The News Review:
- Punknews.org | Movement / Endgame – Split
- Thirty years later Dolls live up to punk legacy
- It’s a bit like 1992 for Dando: LEMNHEADS FRNT MAN REFRESHED BY…
- Rounding Up the Best of the Boxed
- Mudmen put the punk into celtic rock
- Greatest hits collections: Making the best of it
- Lesbian punk singer is NME’s coolest
Punknews.org | Movement / Endgame – Split
Punknews.org – Nov 24, 2006
They’re cut from a rough-hewn forward thinking cloth. They’re compassionate without being maudlin and angry without sounding petulant. What we have here are a bunch of normal kids banging out streamlined punk music for their friends with little regard for financial gain or status accrual. Whenever I hear a band like Movement I’m brought back to a youth spent in the late `90s of New Brunswick NJ. Nearly every night of the week scores of local bands played in basements across the city. And many of them sounded like Movement: mid-tempo gruffly shouted punk rock. I actually hear a lot of Gainesville in this band.
Thirty years later Dolls live up to punk legacy
Boston Globe – Nov 24, 2006
And Monday night as the headliners of Little Steven’s touring caravan of pencil-thin outcasts with rooster-cut hair the old drag queens acquitted themselves memorably. And they did it thankfully at this stage of the game without the drag. No matter because the music was just as garish as ever and sleazy old faves like the opener “Looking for a Kiss” and the metallic “Jet Boy” were dressed up in glittery diamond-hard guitar riffs. (Sylvain’s new foil lead guitarist Steve Conte had mastered his Doll parts well. ) They sat seamlessly alongside new indulgences like “Fishnets & Cigarettes” and “Dance Like a Monkey. ” The 50-something Johansen poured into midriff-baring top and obscenely tight trousers was all mouth crotch and mane vamping with a crude craggy voice that matched the Jagger-esque caricature of his expression. Sylvain’s tender vocal turn on the wistful “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory” a tribute to the Dolls’ late guitarist Johnny Thunders was a poignant glance back… Among the supporting acts veteran neo-garage outfit the Chesterfield Kings delivered perhaps the night’s finest performance expertly mining the sonic sneer of the circa ‘66 Stones and Pretty Things with a mixture of fetishistic precision and aggressive abandon. The Supersuckers followed with their blistering blend of supercharged roots rock and earlier Boston’s own Charms were a charismatic retro-pop treat. Red Invasion also from Boston delivered a solid tone-setting opener of glam-punk.
It’s a bit like 1992 for Dando: LEMNHEADS FRNT MAN REFRESHED BY…
Free with registration – San Jose Mercury News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 24, 2006
24–When Evan Dando decided to crank up the guitars for his latest project he opted to give it a familiar name. The CD was recorded with the rhythm section from the veter.
Rounding Up the Best of the Boxed
New York Times – Nov 24, 2006
They also remix old material for new media. And some repackage everything an act has released and more in exhaustive sets. Here the music critics of The New York Times review the year’s most notable sets of three or more CDs; a selection of greatest-hits and live collections will appear next week. JN PARELES Skip to next paragraph Multimedia… com or 203-327-7111. ) BEN RATLIFFA LIFE LESS LIVED: THE GTHIC BXInstead of chronicling a career or a record label or a genre this boxed set chronicles a sensibility. For more than a quarter-century fans of moody theatrical post-punk have been calling themselves gothic or goth; the term was often wielded as an insult but it survived and flourished and so did the sensibility it described. (Patricia Morrison a former member of Gun Club who also performed with Sisters of Mercy describes her bands’ aesthetic as “dark and glamorous. “)But what does gothic mean? This set wisely dodges the question. The essays are conjectural (mentioning the influence of 1970s horror movies and the importance of the London club the Batcave which opened in 1982) rather than definitive. And the discs contain a respectable sampling of bands (many of them British and many unopposed to spiky bass lines or atmospheric keyboards) that were associated with the scene not always happily.
Mudmen put the punk into celtic rock
Imprint – Nov 24, 2006
This turned out to be The First Time a standard punk-rock band. pening with "New Day Dawning" off their new three-song EP The First Time quickly established itself as what it was — an opening number. As punk-rock goes these guys certainly weren’t bad but there was so little originality or genuine energy about their music they faded into the background for me. The exception to this was in Ron McJannet’s (lead singer) vocals which brought to mind a more nasal Billy Talent with occasional touches of ur Lady Peace and which were impressively strong and controlled. Even so this band didn’t seem to know how to hold the stage. Whether this is a symptom of the band’s recent re-organization or not remains to be seen but the fact was that McJannet bassist Bill Borda and guitarist James Whitton did little more than stand and deliver which just wasn’t enough for a live show. Stacey Washington the band’s drummer should be given credit though; he spent the show blissfully and obliviously bludgeoning the fear of God into his drums.
Greatest hits collections: Making the best of it
Independent – Nov 24, 2006
This Christmas’s REM compilation And I Feel Fine: 1982-1987 which charts their independent record label years before they signed to Warner Brothers has also caused a reassessment of a band increasingly seen as stadium-rock bores sending fans back to the wonders of early work such as Fables of the Reconstruction (1985). Domino Records has been at the forefront of this educational drive. This Monday saw the release of Entomology by Josef K a best-of by an obscure but influential post-punk Glasgow band who had no hits. It follows last year’s early range Juice best-of The Glasgow School. “It’s that thing where bands are getting name-checked by other bands but it’s been difficult to get hold of their music” explains the label’s Paul Sandell. “If you weren’t in Glasgow at that time Josef K may have passed you by. But that doesn’t mean their best wasn’t great.
Lesbian punk singer is NME’s coolest
Digital Spy – Nov 24, 2006
Last year’s leader was the Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner while Pete Doherty was top in 2004. ther women making the top 10 are Lily Allen Karen of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs The Long Blondes’ Kate Jackson and Lovefoxxx of CSS. Conor McNicholas NME editor said: “This year’s Cool List is a testament to the raft of hugely talented women who have taken hold of the music scene in 2006. “From Beth to Lily to Karen they’ve brought new energy to a scene dominated by men. They’re also living proof that you can still rock a crowd when you’re wearing stilettos. ” While Turner has now dropped to 32nd place old-timers Jarvis Cocker and Thom Yorke have bagged top 10 spots. The Cool List’s top 10:1.