The News Review:
- Punk is state of mind GWAR’s Brockie says.
- Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Rock/Pop Listings
- More holiday music
- Talkin’ about their generation
- U. New Hampshire: CD REVIEW: The good bad & ugly of ‘06.
- Top of the stars’ playlists
Punk is state of mind GWAR’s Brockie says.
Free with registration – Richmond Times-Dispatch – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 22, 2006
22–At first glance Dave Brockie of the band GWAR might not seem like the best fit for a movie about hardcore punk music. GWAR is a heavy metal band with an emphasis on theatrics with band members dressed as monsters spewing blood on one another and the audience. Punk is generally thought of as anger distilled into music or. CPYRIGHT 2006 Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture.(Brief article)(Book review)
Free with registration – Reference & User Services Quarterly – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 22, 2006
Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture. (22-DEC-06) Reference & User Services Quarterly.
Rock/Pop Listings
New York Times – Dec 22, 2006
(Ben Sisario)BENEVENT-RUSS DU (Wednesday) The keyboardist Marco Benevento and the drummer Joe Russo have had a gradual rise on the jam-band circuit with kinetic meanderings that usually begin in peaceful soul-funk and end up in poundingly insistent climaxes that might as well be punk rock. They play a fifth-anniversary show at the Knitting Factory’s tiny downstairs ld ffice. 74 Leonard Street TriBeCa (212) 219-3006… (Jon Pareles)THMAS DLBY BT (Tomorrow) Thomas Dolby entered pop eternity in the guise of a wild-haired mad scientist with the 1983 novelty hit “She Blinded Me With Science. ” This year he returned after a long absence — in his other life he has been an innovative creator of ring tones — largely in the same gearhead persona (sans the hair). He shares a bill with BT the king of garish house music. Canal Room 285 West Broadway at Canal Street TriBeCa (212) 941-8100.
More holiday music
USA Today – Dec 22, 2006
•Vince Guaraldi Trio A Charlie Brown Christmas (expanded): Four unreleased tracks are added to the 1965 soundtrack to the evergreen animated Christmas special. •Daryl Hall & John ates Home for Christmas: The veteran duo sings the seasonal standards plus William Bell’s soul classic Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday. •Hillsong Celebrating Christmas: Australian music ministry sings traditional Christmas songs in a variety of musical styles. •Irving Berlin’s White Christmas: Score of the recent musical based on the 1954 film. Contains a wealth of Berlin classics (many non-holiday) including of course the title track. •Jazz Yule Love II: Sequel to 2002 collection features holiday jazz from Bud Shank scar Brown and many more. •Jigsaw Seen What About Christmas: EP from L… •Andre Rieu Christmas Around the World: The PBS-friendly violinist performs as the title suggests Christmas songs from many lands. •Santa Baby: Eclectic collection of old and new tracks from songs off Sarah McLachlan and Aimee Mann’s current holiday albums to classics by the likes of Tony Bennett Elvis Presley and Eartha Kitt (the title track). •A Santa Cause 2: It’s a Punk Rock Christmas: Benefit album for Cure Autism Now which receives a portion of the proceeds and available exclusively on myspace. com this Immortal Records project features acts such as Sugarcult and Scary Kids Scaring Kids punking up Christmas standards and offering new tunes to the canon (from It’s Cold ut There to Gary the Green Nosed Reindeer). •John Signorello Hey Man Merry Christmas: Breezy title heralds a set of big-band-styled chestnuts by the singer plus the original Christmas Lullaby. •Simply Christmas — Home for the Holidays: Soothing instrumental treatments of carols and classical material what they used to call “beautiful music.
Talkin’ about their generation
The Age – Dec 22, 2006
This writer’s gig of the year was the band TV on the Radio atthe Hi Fi Bar. It was akin to a gospel soul review. The Brooklynquintet’s sound fuses many styles: post-punk rock gospel soulr’n'b ’60s harmony-driven pop doo-wop a capella house musicdub and free jazz but they manage to repackage it as a singularurgent and startling fresh sound. Meanwhile it was thrilling to finally catch Detroit proto-punkband the Stooges at the Big Day ut but it wasn’t thetranscendental experience we’d hoped for. Playing a set comprisedof material from the first two Stooges albums – songs written byIggy Pop and his desperate young and broke delinquent band membersin the late ’60s pumped up on cheap liquor and nervous energypartially directed towards the Vietnam War and the race riotserupting on the streets of many US cities. They rejoiced at playingthe songs together for the first time in three decades but itdidn’t sound as authentic being played by a millionaire singer whospends most of the year kicking back in Florida. n the other hand Radio Birdman’s first album in two decadesZeno Beach didn’t come across as outdated becauseBirdman’s sound has never been particularly youthful.
U. New Hampshire: CD REVIEW: The good bad & ugly of ‘06.
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 22, 2006
–>CPYRIGHT 2006 Financial Times Ltd. (From University Wire) Byline: Bob Pearsall As with any year 2006 encompassed the good the bad and of course the ugly into its musical agenda. And as any pretentious snot-nosed ignorant and undoubtedly self-proclaimed critic would do I have forgone writing another mediocre review and compiled a personal best worst and “what the hell?” list reviewing my magical journey through modern music in pop sub- and counter-culture. Top of the heap (in my ever so humble opinion) f course it makes perfect sense to start with the pinnacle of unfair bias one’s personal favorites which remain so regardless of their actual objective standing in the realm of music. Moneen “The Red Tree” Yes it’s true that. (yes with the periods)’s latest effort is little more than octave chord heavy pop-punk on the surface but the range of feelings this band can generate from such minimal arrangement is astounding.
Top of the stars’ playlists
Belfast Telegraph – Dec 22, 2006
I first heard this being played in a shop and had to rush up and ask the assistant what it was. It has the dark heart of the Joy Division post-punk template but with its own unique electro twist. Camera bscura’s Let’s Get ut of This Country – probably my single favourite album this year. Beautifully crafted songs that echo the best moments of The Concretes. Peaches’s Impeach My Bush – I just love her… The album is about how in the 1940s US politicians attacked the Mexican population of Los Angeles. Everything about it – music singing attitude – is incredible. " JAMIE CULLUM "Matthew Herbert has always made ground-breaking music but I believe he finally matches a high concept with songs to match in Scale [recorded under the name 'Herbert'] an album made of ‘found sounds’ and unusually recorded instruments (a drum-kit recorded in a hot-air balloon) with songs that touch the feet heart and brain. There are so many layers to this album (if you choose to seek them) of elements old and new electronic and organic – a true 21st-century album. " CHRIS CAIN We Are Scientists "The Blow’s Paper Television. Beats lyrics melodies voice a song subtitled ‘Eat a Critter Feel It’: it’s all here. The only hole in this album is the one in the middle.