The News Review:
- New Releases: Linkin Park Wilco – News Story | Music Celebrity…
- THEATER REVIEW | ‘PASSING STRANGE’
- Post details: Mark Beaumont and Canadian Music – ARF!
- Clarkson Fumes at Artist Rejects
- Which bank rocks on?
- The Police: Rock trio reunites to see if it still has music magic.
New Releases: Linkin Park Wilco – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – May 15, 2007
Time’s a Wastin’: For starters Linkin Park serve their ominously themed third studio album Minutes to Midnight — for which they spent 14 months in the studio and racked up a stupefying 100 demo songs. Rick Rubin put his Grammy-winning spit-shine on the LP and even let the bros use his 808 drum machine which rap-rock crossover pseudo-brethren Beastie Boys used on License to Ill more than 20 years ago. Happy Meal: The special edition comes with a Music Video Interactive DVD containing downloadable MP3s for all the tracks plus videos a “What I’ve Done” ringtone and much more. : Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky is already drawing critical raves — duh it’s Wilco — and were it born 30 years ago would have fit comfortably on AR radio… The set features 11 tracks 10 of which James wrote or co-wrote and all of which he produced even though the funk master had originally wanted it to be a double album consisting of 20 cuts. Happy Meal: “Do You Wanna Play” is according to a press release “an unadulterated invitation to carnal pleasures” while “Secrets” and “Funk Wit Me” are equally intimate to put it politely. Give (It) Up: For their fourth effort metalcore stewards Hopesfall huddled with Mike Watts — no not the legendary punk bassist; Mike Watts producer of like-minded bands like As Tall as Lions and As Cities Burn. The North Carolina group’s latest includes “Swamp Kittens” “Cubic Zirconias Are Forever” and “Devil’s Concubine.
THEATER REVIEW | ‘PASSING STRANGE’
New York Times – May 15, 2007
Bald and big-bellied with a neat goatee and quirky eyeglasses he has an air more professorial than swoon-inducing. Narrating the story of his life in song sometimes from a podium or a desk he slides those glasses up his big domed forehead to peer skeptically at the dubious antics of his fictionalized younger self played with impish spirit by Daniel Breaker. Stew watches in sorrow amazement and occasional embarrassment as the callow young man he once was struts and struggles pouts and fusses his way to maturity on a voyage that takes him from the not-so-mean streets of Los Angeles to the hash bars of Amsterdam and the post-punk cabarets of Berlin. But Professor Stew can also play a mean guitar and when necessary he strides the stage like an evangelical preacher or a preening rocker to whip the audience into a froth. Part concert with Stew leading an onstage band; part book musical with a full (and terrific) cast “Passing Strange” defies generic categories. This is wholly appropriate since the story being told doesn’t run in any of the familiar grooves of the African-American experience in 20th-century America. And if it does trace the classic story of the artist as a self-styled outsider at odds with mainstream culture (as personified by Mom) “Passing Strange” sets this boilerplate arc to a quirky new rhythm… “I mean baby we’re all freaks depending on the backdrop” he shrugs. Bright-eyed with wonder young Stew jokes that they’re both “black folks passing for black folks. ” The music composed by Stew and Heidi Rodewald (who also plays bass) is straight-ahead guitar-driven rock rather than rhythm and blues (though of course the line between them is easily blurred). As Stew searches for his own musical voice the disparate styles referred to range from ’60s Europop to ’70s punk to ’80s electronic to Gilbert and Sullivan and.
Post details: Mark Beaumont and Canadian Music – ARF!
