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- … Mest Singer Arrested For Murder – News Story | Music…
- Rough Trade opens massive record shop to fight internet
- Spring break for rockers
- Anything Pink Rocks.
… Mest Singer Arrested For Murder – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Mar 26, 2007
“They were both involved in a relationship with the common female but they were not currently involved [with her] and we’re still investigating what their links and involvement was in terms of their direct relationship to the woman” Hamilton said. The men did not have a business relationship according to Hamilton. Lovato was the lead singer of the Chicago pop-punk band Mest who formed in the mid-’90s and released four albums on Madonna’s Maverick Records imprint. ” The band announced their breakup after a final 2005 tour entitled “So Long and Thanx for the Booze. Lovato announced on Mest’s MySpace page in ctober that he had formed a new band called A Permanent Holiday. “Quit trying to belong” Lovato wrote to Mest fans urging them to give his new group a chance.
Rough Trade opens massive record shop to fight internet
Belfast Telegraph – Mar 26, 2007
" Rough Trade has two record stores one in Neal’s Yard in Covent Garden and the other in Talbot Road near Portobello. Geoff Travis founded the original Rough Trade shop on Kensington Park Road in 1976. From there the music label that signed bands including The Smiths Parisian punk band Metal Urbain Stiff Little Fingers and Cabaret Voltaire was launched. Though the label and the stores split around 1983 Mr Travis said: "This is an absolutely brilliant thing for music and for the East End of London. This will be a place where you can learn about new music and is the opposite to the Wimpy bar approach to selling music. " Mr Travis said that although he no longer worked at the shop he still felt "a great deal of kinship with it" and as the label and the shop still shared the name they reflected on each other. "It is the right thing to evolve and lead the way and a great opportunity to open a shop like this at a time when the media outlets as owned by the mainstream become ever more conservative" he said.
Spring break for rockers
Taipei Times – Mar 26, 2007
PHT: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE Marnie Stern was onstage alone with her guitar in one among more than a thousand showcase concerts at the annual South by Southwest Music festival. She wasn’t exactly a typical singer-songwriter. Her guitar was electric; her backup band was an iPod clipped to a belt loop and it blasted crashing galloping drums and her own recorded guitars as she layered on frenetically repeating runs and slashing chords. “Connected connections connected connections” she sang… The Black Angels from Austin revived not only a Velvet Underground song title (The Black Angel’s Death Song) but also the measured pace ritualistic intensity and seething guitar of the Velvet Underground’s drones coupled with ominous incantations with echoes of Jim Morrison. The Besnard Lakes from Montreal drew on a more benevolent 1960s sound: the expansive almost orchestral buildups of Brian Wilson and the Beatles’ Hey Jude so that songs with titles like Devastation and Disaster swelled into reassuring anthems. Tokyo Police Club a Canadian band whose oldest member is 21 reached back to the terse kinetic structures of post-punk bands from the late 1970s like Wire and the Cure while the Wombats from Liverpool merged punk-speed guitar-charged pop usually about love gone awry with the oohs and ahs of Beach Boys harmony. But there were also new twists on past styles. Maps & Atlases from Chicago packed the intricacies of progressive rock into much shorter attention spans. Black Moth Super Rainbow from Pittsburgh played pulsating mesmerizing songs on vintage keyboards with vocals filtered electronically through a vocoder while animated videos unfurled in neo-psychedelic splendor overhead. Luminous range from Yokohama Japan swerved between sunny pop melodies and unlikely but invigorating shifts of key and tempo.
Anything Pink Rocks.
Free with registration – New Yorker – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 26, 2007
‘ It works because he’s authentic. He’s at the heart of where this stuff’s coming from. He’s been around punk rock and music and New York City for a long time and he’s around kids too so he knows. Where he’s coming from think about New York in like 1981 with Madonna Andy Warhol Basquiat the Ramones Lou Reed every different kind of thing going on. Jimmy’s one of the last pieces we have left of it in my opinion. ” Webb is forty-nine. He is small and still so lean that he looks as if he were made from wires and cables.