The News Review:
- Summer teems with music fests that lack variety.
- Music Review | ‘Mando Diao’
- … Bone Thugs To Top Album Chart – News Story | Music…
- Music magic
- Fishbone on Its Legacy and New Music
- Local lads return home with their band
- This Rapper Needs a Hit
Summer teems with music fests that lack variety.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 16, 2007
(16-MAY-07) Chicago Tribune (Chicago IL). _ It’s possible to see just about everyone who matters in rock music at big outdoor festivals this summer. And there is no shortage of fans willing to attend as demo.
Music Review | ‘Mando Diao’
New York Times – May 16, 2007
That was the kind of old-school boisterousness they also showed in their songs which embrace 1960s garage-rock as if it might grow up to be punk. Mando Diao which is from Sweden headlined what could have been called Retro Adrenaline Night: a triple bill of bands that have all decided that vintage styles survive best with a little infusion of speed. The Films an American band with Anglophile leanings opened with brash smartly rhymed new-wave songs tinged with Elvis Costello’s corrosive wit and some of the swagger of Britpop. Pop Levi an English rocker favors psychedelic clothes and twisted 1970s memories; he mixed the stomp high vocals and campy dance steps of glam-rock with blues-rock riffs and two-chord vamps extending and bearing down on them until they became an ecstatic drone. (He also has a Prince-like funky side but didn’t show it… Its two guitarists and lead singers Bjorn Dixgard and Gustaf Noren traded off lead vocals and shared a few songs switching between power-pop eagerness and garage-rock shouts. Unlike some vintage-styled bands Mando Diao sounds neither cautious nor hidebound; behind the singers the band started out peppy and revved up through each song. The music insisted that with enough energy old-fashioned songs can blast themselves into the here and now.
… Bone Thugs To Top Album Chart – News Story | Music…
MTV.com – May 16, 2007
Ne-Yo’s Because of You slides three spots to #4 with 89000 scans while Avril Lavigne’s The Best Damn Thing follows at #5 on 70800 units. The self-titled debut from “American Idol” season five finalist Chris Daughtry’s eponymous rock outfit Daughtry inches up one spot to #6 with 66800 copies sold while Carrie Underwood’s Some Hearts climbs two spots to #8 with 56800 scans. The 24th installment in the Now That’s What I Call Music! compilation series rounds out the top 10 having sold an additional 40700 copies adding to its already 743000 take. DipSet: More Than Music Vol. 2 a collection featuring Diplomats members Cam’ron Juelz Santana Jim Jones Hell Rell J… and others follows at #26 with 23000 scans. Meanwhile Travis return to the top 200 at #58 with The Boy With No Name which generated sales of 11700 and coming in at #97 is the latest from rapper Sage Francis Human the Death Dance which sold 8500 units. Bone Brothers 2 a collaboration between Layzie Bone and former Bone Thugs partner Bizzy Bone bows at #122 with 6900 copies sold while Punk Goes Acoustic 2 a collection of unplugged tracks from the likes of Jack’s Mannequin Silverstein the All-American Rejects Relient K and Sherwood opens at #125 with 6800 scans. The debut offering from “American Idol” season five finalist Paris Bennett Princess P debuts at #133 with more than 6300 copies sold and coming in at #197 with 4300 copies sold is Houston rapper Z-Ro’s new one Power.
Music magic
Malaysia Star – May 16, 2007
For adventurous music lovers the chance to see these acts performing on local TV screens is rare enough let alone all on the same show. The following week’s show featured Richard Ashcroft John Fogerty and New York-based indie punks We Are Scientists. For the coming weeks viewers can expect a host of brilliant groundbreaking acts such as Gnarls Barkley Franz Ferdinand Snow Patrol Elvis Costello Paul Simon Hot Chip Dirty Pretty Things Ray Davies The Streets Primal Scream The Flaming Lips The Strokes and Cat Power. If this wonderful line-up doesn’t get your pulses racing with anticipation then Later with Jools Holland is probably not the show for you. But if the prospect of watching these kind of acts perform live on one groovy musical show with a bit of interesting chat thrown in for good measure sounds like your idea of heaven then look no further than the BBC Entertainment channel every Friday night. Compared to other music shows Later with Jools Holland stands out in terms of entertainment and variety.
Fishbone on Its Legacy and New Music
NPR – May 16, 2007
And it’s an attitude that the band admits might have limited its commercial success. “As far as I’m concerned we got blackballed for a long time but that still didn’t stop us” Moore says. Fisher and Moore talk candidly about racism in the music business about what inspires them and what they’re thriving on these days. getElementById(“sharepop2″).
Local lads return home with their band
Wairarapa Times Age – May 16, 2007
It’s just a feeling that’s just unreal. ” Dreams have come true for this drummer though you could say he was destined for big things from an early age when aged 13 he joined a band with The Black Seeds guitarist Mike August. “I want to make a living off doing music it’s what I love” Ramsden said. “The ultimate goal would be to take our sound worldwide and just sell millions of albums” he said though front man Andrews with his short-term hopes of Dubdoubt becoming a household name in New Zealand and Australia is perhaps more realistic. Ramsden holds the New Zealand’s dub genre in high regard and credits bands from these shores as being the world’s best. He attributes their success to the influence of music like Herbs and UB40 the cultural influence of Maori and Polynesian song and New Zealand’s laid back attitude towards music the whole playing a guitar around a campfire type of approach. Andrews said his small town Carterton beginnings have made being in “one of Brisbane’s biggest bands” more worthwhile… “My Space really got us out there so that bands know we are here because they are always looking at places to play at. ” Mrs Wilby said Dubdoubt would take over the second floor of the venue with support from Auckland-based reggae outfit The Midnights with DJ Budda from Wellington downstairs tickets are available at the door. ther musical acts that have graced Stellar’s stage are Auckland-based punk ska group Quarter 2 and 2004 New Zealand Idol runner-up Michael Murphy’s band Five Star Fallout.
This Rapper Needs a Hit
New York Sun – May 16, 2007
Unhappily Milledge has instead followed through on longstanding threats to get into the hip-hop game. As president and a producer for Soul-Ja Boi Records Milledge is promoting the career of junior high school crony Immanuel Dent now rapping under the name Manny D. This week a press release went out touting Manny D’s soonto-surface record and his earnest desire “to create positive music which he says is ‘something that most rap music is lacking. ‘” You’ll guess the punchline easily enough. At souljaboirecords. com you can check out the positivity complete with hot fire from “L. Millz” on a track called “Bend Ya Knees”:”So much ice I got diamonds in my spokes… “Bend Ya Knees” is ridiculous as it may be better than a fair amount of critically acclaimed hip-hop I’ve heard lately. n the merits there’s about as much reason to get outraged by L. Millz’s records as there would have been reason to be offended by Lenny Dykstra fronting a punk band called the Dead Kochs. Still the issue with Milledge has always been about maturity and judgment and fundamentally it’s been about appearances. No one will be shocked to learn that rich young athletes are boastful and use salty language from time to time but neither will anyone will be shocked by the idea that part of baseball’s unwritten rulebook concerns not flaunting that. As everyone knows Derek Jeter does not in fact go to the city’s most exclusive clubs to drink milk and engage lovely young women in discussions about Cormac McCarthy novels but keeping up the pretense that this is what his nightlife amounts to is essentially part of his job. Similarly I think most people would accept that insofar as part of Milledge’s job is to keep his act clean putting his name on a record that hits the dread trifecta of the n-word casual misogyny and loose gun talk (while endorsing drug use to boot) probably isn’t the brightest idea.