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- Sensuous stage act
- Archival Declarations and Mopes Packaged for Gift Giving
- Music to our queer ears: from hip-hop to punk rock these music docs…
- We built this city on punk rock and roll
- The best music autobiographies for Christmas
- The transformation of My Chemical Romance | Music News | Music |…
Sensuous stage act
The Age – Dec 1, 2006
An electric live performer he has on past tours employedeverything from dancing apes to laser light shows and classicalinterludes and he will debut his stage show The CorneliusSensuous Showcase in Australia. yamada says without elaboration that his latest albumSensuous is the product of “various experiences out ofthe ordinary” and it won’t disappoint fans captivated by the magicgenius of Fantasma or the more introspective atmosphericPoint. Two years in the making Sensuous invites comparisonsto the Beach Boys Japanese punk music Supertramp electronicmaverick Herbert ambient music styles and traditional Japanesemusic pieces. Tracks such as the dream-like Like a RollingStone the fragmented modem feedback of Scrum and theriff-heavy garage squall of Gum demonstrate yamada hasn’tlost his fondness for genre-hopping experimentalism. Then when the folksy Music and the chugging discogroove of the wonderful Beep It have died down yamada’sversion of Dean Martin’s Sleep Warm a dozyeffects-drenched 21st-century lullaby closes the album withtypically illusory ethereal splendour. “When I was cleaning up my father’s records an album (with thatsong on it) came out” he explains. “It was Frank Sinatra’s versionactually but my parents used to play that kind of music in the carwhen I was a child.
Archival Declarations and Mopes Packaged for Gift Giving
New York Times – Dec 1, 2006
In the 1980s this influential British group helped prove that dance music could be as brutal as any form of rock. This two-disc set combines many of the most important Nitzer Ebb singles including “Warsaw Ghetto” from 1985 which laid an ominous (if slightly elliptical) rant atop a hard and propulsive electronic beat. This genre came to be known as electronic body music or EBM and the second disc gathers some of the remixes that became club classics like “Join in the Chant (Gold!)” from 1987. From Nine Inch Nails to LCD Soundsystem it’s not hard to hear the influence of Nitzer Ebb and the other EBM pioneers but few groups ever made dance music as uncheerful as this stuff. KELEFA SANNEHDNA DUMITRU SIMINICA: ‘SUNDS FRM A BYGNE AGE VL. 3′ (Asphalt Tango). A Romanian Gypsy singer Siminica used a falsetto voice that went beyond the freakish or eerie: it’s soulful careful big-bodied with long sweeping notes… Vassar’s own country hits like “Just Another Day in Paradise” and “Last Day of My Life” which is released for the first time on this CD. For a moment in 1977 British punk belonged to X-Ray Spex and its mocking hit single whose title begins “h! Bondage” with Poly Styrene blurting her taunts in a rush of punk guitars and honking saxophone. In other songs on the band’s one album Poly Styrene would taunt poseurs conformists and other willing participants in consumer society: mostly in punk tantrums with sharp little riffs but occasionally easing back into melodies. “Let’s Submerge” is an exhaustive two-CD collection album outtakes demos live recordings that unearths Poly Styrene’s prepunk pop-reggae single (when she was Mari Elliott) and a song from her calmer self in 1980. The moment didn’t last but while it did X-Ray Spex summed up its sass and adrenaline.
Music to our queer ears: from hip-hop to punk rock these music docs…
Free with registration – Curve – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 1, 2006
(Video recording review) –>CPYRIGHT 2006 Curve Magazine utspoken Enterprises San Francisco CA 94102 (415) 863-6538 Whether she’s into rap or rock the music lover in your life will dig this month’s picks. Pick up the Mic explores the thriving underground homohop scene while Rise Above looks at the history of the iconic queercore band Tribe 8. Wherever your musical tastes may lie a few fine ladies with a good sense of rhythm sure know how to hold our attention. Pick up the Mic: The Revolution of Homohop (Planet Janice Films) To the uninitiated “queer hip-hop” sounds like a bit of an oxymoron. Hip-hop often means beefy ultrahetero men necks adorned with bling and lyrics rife with misogyny and homophobia.
We built this city on punk rock and roll
Concord Monitor – Dec 1, 2006
net along with the tour map. “You get the sensation you’re actually getting messages from actual musicians that are guiding you through the city” says executive producer Jesse Shapins. Kara ehler a Yellow Arrow contributor and radio journalist helped conceive of the “Capitol of Punk” tour while working on a segment about music for American Public Media’s “Marketplace. ” ehler 28 grew up listening to punk in Indianapolis and served as the group’s expert on the subject. ehler Shapins and Allen started working on the project in January. During interviews with 15 or so musicians ehler asked them to point to significant locations on a giant map of Washington. “They would see what someone else had marked and they would say ‘h I remember that!’ ” ehler says.
The best music autobiographies for Christmas
Independent – Dec 1, 2006
99) the Man in Black never was truly redeemed walking the line with difficulty almost until death. Written with the help of the Cash family this is an honest account that sets Cash’s achievements in the context of his troubled life. Cash is writ large in Country Music: The Complete Visual History (Dorling Kindersley £25): authoritative evocative it chronicles the changing face of a music “from the soul of America” which at its best is far more profound than its image suggsts. Far from Nashville at the Brill Building on 1650 Broadway a different kind of talent was honed. Always Magic in the Air by Ken Emerson (Fourth Estate £15) takes us back to the days when the likes of Leiber and Stoller or Bacharach and David huddled in their cubicles turning out perfect miniatures: “n Broadway” “Stand by me’ “Walk on by”… 99) beginning with those from his father. It seems Leopold could be as vulgar as his allegedly Tourettic son. Mozart features in Naxos Books’ Life & Music series of composer biographies: Mozart and Beethoven both by Jeremy Siepmann; Chopin by Jeremy Nicholas; and Mahler by Stephen Johnson. Each includes two CDs with music from the Naxos catalogue plus listening notes. Unique and unintimidating they provide a worthwhile starting point for readers drawn in by Classic FM and excellent value at £16. Tchaikovsky: The Man and His Music (Faber £25) by the esteemed David Brown is a magnificent distillation of years of scholarship that wears its erudition lightly: scholarly yet approachable.
The transformation of My Chemical Romance | Music News | Music |…
Entertainment Weekly – Dec 1, 2006
Turns out Bryar’s puking wasthe result of a bad smoothie and these days the band rarely indulges inanything stronger than Marlboro Ultra Lights and coffee. There was atime when things would have been very different but they’ve learnedtheir lessons about excess the hard way. Now they save their energy forwhat’s important: the show the fans and the music. An hour into thebus ride silence is punctuated only by the wheezing of the wheels onthe road and by 2:20 a. everyone is in bed. Earlier that day Gerard Way is smoking a cigarette backstage inLiverpool… Then afledgling animator commuting to New York City he stood on a HudsonRiver pier watched the towers fall and thought ”I need to feelimmediately better. I need to immediately help people. ”So Gerard started a band inspired by Britpop punk and New Jersey’spost-hardcore scene. But his motives weren’t entirely altruistic. ”Itwas ultimately for me” he says. ”I wanted to feel a part of something. I wanted to be in a gang.