The News Review:
- Elvis has ‘punked’ the building
- Simonon From Paint to Punk And Back Again
- Toronto’s F’ed Up bleed downtown on a Saturday night
- Pop and Rock Listings
- Paybacks aim to make music of lasting value.
- The rlando Sentinel Fla. Jim Abbott column: Central Florida’s…
Elvis has ‘punked’ the building
Mail Tribune – Mar 9, 2007
“They’re great” says Doug Hill co-owner of Mental Records in Medford. “They’ve been around forever they’re tight and sound great and they really know the genre. Nardcore grew out of the hardcore punk music scene of the 1980s in xnard Calif. ” The area north of Los Angeles was a hotbed of punk and skate bands. “It all happened with bands like Aggression Stäläg 13 and Ill Repute” Hill says. “The new band’s name is a hybrid of punk rocker G.
Simonon From Paint to Punk And Back Again
Washington Post – Mar 9, 2007
but it disbanded in 1993 after the cancer-related death of lead singer Nigel Dixon at which point Simonon put away his bass and returned full time to his roots as a visual artist. "Mentally I needed to distance myself away from music and go somewhere else for a time" he says. It would be a few years before he began exhibiting his work but Simonon has become a respected figure in the art world including being selected for an exhibition devoted to England’s top 20 contemporary artists. His work has been shown alongside such punk-influenced shake-up-the-establishment conceptualists as Damien Hirst but Simonon’s paintings tend more toward traditional landscapes. His most recent show "From Hammersmith to Greenwich" featured large oil-on-canvas evocations of London and the Thames River. (For a photo gallery go to… "Mentally I needed to distance myself away from music and go somewhere else for a time" he says. It would be a few years before he began exhibiting his work but Simonon has become a respected figure in the art world including being selected for an exhibition devoted to England’s top 20 contemporary artists. His work has been shown alongside such punk-influenced shake-up-the-establishment conceptualists as Damien Hirst but Simonon’s paintings tend more toward traditional landscapes. His most recent show "From Hammersmith to Greenwich" featured large oil-on-canvas evocations of London and the Thames River. (For a photo gallery go to.
Toronto’s F’ed Up bleed downtown on a Saturday night
New York Daily News – Mar 9, 2007
But for the fans who flooded the sold-out Mercury Lounge (a venue not commonly associated with hardcore or punk music) Saturday show seeing F’ed Up not only satiated those who lamented missing them in November (myself included) it was also reminiscent of the bygone era of New York City hardcore a time in the ’80s when bands with urgent names like Antidote The Abused Youth of Today and Bold and personalities with even more colorful and menacing monikers such as Raybeez Paul Bearer and Mike Judge helped form an internationally-recognized scene in the corroded Lower East Side. And with his considerable bulk shaved head and construction boots Abraham bears more than a passing resemblance to the intimidating Bearer or Judge. But during the show Abraham seemed to delight more in being the big friendly dude with a microphone. He stopped to pass out water bottles to the audience crack good-natured jokes and he smiled wide while people sang lyrics back to him. F’ed Up may have a popularity-restricting name and an album that because of its 70-minute length takes dogged determination to finish but none of that is material when the band’s live set is strong enough to convince listeners that this is the only band right now that matters.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Mar 9, 2007
(Sisario) ★ PGUES (Wednesday and Thursday) The band that made punk look like traditional music and vice versa plays the first two of three shows for what Guinness now calls the “St. Patrick’s Day season. ” Last year the Pogues made their first appearances in New York in 15 years with Shane MacGowan their Dionysian damaged former singer and Mr. MacGowan is back on board again. With the Holloways on Wednesday and Langhorne Slim on Thursday.
Paybacks aim to make music of lasting value.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 9, 2007
(09-MAR-07) Chicago Tribune (Chicago IL). 9–At the South by Southwest Music Conference-which returns next week for its 21st year in Austin Texas-half the fun is stumbling into a great band without warning.
The rlando Sentinel Fla. Jim Abbott column: Central Florida’s…
Free with registration – rlando Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 9, 2007
(Column) Byline: Jim Abbott Mar. 9–It’s almost spring time for rebirth and that other garbage! In that spirit this week’s column showcases the inaugural installment of what hopefully will become a semi-regular feature: A quick-hit roundup of worthy CDs by Central Florida acts. And away we go: Whole Wheat Bread Punk Life (Fighting) This Jacksonville punk trio goes both ways on its six-song EP opening with a salvo of fast-paced punk and then downshifting into a more rap-oriented sound. I still like the band better with the pedal to the floor on songs such as the opening “206″ which stands comfortably next to anything on Minority Rules.