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- … for life just like his old self Review: Iggy Pop punk’…
- Small clubs catch a splash from the season’s big wave
- The girl gets around. Listed here are the many musical travails of…
- Do-It-Yourself Geopolitics: Cartographies of Art in the World
- The Anti-Hit List for April 21
- The Avengers Pansy Division Southern Girls
… for life just like his old self Review: Iggy Pop punk’…
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 21, 2007
It’s probably equally euphoric every time he does too. Ask the kids who got to harmonize with a legend; ask the girl who saucily yanked down Pop’s jeans to expose his still-toned bottom. Rock ‘n’ roll doesn’t get better than an intergenerational sing-along and punk doesn’t get punker than dozens of people slamming around onstage with their hero. Minority of one? Make that a minority of many. Have a happy birthday Iggy old dog. May you and we always rock just this way all night until we blow away. Iggy and the Stooges: Band performs a sold-out show at 8 tonight at the Warfield with Sistas in the Pit.
Small clubs catch a splash from the season’s big wave
Denver Post – Apr 21, 2007
Here are some of the best in chronological order. Josh Kelley: A poppy singer-songwriter who splits the difference between John Mayer and Jack Johnson Kelley has been burning up the airwaves lately with songs from his new disc “Just Say the Word. ” You’ll likely hear a lot Circle the DatesPlan your entertainment schedule now with this Summer Music Calendar (PDF)… If you’ve never seen one of the band’s spirited sets – which straddle traditionals and originals – you’re in for an energetic treat. May 19 The Meadlowlark free. The Queers: Don’t misinterpret this punk band’s messy juvenile songs as endorsing the things they sing about. Any true punk fan knows this New England group is in it for the right reasons. With a new album huge back catalog and spate of reissues promised for 2007 you can bet the Queers are hitting the road like a lightning bolt. June 2 Black Sheep $10; June 3 Marquis Theater $11. The Rosebuds: Despite the chilliness of their new album “Night of the Furies” this husband-wife duo along with whatever percussion(ist) they’re towing performs some of the most achingly beautiful pop-rock this side of Roy rbison or Buddy Holly.
The girl gets around. Listed here are the many musical travails of…
Toronto Star – Apr 21, 2007
Listed here are the many musical travails of Leslie Feist:PLACEB:Not the grandiose British outfit but a scrappy all-gal band ofteenage punks from Calgary who once had the honour of opening for theRamones in 1991. Loud enough that it eventually contributed to thetemporary loss of the young Feist’s voice a condition that requiredmedical attention. NAH’S ARKWELD: Although she’d never actuallyplayed bass before Feist was welcomed to Toronto during the mid-1990swith a gig holding down the low end for ex-hHead frontman Noah Mintz’ssolo outings. BDEGA: Feist only very briefly served as secondguitarist in Andrew Rodriguez’s dreamy indie-pop outfit but wasnotably present onstage during the ass-whuppin’ 1997 show at ttawabasement haunt the Cave that scored the band an international deal withLondon Records. BY DIVINE RIGHT: A couple of years slingingguitar alongside Jose Contreras in what was probably the rockingestincarnation of By Divine Right climaxed with the band being invitedalong on a stadium tour with the Tragically Hip in 1999… You know when the wave is coming and you just kind of duck under it and hold your breath and you don’t get pummeled? Right now I’m in the middle of this benevolent tidal wave of what feels like a lot of open ears. "I don’t know what to say without sounding too wide-eyed and naïve or off-the-cuff or whatever so I just keep my mouth shut about the hype because it’s something that has so little to do with my control. "Leslie Feist has reached this point not on hype but on talent and a heroic work ethic that has seen her pop up as an associate of a half-dozen Canadian acts ? By Divine Right Gonzales Bodega and former roommate Peaches among them ? since she formed the all-girl punk crew Placebo while still a Calgary high-school student. Her star turns on Broken Social Scene’s 2002 breakout You Forgot it in People and during the months of touring that followed finally introduced her to music fans at large but Feist had already marked herself as a singer and songwriter to watch in Canada with her curious 1999 debut Monarch. Now out of print the record bears little resemblance to the ye-ye quirkiness of Let It Die or the mannered white-soul stirrings of The Reminder. Feist’s unconventional ear is already evident in Monarch’s hushed elliptical songwriting though and it got her where she is today in more than a developmental sense: burnout from promoting that record was what first compelled her to take up an invitation to tour Europe with longtime pal and Canadian-in-Berlin Jason "Chilly Gonzales" Beck as the Broken Social Scene thing was taking off a few years ago a decision that re-ignited her interest in making her own music. "I’d pretty much stopped playing Feist shows after Monarch" she recalls.
