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- Pacific NW 04/29/2007 | The Yo-Yo Kid | Seattle Times Newspaper
- Musical Monks Protesting Abortion
- Bjork – Volta – Music – New York Times
- DJ AM- DJ-ing-music-hiphop-Nicole Richie – New York Times
- The best and the worst of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
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Pacific NW 04/29/2007 | The Yo-Yo Kid | Seattle Times Newspaper
Seattle Times – Apr 29, 2007
“To this day I’m glad I have a talent and skill to show for that time instead of hanging out at the mall or watching TV. ” When he graduated from Nathan Hale High he gave it to a favorite band teacher. Next a series of inexpensive Duncan Freehand riginals modified with chameleon paint in sparkle colors drilled for larger bolts and installed with experimental grips during a period of listening to punk music and having more fun with friends than he should’ve. It was the end of high school early millennium a couple years after the big yo-yo resurgence in ‘98. Tricks evolved faster between 2001 and 2003 Mendoza says than in the rest of yo-yo history combined. The Yo-Yo Revolution. That’s when he started hanging out with Strung ut.
Musical Monks Protesting Abortion
nytimes.com – Apr 29, 2007
They still infringe on womens reproductive freedom by protesting at a South Bronx womens health center and trying to convince pregnant teenagers poor women and others that it is immoral to choose not to give birth. They should be ashamed of themselves. Donna Minkowitz Park Slope Brooklyn To the Editor: It is amazing to me that men who choose a lifestyle that will never enable them to reproduce experience fatherhood or become a husband find that they must picket outside a medical clinic to protest that most painful and serious decision of choosing not to reproduce. Instead why dont they protest outside restaurants that dont pay minimum wages to employees trying to raise their families or outside buildings whose owners dont repair homes that families live in? These monks have the ability to make a difference; let them not do it by castigating women.
Bjork – Volta – Music – New York Times
New York Times – Apr 29, 2007
” “I didn’t start off with a musical rule” she said. “It was more emotion. ” She said she asked herself: “Are you playing it safe here? Are you actually being impulsive or are you totally subconsciously planning every moment? Are you really allowing enough space for accidents to happen?”In her native Iceland Bjork sang everything from children’s songs to punk before reaching an international audience as a member of the Sugarcubes in the late 1980s. She knew early on what she wanted to do with her voice. “I was quite conscious that I wanted permission to be able to be sad and funny and human and crazy and silly and childish and wise” she said “because I think everybody is like that. ” Like much of Bjork’s music since she started her solo career with “Debut” in 1993 “Volta” harnesses technology to sheer willfulness. No other songwriter can sound so na? and so instinctual while building such elaborate structures… She knew early on what she wanted to do with her voice. “I was quite conscious that I wanted permission to be able to be sad and funny and human and crazy and silly and childish and wise” she said “because I think everybody is like that. ” Like much of Bjork’s music since she started her solo career with “Debut” in 1993 “Volta” harnesses technology to sheer willfulness. No other songwriter can sound so na? and so instinctual while building such elaborate structures. And few musicians have managed to sustain her unlikely combination of avant-gardism and pop visibility. Even those who ignore her music can’t forget her fashion statements like the swan-shaped dress she wore to the 2001 Academy Awards. She also set down ostrich eggs along the red carpet.
DJ AM- DJ-ing-music-hiphop-Nicole Richie – New York Times
New York Times – Apr 29, 2007
I need to make that noise’ ” he said. It was hard not to notice the product placement on his left wrist a tattoo of the name Technics his turntable brand. Growing up in Philadelphia he listened to everything pop hip-hop punk but his home life was far from harmonious. His father he said served time in prison in connection with a real estate fraud. Upon his parents’ split he and his mother moved to her hometown Los Angeles. By 10th grade he was smoking marijuana ditching school and stealing cars he said an account confirmed by friends from those years… when he was 21 at an illegal after-hours spot in Los Angeles called the Boiler Room. His nightly pay was $40 and a six-pack of beer. “That’s where he really began developing his skill” said Alchemist an urban music producer who has been a friend since high school. His career began to take off but his personal life remained a mess. ne night in 1997 while high on crack DJ AM recounted he caught a glimpse of himself in a mirror. “I felt like I was someone else like I was wearing a crackhead costume” he said. “What am I doing in this body with this film on my face?” He decided life was no longer worth living put a.
