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Forty years after African Americans largely left rock music to white…
Taipei Times – Jan 29, 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 Afropunk. 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” Spooner said of the Web site’s regulars. “But they know they can connect with someone who’s feeling the same way on the Internet.
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MTV.com – Jan 29, 2007
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MTV.com – Jan 29, 2007
Joey Ramone’s mother Charlotte Lesher died Saturday after suffering a heart attack in her home in Queens New York according to the late punk icon’s Web site JoeyRamone. “Mama Ramone” as Joey called her is survived by her son Mickey Leigh. Donations to the Joey Ramone Foundation for Lymphoma Research will be accepted in lieu of cards or flowers… Dre & Vidal Alchemist and Fredwreck are joining the celebrity panel to be showcased at the ne Stop Shop Conference on February 10-11 in Phoenix. The event put on by G-Unit and Sha Money XL will focus on music producers and also include workshops and networking sessions. Swizz Beatz DJ Premier and others will also be on the celebrity panel.
Music Review | Deerhoof
New York Times – Jan 29, 2007
Satomi Matsuzaki on bass sings bright poppy tunes full of nonsense syllables in a piping voice only to stop suddenly and join Greg Saunier on drums and John Dieterich on guitar in a burly hard-rock riff which sputters into stop-start drumming which switches to odd-meter funk which might surge back into a pop tune or come to a crashing halt. The only guarantee is that something dynamically different will show up within seconds as the songs whipsaw from delicacy to brute force without warning. Deerhoof’s music compresses the elaborate structures of progressive rock for the attention span and sample-happy aesthetics of hip-hop. But the constant swerves and jolts are contemporary. Deerhoof’s continuing challenge is to keep them from becoming predictable: not just alternating loud and soft but constantly reshuffling tempos and textures annexing new idioms and especially in more recent songs letting melodies breathe before demolishing them so the music isn’t simply a feat of memory and execution… Deerhoof’s continuing challenge is to keep them from becoming predictable: not just alternating loud and soft but constantly reshuffling tempos and textures annexing new idioms and especially in more recent songs letting melodies breathe before demolishing them so the music isn’t simply a feat of memory and execution. After four years as a quartet Deerhoof returned last year to the same trio lineup it had in 2002 but without sacrificing variety onstage. n Friday night Deerhoof played for the length of a punk-rock or hip-hop set only about an hour but delivered enough ideas to leave both band and audience satiated and buzzing. Busdriver an underground rapper from Los Angeles shared the bill and presented his own kind of overload: rhymes in tricky accelerating and decelerating meters that often shifted into triple and quadruple speed. supplied stark electronic beats often close to techno and drum-and-bass.
Young Boys at Heart
sunstar.com.ph – Jan 29, 2007
“Ang mga kanta namin hindi panglaslas (ur songs are not for committing suicide)” jokes Boy Elroy’s lead singer Conrad Javier during the band’s first visit to Cebu in time for the Sinulog festivities. Correct this misconception they certainly did with a string of gigs at Handuraw Baseline and Capitol to promote their latest offering the album “A Better Place. “”Punk rock is always associated with anarchy. (But) the music isn’t negative kahit na ang music maingay (even if the music is noisy)” Javier adds. Perhaps teenagers whose parents are queasy about letting their kids go to punk concerts can heave a sigh of relief with the band’s assurance that in their gigs the crowd takes everything as good fun sans the violence. In their five-year stint as a band Boy Elroy has attracted a following from diverse groups of people from high school and college students to twentysomethings and yuppies. Upbeat loud and varied.