The News Review:
- Music calendar
- Tunes for many tastes
- Mobiuslive.net is a godsend for Pinoy musicians
- A moment with … Lance Mercer photographer
- Answers start at home
Music calendar
NEWS.com.au – Dec 2, 2006
getElementById(“print-logo”)){ document. getElementById(“print-logo”)… Tickets $44-$64 conc. $35-$56 under 30 $30 from BCS. Rise Against This Chicago punk act boasts powerful melodies and a punk-rock ethic of faster harder louder. Club Capitol Perth.
Tunes for many tastes
Canada.com – Dec 2, 2006
IAN MCGILLISFreelancePublished: Saturday December 02 2006For something built on the disposable three-minute single pop music sure has erected a big library around itself. “Don’t know much about history” sang the great Sam Cooke but if Sam were still with us he’d have plenty of opportunity to catch up. Here are some of this season’s worthiest additions. The Rolling Stones in the Beginning by Bent Rej (Firefly 320 pages $49. 95) showcases the work of a Danish photographer who was given almost total access to the Rolling Stones in 1965-66… While at times The Doors by The Doors with Ben Fong-Torres (Hyperion 286 pages $55) strains a bit too hard to make a case for the band’s importance – surely anyone who would even consider buying such a volume is pre-sold on that question – this 40th-anniversary book drawing on interviews from the three living Doors as well as archive quotes from Morrison and band associates and featuring hundreds of never-before-seen photographs takes The Doors off their pedestal as a generation’s dark avatars and re-establishes them as a flesh-and-blood band. But it cannot convince me that The Soft Parade is anything but silly. If you can get over the irony of this book’s mere existence – punk and coffee tables are somehow an uncomfortable match – Punk: The Whole Story (DK 288 pages $45) will reward you with a rollicking ride through a period of pop culture history that for all its continuing resonance feels in many ways irretrievably distant. Now when the most outre of subcultural endeavours can find a cozy supportive home in cyberspace it’s bracing to be reminded how genuinely oppositional punk rock was. In the eyes of almost everyone from the music industry to society at large people like the Ramones Sex Pistols and Clash were up to no good bent on mocking and undermining all the most cherished notions of musical skill and social propriety seemingly for no better reason than the sheer hell of it. MJ the British magazine from whose archives these articles and photographs were drawn takes its rock history seriously so those who mourn the closing of CBGB – you know who you are – need look no farther. And lest we forget – as if we could given that it seems to be prominently displayed in every store – there’s U2 by U2 (HarperCollins 352 pages $50) reviewed in The Gazette a few weeks back.
Mobiuslive.net is a godsend for Pinoy musicians
Manila Bulletin – Dec 2, 2006
Jojo Anonuevo president of Digital Media Exchange Inc. says “ur market research showed that music ranks among the top forms of entertainment consumed by gamers. Secondly we are now experiencing a huge shift worldwide in how music is consumed ? from CDs to tracks being downloaded to iPods or MP3 players. Thirdly we have spent time building the ideal platform for micro eCommerce or sachet tingi-tingi distribution which we can leverage beyond online games. “These three factors combined along with our experience in building online communities made our decision to go into online music a ?no-brainer. ?”Still the move from online gaming to online music proved tricky since Digital Media Exchange has to change the underlying methods and technologies it had utilized in building online communities. For one dme partnered with Syndeo media an innovations-oriented company with extensive experience in new media consulting and social marketing… Suddenly hearing a new single getting info about an upcoming gig or comparing music notes with close buddies is easier than logging on to your Friendster account?and way more fun to boot. net also features a library of established and up-and-coming musicians from a wide range of music including indie rock alternative hip hop electronica world punk jazz and everything in between. There are even tracks or songs available exclusively only the site. All types of music of any genre as long as they are original compositions are welcome. Independent foreign and local record labels and striving singers and songwriters may finally be given the big break they?re looking for. Music collectors and avid enthusiasts of eclectic music may even find that hard-to-find track in mobiuslive.
A moment with … Lance Mercer photographer
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Dec 2, 2006
A portion of the proceeds from sales of the book ($40) as well as limited-edition prints will go to the Vera Project. n becoming a rock photographer: “From the time I was 13 or 14 I loved music and I wanted to get closer to it. The photos that I studied were about the music I was listening to. And that’s what I decided I wanted to do. The feeling I was getting going to punk-rock shows was so exciting. I wanted to capture that. n shooting Pearl Jam on tour for the first time in San Francisco in 1991:”It was tough.
Answers start at home
Edmonton Sun – Dec 2, 2006
That entertainment strip has been much talked about of late due to a rash of violence including the fatal stabbing of a young man on the strip. n Sunday I wrote that no big crackdown on bars or stepped up police patrols will cure Whyte’s ailment. In a column headlined “Decline in civility” I wrote that youth misbehaviour and violence is epidemic among kids – and cracking down on Whyte Avenue will only push the punks to other areas of the city to do their dirty deeds. That’s not to say we should do nothing about Whyte – but don’t expect big changes until there’s a huge shift in the morals and attitudes of kids. Scores of readers weighed in on this topic including Chris who blames popular culture. “Every 12-year-old kid with an Internet cellphone is accessing enough violence and porn to make most people gag! Every iPod is a potential 24-hour-a-day conveyor of ‘yo-bitch’ rap music… Scores of readers weighed in on this topic including Chris who blames popular culture. “Every 12-year-old kid with an Internet cellphone is accessing enough violence and porn to make most people gag! Every iPod is a potential 24-hour-a-day conveyor of ‘yo-bitch’ rap music. “Every other video game is a feast of graphically dismembered human bodies. Chris is absolutely right about that. Another reader figures the answer is for society and parents to get back to decent religious values. “When the foundation of a building is eroded the walls and ceilings are sure to fall.