The News Review:
- Rinko Kikuchi moves onto Hollywood party circuit
- Punk rock en espanol.
- Notre Dame: CD REVIEW: ‘Marie Antoinette’ blends punk rock…
- Music Review | Winter Jazzfest
- … : Shins Pretty Ricky Atreyu – News Story | Music Celebrity…
Rinko Kikuchi moves onto Hollywood party circuit
International Herald Tribune – Jan 23, 2007
But don’t get the wrong idea about this long-legged blond Japanese actress. Kikuchi is more Patti Smith than Paris Hilton. She loves punk music painting moody pictures and writing angry songs. Bring up Hello Kitty and she may just scratch. “I’m not cutesy” she said though she was wearing a frilly white Chanel mini-dress. “I don’t know how to play the game. ” Her interpreter Tamaka Takefushi explained: “She is too honest and can’t hide her emotions with the press.
Punk rock en espanol.
Free with registration – range County Register – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 23, 2007
You’ll still be drawn in by the infectious guitar riffs the beats and melodies the energy of the music. Enter the generation of Spanish punk rock a phase of punk that is Southern California to the core. Punk rock bands from range and Los Angeles counties have added a little flavor and personal identities to their sound by incorporating the Spanish language and mixing in traditional cumbia merengue and salsa music. Artists like Go Betty Go Union 13 Los Abandoned and Left.
Notre Dame: CD REVIEW: ‘Marie Antoinette’ blends punk rock…
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 23, 2007
(23-JAN-07) The America’s Intelligence Wire. Unlike most modern pe… Unlike most modern period films the majority of the music featured in the movie is not a recently composed mishmash of strings and generic orchestration. In an approach not uncharacteristic of the film’s quirky director the music of “Marie Antoinette” derives not from an orchestra pit but more likely from a garage or dingy nightclub. Coppola has filled the film.
Music Review | Winter Jazzfest
New York Times – Jan 23, 2007
Consider for instance the two northern California violinists: Jenny Scheinman (whose roots are there though she now lives in Brooklyn) and Carla Kihlstedt (who lives in akland). Scheinman played her finely wrought music with a quintet; it was folk-influenced with a little humor and a strong flavor of Bill Frisell’s through-the-looking-glass Americana. Kihlstedt performed with 2 Foot Yard a trio with the cellist Marika Hughes and the drummer and guitarist Shahzad Ismaily mixing high musicianship and bright ideas with street-band roughness. Ismaily played a standard drum kit with his hands and at other times produced vamps on a distressed electric guitar; Ms… Ismaily played a standard drum kit with his hands and at other times produced vamps on a distressed electric guitar; Ms. Kihlstedt played sweeping violin lines in counterpoint to the cello and sang in a wide spectrum between punk and tenderness. The songs including an arrangement of the Carter Family tune “50 Miles of Elbow Room” were unpretentious gorgeously arranged witty and spooky. ther sets pushed singers out to the front of the music. Kellylee Evans and Heidi Martin both strong vocalists sang a sort of mentholated urbane jazz-funk that at this point sounds packaged and patented.
… : Shins Pretty Ricky Atreyu – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – Jan 23, 2007
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Presents: 10 Days ut – Blues From the Backroads and John Mellencamp’s Freedom’s Road are also expected to do some chart damage this week but let’s not dilly-dally with them. Here are your 10 most anticipated college-friendly releases this week:The Shins’ Wincing the Night Away: After becoming just the second Sub Pop band to perform on “Saturday Night Live” the “Garden State” juniors are hoping their broadened success means big things the third time around. And yes those are elements of hip-hop and electronic music you’re hearing on “Sea Legs” and “Sleeping Horses” respectively. f Montreal’s Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?: The Athens Georgia act has outlasted many of its brethren in the Elephant 6 collective and mtvU recently gave lots of love to their last video “Wraith Pinned to the Mist and ther Games. ” This album also has plenty of bleeps and bloops but features much bleaker lyrics. Clinic’s Visitations: The Liverpool England critic darlings lost their grip a little with 2004′s tepidly received Winchester Cathedral but they’re also verified vets at this point having been around for a decade. For their fourth release though Clinic are freer than ever after having toyed around with a steam calliope gong melodica and more in their new home studio.