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- The Daily News
- The Daily Evergreen
- Punk chick pioneers
- Cody Pueo Pata
- Essential Gigs – News Music & Gigs – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
- Anna Nicole Smith Buried In Bahamas – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- While punk clubs get knocked down Tribeca’s ‘Knit’ still stands
The Daily News
Daily News – Galveston County – Mar 2, 2007
Singer-songwriter Dayton plays at the ld Quarter 413 20th St. Dayton has steadfastly refused to reside in the corporately designated cookie-cutter worlds of country rock pop or punk music. Instead Dayton has let his varying influences guide him while injecting his own personality and attitude into his music. As a result Dayton’s music is that of the proverbial rugged individualist and his work has presaged some of the most interesting musical trends of the past decade. His debut CD from a decade ago “Raisin’ Cain” of country with rock and punk sensibilities to make a fresh sound eerily recalled by the later work of Hank Williams III among many others. “When I made that record Garth Brooks was the hottest thing in music and I was not playing that game and that turned out to be a good thing” Dayton said.
The Daily Evergreen
Daily Evergreen – The Daily Evergreen – Mar 2, 2007
The group works to support local musicians and audio technicians by providing shows for local bands to perform said Johnson who also serves as MEISA chapter president. The monthly spotlight shows also give technicians hands-on experience with stage setup. P36 started the night with drum-heavy straight-forward punk music drawing from influences like Bad Religion and Rise Against. The band’s mix of tattoos driving percussion and distortion pedals seemed more accustomed to punk shows in basements but they managed to pull off covers of “Last Caress” by the Misfits and Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Going to Take It. ” Stage technicians fought to get the monitoring amps to work. Heads bobbed to the tempo. As the band Miles From Home prepared to take the stage at the end of the night they broke into a chorus of the “Dick in a Box” song from Saturday Night Live.
Punk chick pioneers
The Age – Mar 2, 2007
I watchedthe Grammys the other day and I was thinking: ‘Where are theSlits?’ They should be at the Grammys because there was the Policewho used to be a warm-up band for us and Sting was a huge fan ofthe Cut album he said he loved the drums of Budgie. Andof course the Hot Chili Peppers were there winning something andplaying and they’re huge fans of the Slits and were trulyinspired by us. In the 25 years since their break-up the music of the Slits haspersisted. The bigwigs of the recent disco-punk renaissance – utHud the Rapture – all cited them as an influence. And go to anydance-rock club-night populated by kids in tight trousers andstriped T-shirts and you’re bound to hear the Slits’ two mostevergreen songs: the five-minute percussion workout In theBeginning there Was Rhythm and their punk-reggae cover ofI Heard It through the Grapevine. In 2005 Up decided to reform the band which included originalbassist Tessa Pollitt as well as Holly Cook and Lauren Jonesdaughters of the Sex Pistols’ Paul Cook and the Clash’s MickJones. While she doesn’t care what audiences make of them Up is keento point out “we’re not nostalgia”.
Cody Pueo Pata
Honolulu Star-Bulletin – Mar 2, 2007
Two of them “HPD” and “Chinatown” protest the end of rock shows at Coffee Talk and the exile of punk clubs to “the crack dealers and hookers hood. ” Another “Seventeen” attacks “the older members of the punk scene” who suppress the “youth energy” of teen punkers while “Paper Thin Unity” attacks an unnamed individual who “gave up the one thing we all cared about.
Essential Gigs – News Music & Gigs – Belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Belfast Telegraph – Mar 2, 2007
Music doesn’t come much more heartfelt and melodic than that served up by Di who was born in Wexford but who now lives in Leeds. Inspired by the likes of Bruce Springsteen and PJ Harvey Di and company are currently making their way around the UK and Ireland winning fans with some finely crafted haunting songs in the Joan As Police Woman vein. * The Bruised Fruit lot pop up again on Tuesday night at Up In The Attic in Auntie Annie’s Belfast this time showcasing The Elliotts – also on the bill are Cutaways and Reclaim. * For authentic energetic highly charged and pogo-friendly guitar sounds – the sort of music you’d get if Frank Zappa was alive today and recording with the Sultans of Ping – try to catch The Evangelists… * The Bruised Fruit lot pop up again on Tuesday night at Up In The Attic in Auntie Annie’s Belfast this time showcasing The Elliotts – also on the bill are Cutaways and Reclaim. * For authentic energetic highly charged and pogo-friendly guitar sounds – the sort of music you’d get if Frank Zappa was alive today and recording with the Sultans of Ping – try to catch The Evangelists. They’re also playing upstairs at Auntie Annie’s next Wednesday this time with support coming from Lotion and The Q. The five-piece band are wrapping up their current UK and Ireland tour with a gig in Lavery’s Bunker bar tonight before heading for Dublin tomorrow.
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MTV.com – Mar 2, 2007
The original lineup of punk icons Bad Brains — frontman H. Know bassist Darryl Jenifer and drummer Earl Hudson — are wrapping up the recording of their forthcoming album which will hit stores this spring and is being produced by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch. The yet-untitled album will be the band’s first studio release since 2003′s I And I Survived… After nearly a dozen years together California rockers Stavesacre are calling it a day. According to a statement from the band “Stavesacre as we know it is done. There is no tragic ‘Behind the Music’ story. We all love each other and you as much as we ever have. We just feel that after an incredible 11-year run it is time to close this particular chapter in our rock and roll journey.
While punk clubs get knocked down Tribeca’s ‘Knit’ still stands
Downtown Express – Mar 2, 2007
Like Jennifer Charles Doughty recalls the steady flow of avant-garde acts streaming through the doors. “The first night I worked there Joe Lovano played in a trio with Bill Frisell and Paul Motian and the second night Bob Mould played solo acoustic. I was so excited to be around that music” said Doughty who was 21 at the time. “I also met Marc Ribot there and asked him to be in a band with me! He’s to this day my guitar hero. ”For Dorf the most memorable concerts at the original Houston location included many John Zorn sets Beck’s first concert in New York and the early shows of Martin Medeski and Wood. He continued to live in close proximity of the Knitting Factory moving first to the upstairs apartment on Houston then across the street and then to Leonard St. where he relocated the club in 1994 after it outgrew the original space… “But as you can see with something as clear as the Freedom Tower nothing is simple down there. ”While Dorf still has a stake in the club he has relinquished any operating involvement and has moved on to various philanthropic ventures. He has started the Hebrew school Tribeca Hebrew the Jewish music festival yhoo and he curates other Uptown shows such as the upcoming tribute to Bruce Springsteen on April 1 at Carnegie Hall. The concert at Town Hall which will benefit John Zorn’s East Village club The Stone is Dorf’s homage to the “ld Knit” he remembers before shareholders shifted the programming to sell more tickets. “There’s certainly not much jazz left with the exception of what Brice Rosenbloom curates with Winter Jazz Fest. But clubs do change direction and I think the Knitting Factory is an important club in terms of presenting alternative music in New York. There are very few rock clubs that have folk one night Klezmer the next and rap the following.