The News Review:
- 2006 Top 10 – Pop Music – New York Times
- Enjoy the concert before the concert.
- Music Review: Switchfoot “h! Gravity”
- ‘Best f Tuesday Night Live’ was the best
- Locals Flaunt It at top of singles chart
- A class act in three sittings
- Rick Bardawill recalls Mac Headrick cheating at squash
2006 Top 10 – Pop Music – New York Times
New York Times – Dec 24, 2006
TV N THE RADI: ‘RETURN T CKIE MUNTAIN’ (Interscope). Thoughts of catastrophe lead to eerie beauty on the second album by TV on the Radio. With drones and pulsations at the music’s core each song opens a new soundscape as strange sounds mingle with unlikely pop hooks. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia… MY CHEMICAL RMANCE: ‘THE BLACK PARADE’ (Reprise). Thinking about a cancer patient’s life and death rather than emo’s usual girl trouble gave My Chemical Romance ideas grand enough for a concept album. They still have punk’s energy (and some girl trouble) but it’s now applied to everything they remember from glam-rock giving them multiple levels of aspirations and mockery. GHSTFACE KILLAH: ‘FISHSCALE’ (Island Def Jam). Sure Ghostface Killah from the Wu-Tang Clan raps about the crack trade like younger better-selling hip-hop acts. But instead of drab beats and predictable boasts Ghostface’s version of the life of crime is a vast graphic human comedy captured in dense wordplay and set to exuberant soul-music samples as funny as it is unsavory.
Enjoy the concert before the concert.
Free with registration – maha World-Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 24, 2006
24–You’ve inched along in pre-concert traffic circled the parking lot waited in security lines and found your seat in the packed arena. As you wait for the lights to g.
Music Review: Switchfoot “h! Gravity”
The Trades – Dec 24, 2006
Songs focus on politics and materialism with introspective musings of a world beyond our own. Switchfoot has produced guitar-driven rock such as this in the past but never with such vigorous urgency. Relying heavily on distorted guitars the music often features a punk back beat by drummer Chad Butler that makes you want to jump out of your seat. This is evident right off the bat with the fast-paced opener. This title track anthem wonders how we manage to contradict gravity with war and hatred abounding asking the question “Sons of my enemies why can’t we seem to keep it together?” The fiery “American Dream” tackles rampant consumerism head on opening with the tongue-twisting line: “When success is equated with excess the ambition for excess wrecks us.
‘Best f Tuesday Night Live’ was the best
Jamaica bserver – Dec 24, 2006
Cezar did ne Way Love Beautiful Take The Fall and Keep n and if the screams from the ladies present was any indication he closed out the year with a bang. Ray Darwin and his band performed like the stars they are and had everyone screaming for more. Cusser & The Storm Band did their unique – for Jamaica at least – brand of punk rock and had practically everyone pointing their first and fourth fingers to the sky. Rootz Underground defies description. Clearly on the top of their game their blend of blues rock and roots reggae put the audience into a frenzy. Stephen Newland on lead vocals Jeffrey Moss-Solomon on vocals and rhythm guitar Colin Young on bass Paul ‘Scooby’ Smith on keyboards and Charles Lazarus on lead guitar went through Smile Jamaica Soul 2 Soul Riverstone a cover of The Cure’s Love Song Love Again Victims Corners and another cover Midnite’s Late Night Ghetto and they could do no wrong… ne thing that Julia Vaz says she would like to change is the time the show starts each Tuesday night. Currently the live performances start at around 11pm – which is when patrons actually start arriving in keeping with one of the peculiarities of Jamaicans when it comes to entertainment. They would like to start earlier and so appeal to lovers of live music to turn out earlier. Talk Back No comments have been posted.
