The News Review:
- The dawn of punk
- From Boston to Lahore and beyond Islamic punk rock is spreading |…
- Lavender Diamond seeks world peace
- Music Blog | Venues Magazine | The Daily Collegian nline
- … Weirds ‘Em ut: Coachella Day ne – News Story | Music…
- Pop CDs of the week
The dawn of punk
NEWS.com.au – Apr 28, 2007
Same players different haircuts. "I was exposed to a lot of new music in London" Moffatt says today talking at his Sydney studio. "There was country music and the New York punk thing as it later became known. Even in 1972 in London there was already a band called the Social Deviants led by Mick Farren who later became a well-known rock writer. And that pub rock thing involving people like Nick Lowe (later Elvis Costello’s producer) and Martin Belmont (later of Graham Parker’s band The Rumour) was a really tough scene both musically and physically. " Moffatt had taken an interest in the recording side of the business while in London and was keen to apply everything he had learnt about engineering records. When a wave of IRA bombs hit he decided it was time to come home with his wife and young child.
From Boston to Lahore and beyond Islamic punk rock is spreading |…
Guardian – Apr 28, 2007
With a lurid Mohawk and leather jacket slathered with slogans she looks every inch the rebel and has an attitude to match. Sabina who says she lives in the “shitty midwest of the United States” or the “HELL-HLE F BREDM AND YUPPIES” is part of a subculture that until a few years ago existed only on paper. The Taqwacores – a novel about a fictitious Muslim punk scene in the US – has spawned an actual movement that is being driven forward by young Muslims worldwide. Some bands – such as the Kominas – have a cult following… I felt Islam was so black and white and there were no grey areas. These Muslim kids who are punks they are in these grey areas. ” The kids he refers to have all devoured Knight’s work some taking it literally. “ne kid” he says “thought the book was non-fiction and thought that stuff in the book actually happened. He said if it wasn’t real that he would make it real.
Lavender Diamond seeks world peace
chinadaily.com.cn – Apr 28, 2007
The band includes Steve Gregoropoulos (a classical pianist) guitarist Jeff Rosenberg and drummer Ron Rege Jr. Stark calls “Imagine ur Love” a country-pop album but acknowledges their music isn’t easy to categorize. “I still get flabbergasted” she says. “Folk? Classical punk? Um nursery rhymes? It’s peace rock? No no no. Love music?” Stark grew up poor outside Washington D. in Maryland and was raised as a Unitarian.
Music Blog | Venues Magazine | The Daily Collegian nline
Penn State Digital Collegian – Apr 28, 2007
But only one will return. We’re not sure if having 20 percent of your band attend Penn State should qualify you as eligible for the school’s Battle of the Bands but then that’s not for us to decide. The band broke some lifetime milestones for our concert-going experience: It was the first time we’d seen a punk band cover The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s “Fire” while playing to a crowd that included a chihuahua wearing a hooded sweatshirt. God willing it won’t be the last. First controversial moment on the HUB Lawn! A man wearing a brown leather jacket was totally breaking the No Smoking rule! Scandalouuuuuuus!And here’s a picture of that cute little chihuahua. Call me crazy but does it look like it’d rather be somewhere else?.
… Weirds ‘Em ut: Coachella Day ne – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – Apr 28, 2007
href} {button:true} ); INDI California — There’s an old saying ringing through the Southern California desert air this weekend: All good things come in threes. For the first time in the music festival’s eight-year history Coachella expanded to a three-day event and the inaugural Friday went down like. well the same old wildly eclectic time as usual. With the somewhat forgotten Björk as the headliner and the buzzing Amy Winehouse poorly scheduled at 6 p… on the smallest of the festival’s five stages Friday lacked the set that everyone was talking about but at least that same everyone could find something perfectly suited for their tastes at pretty much all times. (Check out photos of Arctic Monkeys Amy Winehouse Cameron Diaz and more at Coachella’s kick off. )Between Björk’s horn-heavy experimental pop orchestra (and yes those new Timbaland-produced tracks are as weird as you would expect) Interpol’s crisp dance rock and the Arctic Monkey’s expertly-crafted Brit-punk the main Coachella Stage alone offered a smorgasboard of trendy entertainment. (Jessica Alba Drew Barrymore and um Danny DeVito — for the second year in a row — were among those catching the action. )The surprise there was the Jesus and Mary Chain whose reunion has been rightfully overshadowed by Rage Against the Machine (clearly the most anticipated band this go-around). In this case though the show was mesmerizing from start to finish and clearly showcased the droning guitar sound (newcomers can reference “Just Like Honey” from “Lost in Translation”) that countless acts have ripped off over the years.
Pop CDs of the week
Telegraph.co.uk – Apr 28, 2007
PP Various Artists This Is England: riginal Soundtrack Universal £12. Shane Meadows’s evocative new film This Is England in which the song appears focuses on skinheads and their relationship with the National Front. But to anyone who lived through that era the film and this soundtrack are catalysts for much more than an earnest debate about racial politics. They bring vividly to life a golden age of British music. While the different tribes were highly distinct the diversity of the music on this collection underlines the fact that for the most part they all rubbed along… Shane Meadows’s evocative new film This Is England in which the song appears focuses on skinheads and their relationship with the National Front. But to anyone who lived through that era the film and this soundtrack are catalysts for much more than an earnest debate about racial politics. They bring vividly to life a golden age of British music. While the different tribes were highly distinct the diversity of the music on this collection underlines the fact that for the most part they all rubbed along. The neurotic synth-pop of Soft Cell’s Tainted Love is in many ways the antithesis of the laddish Specials track or the even tougher Warhead by the punky UK Subs. Yet when the three acts were at their peak it would not have been unusual to like them all. And it’s easy to see why – all three sound terrific here: fresh dynamic and brimming with conviction.