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- The indie-rock auteur on his new five-CD yuletide set and his…
- Rock musical meets cautionary tale meets 19th-century play in…
- Nightlife Agenda
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- ne man’s band of many characters
- Music in the spotlight
The indie-rock auteur on his new five-CD yuletide set and his…
Rolling Stone – Dec 14, 2006
It’s sophisticated because of the weird meters and time signatures but it’s just about dancing and partying and drinking a lot of beer. I learned that the trumpet is far more aggressive than the electric guitar. Hearing it in a small room is terrifying exhausting and way more aggressive than a lot of punk music I’ve seen. Many of your songs involve researching historical figures and events. Have you researched the lives of musicians you love? I don’t obsess about musicians. I get distracted by the lives of writers. I’m into Thomases right now.
Rock musical meets cautionary tale meets 19th-century play in…
International Herald Tribune – Dec 14, 2006
Unlike traditional musicals where the songs propel the action forward (at times awkwardly) “Spring Awakening” abandons the conceit of the song-as-moment-of-truth. Instead most of the numbers sound like the interior monologues of confused and sexually frustrated teenagers ? just like some of the best rock songs. The musical stays true to Wedekind’s time and setting in a small German town a decision that creates an intense juxtaposition with the music. You feel the subversive sneer of punk every time one of the show’s repressed schoolboys pulls a wireless microphone from inside his suit coat. It’s an approach that could easily fail but “Spring Awakening” is lucky enough to have a rock star as its composer. Duncan Sheik best known for the intensely catchy mid-1990s hit “Barely Breathing” makes his Broadway debut with songs more jarring than usually heard on Broadway. Steven Sater goes for the same feel in his book and lyrics.
Nightlife Agenda
Washington Post – Dec 14, 2006
but it certainly doesn’t sound like a record from a band that took a decade off. (Perhaps it just took Dando that long to come up with the perfect album title. ) Dando recruited two members of seminal punks the Descendents to serve as the rhythm section on his comeback and that helps explain why the disc does hearken back to the Lemonheads’ thrashy earlier days. Still in concert you can expect to hear plenty of the wistful power-pop that helped make Dando an alt-rock heartthrob back in the ’90s… There’s something to be admired about the band’s stick-to-it-iveness as after more than a decade of playing together and a handful of albums it seems pretty clear that they probably aren’t going to "make it" in the classic sense. It’s just four guys who enjoy playing music together so they keep doing it. That’s kind of refreshing and it shows in the music which lacks pretension and does sound like it would have fit in on a WHFS playlist back in the day. Locals the Alphabetical rder one of the few bands around to employ three lead singers opens along with Little Armadillo at the.
… 50 Cent Korn Power UFC Fighters – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Dec 14, 2006
miles and miles of running. Fortunately for Tito he’ll get energy boosts along the way from Kid Korn and Eminem. THE WRKMost of us turn to music to help push us over our daily humps: Getting out of bed getting to work getting through spin class. It’s no surprise then that the same strategy (and in many cases the very same music) drives men who push themselves to the limit in a sport that demands knowledge of disciplines from kickboxing to jujitsu and everything in between. Exactly how tough is this sport you ask? Chuck and Tito’s fight on December 30 will be the culmination of weeks of conditioning months of training and years of study. “In the beginning the guys who used to fight were just jujitsu guys like Royce Gracie or punchers like Tank Abbott” rtiz explained. “They didn’t understand the whole Rubik’s Cube of mixed martial arts where you have to know jujitsu you have to know kickboxing you have to know wrestling… Where Liddell shuffles rtiz swaggers with the aid of Ludacris Dr. Dre Snoop Dogg and his longtime friends in Korn. The soundtrack of rtiz’s youth came courtesy of the Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath his troubled parents gravitated toward and the Cali punk that surrounded him in Huntington Beach California. But he would eventually draw inspiration in the bold boasts and high living of hip-hop fixating on the better life he dreamt of for himself. He can vividly recall a college trip to Lake Havasu Arizona where a promise was made over Tupac’s “Picture Me Rollin’. ” “I remember looking at [a friend] and saying ‘Watch dude I’m gonna make it and you’re gonna listen to this song and remember me because you’re going to close your eyes and picture me rolling’ ” rtiz recalled. “It’s funny because it’s just little things like that like ‘Rollin’ in My 500 Benz’.
ne man’s band of many characters
The Age – Dec 14, 2006
Now fully recovered from his head and spine injuries he is backon the road and recently completed a sold-out tour of America’seast coast with Ani DiFranco. Hammell writes acerbic punk folk that has traditionally been toosoft for rock clubs and too tough for folk clubs. He is now tryingto get some work in Manhattan theatres rather than the usualmid-west punk rock clubs. “I’m making a very good living out of my music now” saysHammell who has never before visited Australia despite afascination with Ned Kelly and the Birthday Party. “It’sfrustrating that I don’t get my message out to more people but ifyou have a reputation for playing good live shows as a one-man bandand keep filling rooms you can make a living from it. So what can people expect from his show?”I’m a one-man band but with the power of the Stooges. It’spretty provocative but you’ll have a good time.
Music in the spotlight
San Diego Union Tribune – Dec 14, 2006
Though the backward-blipping “Quicksand” seems to ask listeners to forget the past Incubus doesn't do likewise dipping a big toe into turgid Pearl Jamming waters. save their skin with rabid bouts of dynamic punk-prog eloquence florid neo-reggae twists and wily organ-grinding hymns with healing vibes and with “Paper Shoes” makes one of the most ticklish melodies with the most clever rhythms of 2006. AmorosiIncubus plays Soma in the Midway area on Jan.