The News Review:
- Truly Indie Fans
- DC’s All-Ages Treasure
- A) Sexy B) Loud or C) Dreamy? Try D) All of the Above.
- Review: Babylon’s Burning by Clinton Heylin | By genre | guardian….
Truly Indie Fans
New York Times – Jan 28, 2007
“And all the kids listen to indie rock” he said. “If you ask them what’s on their iPod its Death Cab for Cutie the Killers. ” A 2003 documentary “Afropunk” featured black punk fans and musicians talking about music race and identity issues and it has since turned into a movement said James Spooner its director. Thousands of black rock fans use. com’s message boards to discuss bands commiserate about their outsider status and share tips on how to maintain their frohawk hairstyles. “They walk outside and they’re different” Mr.
DC’s All-Ages Treasure
Washington Post – Jan 28, 2007
Moreover this response would strike at the heart of one of this city’s little-known but powerful exports — the all-ages show — and the music scene it has nurtured. Washington has long been on the cutting edge of alternative rock. This is the mainstream manifestation of an American punk underground that has thrived outside of the spotlight since the mid-1970s.
A) Sexy B) Loud or C) Dreamy? Try D) All of the Above.
New York Times – Jan 28, 2007
She writes and sings beautifully melodic songs that have a dreamy uplifting energy to them. I adore this kind of music and listen to a lot of it whatever I can find. There’s something very soothing and hypnotic about it. It’s very sexy and wraps me up in coziness. It kind of transports me. Sara Tavares has a very fresh perspective… She just stomps and wails onstage. “All This Time” (Fat Possum) sounds new and edgy. They’re blending sounds from punk and blues similar to what the Black Keys are doing but more punk. Carrie RodriguezCarrie is a young singer-songwriter with roots in Texas. She is the daughter of an Austin singer-songwriter David Rodriguez. She started out accompanying other artists on violin and then spent some time as part of a duet with Chip Taylor who is famous for writing “Wild Thing” and “Angel of the Morning. ” Now she is finally striking out on her own as well and I have to say I am very impressed.
Review: Babylon’s Burning by Clinton Heylin | By genre | guardian….
The bserver – Jan 28, 2007
In the modern marketing-dominated focus group-directed world its story seems utterly implausible. By the mid-Seventies the music industry was postwar capitalism in excelsis – global serene self-congratulatory and belching out profits gigantic enough to fuel the heroically decadent lifestyles so luridly described in among others Marc Eliot’s To the Limit: The Untold Story of the Eagles and Simon Napier-Bell’s Black Vinyl White PowderThat such an edifice could be ridiculed revolutionised and razed by a handful of year-zero bands and the kids they filled with something approaching religious zeal is extraordinary enough. That the aftershocks of punk can still be so strongly felt today – in music fashion cinema and advertising – is given the scattergun chaos of the original project something akin to a miracle. Heylin’s other great problem is the nature of punk’s dramatis personae who often resemble nothing more than old soldiers; indeed many of them refer to the events of 1976 1977 and 1978 only half-jokingly as the Punk Rock Wars. Like their military counterparts they are only too keen to recount their part in the drama and equally determined to establish their battlefield credentials their I-was-there bona fides. The credit for every innovation is jealously fought over; every breakthrough has a thousand avowed fathers. Indeed this snobbishness was embedded even in the earliest moments of the phenomenon.