NME.com – May 15, 2007
Arf! A bit like Jamaican tobogganing French manners or Zimbabwean human rights it’s been a bit of a joke to the international community over the past 300 years. riginating from traditional Inuit music made by battering injured moose with frozen cod Alanis Morissette epitomised Canadian femi-rock for many years finally wiping out the stranglehold that Bryan Adams had held on the title of Blandest Cunt In Rock History. Although Adams was of course Canadian as well so the title stayed within that dullest of musical nations where throughout the 70s and 80s the likes of Neil Young and Rush had been striving to keep Canadian rock boring… Crash Test Dummies Barenaked Ladies Godspeed You! Black Emperor Jewel Len Kittie Sum 41 Avril Lavigne: the CIA began to investigate if some kind of RockToss virus had been released into the Canadian water system by terrorists or if there was an undercover plot in schools to smuggle anyone showing any musical talent south of the border by the age of eight. Then after 15000 years of credibility drought throughout the nation in the 00’s Canada finally started to show some promise. Hot Hot Heat were cool for fifteen minutes in 2003 Hidden Cameras made gay men dancing in their pants the most exciting onstage phenomenon of 2004 and Death From Above The Dears and Stars proved that Canada could do punk rock sweeping indie anthems and electronic cutesiness as mightily as the rest when it wanted to. And then came Arcade Fire single handedly making Canada the epicentre of the rock globe and changing the national dress from mountie uniforms to funeral wear and crash helmets. And now the maple juice has really hit the fan. This week’s NME features a cover-mount CD showcasing the exploding rock scene from this most undervalued province. The Besnard Lakes’ espionage moods Holy Fuck’s rattling sonic strangulations Metric’s monstrous ‘Monster Hospital’ Tokyo Police Club’s angular cred-pop and some bunch of nutcases called Les Breastfeeders doing French garage rock while seemingly being dangled from the top of the CNN tower – it’s all here all determined to get its man.
Clarkson Fumes at Artist Rejects
San Francisco Chronicle – May 15, 2007
I’m like’You can’t even find new songs? You don’t want me to write my album but you’resending me hand me downs?’ So I ended up writing the entire thing with thepeople that I write well with. ” Listed Under: American Idol Kelly Clarkson Music | Comments (17) : Post Comment. item –> CommentsThey tried to feed her Lindsay Lohan rejects and left overs? That’s not humilation it’s torture!Posted By: sake | May 15 2007 at 03:01 PMSometimes it works for you – Cyndi Lauper turned down “pen Your Heart” and “Like a Virgin” was originally written for a man – look what Madonna did!Posted By: a_c99 | May 15 2007 at 03:13 PMThis bold stance officially makes her more punk than Avril. then again so is Betty White. Posted By: JRoo | May 15 2007 at 03:17 PMJRoo you are on fire today!Posted By: FrankCostanza | May 15 2007 at 03:24 PMKelly Clarkson’s whole image is confusing to me these AI winners are worse off than the AI losers… then again so is Betty White. Posted By: JRoo | May 15 2007 at 03:17 PMJRoo you are on fire today!Posted By: FrankCostanza | May 15 2007 at 03:24 PMKelly Clarkson’s whole image is confusing to me these AI winners are worse off than the AI losers. Posted By: PreciousB | May 15 2007 at 03:39 PMI guess that tells you where you stand in the music industry. Posted By: xKarinxx | May 15 2007 at 03:50 PMHere’s the thing–no matter what she sings you know she is going to do a damn good job at it. Maybe she should sing one of Lindsay Lohans songs so she can let us know how it SHULD sound. Kelly is awesome and I have no doubts that her next album will be also. Her first two were great and if it takes a little longer for her to come up with a 3rd that kicks ass that’s fine with me.
Which bank rocks on?
NEWS.com.au – May 15, 2007
CBA subsidiary Colonial First State has bought a swag of music copyrights. Skip to: Search Box Section Navigation Network Navigation Content View the Sitemap ndm… article-tools –> Ben Butler and lga Galacho May 15 2007 12:00am CMMNWEALTH is banking on rock. CBA subsidiary Colonial First State has bought a swag of music copyrights. The 25000-song catalogue acquired from US private equity outfit Dimensional Associates will form the cornerstone of the bank’s new media investment fund. Dimensional Associates also owns digital distributor The rchard and retailer eMusic. The fund will be worth $150 million to $200 million when it is launched at the end of this year. CFS head of strategy and development Geordie Manolas said the asset had a track record of producing stable and recurring income.
The Police: Rock trio reunites to see if it still has music magic.
Free with registration – Knight Ridder/Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 15, 2007
Byline: Chuck Myers The Police are back on the beat. More than 20 years after the popular rock band made its last stage appearance the group’s original members guitarist Andy Summers drummer Stewart Copeland and bassist and singer Sting are hitting the road. Formed in 1977 The Police started as a spunky punk band that quickly evolved into one of the top pop and rock bands in music history. Given the number of hit singles The Police has to its.