Locals Flaunt It at top of singles chart
NEWS.com.au – Dec 24, 2006
The duo’s chart-topping tune Flaunt It outstripped all rivals on the Australian singles chart in 2006. It has an unassailable lead so far selling 130000 copies 40000 downloads and 65000 ringtones. TV Rock is local dance music identities Grant Smillie and Ivan Gough. Flaunt It features guest vocals by Seany B. Flaunt It spent 26 weeks in the top 10 — beating the previous best of 24 weeks by Silverchair’s Tomorrow in 1994. Smillie said he was proud of the achievement. "ur song has done crazy numbers" he said… "We intended it to be all very tongue in cheek. " The Melboure-made hit beat big-selling contenders including Sandi Thom Justin Timberlake Pink Pussycat Dolls and Eskimo Joe. Thom a myspace star turned chart-topper had a lasting hit with I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker. It has been in the top 50 for 21 weeks. Eskimo Joe from Perth had big success with Black Fingernails Red Wine. A platinum hit (70000 copies sold) it has been in the charts for 30 weeks. Timberlake’s solo album Future Sex Love Sounds has so far yielded two hit singles.
A class act in three sittings
The bserver – Dec 24, 2006
But for one moment a window opens in the upper class area and shows the toffs the proles in paper hats peering in. There’s unlikely to be a more exquisite Christmas show this year than the Young Vic’s animal-magic opera. Based on a Romanian folk tale John Fulljames’s production of The Enchanted Pig has music by Jonathan Dove – who proves with the help of terrific singers that the atonal can soar – and a delectable design by Dick Bird. Against a background of tarnished silver panels three sisters with classic fairy-tale wigs like skeins of wool sing their stories. Two are destined to marry kings but the third gets bound to a pig (more punk than porcine in tattered leathers and a nose ring). It’s a tale about the transforming power of love: the princess restores her spouse to human shape by undertaking a sometimes muddled journey involving iron shoes and a bad sibling in shocking pink. But there’s not much goo around… Based on a Romanian folk tale John Fulljames’s production of The Enchanted Pig has music by Jonathan Dove – who proves with the help of terrific singers that the atonal can soar – and a delectable design by Dick Bird. Against a background of tarnished silver panels three sisters with classic fairy-tale wigs like skeins of wool sing their stories. Two are destined to marry kings but the third gets bound to a pig (more punk than porcine in tattered leathers and a nose ring). It’s a tale about the transforming power of love: the princess restores her spouse to human shape by undertaking a sometimes muddled journey involving iron shoes and a bad sibling in shocking pink. But there’s not much goo around. Alasdair Middleton’s excellent libretto points out that romance may have a poisonous effect; Dove’s score (which has pig honks as well as princess harp ripples) is acerbic as well as fine. Just when you think the tale could do with dirtying up it goes into a roof-raising grubby sequence in which an elderly unregal couple eulogise each other with a string of bogey-and-poo accolades.
Rick Bardawill recalls Mac Headrick cheating at squash
SooToday.com – Dec 24, 2006
*************************The Sault Ste. Marie of my generation would be unrecognizable to any current Saultbie under the age of 25 but the charms of your special town in the 1960s and 70s remain as clear to me as a January Visa statement even at the damnably ripe age of 50. Boston’s was downtown Queen Street had very little vacant retail space and every bar and lounge worthy of serving 25-cent draft boasted live music. n any random Thursday to Saturday evening you could find Jimmy Scali Bob Yeomans Brian Proulx Bobby Clarke Mike Dellavincenza the Sicoli brothers and many other world-class daunting musical talents giving forth. At least once each year I journey to the current site of the Investor’s Group building at the southeast corner of Queen and Pim Streets in a sad attempt to conjure spirits of glory days at the ld Victoria House Tavern which stood on that plot for such a long time and meant so much to so many people through all seasons. If you didn’t have a direct relative working at Algoma Steel you had at least one friend who earned a great living pulling shifts at The Mill. High school sports were hugely competitive but served to forge bonds of friendship that would prove strong enough to produce a Lakeway High School reunion complete with original teachers attending 30 years after my own graduation… Rick continues his role as an international man of intrigue consulting on new media issues with the federal government and ttawa-area high-tech clients. Rick also continues to play bass and scream syllables adverbs nouns and pronouns to unappreciative audiences through his newly formed surf-punk band The BF Tones. He still remembers Mac Headrick cheating in squash matches at the ‘Y’. *************************Look who’s written to us this year!.