The News Review:
- Punk to the bone
- Faces of the week
- Pop and Rock Listings
- Sticky carpet – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
- Electronic music index
- Computer Name That Tune!
Punk to the bone
Malaysia Star – Apr 27, 2007
The other band members are Aaron “El Hefe” Abeyta (lead guitar trumpets when needed) the dreadlocked Eric Melvin (guitar) and Erik Sandin (drums). NFX’s music mixes punk (both hardcore and the original stuff) ska and reggae while their lyrics range the entire gamut from social and political commentary to those basic human needs often with a touch of self-deprecatory and black humour. Music born in the LA crucible but with an old-school Brit-punk sensibility. True to their pure-punk ethos they didn’t use the concert to sell their latest album Wolves in Wolves’ Clothing; they did only a couple of tracks from that album. Equal shrift was given to their most commercially-accessible album 1994’s Punk in Drublic as well as the politics-heavy The War on Errorism from 2003. The guys seemed perfectly happy to just play their music and have fun with the only political discourse being a terse “Let’s get out of Iraq now. ” Surprising given its political activitism that particular album kicked off NFX’s anti-George W.
Faces of the week
BBC News – Apr 27, 2007
Yet he managed to finish the performance first. Stooges splitThe Stooges’ albums were slaughtered in the music press and most of their audiences didn’t like the band subjecting Iggy Pop to all manner of abuse which he dutifully learnt to return. This phenomenon became a feature of the British punk music a decade later. Today he still spits on his audiences albeit in a more “ritualised” context. By the end of the 1970s Iggy and The Stooges had split up burnt out and largely unappreciated but for the odd song like I Wanna Be Your Dog. Their bass guitarist Dave Alexander had drunk himself to death. The music industry turned its back on them.
Pop and Rock Listings
New York Times – Apr 27, 2007
com; $60 cover; $65 dinner charge at 9; $25 minimum at 11:30. (Stephen Holden) ★ AWESME CLR DIRTY PRJECTRS DEERHUNTER BLACK MTH SUPER RAINBW (Tonight) Awesome Color’s gruff retro garage-blues is self-consciously noisy as only New York rock can be but it is also indebted and seems partly a homage to the vintage Detroit proto-punk of the Stooges and the MC5. Dirty Projectors builds elaborate “glitch operas” with stark pluckings of strings and precise ecstatic harmonies all arranged slightly out of whack. Deerhunter from Atlanta weaves sweet guitar and vocal melodies into patterns that seem both florid and evil. Black Moth Super Rainbow from Pittsburgh delivers its shimmering psychedelia through a screen of pulsating keyboards and blissed-out robotic vocals. At 10 Silent Barn 915 Wyckoff Avenue at Hancock Street Bushwick Brooklyn… (Sisario)ME (Wednesday and Thursday) ne chord is all Moe needs to start one of its nimble quick-fingered jams. Its music starts with the.
Sticky carpet – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Apr 27, 2007
Punk band X were taken out to lunch atthe Albert Park Hotel by Mushroom Records to sign and celebrate arecord deal. “We had the big lunch seafood wine the lot” explains Xsinger Steve Lucas who then went home to his heavily pregnantwife. But his mischievous bandmates Cathy Green and the late IanRilen had other ideas. “Ian and Cathy kicked on to some industry cocktail party”continues Lucas. “The next day I came back to the office to sign mypublishing deal and despite them having thrown a big party for usthe day before the temperature had dropped to 30 degrees below… “Ian and Cathy kicked on to some industry cocktail party”continues Lucas. “The next day I came back to the office to sign mypublishing deal and despite them having thrown a big party for usthe day before the temperature had dropped to 30 degrees below. ‘It’s all off’ Mushroom Music Publishing’s Ian James told me. Ian and Cathy came back to the offices after theircocktail party crashed a boardroom meeting turned the goldrecords upside down called people pedophiles and told them ‘Youdon’t know how lucky you are to have us!’ “Subsequently the band got dropped and that album X andMore didn’t receive the push or production they had hopedfor. Their previous album 1985’s At Home with You whichremains an Australian rock classic is set to be remastered andrelaunched by Aztec Music next week. Lucas who has recentlyreturned to Melbourne is anticipating a big year: he turns 50 andX turn 30.
Electronic music index
News & bserver – Apr 27, 2007
Examples: Noel Sanger (above at Talulla’s tonight) Tiesto Paul van Dyk;Drum and bass: Characterized by fast tempo broken beat drums (generally between 160 & 180 beats per minute) with heavy often intricate basslines. Examples: di (above at Blend tonight) LTJ Bukem GoldieHouse: Takes disco’s use of a prominent bass drum on every beat and developed a new style by mixing in a heavy electronic synthesizer bassline electronic drums electronic effects funk and pop samples and reverb (or delay)-enhanced vocals. Examples: Donald Glaude (above at Penang on Saturday) Frankie Knuckles Daft Punk DJ DanAmbient: Incorporates elements of a number of different styles — including jazz electronic music new age modern classical music traditional world and noise; sometimes characterized as being designed to function equally effectively for both passive (background music) and active listening. Examples: Richard Chartier (above at Blend on Saturday) Brian Eno Tangerine Dream Alvo NotoIndustrial: Meant by its creators to evoke the idea of music created for a new generation of people previous music being more “agricultural. ” Examples: Ego Likeness (above Local 506 tonight) Nine Inch Nails Throbbing Gristle Skinny Puppy All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be published broadcast or redistributed in any manner… Examples: di (above at Blend tonight) LTJ Bukem GoldieHouse: Takes disco’s use of a prominent bass drum on every beat and developed a new style by mixing in a heavy electronic synthesizer bassline electronic drums electronic effects funk and pop samples and reverb (or delay)-enhanced vocals. Examples: Donald Glaude (above at Penang on Saturday) Frankie Knuckles Daft Punk DJ DanAmbient: Incorporates elements of a number of different styles — including jazz electronic music new age modern classical music traditional world and noise; sometimes characterized as being designed to function equally effectively for both passive (background music) and active listening. Examples: Richard Chartier (above at Blend on Saturday) Brian Eno Tangerine Dream Alvo NotoIndustrial: Meant by its creators to evoke the idea of music created for a new generation of people previous music being more “agricultural. ” Examples: Ego Likeness (above Local 506 tonight) Nine Inch Nails Throbbing Gristle Skinny Puppy All rights reserved. This copyrighted material may not be published broadcast or redistributed in any manner.
Computer Name That Tune!
Science News – Apr 27, 2007
“Me neither” he said. Six million people now use Shazam’s software to identify and sometimes purchase music they hear while walking down the street sitting in a café or doing just about anything else. Wang is the engineer who designed the system to recognize music picked up though a cell phone. The service had a precarious start Wang told me. Three MBAs recruited him to figure out how to make the technical details work while they raised the money. “I thought it was kind of ridiculous” Wang said. “This was backward from how things are usually done… As Wang and I carried on chatting in the coffee shop he continued to use Shazam to identify songs. We could hear the voice of a woman cheerily singing “It’s a good day” and Shazam identified her as Peggy Lee. Shazam also told us that the person singing a bubbly jazz song called “I’ll Be Seeing You” was of all people the punk-edged rocker Iggy Pop. Each new song presented a puzzle and the cell phone would have the answer. I started getting hooked. If you would like to comment on this article please see the.