Times Herald-Record – Nov 20, 2006
As my manager would say it was an untapped market. “Rimshots”Saturday Night Live” cast member Fred Armisen got into comedy after drumming for the punk band Trenchmouth. He mocked Austin’s SXSW music festival in a short film and immediately caught the attention of the comedy world. He has directed music videos and appeared in the acclaimed Wilco documentary “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart. “”I’ve been able to spend time with some very smart and funny comedians” Armisen said. I get to watch my favorites as well as hang out with them.