The best and the worst of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Press-Enterprise – Apr 29, 2007
Best Thing About Expanding To Three Days: The Coachella Experience The blending of music culture and art was heightened by adding another day. Friday seemed like a period for everyone to ease into the show and concertgoers didn’t have to rush to catch all the art in a short time. Adding another 12 or so hours of music was the biggest bonus. Worst Thing About Expanding To Three Days: The Heat As the temperatures soared above the century mark walking the polo grounds became taxing. In past years two days of Coachella was draining enough. A third day of walking around in that kind of weather is brutal. If Coachella were climate-controlled at 75 degrees it could go on for weeks but three days in the desert heart slowly eats away at concertgoers… From there she sat down at her keyboard and played with her left hand as she pounded a drumstick on a wooden chair with her right and sung. Throughout her set the crowd multiplied as she delivered a transfixing performance. With classical piano framed by a punk rock melody or rudimentary guitar playing squired by her huge voice Spektor was the hit of the day. With just two albums under her belt she is one to watch. Biggest Encapsulation of aUnion Rally: Tom Morello Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello hit the Gobi tent on Saturday armed with just his guitar and harmonica under the moniker of The Nightwatchman. Between his set of energetic and passionate protest songs the rocker seemed more like a union leader as he clamored about the rights of the working man and the ability for common folk to change the world. He was pretty convincing.
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Washington Post – Apr 29, 2007
The force behind this engaging madness is Irvine himself a free-spirited composer from Northern Ireland who brought his 12-man ensemble to the Library of Congress on Friday night. Irvine is a serious musician (he won the British Composer Award last year) but fortunately he hasn’t let that cramp his style. His music draws on anything that crosses his ears — free jazz punk the stately icons of the classical repertoire — and reinvents it all with cheerful abandon. A Dixieland blues will morph into a firestorm of hard bop then melt into a delicate Satie-esque piano melody while snatches of absurdist dialogue are passed back and forth among the musicians. Anarchic? Not to these ears. The music is tightly written and superbly paced and it moves like a piece of theater (which it largely is). Tedious clowning? Not at all.
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San Diego Union Tribune – Apr 29, 2007
But Tollett whose music expertise has made Coachella the nation's most acclaimed annual alternative-rock fete is confident he can succeed with a country and Americana version of Coachella. And he's betting big that next weekend's two-day Stagecoach festival will be a winner. It debuts Saturday at the same grassy site in Indio the Empire Polo Grounds that has hosted Coachella since its inception in 1999. As of earlier this month advance sales for Stagecoach were close to 20000 for each day – despite a starting ticket price of $165 for a two-day pass (Coachella costs $85 per day) – with a significant number of buyers hailing from San Diego. That tally already puts it on par with advance sales for Coachella's fourth year according to Tollett even though Stagecoach is a first-time effort with no track record and none of the all-important street cred Coachella has built up over the years… “There's obviously an alt-bent to the lineup and it has a really good cross-section of artists. ”Apart from watching episodes of “Hee Haw” as a boy in his native hio Tollett 41 had little connection to country music until he recently began a self-imposed crash course to prepare for Stagecoach. His family moved to Covina when he was 8 and he became enamored with punk rock by the time he hit his teen years. He helped launch Goldenvoice in 1986. The company is now owned by (but operates largely independently from) AEG Worldwide one of the entertainment world's biggest multinational companies. According to Tollett the seeds of Stagecoach were planted by various Indio residents who kept asking him why he didn't stage a country-oriented counterpart to Coachella. Several years ago he asked fellow AEG promoters in Houston and Nashville to explore the viability of such a fete In Indio.