The News Review:
- Sault Ste. Marie Arts and Entertainment Pages on SooToday.com
- Keepin’ It Real n and ff the Charts
- Punk-Rock Shiva – Music – The Stranger Seattle’s nly Newspaper
Sault Ste. Marie Arts and Entertainment Pages on SooToday.com
SooToday.com – Apr 11, 2007
This music has no boundaries and changes genres from song to song. Nekromantix Life is a Grave and I Dig it!: Founded in 1989 the Nekromantix have release a multitude of albums. Foy Willing and the Riders of Purple Sage Tumbling Tumbleweeds: This collection features a sampling of the music and harmonies that made The Riders f The Purple Sage so popular including Blue Shadows n The Trail Ragtime Cowboy Joe Home n The Range (which is probably the most popular western song ever written) as well as Bob Nolan’s classic Tumbling Tumbleweeds. Hayseed Dixie Weapons of Grass Destruction: The release of a new album and a new world tour as well Barley Scotch says “We ain’t even started drinking yet. We’ve just been on a recon mission so far. Now we know where the party people around the world are and we’re coming back to close the deal.
Keepin’ It Real n and ff the Charts
Washington Post – Apr 11, 2007
95Back in my punk youth of the late 1970s the harshest dismissal of all for a punk performer (or an audience member for that matter) was to be slagged as a “poser. ” That withering label was frequently slung at anyone who dressed in the trappings of punk rock but was perceived as not living the life “for real. “That was just one aspect of the bitter debate over authenticity back then. Though the performers and musical battlegrounds have changed in the years since the topic has hardly gone away whether it’s rappers insisting on street credibility world-music devotees searching for musical “purity” or hard country fans mistily yearning for the days when country music was “real. “In “Faking It” Hugh Barker and Yuval Taylor — a musician and music writer respectively — take on the complex and fraught subject of authenticity… Though the performers and musical battlegrounds have changed in the years since the topic has hardly gone away whether it’s rappers insisting on street credibility world-music devotees searching for musical “purity” or hard country fans mistily yearning for the days when country music was “real. “In “Faking It” Hugh Barker and Yuval Taylor — a musician and music writer respectively — take on the complex and fraught subject of authenticity. Largely drawing on examples from popular music of the 20th century their analysis begins in the 1920s and comes up to contemporary times. The authors skillfully navigate a complicated musical past emphasizing that rigid distinctions between “authentic” and “inauthentic” music have always been a slippery contradictory business. Early folklorists and record labels often segregated musicians along racial lines but the musicians themselves often created music from a melange of influences. Early record labels marketed accomplished country and blues artists as rustic primitives deemed all the more authentic because of their perceived lack of commercial aspirations. From Mississippi John Hurt to John Lennon’s primal-therapy-inspired songs to the Replacements’ “cult of failure” and Kurt Cobain’s cover of an old Leadbelly tune Barker and Taylor tackle the many-headed Hydra of the authenticity question: the chasm between public persona and private reality; the triumphs and debacles that occur when artists attempt to reinvent themselves; the shaping of myths to fit audience conceptions.
Punk-Rock Shiva – Music – The Stranger Seattle’s nly Newspaper
TheStranger.com – Apr 11, 2007
Since they came together two years ago the Trashies have been releasing 7-inches and LPs with astonishing speed. Their dozens of songs all sound pretty um trashed: Production values are nonexistent; instruments have been molested beyond repair. But something about this soiled punk rock resists sheer junkiness—somewhere hidden in the off-tempo melodies and off-key howling about Steven Seagal there’s an unabashed pop sensibility slowly dying of cancer. The Trashies were recently featured as Band of the Day on Spin’s website; the “single” that was chosen for the “honor” was “Let It Be Trashed. ” The MP3 sounds like the B-52s being shoved sideways through a meat grinder to the tune of drummer Ricky Trash’s go-go percussion. The epic song in the Trashies oeuvre the “Stairway to Heaven” if you will is a just-shy-of-two-minutes slab of SoCal synth rock called “Sweatpants Boner. ” It’s the story of someone who tries to behave like an adult—get a job pay the overdue rent—but his untoward erection keeps getting in the way.