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- Stooges Close ut SXSW With A Bang – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- Dispute rocks the hall
- LCD Soundsystem – Music – New York Times
Stooges Close ut SXSW With A Bang – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – Mar 18, 2007
textContenturl:window. href} {button:true} ); AUSTIN Texas — Every March the music industry throws on a pair of shorts slathers on the SPF 45 and heads on down to Austin for South by Southwest a weeklong celebration of bands BBQ and (sometimes free!) beer. It’s a brutal bacchanal and music marathon powered by thousands of acts playing in hundreds of venues — at all hours — plus an unreal number of complimentary drinks and fancy private parties. Sleep is not exactly a top priority so MTV News dispatched three of its most tireless reporters into the fray. They filed reports twice each day and as you’ll see below endured all kinds of hardship — endless lines hipster infestation and a diet consisting almost entirely of fried food — to bring you incisive reportage on the event’s hottest happenings. Saturday’s report is below and at the bottom you’ll find links to coverage of the previous days… Their names are Becki Rose and Gwenno. Think Lisa Loeb Maggie Gyllenhaal and Linda Evangelista in polka dots. Musically think ’60s girl group meets punk sass — a combination in full effect as the ladies ran through songs like “Tell Me What You Want” and “Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me. ” Shangri-Las for the 21st century? Bananarama with a backing band? Time will tell. Since one music-publication event deserves another we made our way from the Filter party to the Blender house where I met up with those Southern-indie-twang-rock-sons of a preacher man the Kings of Leon. The brothers Followill and cousin Matthew have a third album Because of the Times just a few weeks away and they’re in town to play their first-ever SXSW. When I reminded them that they are one of the three or four biggest bands at this year’s fest they said there is still a challenge.
Dispute rocks the hall
USA Today – Mar 18, 2007
Sleaze isn’t the most dignified emotion and it doesn’t age well as any recent pictures of Eddie and David will confirm. But the records are dynamic loud and just fun. "Debate over Smith’s qualifications raged in music industry online rag The Lefsetz Letter after writer Bob Lefsetz declaring the punk poet’s entree the result of New York myopia trashed her as "second-rate" and "just another suburbanite playacting in the city. " Marks cheers her inclusion as a no-brainer. "Impact gets her in" he insists. "She struck a nerve and put out at least two great records. "And he has no qualms about Spector steering The Ronettes.
LCD Soundsystem – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Mar 18, 2007
It also has his attitude an uneasy whorl of self-loathing and self-aggrandizing laced with casually stinging social critique. For the throngs of indie-rock and dance kids who regard Mr. Murphy as an A-list name the single won’t eclipse the memory of “Daft Punk Is Playing at My House” a floor-shaking salvo from two years ago. But the album on which “North American Scum” appears “Sound of Silver” which Capitol Records is releasing on Tuesday represents as a whole the strongest stuff of Mr. And that’s including “45:33″ his discocentric workout suite commissioned by Nike and made available last fall through iTunes… Tousled and garrulous Mr. Murphy sipped a homemade cappuccino in the high-ceilinged room that serves as his jujitsu studio. Downstairs in a different studio the electronic-music artist known as the Juan MacLean was working on his next DFA album. The conversation began with a confession: Mr. Murphy missed fighting. He had been a competitive kickboxer for a year after high school (undefeated he claimed). As he would soon divulge in a blog maintained by a British newspaper he was training in martial arts again despite the strain it put on his 37-year-old frame.