The News Review:
- Student enlists punk acts for charity concert.
- … Cobain to the Monkees a new book examines the authenticity…
- Get the funk out!
- Popa Chubby at the Lycian Center
- Tim Jonze meets the Arctic Monkeys | Music | The Guardian
Student enlists punk acts for charity concert.
Free with registration – The Record – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 14, 2007
It also can move young people like Jordin Harris to take social and political action. Harris a 19-year-old University of the Pacific student from Atlanta is among a small group of students who organized a benefit punk concert Sunday at Pacific for a charity that helps young people battle depression. The show is their final.
… Cobain to the Monkees a new book examines the authenticity…
Toronto Star – Apr 14, 2007
com:"ne way of answering that is to pose a similar question. Why is authenticity important to fans of punk rock and country music and unimportant to fans of disco or showtunes or bubblegum? Why was authenticity important to Neil Young and unimportant to Elvis?"The answer lies in a philosophical question: should the aesthetic sense be allied to the moral sense? For punk rockers country fans and folk singers the answer is yes. Their cultures have very well-developed moral senses that are based on ideals of honesty. "Fans of disco and show tunes rockabilly and bubblegum on the other hand are when it comes to musical aesthetics more or less hedonists ? anything goes as long as it’s fabulously entertaining.
Get the funk out!
Edmonton Sun – Apr 14, 2007
‘s contributions to music have been significant however. From its African-American funk and soul scene (lovingly catalogued on DCSoulRecordings. com) through to go-go punk emo (a punk offshoot and D… ‘s contributions to music have been significant however. From its African-American funk and soul scene (lovingly catalogued on DCSoulRecordings. com) through to go-go punk emo (a punk offshoot and D. Not the wishy-washy dribble we’re currently subjected to) and its vibrant gay community and club scene one of America’s largest. None of those influences are lost on the capital duo of Francisco Cueto and Russel Belicek who comprise All Good Funk Alliance.
Popa Chubby at the Lycian Center
Jazz-Quad – Apr 14, 2007
With his razor sharp biting guitar vocals from the gut and songwriting prowess Popa Chubby artfully combines the elemental force of the blues with the more modern urban elements of todays popular music. Popa Chubby’s music forged in the toughness that is New York City takes blues to the cutting edge where it high fives its contemporary cousins rock rap and hip hop. With his razor sharp biting guitar vocals from the gut and songwriting prowess Popa Chubby artfully combines the elemental force of the blues with the more modern urban elements of today’s popular music. Born Ted Horowitz Popa Chubby is a true native son of the Big Apple. He grew up in the neighborhood immortalized in Robert DeNiro’s film “A Bronx Tale. ” His early memories of hearing the jukebox in his parents’ candy store playing the hits of early sixties soul and R&B – and the neighborhood teens flocking around it – made a lasting impression on him… At age sixteen he picked up his first guitar and never put it down. His fingers bled from trying to pick out the blues licks he heard secondhand from 70′s rockers such as Johnny Winter Foghat Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones. In the late 70′s Punk Rock hit the scene and Popa was hired by Japanese performance artist Screaming Mad George and played a fortuitous gig at CBGB in New York City’s Bowery. There he met Punk Rock godfather Richard Hell who was putting together a new version of his band the Voidoids. Popa was hired for a world tour all the while honing his licks via the records of Albert B. and especially Freddie King.
Tim Jonze meets the Arctic Monkeys | Music | The Guardian
Guardian – Apr 14, 2007
Gone are the mardy bums the scummy men and the riot vans. And gone in parts are the bloody choruses. In their place: blitzkrieg punk thrashing (Helders started boxing to keep up with his own drum parts) unorthodox arrangements and lustful lyrics that hint at much more than simply “dreams of naughtiness”. n first listen it’s pretty impenetrable (festival-slaying anthem Fluorescent Adolescent aside). By the third the clever wordplay (“This house is a circus berserk as fuck” “Her Bloody Mary’s lacking in Tabasco remember when you used to be a rascal?”) and slow-burning hooks have worm-crawled inside your skull. “We just didn’t want to make it obvious” explains Alex. “We could have made an album with fucking loads of big songs but… well that just ain’t us is it?”Best of all was their reluctant appearance at the 2006 NME awards. Face-to-face for the first time with the entire music industry Alex again deflected the glare of the spotlight with a trademark wisecrack. “No one told us it were fancy dress” he said as a room full of liggers laughed awkwardly from behind angular fringes. In one line Alex had announced himself to the world as an uber-cocky rockstar who could out-swagger Liam Gallagher. The only problem being that well he didn’t really mean to. “I felt like a proper knobhead when I watched that after” he groans.