The News Review:
- Rocky Votolato | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones…
- Stockton musician’s album a diverse mix: No Shame samples complex…
- Stooges Back to Destroy
- Napster Announces Winners of Digital Music Awards.
- For the masses
- Kevin Kleinrock discusses Wrestling Society X Rock and Wrestling and…
- Son of a preacher man: Jay Bakker thinks God is for gay people too…
Rocky Votolato | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones…
MTV.com – Dec 19, 2006
Rocky’s mother moved the family to Seattle in his early teens and he was soon inspired to start playing guitar by his older brother Sonny. Expanding on his country music roots Rocky spent high school discovering the underground punk and indie rock scenes before starting his first band Runaway Laughing with some high-school buddies. He also fronted the group Lying on Loot which included his friend and drummer Rudy Gajadhar. When the latter band broke up in 1996 the two musicians (under the influence of.
Stockton musician’s album a diverse mix: No Shame samples complex…
Free with registration – The Record – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 19, 2006
19–It’s not your typical Stockton album. The electronic blend of beats samples and melodies is more progressive than much of what’s produced in the rap and screamo-punk domi.
Stooges Back to Destroy
Rolling Stone – Dec 19, 2006
n ctober 7th rock’s first true punkband the Stooges walked into a Chicago studio to make their firstalbum in more than thirty years — and nailed a master take of therecord’s first track “Trollin’. ” In seven days singer Iggy Popguitarist Ron Asheton and drummer Scott Asheton Ron’s brother –with bassist Mike Watt replacing Dave Alexander who died in 1975– cut fourteen more songs two a day. The album to be released inMarch by Virgin Records (titled The Weirdness after oneof the songs) was done live in the studio including vocals. “I fucked up two of them” Iggy says “and redid those. But Ididn’t do ‘K line one!’ nineteen times… ” For thefirst time he and the Ashetons (now all in their late fifties)made demos. “This band had never demo’ed shit” Iggy cracks — inthe Sixties the stage show “was our demos. ” ver the last threeyears the three met at Iggy’s practice space near his home inFlorida and wrote more than forty pieces of music. Iggy chose thosehe wanted to put words to and the order in which they would berecorded. The album’s first six tracks — “Trollin’” “If You HaveFriends” “A.
Napster Announces Winners of Digital Music Awards.
Free with registration – PR Newswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 19, 2006
–>CPYRIGHT 2006 PR Newswire Association LLC ’2006 Napster Awards’ Honor Artists and Songs Played Most by Subscribers Revealing Substantial Disparity Between Fans’ Buying and Listening Habits LS ANGELES Dec. In contrast to other music industry awards the Napster Awards are determined by the actual listening behavior of music fans who subscribe to Napster’s industry-leading subscription service and play over one billion songs each year. Presented to the artists and songs that enjoyed the highest number of plays in the service between December 1 2005 and November 30 2006 the Napster Awards illustrate that there is a significant difference between the music that sells the most and the music that’s played the most when fans are in an unlimited access music subscription environment.
For the masses
Malaysia Star – Dec 19, 2006
At any one time three bands could be seen performing simultaneously. The stages were arranged facing away from each other to avoid clashing of sounds. Upon setting foot into the stadium I was initially greeted with sonic chaos as there was music from all the stages echoing and getting mixed up. However once I started making my way towards one of the stages from the seating area things started to get clear somewhat like zeroing in to a certain frequency on a radio-tuning dial. The sight of the stadium was really like what you’d expect to see at a music festival. There were hordes of rock fans walking around choosing their favourite spots and just completely immersing themselves in the loud music. An estimated figure of 20000 people turned up to catch the rock action… There were hordes of rock fans walking around choosing their favourite spots and just completely immersing themselves in the loud music. An estimated figure of 20000 people turned up to catch the rock action. The crowd was a diverse one with the metal and punk scene regulars right up to trendy indie types and singer-songwriter enthusiasts represented. It was a sight of Malaysians coming out to support their own and it was a good sign of rock festival culture steadily growing in these parts. Apart from taking in the whole atmosphere of the event the real excitement was happening on the stages. n the Indie Stage we had bands like Auburn which displayed an interesting blend of modern rock with progressive-like arrangements. Broken Scar also played to a fantastic crowd towards the evening giving a rocking set and getting everyone to sing along.
Kevin Kleinrock discusses Wrestling Society X Rock and Wrestling and…
Impact Wrestling News – Dec 19, 2006
Kleinrock’s interview?ut of the gate the LAW host asks about the MTV Project professional wrestling rock and roll and Vince McMahon use of them in the early 1980s. Is Wrestling Society X the next rock and wrestling connection in 2006? Kevin replies “Well only in so much as it’s a way to present wrestling in a way this is not only going to appeal to wrestling fans but trying to bridge that gap how to we as a wrestling community get more people to see wrestling and to see a style of wrestling that is more modern and is more entertaining in our opinions and that’s hopefully going to translate well to the general MTV audience in addition to the wrestling fans who will hopefully find the show as is. ” About the rock performances on the show “Even though there is a music component to the show as people will quickly find out as the episodes start airing the music component really is only less then a minute of the show. We open the show with a band playing and the only other music hook to it is members of that band will be joining our hosts on guest commentary for the week. And though the style of the show is punk rock underground fight club meets pro wrestling ? definitely this is not a show where we have thirty minutes and fifteen or twenty will be devoted to the music side of things. Professional wrestling first and foremost. This is a pro wrestling show” The host talked about the more modern and entertaining style of WSX to go along extreme style of exploding coffins and exploding cage time bomb death match “Actually that (the explosions) is a really small part of it I think in terms of overall style it’s a much faster paced style of wrestling… ” About the rock performances on the show “Even though there is a music component to the show as people will quickly find out as the episodes start airing the music component really is only less then a minute of the show. We open the show with a band playing and the only other music hook to it is members of that band will be joining our hosts on guest commentary for the week. And though the style of the show is punk rock underground fight club meets pro wrestling ? definitely this is not a show where we have thirty minutes and fifteen or twenty will be devoted to the music side of things. Professional wrestling first and foremost. This is a pro wrestling show” The host talked about the more modern and entertaining style of WSX to go along extreme style of exploding coffins and exploding cage time bomb death match “Actually that (the explosions) is a really small part of it I think in terms of overall style it’s a much faster paced style of wrestling. You got all these great young talented athletes from Teddy Hart Jack Evans Matt Sydal Human Tornado and Scorpio Sky. All these guys who are going out there and wrestling a style that’s not what you are seeing in the WWE its somewhat like you are seeing a little bit in TNA with some of the X-Division stuff.
Son of a preacher man: Jay Bakker thinks God is for gay people too…
Free with registration – The Advocate – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 19, 2006
(TV) –>CPYRIGHT 2006 Liberation Publications Inc. With his full-sleeve tattoos on both arms pierced lip expander earrings and beat-up leather jacket and jeans Jay Bakker looks more like a roadie for his favorite band Social Distortion than a preacher of God. Actually the legendary Southern California punk band is his favorite “of all time” he says during his sermon one Sunday afternoon in ctober at Pete’s Candy Store–a slightly grimy hipster bar in the thick of Brooklyn N. ‘s Williamsburg neighborhood scene. Two decades after his televangelist parents Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker fell from grace because of scandal their son is finding his own grace in the wilds of New York City where his Revolution church relocated from Atlanta earlier this year–just after its controversial embrace of gays. Those changes set against his mother’s valiant struggle with cancer and his complicated relationship with his father are the subject of ne Punk Under God an “observational documentary” series debuting December 13 on Sundance Channel.