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- Iggy Pop – the Stooges – Music – New York Times
- Skrappy’s seeks a home: Teen haven is much involved in the…
- CD Playlist – Stephen Marley MIA Klaxons Ed Rec Vol. 2 Wolf &…
Iggy Pop – the Stooges – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Feb 25, 2007
And there’s Iggy Pop their singer: bare torso and sausage-casing jeans silver gloves dog collar chipped front tooth. The song is “TV Eye” and they have gotten wickedly good at their primitive groove as good as they will ever get. Iggy weaves in and out of the beat: one second borne by the music one second abstracted from it. Suddenly he does a violent knock-kneed dance and slips into the audience gone except for his wounded-animal noises. “There goes Iggy right into the crowd” says the host of the special NBC program “Midsummer Rock. ” It’s Jack Lescoulie an announcer on the “Today” show the Al Roker of his day. In his late 50s he looks like the anti-Stooge: professional good-natured well fed well insured… But these days it seems there are more Iggys than Lescoulies. Everyone’s subversive everyone’s perverse. What can the Stooges be if not a band that defines itself against the rest of the world? What happens when they’re old and experienced and punk attitudes already in their third generation have infiltrated so many corners of the culture? How do they climb back into that frame of mind?Video.
Skrappy’s seeks a home: Teen haven is much involved in the…
Free with registration – AZ Daily Star – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 25, 2007
Band T-shirts hang from the ceiling and a colorful spray-painted mural backs the stage where local and touring groups play. The well-worn building and the ragtag teens inside create a welcoming atmosphere with just enough attitude to be cool. The teen haven on the corner of Fifth Avenue and East Broadway may not seem like much at first glance but Skrappy’s is more than punk music and graffitied walls. “We’re not just a music venue” youth coordinator Kathy Wooldridge said. “That’s how you get kids in but there’s a whole different side to us. We’re so involved in the community. ” n a typical evening the place fills with rockers in tight jeans break dancers in beanies and kids with creative combinations of piercings tattoos and anything-goes hair from neon pink streaks to mohawks.
CD Playlist – Stephen Marley MIA Klaxons Ed Rec Vol. 2 Wolf &…
New York Times – Feb 25, 2007
The compilation “Ed Rec Vol. 2″ which will be released digitally next week is a great introduction to the label’s vision. The music flits from disco-punk to electro to hip-hop house but with a freshly omnivorous sensibility. (There is also a token American girl a bratty foul-mouthed rapper named Uffie. ) The standout track is Justice’s “Phantom” a neck-snapping distorted electro stomp that rocks as hard as metal. The Parisian duo will release an EP in April. Wolf & CubThis Australian stoner-rock quartet takes its name from the Japanese manga and film series “Lone Wolf and Cub” about a revenge-mad assassin and his toddler son.