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- Bt Fritz Hahn and David Malitz
- Avril Changes Best Dam Album Title – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- Notable Music of 2006
- Grave Danger: A Zombie Noir Tale
- Brought to book one last time
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: CD REVIEW: No matter your…
Bt Fritz Hahn and David Malitz
Washington Post – Dec 20, 2006
Stanley has been a fixture on the Washington R&B and rock scenes for five decades performing with Link Wray Roy Clark Roy Buchanan and Marvin Gaye (during his time in the Fabulous Rainbows) and mentoring a young Danny Gatton. A member of the Washington Area Music Association’s Hall of Fame Stanley still performs around town with Big Joe and the Dynaflows. A portion of the proceeds from tonight’s tickets will go to Stanley. The music starts at 9. The Eighteenth Street Lounge record label is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a series of events and parties and as you’d expect Thievery Corporation’s four-night stand at the 9:30 club is garnering most of the headlines. Those in the know however will be heading over to the… It won’t be punk like the Ramones but a heavier swirlier sound. After that it’s hard to know exactly what will go down but for a small taste of what to expect. We can only hope the silver jumpsuits and body paint remain.
Avril Changes Best Dam Album Title – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – Dec 20, 2006
Rancid fans witnessed what may well be the closest thing to a reunion of legendary East Bay California punk outfit peration Ivy during a concert in San Francisco on Sunday night. According to The Mercury News p Ivy frontman Jesse Michaels joined former bandmates Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman during the Rancid gig for a rendition of “Unity” — marking the first time the three have played together since the band split back in 1989. Former peration Ivy drummer Dave Mello did not perform… The Warner Music Group is about to get a bit more hardcore. The home of soft-rocker James Blunt has agreed to pay $73. 5 million to acquire a majority stake in heavy-metal label Roadrunner Music Group home to Slipknot Megadeth and Nickelback. Roadrunner based out of Amsterdam will be a freestanding label within the Atlantic Records Group already home to hard acts Metallica and Staind.
Notable Music of 2006
NPR – Dec 20, 2006
While the album — conceived as a suite of songs meant to cohere as an aesthetic and sometimes narrative whole — has not completely disappeared CD sales dropped five percent in 2006 as did the notion of the album as many performers’ primary mode of expression. Increasingly music is being distributed in new formats such as single songs for computers and iPods tunes plucked from MySpace music videos available on YouTube as well as ringtones for cellular phones. Here in alphabetical order is the best music of 2006:Citizen Cope Every Waking Moment (RCA) — Cope (real name: Clarence Greenwood) makes a swampy funky rock with slurry vocals that convey clear concise emotions. Bob Dylan Modern Times (Columbia) — Big juicy songs written sung and performed with shocking urgency. Eagles of Death Metal Death By Sexy (Downtown) — Insanely catchy hard-rock with choruses you’ll be singing along to the first time you hear them. Fiery Furnaces Bitter Tea (Fat Possum) — Siblings Matthew and Elinor Friedberger turn in another knotty pretty passionate collection of art songs that never veer into dull artiness… Willie Nelson You Don’t Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker (Lost Highway) — Decades-old honky-tonk tunes most under three minutes stuffed with witty poignant wordplay. Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your A** (Matador) — Framed by a pair of long magnificent feedback rave-ups this album also contains some of Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley’s finest concise pop tunes.
Grave Danger: A Zombie Noir Tale
PopMatters – Dec 20, 2006
Indebted to George Romero’s zombie films and Frank Miller’s Sin City Grave Danger is the story of Frank Graves a trench coat-wearing heavy who returns from the dead to exact revenge on the CIA-sponsored program that made him the world’s best assassin. The story opens like many a noir before it on a fog-drenched pier where Graves is plugged full of lead and dumped into the deep. Later after being transported to the morgue by an anarchy shirt-wearing punk rock orderly (“Punk Rock isn’t just music it’s an attitude!”) and his bored partner Graves returns steals the anarchy shirt and heads off into the night to find his revenge. Not strictly a comic book Grave Danger is a long short story interspersed with pedestrian black and white artwork by Fox featuring Graves toting guns and babes through a series of bars and graveyards. The art does little to enhance the story serving merely as a visual representation of a few key scenes within the story. With only seven drawings in the book’s 113 pages the book hardly qualifies as an illustrated story let alone a comic book but that doesn’t stop the inclusion of a number of comic book sound effects. CLUNK! SMASH! BLAM! nomatopoeia is a long-standing convention in comics but it’s very difficult to pull off on the printed page without sounding down right silly.
Brought to book one last time
La Scena Musicale – Dec 20, 2006
When search engines cough up 50 URLs in a nanosecond andmedical databases provide an instant second opinion for every knowncondition who in our crowded living space will spare a shelf for aset of uniformly bound books whose content is out of date before it isout of cellophane?Even a reference junkie like me whoreads Be-Br in the bath and compares old and recent Dictionaries ofNational Biography (DNB) must accept the march of progress and admittear in eye that the fourth edition of Colin Larkin’s Encyclopedia ofPopular Music (EPM) out this week at £555 is going to be the lastmajor cultural reference work ever to be rolled out in print. The end of civilisation as we know it? By no means. The arts areoutstandingly well referenced on the internet pop music especially so. Key in Michelangelo on Google and you’ll get 13 million results. Try theBeatles and the yield is 53. Somewhere in that cyber mass youwill find that elusive micro-fact either free of charge or for a smallcard-swipe on a subscription-only website… The exotic lives of rockmusicians are described in terms that are both dry and wry toaccommodate the excess that is integral to their art. nly rarely does alife run so far off the Larkin scale that stentorian judgement is calledfor as in the case of G G Allin author of ‘You Scum Eat myDiarhhoea’ whose stage antics included hurling vomit urine and faecesat his audience. Although Larkin ranks Allin as an icon of early punkhe decides that ‘there is little point in attempting rational artisticjudgement of his long and often painful career’ – a career ended by adrugs overdose after a naked New York rampage in June 1993. Larkin’s precise and finely-tuned critical apparatus allows him (andus) to form a judgement that transcends the fleeting character of manyacts. He champions for instance the short-lived Nick Drake (1948-74)and Tim Hardin (1941-80) and deserves a good deal of credit for theirposthumous recognition. He considers the ‘fabulous’ soul king HowardTate to be ‘as important as Marvin Gaye’. He is sparing on the wholewith adjectives and it takes a degree of forensic skill on the reader’spart to detect that Larkin considers the Everly Brothers moreinteresting and influential than Elvis Presley.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: CD REVIEW: No matter your…
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 20, 2006
(From University Wire) Byline: Sarah Dupuis Everyone’s got her own preference. To-may-to or to-mah-to? Ashlee or Jessica? Decaf or espresso? Winter or spring? Questions and decisions like these plague everyday existence. But when faced with a choice between seventies English punk band The Sex Pistols and Lady Sovereign a young white female rapper who also hails Britannia I’d unflinchingly select the former and I suspect most rational humans with any auditory ability would agree with me; “Music from The. : Mix 6 Covering ur Tracks” was apparently produced by.