The News Review:
- Music Review | Bob Seger
- Brett Gurewitz: Lessons In Independence
- ne Nation Under Hip-Hop
- No Fear Punk Pro-Am Three readies ups age limit to 25
- Japan jazz fans bid sad farewell to historic cafe
- BB DYLAN TRIBUTE: Unmasking the master of disguise.
- ICELAND: Iceland’s hottest new talent makes a break.
Music Review | Bob Seger
New York Times – Jan 27, 2007
Seger oldies date to rock’s early years; he played a Chuck Berry song “You Never Can Tell” and emulated him in songs like”Katmandu. ” In the 21st century Mr. Seger’s kind of rock is more often heard on country stations than amid the punk-pop and post-grunge that are now classified as rock. “Wait for Me” a ballad about restlessness and loyalty has made the country charts. Yet while most of his new album was recorded in Nashville Mr. Seger hasn’t gone country so much as country has pumped itself up… ” It was a song he released back in 1975. Bob Seger performs tonight at the T D Banknorth Garden in Boston and on Tuesday at the DC Center in Worcester Mass. Correction: January 30 2007A music review on Saturday about Bob Seger at Madison Square Garden misstated the title of a. Although the song is listed on a Seger album as.
Brett Gurewitz: Lessons In Independence
Billboard – Jan 27, 2007
The Bad Religion guitarist and punk-rock entrepreneur never sat down for courses with a guitar instructor although he did go to school to learn to be a recording engineer. However no amount of schooling could have prepared Gurewitz for the next 25 years of his life. Epitaph Records brought a new era of punk rock to the masses in 1994 when the ffspring’s “Smash” turned into one of the biggest rock records of the decade. The success of the label’s roster from Bad Religion to Rancid to NFX re-energized the punk genre nearly two decades after its birth and put independent music on the radio. And when the mid-’90s punk trend fizzled out Epitaph reinvented itself… My dad encouraged me that I would have to take guitar lessons if I were serious about music. He wanted me to get some education and learn about it. I said that lessons wouldn’t help me with the kind of music I was interested in. He kept insisting but I didn’t do it. My dad’s a self-made man an entrepreneur so I think the burgeoning entrepreneurism in his living room was thought of very kindly. They’re still around so it’s been nice to come full circle. I was taking advice from my father on running a business and now my father comes to me for advice.
ne Nation Under Hip-Hop
Washington Post – Jan 27, 2007
i have two teen daughters and they both walk around with headphones on bobbing their head and waving their hands around as if they were possessed. i have asked them what the music is about. they say they do not know but they like the beat. they just make up their own words or think they know what is being said… It is a very creative for of expression much like Jazz. It has many of the same qualities as Rock Roll and misunderstood like punk rock yet I am confident it will survive. It will survive because it is great music although some times the lyrics are not popular with old folks. But teenage music is not suppose to be loved by your grand-father. He can not get it up on the dance floor or any where else. If the Rap industry was not creatively controlled by Black people the possible death of Hip-hop would not be an issue.
No Fear Punk Pro-Am Three readies ups age limit to 25
Global Surf News – Jan 27, 2007
So we’re trying to find the right balance for everyone. It’s a sort of work-in-progress deal but we feel good about it. Like the punk rock movement that that came blasting out of the late 1970s and early 1980s and smashed up the way people looked and listened to music the No Fear Punk Pro-Am’s format was also purpose-built to shock the system. Like the two previous renditions the T Street Punk Pro will boast 24 pods of four surfers each (with 16 advancing). The contest will then boil down to four pods of 16 (eight advance) two pods of 16 (eight advance) and a 16-man final consisting of four four-man heats. The last No Fear Punk Pro-Am which ran in heavy 6-to-8-foot surf at Huntington Beach on Saturday December 9th was a full-on testimonial for what the concept of the No Fear Punk Pro-Am is all about. “The Huntington Punk Pro was great” says Galland.
Japan jazz fans bid sad farewell to historic cafe
Washington Post – Jan 27, 2007
“In the 1970s even popular novelist Haruki Murakami then astudent set up his own jazz cafe where he began writing hisfirst novel. His later works are peppered with jazz references. FADING FEVERBut by then rock and punk had come along as did CDs andbetter personal audio systems. The fever for jazz began tofade. After founder Yoshino passed away his younger sisterTakako Yoshida took over Chigusa. Lately though Takako now77 found it difficult to run the place on her own. For long-time regulars like Masayuki Isozaki everythingfrom the walls yellowed by cigarette smoke to the simple menuof 500 yen ($4) coffee tea and soda were the reasons that drewhim to Chigusa almost every week since the age of 20.
BB DYLAN TRIBUTE: Unmasking the master of disguise.
Free with registration – Music Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 27, 2007
Bob Dylan’s Modern Times album has brought new acclaim to the legendary artist who – 45 years after his first album – returns to the live stage this year. Johnny Black reports “Bob Dylan is a large part of the reason I took this job” reveals Columbia (UK) label group MD Mike Smith. “I actually grew up with punk but Dylan has this way of reaching out across the generations. ne day I just woke up and realised I owned every album he’d ever released. ” Despite an illustrious high-profile career spanning just under half a century Bob Dylan remains essentially an enigma as does much of his music. Before Dylan rock fans discussing song lyrics were never heard to utter the immortal phrase “Yes man but what does it really mean?” Fifties rock’n'roll was transparent but Sixties rock in the wake of Dylan could be as opaque impenetrable meaningful or just plain far out as the new breed of songwriters he’d inspired cared to make it. So although Bob Dylan has lived his life in the spotlight and been the subject of learned treatises university courses and countless books he remains essentially unknowable… Before Dylan rock fans discussing song lyrics were never heard to utter the immortal phrase “Yes man but what does it really mean?” Fifties rock’n'roll was transparent but Sixties rock in the wake of Dylan could be as opaque impenetrable meaningful or just plain far out as the new breed of songwriters he’d inspired cared to make it. So although Bob Dylan has lived his life in the spotlight and been the subject of learned treatises university courses and countless books he remains essentially unknowable. He changed the course of popular music was hailed as the spokesman for his generation derided as a traitor to his folk roots and provided inspiration to everyone from The Beatles to Jimi Hendrix and beyond. And yet through it all Dylan has proved the master of disguise and deception refusing to be pigeon- holed and keeping his private life remarkably free from the intrusions of an intensely curious world free even from the obsessive fan AJ Weberman who notoriously scrutinised the contents of Dylan’s rubbish bins in search of clues to the man and his music. Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth Minnesota on May 24 1941. The son of a furniture store owner he was exposed to music from an early age. “The first thing that turned me on to singing was detta” he has said speaking of one of America’s greatest early folk singers.
ICELAND: Iceland’s hottest new talent makes a break.
Free with registration – Music Week – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 27, 2007
Music Week’s latest CD which features fresh talent from Iceland showcases plenty of thrilling new acts performing a diverse array of music. Compiled by Stuart Clarke 1. Petur Ben – White Tiger A rising star in the singer-songwriter mould Petur Ben Benediktsson peddles a mixture of melodic and melancholic rock and pop with some masterful guitar playing. Working closely with some of Iceland’s most prolific theatre and film artists and directors it’s hardly surprising that Petur was asked by Nick Cave to arrange the score for his production of Woyzeck. A huge hit with last year’s Iceland Airwaves festival goers Petur has gained a steady following by working and touring with fellow Icelanders Mugison and Leaves.