The News Review:
- Never say die
- Los Dynamite Noiselab Mexico City Rock – Music – New York Times
- Jonathan Coulton – MySpace – YouTube – Rock Music – New York Times
- In a Stadium or in a Pool Bands Galore
- Still Rocking Hard in Asbury Park as the Bands Play n
- … in Cleveland rock history: New books look at Beatles music…
Never say die
The Age – May 13, 2007
He’s working on a compilation of early works by Depression whose guitarist and singer Smeer aka Stephen Lazaros is a Flinders Street tattooist. At 47 Macdougall hosts a Thursday night PBS FM program Sunglasses After Dark featuring as he puts it "punk hardcore garage rockabilly metal and lots of Australian independent bands. "Punk music in general – well whatever you want to call it nowadays – will never die" Macdougall says. "It just keeps going on with young kids in a garage rehearsing as we speak who will in the future change the face of music just as the Sex Pistols and Nirvana did all those years ago. That’s what makes it so interesting and fun to be a part of. "Macdougall once sang in a band called Human Waste. He started out listening to "pop stuff" on radio… Heavens it was a long time ago. "There was a political dimension he says. Punks would go out in support of anti-war demonstrators. Some of the bands made it known they were vegetarian. "Depression were vegetarian. They wouldn’t eat meat. But they did wear leather.
Los Dynamite Noiselab Mexico City Rock – Music – New York Times
New York Times – May 13, 2007
IN the 1990s to be an alternative rocker in Mexico City usually meant a few specific things. You made music about the unchecked chaos of your home megalopolis. You threw the occasional lyrically coded stone at corrupt politicians and corporate media clowns. You embraced traditional Mexican music but then turned it inside out using ska or hip-hop or your favorite goth moments from the Cure… They sing in English idolize the New York City band Interpol and embrace a version of Mexican identity that is tied more to their MySpace page than to local culture or national tradition. The “Top 24″ of the band’s 14000 or so friends has been home to a smattering of Mexico City alternative bands (Zoe Bengala) and also indie bands from Denmark (Wolfkin) and Sweden (Dungen). Los Dynamite’s debut album of jerky post-punk brashly titled “Greatest Hits” may still be available only in local shops via Mexico City’s top indie label Noiselab but because of MySpace its music is now accessible to fans all over the world. “We released our first single through MySpace” said Diego Sol?no 22 the band’s lead singer who was wearing vintage sunglasses a retro leather jacket and the perfect amount of morning-after scruff during a recent interview at Noiselab’s offices. “We got so many gigs from our page and that was all before we had a label. Sol?no and his bandmates are typical of this city’s new wave of indie musicians: middle-class 20-somethings who grew up surfing Web pages watching MTV in their bedrooms and thinking about music as a vehicle for instant albeit virtual global connection.
Jonathan Coulton – MySpace – YouTube – Rock Music – New York Times
New York Times – May 13, 2007
A friend of mine pointed me to the remarkable plight of Poppy Z. Brite a novelist who in 2005 accused fans on a discussion board of being small-minded about children at which point her fans banned her from the board. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia… ” Fans pestered him to know what the band’s next video would be; some even suggested the band try dancing on escalators. Kulash was conflicted. He didn’t want to be known just for making goofy videos; he also wanted people to pay attention to K Go’s music. In the end the band decided not to do another dance video because as Kulash concluded “How do you follow up 15 million hits?” All the artists I spoke to made a point of saying they would never simply pander to their fans’ desires. But many of them also said that staying artistically “pure” now requires the mental discipline of a ninja. These days Coulton is wondering whether an Internet-built fan base inevitably hits a plateau. Many potential Coulton fans are fanatical users of MySpace and YouTube of course; but many more aren’t and the only way for him to reach them is via traditional advertising which he can’t afford or courting media attention a wearying and decidedly old-school task.
In a Stadium or in a Pool Bands Galore
New York Times – May 13, 2007
TRUE CLRS TUR With Cyndi Lauper Deborah Harry Erasure the Dresden Dolls the Gossip Margaret Cho and MisShapes. Along the way look for Rufus Wainwright Rosie ’Donnell and the Indigo Girls as guests. June 8-30 coming to Radio City Music Hall on June 18. VANS WARPED TUR Now 13 years old this circus of skateboards punk and tattoos includes Bad Religion Coheed and Cambria Killswitch Engage K-os New Found Glory the Unseen the Matches and lots lots more. (Dozens of bands rotate through the lineup over the course of the tour.
Still Rocking Hard in Asbury Park as the Bands Play n
New York Times – May 13, 2007
‘ ” Returning concertgoers concerned that bigger does not necessarily mean better should think again Mr. He promises that this year’s event which spans subgenres from emo to freak-folk will be even stronger than last year’s which featured for example Rock Kills Kid a punk-leaning Los Angeles band that went on to win a national following. “We have some artists this year who will leave people totally inspired feeling this is a music scene worth watching” he said. Brown acknowledged will come specifically to see the singer-songwriter Toby Lightman or the indie rock band Earl Greyhound both of Manhattan. thers will be there to see the British singer-songwriters Steve Reilley and Adam Masterson.
… in Cleveland rock history: New books look at Beatles music…
Free with registration – Akron Beacon Journal – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 13, 2007
Nostalgia reigns in Cleveland rock history: New books look at Beatles music scene and concerts. (13-MAY-07) Akron Beacon Journal (Akron H).