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The Age – Dec 17, 2006
“Ray Martin perhaps in a Fair Isle jumper by thefire smoking a pipe introducing Carols byCandlelight. In the Brough household as for many of us Christmas music ontelevision is complemented by Christmas music on the stereosomething else for which we can thank Bing: his WhiteChristmas was for a long time the highest-selling albumever. Brough admits that as a young man he favoured a Christmasalbum by Crass the punk music arm of an anarchist collective. As achild he coveted a friend’s Six Million Dollar ManChristmas album. “And I have seen but not listened to Christmas with ColonelSanders. ” (Festive fowl gobbling in panic perhaps?)These days he leans more towards A Christmas Gift forYou from Phil Spectre or maybe The Sinatra ChristmasAlbum. He’s still waiting for Morrissey to release a Christmasalbum.
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Free with registration – Miami Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 17, 2006
A new wave of kids music is moving into stores and on TV. Much of it is made marketed and consumed by a generation of musicheads raised on punk funk world beat and hip-hop who are unwilling to feed their offspring the aural equivalent of fast food. Some is epicurean niche music for status-conscious consumers looking to raise discriminating rugrats. Some are simply melodic tunes with modern beats that are finding their way into millions of homes thanks to forward-thinking TV programmers. From Andre 3000 to Laurie Berkner to Wee Hairy Beasties to Dan Zanes musicians are writing songs that postmodern.
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Khaleej Times – Dec 17, 2006
Rollins known for his Hollywood blockbusters a punk music career and most recently as a talk show host on ‘The Henry Rollins Show’ his direct. With a voice that strikes a brilliant balance of humour angst art and intellect Henry will pioneer the uncensored art of speaking up your mind.
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Washington Post – Dec 17, 2006
“A nice pan-seared tofu and us. “The joke wasn’t based solely on the name. The jazz-punk group’s fierce complex music and its high-speed mutations stimulate the mind but it’s hard to imagine Gutbucket doing much for one’s digestion. The tricky melodies and rhythms of songs such as “Throsp%” and “Money Management for a Better Life” (from its latest album “Sludge Test”) carve themselves into your consciousness through the band’s precise relentless playing. Yet those materials contain the seeds of their own downfall as Gutbucket gleefully proves by moving to the next musical place before you’ve had time to settle in with the first one. The band holds still only to support improvised solos delivered over the weekend in blistering fashion by Thomson and drummer Paul Chuffo. Besides the deformed Americana of their originals they also tossed in the best possible rock cover of classical composer livier Messiaen’s “Dance of Fury for the Seven Trumpets” nailing its snaky rhythms and ferocious chords as Thomson bounded back and forth across the floor.
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Free with registration – Buffalo News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 17, 2006
17–There is no one unified theme connecting the best of 2006 in popular music. Taken together the music doesn’t present itself as a cogent novel — it’s more like a collec… Hip-hop is said to be the most radical pop music of today but many of the strongest records released paid that form little mind and the lion’s share of genuine hip-hop records were far from daring. Heavy metal is sniffed at and written off as a dinosaur but a few unabashedly metal-loving artists did some fantastic work in 2006 stuff that doesn’t sound so much dated as it does timeless and logical. Protest music long held to be an annoying vestige of the ’60s made a surprising comeback and not just among the folk who started making records way back when — the modern punk-rock crowd was sounding off on social and political issues as well. And while digital downloading continues to be a controversial aspect of the way we gather and listen to music its tangible effects are tough to discern. The strongest artists made albums not singles. And while 2005 saw online purchasing of music explode this year that blaze cooled considerably.