The News Review:
- Pete Wentz Helps Revive Lifetime – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- Music Preview: Fire still burns in The Ex
- Music Preview: Pittsburgh band tries to nail down its live sound on…
- Jarvis Cocker – Music – New York Times
- Robyn Hitchcock | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones…
- Acoustic Ladyland live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment -…
- Making a point
Pete Wentz Helps Revive Lifetime – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – Dec 7, 2006
But does it disquiet Yemin that on this upcoming Fall ut Boy run his band will be playing to kids who aren’t familiar with Lifetime or the band’s legacy? He said he’d rather not think about it. “The punk-music world the underground-music world — whatever you want to call it — has changed so much in the last decade that when you start talking about exposing yourself to a new audience it becomes really difficult not to start thinking about it as like a marketplace issue” he said. “It’s so disillusioning to think of music in those terms. I really almost can’t afford to think about it. We just do what we do write good songs memorable songs with heart and play hard.
Music Preview: Fire still burns in The Ex
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Dec 7, 2006
“That generation of punks sold out very quickly” guitarist Andy Moor says referring to The Clash and The Sex Pistols. “It started out as a powerful movement and very quickly the record companies scooped them all up. Even the second generation the post-punks though less than the first went in that direction. I actually found that period of punk from ’79 to ’83 much more interesting. You had The Slits and The Fall and Gang of Four and The Birthday Party. Their first records were all experimental. The Pistols and The Clash sound like rock music to me a bit like the Stones or something.
Music Preview: Pittsburgh band tries to nail down its live sound on…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Dec 7, 2006
The members of Shade sure don’t waste any time putting distance between what they do and the shoegazer tag on their most recent album “Arms Raised on Rooftops. The opening cut “Keep Them Shouting” is practically dance-punk at first — with its handclaps its jittery dance beat and a funky bass riff stepping out to punctuate Matt Stuart’s vocals on the verses. But it’s not quite dance-punk either making the most of a wall of guitars that bring the squall like Sonic Youth but riff more like the Pixies and a killer vocal hook that doesn’t even show its face until the track is almost over. Shade guitarist David Woods has been trying to work that riff into a song for maybe five years. He kept bringing it in but as he says “I don’t think we were ready for it until this album because it’s different. I was really excited when it kind of fell together… The members of Shade sure don’t waste any time putting distance between what they do and the shoegazer tag on their most recent album “Arms Raised on Rooftops. The opening cut “Keep Them Shouting” is practically dance-punk at first — with its handclaps its jittery dance beat and a funky bass riff stepping out to punctuate Matt Stuart’s vocals on the verses. But it’s not quite dance-punk either making the most of a wall of guitars that bring the squall like Sonic Youth but riff more like the Pixies and a killer vocal hook that doesn’t even show its face until the track is almost over. Shade guitarist David Woods has been trying to work that riff into a song for maybe five years. He kept bringing it in but as he says “I don’t think we were ready for it until this album because it’s different. I was really excited when it kind of fell together. An early version of the song became the A-side of a vinyl 45 on U.
Jarvis Cocker – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Dec 7, 2006
23 2002 the cream of the world’s music talent gathered together in a West London studio to pay tribute to one of the most original and inventive bands of our times. ” Skip to next paragraph… Cocker uses one of the few words that even British newspapers won’t print. ) Which brings us at long last to “Fat Children. ” Fortified by a stiff beat and some spindly punk-rock guitar Mr. ” They want his phone but things don’t go well: in the second verse the narrator is killed but promises “I’ll be back to haunt them”; in the third he (or his ghost) makes some intemperate remarks about child rearing. This is a gleeful parody of British teen-phobia and maybe also an expression of it.
Robyn Hitchcock | Music Videos News Photos Tour Dates Ringtones…
MTV.com – Dec 7, 2006
Starting his career as a folkie in the Cambridge England Hitchcock has been compared to his fellows in British folk-rock Roy Harper and the Incredible String Band specifically because of his acoustic guitar and loopy vocal style though his rock voice bears shades of. Switching gears early to front the Soft Boys a punk-era band specializing in melodic chiming jangle pop and clever lyrics (Underwater Moonlight remains a classic of the genre) it wasn’t long before he quit the band life and made his solo debut. Black Snake Diamond Role (1981) confirmed his reputation as an oddball thanks to his titles “Brenda’s Iron Sledge” and “Acid Bird” among others. The psychedelia of Groovy Decay (1982) followed as did the all-acoustic I ften Dream of Trains (1984). By 1985 Hitchcock’s unpredictable songsmithing coalesced on Fegmania! Later that year the live document Gotta Let This Hen ut! demonstrated his command of the stage. In 1988 he landed his first major U… 2005 saw the release of a Japanese-only compilation of his work while 2006 offered This Is the BBC a collection of his BBC sessions from the ’90s as well as lé! Tarantula a new batch of surreal pop tunes recorded with members of the Minus 5. Hitchcock delved back into the archives for 2008′s Shadow Cat a collection of unreleased material from the latter half of the ’90s. setNGrp(1);lsConf. setNKw(10);lsConf.
Acoustic Ladyland live reviews | Music | Arts & Entertainment -…
Times nline – Dec 7, 2006
The bass player Tom Herbert strafed his strings with a plectrumwhile drummer Seb Rochford — the man with the biggest hair in any musicalgenre — hammered his kit with such force that it looked at moments as ifthe bass drum was going to slip its moorings and go bouncing off into thestalls. As suddenly as it started the noise abated leaving Wareham to pickup the haunting refrain on his tenor as if nothing out of the ordinary hadhappened. The number was followed by New Me a honking horn and squealingkeyboard riff that married jazz virtuosity to the demented energy of acut-time skate-punk anthem. The band’s growing army of fans has got used tosuch shock tactics by now but Acoustic Ladyland added a new string to theirbow with the arrival of Alice Grant the first of a string of guests tosing Paris. Thedelightfully named Anne Booty gave Cuts & Lies a moreconventional jazz touch while Wareham ditched his saxophone and addressedthe strange surreal lyrics of Glass Agenda and Skinny Grinhimself sounding at moments a bit like Peter Cook in one of his drollexchanges with Dudley Moore. The addition of the vocals lent a new dimension to the performance and willdoubtless help to expand an appeal that already extends far beyond theirjazz circuit origins.
Making a point
Leeds Today – Dec 7, 2006
I’m telling you it was traffic-stopping. RebellionAnd of course it was all about rebellion. Just like the music punk fashion when it began was a street movement. It was anti-fashion it was the very opposite of anything that could be bought in Chelsea Girl. It was ripped dirty sexual ugly and often downright daft ? kettles as handbags anyone? Back then we saw them I swear. Dawn Stretton a Leeds-based fashion designer for 20 years remembers punk fashion well for she joined in with gusto even sporting a Mohican hairdo. Dawn whose shop which is also called Dawn Stretton is on Central Road in Leeds city centre said: “We would rip a piece of cloth and throw some bleach on it about an hour before we were going out and then wear that.