The News Review:
- Coachella 2007: Sheffield’s Final Word
- … With Feist By Martha Plimpton – News Story | Music…
- Jay Reatard.
- A Rock Festival Whose Hallmark Is Taste
- How the wolves survive: Los Lobos’ Louie Perez on immigration…
- Gogol Bordello reveal new album details
Coachella 2007: Sheffield’s Final Word
Rolling Stone – May 1, 2007
Lord the torments we endure for music. But this weekend the music was more than enough gathering most of the planet’s best fit-and-working bands in the desert heat. Coachella ‘07 was the place to hear amazing new bands I never heard of (… I did’nt really like them. They had good energy and all and some great grooves but almost every single song followed the structure ofcool grove verse into punk chorus comprised of the same drum beat “boom tat boom tat boom tat. ” Well maybe I was just restless waiting for Rage. the two screens on either side of the stage showed the outline of a person hopping. after a few seconds the crowd realized it was the outline of zach de la rocha.
… With Feist By Martha Plimpton – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – May 1, 2007
I am a music lover not a music journalist. I am a philistine and an ignoramus with an irrational aversion to reading liner notes. So truthfully I’d heard Feist who currently lives in France long before I knew I was hearing Feist. Before the release of 2005’s Let It Die she’d mostly sung with other people’s bands. But her newest record The Reminder written mostly on her own is her best work yet and I can’t stop listening to it. When I learned I’d have the chance to talk to her I was beyond excited… That’s stats” adding “For me the windshield is bigger than the rear-view mirror. But it’s my curiosity about how she developed her extraordinary voice that really starts our conversation. I want to know about her youthful years with the little-known Canadian punk band Placebo (not to be confused with the British band of the same name) and how she lost her voice — temporarily thankfully — before she’d hit 20. “I snapped my little pink elastic-band vocal cords in half” she laughs. “They were pissed off just like the music. She speaks in riffs with the unpretentious vocabulary of someone who is genuinely smart. She says she disappeared for a time to her “cave” as she calls her father’s basement in Calgary Canada with a four-track recorder he’d given her.
Jay Reatard.
Free with registration – Thrasher – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 1, 2007
STILL NLY in his mid-’20s Memphian Jay Reatard has already amassed a prodigious body of work–with enough albums and side projects under his belt to make even Billy Childish proud. Jay gained notoriety (on a very small level–this is punk rock kids) in the late 1990s for his work with the Reatards recording albums for less than 20 dollars and playing shows drunker than Peter Laughner. Jay’s best-known band was the synth-punk Screamers-influenced Lost Sounds which broke up in 2005. His latest effort Blood Visions is credited to just himself and is undoubtedly the best work he’s done so far (influences include early Roxy Music and the Adverts) receiving my vote for best album of 2006. Blood Visions is refreshing in that it’s unique sounding directly like no album cut before it either by Jay or another band. I was looking at the recording date for Blood Visions.
A Rock Festival Whose Hallmark Is Taste
New York Times – May 1, 2007
April 30 The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival may have to start sharpening its identity. Skip to next paragraph… Even more deeply English were Arctic Monkeys from Sheffield as is Mr. Arctic Monkeys’ wordy jokey artfully un-self-conscious pub-punk next to Mr. Cocker’s mock grandiosity traced the sensibilities of that single far-off town; lessons like this among other things are what festivals are for.
How the wolves survive: Los Lobos’ Louie Perez on immigration…
Free with registration – Reason – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 1, 2007
For five years Los Lobos played dive bars community centers and anywhere else in the neighborhood they could get a gig. After releasing an independent LP in 1978 Los Lobos signed with the indie label and punk incubator Slash Records an odd fit for the Tex-Mex jam band. The musicians next found themselves opening for punk acts across Southern California. The audiences were at first confused and sometimes hostile but the band quickly developed a devoted critical and fan following based on its eclectic sound and epic live performances. They also picked up their fifth member. Keyboardist saxophonist and producer Steve Berlin was playing with the legendary punk band the Blasters in the early 1980s. He was fascinated by this foursome of folk artists playing the punk clubs which he would later describe in liner notes to a Los Lobos live album as “like finding a tribe of Indians living under a freeway underpass.
Gogol Bordello reveal new album details
NME.com – May 1, 2007
CM into the studio May 1 2007 0 Comments Gogol Bordello news reviews video and tour dates Add Gogol Bordello to MyNME Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz has spoken to NME. CM from the studio about their forthcoming fifth album. Produced by Nick Cave and PJ Harvey cohort Victor Van Vugt ?Super-Taranta? takes its title from the word Tarantella – an extreme form of traditional Italian music once played to women in need of treatment for hysteria. ?I stumbled onto the idea when I saw a painting in Italy? revealed Hutz. ?It showed a woman having convulsions and a guy standing over her playing violin and I thought ‘That shit is S us! It?s more Gogol Bordello than Gogol Bordello!? But we called our album ?Super-Taranta? because it?s not just a cure for women it has the power to cure men too. It?s unisex!? The Ukrainian-born singer also explained how the album had benefited from the fact that the collective have now finally cemented its eight-piece line-up with regular members. ?The last album wasn?t done with our classic line-up… ?The last album wasn?t done with our classic line-up. Musically we were still figuring things out back then but now there?s no need for any tricks in the studio” he explained. “The band is in great shape and our new bass player Tommy Gobena is helping us explore more dub sounds so now we?re ready to take gypsy-punk to the next level. ? Songs confirmed for the new record – the follow-up to 2005?s ?Gypsy Punks? – include ?Ultimate? ?Wonderlust King? ?Forces f Victory? and ?Super Theory f Super Everything? (which is also the album?s subtitle). As previously reported the band will give the.