The News Review:
- New influences on tribal music
- We’re gonna make you a star
- Talking ’bout my generation
- The Anti-Hit List for November 25
- Incubus back and better with new album
- Plus Lemonade and Duchess Says
New influences on tribal music
Arizona Daily Star – Nov 25, 2006
"I think it’s a reaction to popular culture" Price said. "I think young people are trying to express themselves with more programs being cut in the schools. A lot of these musicians make up their own lyrics and music create their own poetry. " Production companies like Peaks Productions started by Price and Mike Nez as Blue Korn Boy Productions have stepped forward to help young American Indian musicians get started. "If it wasn’t for producers like us they wouldn’t have as many opportunities to practice" she said. "I don’t think anyone would hear them. We’ve carved out a niche… "They played in the honky-tonk bars; those are the ones who actually make a living out on the rez" he said. "The first radio stations on the rez were from klahoma City ? Willy Nelson Hank Williams Johnny Cash. " Punk has been a big influence on the reservation and Begay’s Downplay group has a huge following RedDay added. "That’s the one thing that keeps the kids out of trouble ? the music the underground scene" he said.
We’re gonna make you a star
Times nline – Nov 25, 2006
If interest continues to pick up pace and WardMurphy’s total reaches $50000 he gets to record his album. Arctic Monkeys Lily Allen and Sandi Thom have all famously had their success associated with the low-cost long-reach of the web. But on closer inspection it’s not at all clear whether any of them was ever a genuine example of independent artists doing it for themselves online (the digital era’s punk aesthetic) or actually recipients of record company hype. Arctic Monkeys didn’t have a MySpace page until shortly before their debut single release; Allen was already signed by an EMI subsidiary before she joined MySpace; and Thom had a lucrative publishing deal in place by the time she began webcasting. Ward-Murphy’s web page is different. It’s published by Sellaband — a new company bringing independent music directly to fans. Artists upload their music on to the Sellaband site and make it available for free… Arctic Monkeys didn’t have a MySpace page until shortly before their debut single release; Allen was already signed by an EMI subsidiary before she joined MySpace; and Thom had a lucrative publishing deal in place by the time she began webcasting. Ward-Murphy’s web page is different. It’s published by Sellaband — a new company bringing independent music directly to fans. Artists upload their music on to the Sellaband site and make it available for free. “Believers” support their favourite bands by buying shares (“parts”) for $10 each and getting more people to invest. The Dutch Gothic rock band Nemesea have just become the first group to reach the $50000 required to open the recording studio doors. For their faith and dosh believers will receive a special edition of the completed album on CD and alongside the artists and Sellaband share advertising revenue.
Talking ’bout my generation
The Age – Nov 25, 2006
The wider culture had caught up. Books films and television government policy and schoolsyllabuses were all responding to the changes of the 1960s in manycases with enthusiasm. There would be later periods when popularmusic such as punk and hip-hop would briefly matter again as away of communicating ideas but they would generally be the same asthose of the 1960s although Christian rock would provide aninteresting counterpoint. Popular music is hardly an ideal way to convey new values: youdon’t have much time for exposition and few people are payingattention anyway. But for the long decade of the 1960s it was theonly way to talk about some things to a large audience. Perhapsthis attracted a certain type of artist and helps answer the oldquestion of why there have been no new lyricists of the quality ofBob Dylan Joni Mitchell and Neil Young.
The Anti-Hit List for November 25
Toronto Star – Nov 25, 2006
AGRIA "BABUL HAIR CUTTIN’ " (VIDE) In which things go terribly awry with a woman’s hair following a seemingly routine visit to the salon. Like many of the Daft Punk and Fatboy Slim videos the visual narrative here makes the music retroactively interesting. Without it the song feels like part of a soundtrack that was written before the film it was intended for actually existed. (From The Green Armchair.
Incubus back and better with new album
New Zealand Herald – Nov 25, 2006
The pair both 30 are a stark contrast to look at: Boyd is an obvious frontman with perfect skin a frat-boy hair cut and bulbous earrings through both ear lobes while Einziger hardly looks like a rock star with his ginger beard and tight curly locks. They’ve been friends since high school in Calabasas California where they formed Incubus with drummer Jose Pasillas when they were 15. That was in 1991 and they were committed to their music. “It was almost like a punk rock ethic and the integrity of the band was musically based nothing else; like [expletive] the aesthetic and [expletive] the way it was presented” says Boyd. But at the end of the band’s last tour for Crow in 2004 Boyd says they needed a break from music and returned home to Los Angeles where “we were able to unpack for the first time in a decade. We did nothing with the band for a year. We fixed our houses that were sitting there rotting away” says Boyd.
Plus Lemonade and Duchess Says
SFStation.com – Nov 25, 2006
But it’s downright transparent compared to their public fa?e. Montreal’s preeminent art-punks demolish the lines between music presentation and promotion– all are subsumed in their impregnable aesthetic front which they bolster by playing up the ridiculous elements of their garbled French-inflected English. "- from Pitchforkmedia by Brian Howe Advertise with SF Station | Media Kit | Job pportunities |. php” >Site Map | List Your Business | List Your Event… But it’s downright transparent compared to their public fa?e. Montreal’s preeminent art-punks demolish the lines between music presentation and promotion– all are subsumed in their impregnable aesthetic front which they bolster by playing up the ridiculous elements of their garbled French-inflected English. "- from Pitchforkmedia by Brian Howe Advertise with SF Station | Media Kit | Job pportunities |. php” >Site Map | List Your Business | List Your Event. php” >Contact SF Station | About SF Station |. php” >Privacy Policy |.