The News Review:
- Tower top gig for punk rock vicar
- Freak ut – Music – The Stranger Seattle’s nly Newspaper
- Avril Hammers Nine Inch Nails – News Story | Music Celebrity Artist…
- The Imus Test: Rap Lyrics Undergo Examination
- Why indestructible Iggy is irresistible
- Feel that Austin vibe
Tower top gig for punk rock vicar
BBC News – Apr 25, 2007
Phil Chew vicar at St Stephen’s church in Burnley and two of his friends formed a punk rock band and have been playing at the top of Blackpool Tower. Reverend Chew said punk music was his era and he saw it as a great way to get across his religious teachings. The band – called Revisit – performed on the tower’s clear plastic ‘walk of faith’ floor high above the promenade. His parishioners when asked about the clergyman’s novel way of preaching all thought it was great that he had a different way of looking at religion. The punk rocking vicar believes the music style does not conflict with his faith. He said: "Although it’s aggressive music the music we write has got a good message with it… The punk rocking vicar believes the music style does not conflict with his faith. He said: "Although it’s aggressive music the music we write has got a good message with it. "I’ve always been into modern music punk music in particular is my era. " The band have released an album and hope to get it playlisted on radio stations.
Freak ut – Music – The Stranger Seattle’s nly Newspaper
TheStranger.com – Apr 25, 2007
student knows the myth of the gateway drug: That one joint you smoke inevitably leads to shooting heroin between your toes next to a Dumpster. The scenario is bullshit of course but it’s a handy way to look at !!!. The pan-American dance-rock collective are like that first disco joint that leads punk purists down the dark path of dance music. “I remember the first time I listened to a Chic record” says Nic ffer !!!’s loose-limbed lead singer recounting his own dance-music cherry busting during a sound check in Stockholm Sweden. “We listened to C’est Chic and I was on acid when we put the record on. We put the second side on first just because—” Stranger Personals. selectalternatives.
Avril Hammers Nine Inch Nails – News Story | Music Celebrity Artist…
MTV.com – Apr 25, 2007
href} {button:true} ); Whether they knew it or not fans of both Avril Lavigne and Nine Inch Nails played instrumental roles in what’s been one of the year’s most-talked-about races for Billboard’s albums chart peak. With new LPs from both artists hitting stores last Tuesday the question of who’d come out on top was on the minds of music industry experts. This battle royale between the bubbly pop-punk princess and venerated industrial-rock icon Trent Reznor injected some much-needed excitement into what was a rather anemic week for album releases. Those in the know called it all week — Lavigne’s third LP The Best Damn Thing did outsell Reznor’s Year Zero and now we know that the race wasn’t such a close one. With more than 286000 copies sold during its first week at retail Lavigne’s Thing trounced sales of Year Zero by close to 100000 units scoring Avril the second chart-topping opening of her career according to the latest SoundScan figures. Deryck Whibley’s sophomore set Under My Skin also bowed at #1 in 2004 but with 380000 copies scanned… Deryck Whibley’s sophomore set Under My Skin also bowed at #1 in 2004 but with 380000 copies scanned. Nine Inch Nails’ latest settles for second best having racked up close to 187000 in sales; the band’s 2005 effort With Teeth debuted at #1 with 272000 units grabbed up and 1999′s The Fragile also entered the chart at #1 with 229000 scans. Now That’s What I Call Music! 24 — featuring contributions from Beyoncé Fergie Nelly Furtado and Nickelback — falls two positions to #3 selling another 68000 copies its fourth week in stores. Following at #4 is the self-titled LP from Bucky Covington one of the finalists from season five of “American Idol. ” The disc scanned close to 61000 copies and was one of just seven albums to debut on this week’s chart. The rest of the week’s fresh faces included country crooner Clay Walker whose Fall bows at #15 with 32000 units sold. Lumidee’s Unexpected scanned more than 16000 copies to finish at #44.
The Imus Test: Rap Lyrics Undergo Examination
Washington Post – Apr 25, 2007
In the 80s it was: listening to heavy metal music is devil worship. In the 70s: punk rock has no redeeming social value. In the 60s: only drug users listen to the Beatles Hendrix etc. The bottom line is: if you dont like it dont listen to it.
Why indestructible Iggy is irresistible
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 25, 2007
In fact the Iggy I tracked so slavishly the Iggy of Lust for Life and The Idiot fame had already had one career. As Paul Trynka’s pen Up and Bleed a new book on Iggy and the Stooges makes incredibly clear it is quite extraordinary that he had survived even to that point as sex drugs and confusion dragged him and the band to near extinction. With a little help from David Bowie he salvaged himself and his career enjoyed a brief burst of renewed success before vanishing once again into a miasma of semi-obscurity facing audiences who had some idea that he was the original punk but who didn’t have much interest in the savage rocker standing in front of them stripping off his clothes and belting out ferocious songs that they had never heard. But who’d have thought it? As this paper reported yesterday here is Iggy Pop at 60 stage-diving bare-chested into an affectionate and enthusiastic crowd as he and the Stooges reunited after more than 30 years apart play a gig on their on-going US tour which will be followed this summer by a triumphal progress round the European festivals. He sold his most famous tracks to advertising companies to provide some much-needed cash turned his spitting stripping and microphone- twirling antics into a variety- show turn and carried on rocking. He is still great and he is still there… Even if you are drowning your sorrows in the most miserable of songs the effect the music has on you is cheering. If you go to a concert by My Chemical Romance or Arcade Fire you don’t come away depressed because of the bleakness of their vision; you leave energised by the power of the noise. This is arguably true of all kinds of music including classical. But it is particularly true where the driving force is a heavy beat a wailing guitar and a ferocious vocal. Performing such songs in front of responsive audiences has got to be one of the most life-affirming career choices ever. It is the very nature of what they do provided they can avoid the perils of drink and drugs that helps rockers to live forever – and stay forever young.
Feel that Austin vibe
St. Petersburg Times – Apr 25, 2007
A musician eventually asked Matthews if he could use his computer skills to help him record a demo tape. ther requests followed. Funk punk rock folk metal. The genre didn't matter. "They were kind of like roaches. You met one of them and hundreds came out" he recalled playfully. He set up a makeshift studio in two connecting rooms in the back of his house.