The News Review:
- Friday afternoon in the Poconos: Punk rock to flying snowmobiles
- Pop and Rock Listings
- It’s a different kind of kid rock.
- United nations – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Sony ACIDplanet.com to Host ‘The Ataris’ Pop-Punk Band Video…
- Reporting back from the music industry’s spring break
- For the Walkmen A Change f Pace
Friday afternoon in the Poconos: Punk rock to flying snowmobiles
Pocono Record – Mar 23, 2007
We’ll be reporting on that this weekend. More traditional? The Worthington Players are staging Neil Simon’s.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Mar 23, 2007
(Sisario) ★ MENMENA FIELD MUSIC (Wednesday) Menomena from Portland re. uses a homemade computer program to help write songs resulting in shufflings and reshufflings that keep otherwise standard indie-arty elements meandering piano sensual electronics and plain mournful vocals playful and fresh. Field Music from Sunderland England finds a middle ground between angsty post-punk and the wistfully melodic folk-rock of “Village Green”-era Kinks. Bowery Ballroom 6 Delancey Street near the Bowery Lower East Side (212) 533-2111 boweryballroom.
It’s a different kind of kid rock.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 23, 2007
23–These days parents and children have more reasons than ever to sing scream shout dance or flap their arms like a duck: Chicago and the suburbs boast more musical talent for pint-sized listeners than dare we say any place else. The region is home to children’s music pioneers and trailblazers alike. ur nine reasons for your kiddies to get giddy A handy spring training guide to our nine kids’ music all stars. No matter who’s at bat you’re bound to witness a home run. Ralph Covert The lowdown: Teaching Wiggleworms at the ld Town School of Folk Music Covert (the former Bad Examples frontman) is discovered by Minty Fresh founder Jim Powers whose son is in Covert’s class. Powers assembles a top-notch studio band and produces Covert’s first kids’ music record.
United nations – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Mar 23, 2007
It’s like any other night on Melbourne’s bar circuit. But shuffle past the crowd and out into the courtyard – a rawmulti-level space jammed between two prodigious old city buildings- and things start to change to shift and it begins with themusic. Pulsing from the PA isn’t your normal inner-city musical fare -there are no post-punk guitars; no ironic art-schooledelectro-clash – but traditional Albanian folk music. Evenbetter there are kids dancing to it. In fact the humble Jeromescourtyard is alive with an undeniably positive unselfconsciousenergy and eastern European folk music is only the beginning. As the night wears on the assortment of DJs mix French andKorean hip-hop percussion-heavy Brazilian funk jarring Germanelectro and obscure slightly difficult experimental material… “Australia’s so rich in languages so the idea was to embracethat” explains Palmer who previously worked as a presenter andmusic researcher for SBS radio. “I wanted to develop a brand thatencapsulated the really killer cutting-edge stuff that I’d alreadycome across through working at SBS and working with Australiansand people visiting Australia who could speak all these otherlanguages and hence were able to access these amazing librariesof all different types of music in all these other languages. “So it wasn’t this sort of fashionable Afro-Latin-Indian wave ofmusic that was happening; it was actually about finding a realcombination of stuff like stuff that could be really accessibleor stuff that could be quite abstract in the sense that it might besome Korean electronic hip-hop or something like that. Since its 2004 beginnings Uber Lingua has played host to around300 DJs and musicians hailing from locales as distant as KenyaJapan Spain France Brazil and Hobart. But it is not just thetouring parties that have given the night its disparate edge. UberLingua’s Melbourne-based regulars – a clique of whom Palmer hasgathered at Jeromes for our interview and photo shoot – alsoreflect such diversity. While weekly organisers Palmer (who DJs under the bP moniker)and DJ Sakamoiz (a tri-lingual Swiss-born DJ and radio journalistwho refuses to disclose his real name) play anything from obscureAsian hip-hop oddities through to Latin Basque and African musictheir local regulars specialise in any number of genres and stylesfrom around the world.
Sony ACIDplanet.com to Host ‘The Ataris’ Pop-Punk Band Video…
Free with registration – PR Newswire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 23, 2007
com(R) one of the Internet’s premier sites for user-generated music and video content and computer-based recording and remixing tools has launched a new remix contest with a reinvented pop-indie rock band The Ataris. Aspiring musicians and music video producers can now add their style and flavor to a song track off the Ataris’ upcoming album “Welcome the Night. ” The Ataris were discovered in early 1997 and soon after signed and made.
Reporting back from the music industry’s spring break
Broomfield Enterprise – Broomfield Enterprise (subscription) – Mar 23, 2007
com contributors Brian Wood and Brian Eyster blogged from the 2007 SXSW music conference. Read their blogs here. AUSTIN Texas — Much like painting the Flatirons on Pearl Street music can also be performed as a mid-grade commodity driven enterprise. These half-souled attempts to create a sound that’s easy to swallow tend to increase the chances of getting signed to a record label or to be played on the radio. Generally (and sadly) that’s what sells. STRY TLS E-mail story Comments iPod friendly Printer friendly… MGB attracted a good crowd both inside the bar and outside on the street where people could look through open windows to see the performance. The Larimer Lounge showcase at the Flamingo Cantina offered up free barbecue brisket and some local talent as well as national. Punk band Hemi Cuda whose members were dressed in their signature matching naughty outfits played some raunchy punk rock to start the day off. Next up was Fort Collins’ Drag the River. The country rockers followed with their own version of punk. I took a detour to the rock-poster show Flatstock which featured screen-printed and letter-press posters. Boulder-based Table2Press and Cryptographics were there displaying their hand-crafted work.
For the Walkmen A Change f Pace
Washington Post – Mar 23, 2007
This seemed like a fun change for us" after the darker rough-edged sound of the band’s acclaimed 2002 debut "Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone" and "Bows + Arrows. "The transformation Leithauser says “came out of a long period of playing the big rock songs on those records and touring far past the point where we should have stopped. When we got home [to New York] and it was time to start writing music again it had been two years and we were sort of stuck in this rut of doing dark rockers. "But we wrote a couple of lighter ones — the first was ‘Don’t Get Me Down (Come on ver Here)’ — and it sounded like such a relief and felt like something we wanted to do. We were so tired of playing those mammoth rockers that were so in-your-face" Leithauser adds. "It’s not that we didn’t want to rock anymore; we just wanted everything to be sort of casual and relaxed. "”A Hundred Miles ff” is not a particularly radical shift though it does add new flavors such as the mariachi trumpets on the Dylanesque opener “Louisiana” and djembe (traditional African drum) on “Emma Get Me a Lemon… Part of that was the Walkmen’s decision to come home to record the album. All five members have strong Washington roots: Leithauser and Martin are first cousins who grew up across the street from each other in Tenleytown. (The new album’s “Tenley Town” salutes the early ’80s hard-core punk of D. bands Bad Brains and Minor Threat. ) Four of the five band members graduated from the prestigious St. Albans School which so far has produced more successful politicians and media bigwigs than successful rockers.