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- The Death of Pike/Pine
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- Introducing: Post Your wn Review (of Modest Mouse)
- Underground music out in the open
- … 41 Promise Return To Killer Form – News Story | Music…
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Boston Globe – Nov 29, 2006
I used to complain to my friends about this all the time. And then I became an annoying back-seat driver of DJ booths. I’d poke my face into the DJ’s nook and make honest (and usually inappropriate) requests: if I was at a gay club I’d ask the DJ to play punk music. If I was at a rock club I’d want rap.
… Jay-Z At Rock The Bells Concert – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Nov 29, 2006
“The thing about ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ it was a watershed moment in rock music. It changed everything” Q’s deputy editor Gareth Grundy said. “It put heavy music back on the map in the early ’90s really that combination of punk-rock anger and the heavy Black Sabbath ’70s metal. It was something new. Sulky kids everywhere loved Nirvana and continue to do so.
The Death of Pike/Pine
TheStranger.com – Nov 29, 2006
Homeless guys with scraggly beards bought beer and bummed cigarettes in front of Harry’s Grocery. At Kincora Pub middle-aged men in trucker hats and a crowd of twentysomething guys sat around on battered vinyl furniture and shouted out stories as punk music blasted in the background. Next door at Manray impeccably groomed boys sat at impeccably white tables sizing each other up. ver at the Cha Cha Lounge twentysomethings with greasy emo hair (overheard: “Everyone in Seattle has the same hair—the guys and the girls”) crowded around the bar and made small talk. (”I wonder how many STDs he has. ” “Probably like 25.
The Early November | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones…
MTV.com – Nov 29, 2006
Various rounds of touring followed. In March 2007 the bandmembers announced their plans to go on an indefinite hiatus after the completion of scheduled dates that year to spend more time with family. setNGrp(1);lsConf. setNKw(10);lsConf.
Introducing: Post Your wn Review (of Modest Mouse)
Rolling Stone – Nov 29, 2006
This was the first time most in the audience had seen Modest Mouse with recently added ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr who’s gigging with the band after helping to write and record the follow-up to its 2004 platinum breakthrough. And though it may just have been a hot night the show suggested that Modest Mouse seem to have their shit more together than ever. Typical Modest Mouse material — catchy tightly wound art-punk songs marked by Brock’s distinctive voice — often gets messy onstage. But having added Marr and a second drummer Modest Mouse sounded big and cohesive most of the evening. As they bounced through stellar oldies solid new songs and some (not-so-tight) jams Marr barely moved a muscle subtly beefing up the guitar attack and playing a centered counterpoint to Brock’s oddball shaman. lder stuff like “Breakthrough” and the bluegrass-on-crack “Bukowski” drew huge cheers. Discounting Marr’s fluid guitar the five new songs didn’t sound terribly different from earlier material but they did sound promising… Sorry Issac! Point is …treat yourselfto a live performance of Modest Mouse and I should’ve included Neil Young in the most original and best I’ve witnessed thus far in my fifty young years on the planet…and if anybodys listeningand can get a word to Mr. Young we would love to see you swing back through Texas… Happy Holidays Y’all!Diana W. I was born in 1957. you do the math…My firt Rock concert was Led Zeppelin way back in 1975 again do the math…I respect anybodys reviews and you have the right to feel the way you feel however let me share a few thoughts.
Underground music out in the open
Austin 360 – Austin 360 (subscription) – Nov 29, 2006
To be fair this sort of thing has been cooking in Williams’ brain for a long time especially after the Austin City Limits Festival took off. “I always thought it’d be cool to have something more like Coachella” Williams says. “Austin is such a big place for so many scenes in underground music that it’s kind of odd that there’s no sort of festival for those underground. The fact that Emo’s was booked that night it kicked me into gear. He hit the phones in September locally and nationally for bands to fill out the lineup and by ctober the festival had come together. It helped that most of the acts involved were already on tour. “Circle Jerks Negative Approach and Prefuse are the only fly-ins” Williams says meaning they were the only bands that required plane tickets for this one-off show… was booked to play the prestigious All Tomorrows Parties festival in England in December Williams offered the Austin fest as a warm-up gig complete with plane tickets. This might seem like a lot of work and money for a punk reunion but Williams disagrees. “I think that it will really pay off” he says. “Most of the people coming from out of town I know are coming to see N. The band was pretty adamant about not touring so this is it.
… 41 Promise Return To Killer Form – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Nov 29, 2006
href} {button:true} );Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley would like to think he learned a lot in his first 24 years on this earth but nothing could prepare him for the past 24 months. During that tumultuous span he nearly died while filming a documentary in the war-torn African nation of Congo wrote a critically and commercially panned album about the ordeal toured the world parted ways with founding Sum guitarist Dave “Brownsound” Baksh nearly disbanded the group altogether and officially entered the paparazzi zone by marrying Canadian punk-pop princess Avril Lavigne. And needless to say those experiences affected him immensely. “At this time last year we finally got off tour and we had been on the road for like five years going from album to tour and then another album and another tour. So we were all really burned out” he sighed. “We had no plans we weren’t going to do anything and I wasn’t even sure if we were going to do another Sum 41 record… “But I’ve always written all the songs. If you ask Cone or Steve they’ll tell you I write all the songs. There are different roles to play in each band and mine is to create the music. And perhaps the biggest lesson Whibley has learned over the past two years is the one that he’s applying in very liberal doses to the new Sum record: “Go with my gut and not give a f— what anyone else thinks. ” And no Avril doesn’t appear on the disc. “We can’t wait for fans to hear this album. And we can’t wait to get out on the road and prove ourselves to people” Whibley said.