The News Review:
- A Detroit friend in the music business: Chicago entrepreneur turns to…
- Buju Banton | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
- Sum 41 Kill President In New Song – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- Music Review: Patti Smith Does Covers
A Detroit friend in the music business: Chicago entrepreneur turns to…
Free with registration – Detroit Free Press – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 24, 2007
“It’s not a conscious thing of ‘K let’s look at Detroit’ ” says Miller 41 who runs the small company with Nan Warshaw. “It’s just a natural easy thing for me. ” As the Detroit music scene settles into the post-White Stripes era the landscape is quietly evolving. And Bloodshot an independent label expanding beyond its country-punk roots is turning out to be a notable part of it. Bloodshot is the latest label to get a Detroit fetish now with three of the city’s name-brand bands. All are busy: The Detroit Cobra’s new album of roughened soul-rock “Tied and True” is in stores today. The Gore Gore Girls signed in February will issue their new record in June… “It’s just a natural easy thing for me. ” As the Detroit music scene settles into the post-White Stripes era the landscape is quietly evolving. And Bloodshot an independent label expanding beyond its country-punk roots is turning out to be a notable part of it. Bloodshot is the latest label to get a Detroit fetish now with three of the city’s name-brand bands. All are busy: The Detroit Cobra’s new album of roughened soul-rock “Tied and True” is in stores today. The Gore Gore Girls signed in February will issue their new record in June. And the Deadstring Brothers — whose rootsy instincts make them the Bloodshot-iest of the Detroiters –.
Buju Banton | Music Artist | Videos News Photos & Ringtones |…
MTV.com – Apr 24, 2007
A fusion of dancehall with live instrumentation and classic roots reggae ‘Til Shiloh consolidated Banton’s move into social awareness and adopted a more mature reflective tone that signaled Banton’s arrival as an artist able to make major creative statements. His follow-up 1997’s Inna Heights continued in a similarly rootsy vein and won only slightly less acclaim than its much-heralded predecessor. In 1999 Banton recorded with the punk band. In 2000 he delivered his Unchained Spirit which found him growing more eclectic in a quest to cross over to the international market; it also featured a successful duet with Beres Hammond on “Pull It Up. ” After a three-year break from album releases Banton returned on Atlantic in 2003 with Friends for Life a crossover-friendly record with elements of hip-hop R&B and pop (and very little of the roots-dancehall hybrid that had catapulted him to stardom). Unhappy with the support he was given at the major labels Banton started his own label Gargamel Music and released the entirely self-produced Rasta Got Soul in 2005… In 2000 he delivered his Unchained Spirit which found him growing more eclectic in a quest to cross over to the international market; it also featured a successful duet with Beres Hammond on “Pull It Up. ” After a three-year break from album releases Banton returned on Atlantic in 2003 with Friends for Life a crossover-friendly record with elements of hip-hop R&B and pop (and very little of the roots-dancehall hybrid that had catapulted him to stardom). Unhappy with the support he was given at the major labels Banton started his own label Gargamel Music and released the entirely self-produced Rasta Got Soul in 2005. A year later the label unleashed the strictly dancehall Too Bad. setNGrp(1);lsConf.
Sum 41 Kill President In New Song – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – Apr 24, 2007
Cue right-wing outrage. And rather surprisingly a fair amount of message-board outrage as well. When a link to Sum’s MySpace page appeared on the punk news site AbsolutePunk. net reaction was varied — although more members than you might think took the band to task for the lyrics which some saw as irresponsible and others saw as the work of a group of outsiders (Sum are of course Canadian) who don’t have the right to criticize Bush. “Am I the only one who thinks that talking about killing a president is going too far?” one post read. “I am so sick of the hyperbole in politics. Does he honestly want to kill the president? It’s just taking it too far in my opinion… Because — for the first time in his career — he’s made a record that’s completely his (see. “I started asking myself all these questions that I would ask a band I was producing like ‘What have I done in music already?’ ‘What do I want to say?’ and ‘How do I want this record to be perceived?’ ” he said. “I had all these questions and I started answering them by writing songs. I wanted to write about something that had significance I wanted to make an album that was important and I wanted to make something that was 100 percent original. “So I thought ‘Well what is original?’ and I realized that the only thing that can be 100 percent original is if I write completely about myself and all the things that are going on in my head and in my life” he continued. “This record is really important to me and I want everything that I put into it to come across to everybody who hears it.
Music Review: Patti Smith Does Covers
San Francisco Chronicle – Apr 24, 2007
Prime examples: Cat Power’s breathy version of the Rolling Stones’”(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and Patti Smith’s own shamanistic rendition of Van Morrison’s “Gloria” in 1975. Smith’s new covers album “Twelve” certainly doesn’t rival the roaring grit of her “Gloria” but the songs are decently inspired attempts to honor her heroes from Bob Dylan to the Doors. The stringy-haired singer and punk poet inducted this year into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lends her roughhewn voice to worldly effect on Hendrix’s “Are You Experienced. n Neil Young’s “Helpless” she glides on an emotional vulnerable moan. The Rolling Stones’”Gimme Shelter” while an obvious choice does gain momentum under Smith’s righteous political tongue with its apocalyptic references to rape war flood and fire. Nirvana’s ’90s grunge anthem “Smells Like Teen Spirit” however is a random choice stripped of its electrified growl and muted with acoustic guitar and banjo. While Smith’s desire to bring Kurt Cobain’s alienated words to the surface — like Tori Amos’ 1992 breakout cover — is understandable the combo of spoken-word and warbling doesn’t quite work.