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- Something special on the air: College radio on Long Island has gone…
- Sound adventures: New Pittsburgh music ranges from roots rock to…
- Country Punk page 1 – Music – Phoenix New Times – Phoenix New Times
- CD Review: Avril’s venting about horrible husband uncompelling
- Plain White T’s Tease NYC With So-So Pop Punk
- … New LP Her Most Revealing Yet – News Story | Music…
Something special on the air: College radio on Long Island has gone…
Free with registration – Newsday – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 19, 2007
fm) from 1977 to 2006 and currently the president of America’s Intercollegiate Broadcasting System. “Some people think it means a station on a college campus playing punk music others think it means a national public radio station based out of a college and then there’s everything in between. ” Now retired from his duties at WUSB which celebrates its 30th anniversary as an FM station this fall Prusslin continues to serve as an academic program director at the school. He says he has witnessed a noticeable change of atmosphere in the college radio environment.
Sound adventures: New Pittsburgh music ranges from roots rock to…
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 19, 2007
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThere’s no master plan when it comes to which weekend local bands choose to hold release shows for their new CDs. bviously a bunch of Pittsburgh musicians were waiting for spring while also trying to beat the summer concert season because this weekend we hit a critical mass. There are at least five CD release shows varying in styles from thrashy punk to good-old roots rock. GREAT ANTS: GREAT BIG SUNDPittsburgh has had some memorable girl groups — the Barbed Wire Dolls and Thick Head Grin come to mind — but there’s never been a girl power trio here quite like Great Ants. The closest sound comparison is probably Sleater-Kinney without the Rush-like vocals but Great Ants have moments where they can come off with the instrumental crunch of Don Caballero or the poppiness of Elastica or the Breeders. According to guitarist Jody Perigo one of the goals of Great Ants was to not sound like a girl band. “A lot of the time girl bands can get away with being mediocre because of the whole image” she says… Perigo says the band’s range is easily explained. “Ever since we started our songs have been all over the place ’cause we have so many different influences. The first music I got into was metal. I just went to the G3 tour with my dad which is as nerdy as it gets and Laura she could write for Kelly Clarkson — it’s so poppy it could give you a toothache. Leah likes a lot of pop and singer-songwriter stuff. Totten also had some good contacts like John Tejada a West Coast recording artist and producer who recently did a remix for the Postal Service. He mixed and mastered the record to the band’s specs.
Country Punk page 1 – Music – Phoenix New Times – Phoenix New Times
Phoenix New Times – Apr 19, 2007
But Chip Hanna had a better perspective on it one that I think holds even more water. “The way I see it there’s just two types of music — the kind you like and the kind you don’t” he tells me in his Louisiana drawl. Hanna grew up with country music before he encountered punk rock. Living in a trailer in rural Louisiana he’d watch his mom sing country when he was a tot. He started playing drums back then — on his MySpace page he has a photo of himself in a cowboy suit behind his first drum set in 1971. When he was 22 he moved to California to play music. His break didn’t come until he was 31 when he joined the U.
CD Review: Avril’s venting about horrible husband uncompelling
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substring(0 thispageresult. Made available to you by Canada’s beloved Avril Lavigne The Best Damn Thing is sure to have you head banging to your heart’s content if you’re an 11-year-old girl. Believe it or not aside from her ever-changing image from “punk” to “glamour” and back to “punk” just in time for her new album cover clearly the musical aspect is really what Lavigne idolizes. Just looking at the cover I realized that I was in for a hardcore dye-your-hair and paint-your-nails-black experience. The pink streaks remind me vaguely of the pre-poster pin-up styled Christina Aguilera.
Plain White T’s Tease NYC With So-So Pop Punk
Rolling Stone – Apr 19, 2007
The bubblegum moniker here is entirely appropriate as it applies to their genre as well as their music which is best described as chewy catchy elastic and ultimately flavorless. So it was no surprise to anyone who showed up Tuesday night at New York’s Fillmore at Irving Plaza when the band led off its set by dedicating a song to every girl in the audience and then extended that dedication to every guy in a band who writes music for the girls in the audience… So it was no surprise to anyone who showed up Tuesday night at New York’s Fillmore at Irving Plaza when the band led off its set by dedicating a song to every girl in the audience and then extended that dedication to every guy in a band who writes music for the girls in the audience. (Did they realize they were dedicating the song to themselves?)Yes the Chicago quintet truly brought new clumsiness to the cannon of sloppy “I-need-you” lyrics. But hoards of teenaged girls in braces and backpacks didn’t seem to mind. They used the pauses between songs as efficiently as they could counting off and then collectively proposing to lead singer Tom Higgenson: ?Marry me Tom!? It was like a living breathing MySpace comment. Plain White T’s gained some mainstream popularity last year after filling in for.
… New LP Her Most Revealing Yet – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Apr 19, 2007
“I’m like ‘K I have this song’ and I’ll send them the melody and lyrics and then I’ll ask ‘Can you build something on that? Do a lick or something?’ But I can’t just sit in a room and be like ‘This is me. ‘ I have to spell-check ‘me’ before I send it to someone. Clarkson was also embarrassed to admit that she didn’t know who punk legend Mike Watt was before inviting him to play bass on six of the album’s tracks. “Lord have mercy I’m an idiot” she laughed. “I’m not that huge into indie punk — I didn’t grow up around that. ” But once Watt was suggested to her and she saw him play she “flipped out. ” “He’s phenomenal” she said of the bassist who has been performing lately with the Stooges… I think [it would have been] funny but I like Jordin Sparks. She’s passionate and still not jaded. But what she likes most of all — in her own music and in others’ — is variety. “[therwise] it gets boring” she said. “That’s when it’s time to plug in your iPod.