The News Review:
- Strict Vegan Ethics Frosted With Hedonism
- … Pleads Not Guilty To Weapons Charge – News Story | Music…
- Behind The Bogus Festival Lineups – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- Video games are the cool new music space
- Klaxons: Myths f The Future
- The Jonx gets your engine going
- We Have a Winner: Andrew Miller Nails Assignment #2
Strict Vegan Ethics Frosted With Hedonism
New York Times – Jan 24, 2007
Moskowitz 34 was born in Coney Island Hospital lives in Brooklyn and is a typically impatient and opinionated New Yorker. She can’t stand how slowly most cooks peel garlic makes relentless fun of Rachael Ray and rolls her eyes at the mention of California hippies. But as a vegan and a follower of punk music since age 14 she is also part of a culinary movement that helped turn the chaotic energy of punk culture of the 1970s and 1980s into a progressive political force. “Punk taught me to question everything” Ms. “f course in my case that means questioning how to make a Hostess cupcake without eggs butter or cream… “It was about purifying the movement about being poison-free” said Ted Leo of Ted Leo and the Pharmacists who led the band Chisel in the 1990s. He became vegetarian in 1988 and has been vegan since 1998. Many punks became vegetarian to protest corporate and government control of the food supply. Veganism takes vegetarianism farther into cruelty-free territory by avoiding anything produced by animals: milk cheese eggs honey etc. “I would love to live in a world where I knew the eggs came from happy chickens” Ms. “But in Brooklyn? That’s not going to happen.
… Pleads Not Guilty To Weapons Charge – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Jan 24, 2007
G-Unit and Sha Money XL are also recruiting some big names. The two are helping pull together a star-studded panel for the ne Stop Shop Conference a two-day workshop geared toward music producers. Swizz Beatz DJ Premier Hi-Tek and others will participate in the event taking place February 10-11 at the Hyatt Regency in Phoenix. The workshop will conclude with the ne Stop Shop Beat Battle Final Round with G-Unit members Sha Money and others acting as judges… Placentia California authorities identified Brent Liles the former bass player for influential punk act Social Distortion as the bicyclist who has been killed in an accident on the range Freeway on Thursday The range County Register reports. Liles contributed to Social Distortion’s groundbreaking 1983 effort Mommy’s Little Monster and later went on to play with other well-known punk groups including Agent range. Liles had been riding a small dirt bike on a side road and was struck by a big rig carrying a trailer as he approached a crosswalk intersecting the freeway according to police. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Behind The Bogus Festival Lineups – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – Jan 24, 2007
You want to be the cool kid who’s telling everyone else who’s going to be appearing. “I think as music fans we just get excited when we find out the possibilities and so the sooner we can get excited the better. It’s also exciting to figure things out and talk about the possibilities” blogger (and fan of secret identities) the Brooklyn Vegan said… It’s more practical to know sooner when trying to figure out if you really want to travel to a festival. For instance a band like the Jesus and Mary Chain reuniting is enough for some people to buy their plane tickets months and months in advance. And while ego or altruism are enough to drive some bloggers to scour bands’ MySpace pages for hours on end there are still others who see their work as well something more: a certifiably punk-rock way of sticking it to the man. Earlier this month the Austin Chronicle reported that South by Southwest organizers were delaying the release of the festival’s “confirmed band list” in order to make the planning of the many gigs that take place during SXSW but are not sanctioned by the festival near impossible. Responding to the report writers for local site Austinist. com decided to take matters in their own hands by compiling a massive list of “confirmed” acts without the blessing of SXSW. “We read the article and we thought ‘Now come on.
Video games are the cool new music space
Economic Times – Jan 24, 2007
Video game music is cutting-edge and “the video game music worldtoday feels exciting” legendary US music figure Nile Rodgers who is behind astring of smash hit video games told a Music For Images conference at the MIDEMmusic mart here. “It’s a great way of breaking new artists” JosephStopps of independent UK-based dance music company MofoHifi toldAFP. ne of MofoHifi’s artists electronic dance group Young Punkswon a heap of new fans when a band track was picked for EA Sports’ FIFA SoccerX-box game. Video games like radio have the big advantage beingrepetitious Rodgers told a packed conference hall of music film and digitalprofessionals attending this week’s annual MIDEM global trade fair for the musicindustry… Video game music is cutting-edge and “the video game music worldtoday feels exciting” legendary US music figure Nile Rodgers who is behind astring of smash hit video games told a Music For Images conference at the MIDEMmusic mart here. “It’s a great way of breaking new artists” JosephStopps of independent UK-based dance music company MofoHifi toldAFP. ne of MofoHifi’s artists electronic dance group Young Punkswon a heap of new fans when a band track was picked for EA Sports’ FIFA SoccerX-box game. Video games like radio have the big advantage beingrepetitious Rodgers told a packed conference hall of music film and digitalprofessionals attending this week’s annual MIDEM global trade fair for the musicindustry. “It’s difficult to be introduced to new music without radioas it’s the repetition that sells and what’s more repetitious than a videogame” Rodgers emphasised. He teamed up with Microsoft in 2002 and went onto turn out soundtracks for a string of smash hit video games that includeHalo:Combat Evolved Age of Mythology Brute Force and utlawVolleyball.
Klaxons: Myths f The Future
NME.com – Jan 24, 2007
And you know what else? It?s a fucking albatross around the neck of the most thrilling and visionary band Britain?s had in more than a decade. Klaxons? They?re just a bunch of new rave scenesters right? Wrong. When new rave?s legacy has become little more than a serotonin drought in the brains of its disciples ?Myths f The Near Future? will remain one of the most dynamic intense and totally lunatic pop records of the early 21st century. Back in early 2006 Klaxons announced themselves with a series of parties which in a sea of hyper-coloured sweat washed the standardised hand-stamp-and-plastic-pint-pot gig from the agenda of thousands of excited kids.
The Jonx gets your engine going
Houston Chronicle – Jan 24, 2007
Think of it as a warning: This may not always be pretty but it will be compelling. When the screeching stops the band launches into Parachute a rock song with the closest thing to pop hooks you’ll hear from an avant-garde punk band. This sets the tone for an album that juggles punk pop math rock noise screams and political and cultural statements. The fact the Jonx — which includes Lavigne Daniel Mee on drums and Stu Smith on guitar — is able to do this without a hint of pretension is admirable. The band doesn’t rely on arty vagueness nor boring noodling; this is solid rock with brevity and punch. Even discordant moments are engaging in these hands… The tighter playing is showcased especially well on The Scent of Earth the 12-minute instrumental that ends the album. Add the band’s powerful spare live show and the whole package points to one of Houston’s most-inventive hard-rock bands. This is a complicated collection to be sure but there’s nothing so difficult about the Jonx’s music that should keep the band playing to just the smart kids on the Houston music scene. It’s time for everyone else to take notice. Comments are subject to the site’s.
We Have a Winner: Andrew Miller Nails Assignment #2
Rolling Stone – Jan 24, 2007
And some info for your obsolete views: “Rock n Roll” ended around the mid 60’s. Then Psychedelic Rock Garage Rock Glam Stoner Rock Hard Rock Prog Punk Alternative etc. If you’re still bitching about “drum machines and hip-hop” in 2007 then you’ve clearly failed social darwinism and you are obsolete as a music fan and human being. 30 years of electronica DJ culture and hip-hop are apparently not enough for you. By that logic I should shit on you for not getting down with Wes Montgomery and Artie Shaw. Pre-dating something makes it better right? Change is bad eh?Faggot.