Do-It-Yourself Geopolitics: Cartographies of Art in the World
Infoshop News – Apr 21, 2007
" The punk invitation to do-it-yourself music supplies instant insight to the cultural revolution that swept through late-1970s Britain. And the hilarity transgression and class violence of public punk performance comes surprisingly close to the SI’s definition of a situation: "A moment of life concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a play of events. " The relation between punk and situationism was widely perceived at the time. But there was something else at stake something radically new by comparison to the disruptive tactics of the 1960s.
The Anti-Hit List for April 21
Toronto Star – Apr 21, 2007
S–TDISC "K" (Video)Part of the "New Rave" scene ? whose prime exponent is the soon-to-cross-over Klaxons ? these Glaswegians made an earlier splash with "Blood Disco" a title that does a decent job of encapsulating their sensibility. Here they take an ebullient punk-dance hybrid and push it over the top with a video in which the band members appear as characters in one of those kids’ pop-up books. The visual punchline is as memorable as the music. (From Kingdom of Fear… Part of that can be chalked up to the co-production by Blue Rodeo’s Bazil Donovan. A bigger part is Suzie Ungerleider’s willingness to have taken the winding journey to get from there to here. (From Short Stories out May 1 info only:.
The Avengers Pansy Division Southern Girls
SFStation.com – Apr 21, 2007
A few months after they broke up the 4-song 12″ EP came out on White Noise. In 1983 band members gathered together various recordings and put out a full length self-titled LP (the pink album) which has long since gone out of print and into legal limbo. As new generations of music fans discover the band a never ending demand for recordings has spawned many bootlegs and two official releases both collections of live and studio recordings Died For Your Sins on Lookout! Records in 1999; and the new American In Me CD on DBKWorksWith the release of the new CD vocalist Penelope Houston has joined with original guitarist Greg Ingraham to bring the Avengers back to life completing the line-up with bassist Joel Reader and drummer Luis Illades. The new group is called the Avengers and sometimes the scAvengers and is playing a few select shows on the West Coast and the UK. “ne of the first and finest bands to emerge from San Francisco’s punk scene the Avengers were together for only a little over two years and they didn’t release an album during their lifetime. But their passionate music and uncompromising viewpoints proved to be a major inspiration in a scene that would grow and flourish long after they broke up and the handful of singles they left behind document a band of uncommon power and force. Just as importantly lead singer Penelope Houston was one of the pioneering women of American punk proving there was a place for female artists in the new music… As new generations of music fans discover the band a never ending demand for recordings has spawned many bootlegs and two official releases both collections of live and studio recordings Died For Your Sins on Lookout! Records in 1999; and the new American In Me CD on DBKWorksWith the release of the new CD vocalist Penelope Houston has joined with original guitarist Greg Ingraham to bring the Avengers back to life completing the line-up with bassist Joel Reader and drummer Luis Illades. The new group is called the Avengers and sometimes the scAvengers and is playing a few select shows on the West Coast and the UK. “ne of the first and finest bands to emerge from San Francisco’s punk scene the Avengers were together for only a little over two years and they didn’t release an album during their lifetime. But their passionate music and uncompromising viewpoints proved to be a major inspiration in a scene that would grow and flourish long after they broke up and the handful of singles they left behind document a band of uncommon power and force. Just as importantly lead singer Penelope Houston was one of the pioneering women of American punk proving there was a place for female artists in the new music. com Advertise with SF Station | Media Kit | Job pportunities |.