The News Review:
- Punk band’s bassist scoops music award.
- Sweet Escape | Music Review | Entertainment Weekly
- New music this week
- Circus troupe Panic! steals the limelight
- Let It Happen [Deluxe Edition] [CD/DVD]
- Story-Based Concept Album
- Buzz-worthy punks explode with emo-esque emotion
Punk band’s bassist scoops music award.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 5, 2006
Punk band’s bassist scoops music award. (05-DEC-06) Europe Intelligence Wire. Radio 1 presenter Edith Bowman will present Sarahjo Adamson 20 with the Acce.
Sweet Escape | Music Review | Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly – Dec 5, 2006
for synth-heavy ’80s fare that recalls the melancholy new wave of Berlin. She even sheds a glistening tear in a recent publicity photo. Stefani has revealed a serious side before — in 2000 with No Doubt she dreamed of a ”Simple Kind of Life” complete with Mr. Now she’s dealing with the aftershocks of getting everything she wanted… Now she’s dealing with the aftershocks of getting everything she wanted. She calls pregnancy ”the most craziest s— ever” on ”Don’t Get It Twisted” a hilarious electro-punk track about missing her period. And apparently she and husband Gavin Rossdale have their share of stupid fights. ”Ultimately Stefani isn’t convincing as a dissatisfied diva. She laments a dying affair on the majestic power ballad ”Early Winter” but her range County-girl voice doesn’t seem genuinely sad.
New music this week
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Dec 5, 2006
” the Fox teen drama continues to feature up-and-coming indie acts on its compilation CDs. This one is a covers-only disc and most songs are stripped-down or tamer versions of the originals such as Mates of State’s delicate take on the show’s theme Phantom Planet’s “California;” Rogue Wave’s melodic rendition of Pixies’ “Debaser” and John Paul White’s tear-jerking cover of EL’s “Can’t Get It ut of My Head. ” The liveliest cover is Lady Sovereign’s take on the Sex Pistols’ “Pretty Vacant” with the British MC giving the punk classic a modern electronic punch. (Billboard)GRADE: B.
Circus troupe Panic! steals the limelight
Seattle Times – Dec 5, 2006
or an arena whatever the case may be. It’s no joke: Panic! At the Disco brought a parade of lewd circus performers to the Everett Events Center Sunday night. And at times the dancers and actors upstaged the Las Vegas pop-punk foursome. Panic’s theatrical live show (dubbed the “Nothing Rhymes With Circus Tour”) padded virtually every song with dance numbers skits and tricks performed by a six-member troupe. They donned barely-there costumes groped themselves and each other and loosely re-enacted moments from the songs (a song about a first lap dance gave a particular eyeful to the crowd of teenagers). But while the performers were writhing frolicking and contorting singer Brendon Urie and his bandmates appeared a little weary (or wary) of the circus life. The four musicians seemed to go through the motions of a show they’ve been doing for a month now ? especially in the first half… They interacted very little with the backup troupe or with each other. Apart from some dramatic makeup and a couple of rehearsed ringmaster speeches from Urie Panic could have been in a different show from its background entertainers. This disconnect didn’t diminish the energy of the music though fueled by the continuous high-pitched shriek of the crowd. Panic tore through every song on its 2005 debut “A Fever You Can’t Sweat ut” starting with the album’s opening number “The nly Difference Between Martyrdom And Suicide Is Press Coverage” and ending with the last track “Build God Then We’ll Talk. ” They also threw in a couple of covers ? a knockout rendition of Queen’s “Killer Queen” and an uninspiring version of the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby” never mentioning to the audience which was young enough to need to be told that they didn’t write those songs. The band’s live show complements the music already theatrical with its new-wave keyboard and Urie’s Broadway-ready baritone. But Panic could go much farther blending its radio-friendly songs with the.
Let It Happen [Deluxe Edition] [CD/DVD]
Punknews.org – Dec 5, 2006
With MxPx being this band those raised on diets of Minor Threat Rancid Ramones and the like are likely to scoff but upon its release in 1998 Let It Happen lured in a mini-generation of skatepunks and pop-punk kids alike. The other important thing with Let It Happen is that it contains some of MxPx’s best songs. Despite the overly nasal strangely unemotional delivery of Mike Herrera who is usually singing about relationships of some variety the songs are endearing. Tracks like “Never Learn” “Begin to Start” and “Let It Happen” carry a raw distorted and romantic exuberance that the band haven’t often matched in even their proper studio albums.
Story-Based Concept Album
Punknews.org – Dec 5, 2006
Maybe the music wasn’t the point behind the T4 Project or at least that is what it seems like. The ?group boasts an impressive roster to say the least and an equally impressive production scape virtually spanning more time in the making than most bands spend existing. But in the end punk rock as much as it is about the message is equally about the music. This is a mediocre album masked behind the famous faces making it a talked-about story. Story-Based Concept Album is a hopeful idea that fails because it feels more like it was churned out of a machine than the collective musical minds of the people involved.
Buzz-worthy punks explode with emo-esque emotion
TheJambar.com – TheJambar.com (subscription) – Dec 5, 2006
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