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- Jewish Discs: Phishy rabinnics
… His New Album Title And It’s … – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Feb 28, 2007
Mastodon the Hold Steady and Unearth are among the artists who’ve contributed music for the soundtrack to the upcoming Cartoon Network film “Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters. ” The disc due April 10 will also feature tracks by Killer Mike 9 lb. Hammer Early Man Brass Castle Insane-o-Flex MC Chris and animated “Aqua Teen” star Master Shake… Boston punk vets the Dropkick Murphys — who have gotten a fresh dose of attention thanks to the inclusion of their song “I’m Shipping Up to Boston” in “The Departed” — are heading out with reggae squad the Aggrolites for a 13-date trek. It commences Friday at the House of Blues in Las Vegas and concludes — fittingly — with a St. Patrick’s Day bash at the Agganis Arena in Boston.
… Bad Spellers n Best Damn Thing – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Feb 28, 2007
They’re just songs. Let’s hope husband Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 knows that’s the case: The album’s first single “Girlfriend” is about wanting to steal someone else’s boyfriend. Still there are a few songs on the April 17 release that serve as a reminder that Lavigne isn’t just a mall punk princess. “When You’re Gone” is the closest Lavigne has come to a love song so much so that it embarrasses her. “It wasn’t like I deliberately did it” she demurred. “I was writing a slow song and that just brings out all that stuff in you all that emotional stuff. It’s not cheesy because I wrote it.
Dance festival will rock promise organisers.
Free with registration – Europe Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 28, 2007
(From Aberdeen Press & Journal (UK)) Tens of thousands of music fans will descend on a Highland village in June for one of the first festivals of the summer. About 70000 tickets will go on sale next week for Rock Ness ensuring the massive concert will be more than twice the size of last year’s gig. It will be headlined by dance music favourites The Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk as the Press and Journal exclusively revealed yesterday. Welsh band The Automatic and Groove Armada famous for their international hit I.
Jewish Discs: Phishy rabinnics
Jerusalem Post – Feb 28, 2007
Soon Skaist was living in the US again gaining a following as “the Phish rabbi” by doing outreach in concert venue parking lots guest lecturing on the campus Hillel House circuit and performing original folk-rock songs regularly at the Sidewalk Caf in the Lower East Side. “When I’m in that world I see myself as an ambassador of Judaism” he has said of the bar gigs – years before Matisyahu ever hummed a niggun. Now that overtly Jewish music is ready for its mainstream close-up the Grammy-winning Jewish Music Group has released twin Skaist albums the cheeky folk-rock of Protocols and the more traditional hassidic-style B’yameinu. Protocols presents us with a wayward existence desperate for repair – song titles like “Dumb World” “Realistic” and “Last Chance” say it all – but Skaist maintains a healthily silly attitude through most of the disc pointing out the colorful quirks of friendship on “Big Talkers” and pretending to confirm an infamous early-1900’s anti-Semitic conspiracy theory on the title track. The album gets sinister towards the end with the refrain on “Confused” proclaiming “I want to be enlightened… but I’m only confused” – effectively kicking off the section of increasingly darkening final four songs of the disc. The opening “Dumb World” sports a rapid-fire verse phrasing structure that evokes dub-punk-pop auteurs Sublime at their folkiest. “Talkers” rides an infectious groove until it closes with a Chili Peppers-like coda. And with its sweeping rock feel the optimistic “I Feel Love” is topped by an Edge-like soaring slide guitar part throughout.