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- … Wentz Is Pumped For Panic’s New LP – News Story | Music…
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- A more `mature’ New Found Glory keeps changing it up.
- Here are The Chronicle’s picks of nightclub happenings this…
- Fourteen-part harmony
- Albert Hammond of the Strokes is on his own in Southland
- New Strummer Bio Matters
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MTV.com – May 17, 2007
“The poets who fill the pews here have come to testify to bear witness to the mysterious power of rock and roll” the U2 frontman writes in the book’s foreward. “Rock and roll is truly a broad church but each lights a candle to their vision of what it is. ” The collection edited by poet Jonathan Wells includes titles like “Punk Rock You’re My Big Crybaby” “Variation on a Theme by Whitesnake” and “Vince Neil Meets Josh in a Chinese Restaurant in Malibu (After Ezra Pound). Jay-Z Diddy LL Cool and Alicia Keys were named in New York Police Department intelligence documentation released Wednesday revealing that the NYPD monitored various activists bloggers and politicians in the months leading up to the 2004 Republican National Convention… Phil Spector said in a 2005 home-video interview broadcast Wednesday on “Inside Edition” that he was too short to shoot Lana Clarkson. In the video the 5-foot-5-inch music producer says the actress was standing when a gun was fired in her mouth and that “she was 5-11 and she would have been 6 feet 2 with heels on. It would have been physically impossible for me to have administered the death wound to her in any shape way or form.
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MTV.com – May 17, 2007
High above Times Square the Canadian singer was playing a secret outdoor show for soaked fans gathered more than 50 feet below. Dressed in a black hoodie that didn’t quite shield her from the raindrops Lavigne performed a three-song set that featured “Girlfriend” “When You’re Gone” and “Sk8r Boi. Lavigne has certainly come a long way since her innocent days as punk princess of the mall. In recent months she’s been known to spit on and flip off paparazzi. She’s also bragged about booze-soaked nights — “I wrote ‘Girlfriend’ when I was drunk” she told us back in February (see. And now she’s taking it all off?The blogosphere is abuzz this week over the June cover image for Blender magazine in which the singer appears to be naked from the waist up.
A more `mature’ New Found Glory keeps changing it up.
Free with registration – Morning Call – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 17, 2007
And while their newest album “Coming Home” released in September features a more complex and reflective sound including (gasp!) piano don’t go calling them more mature either. “I guess it can be taken as a compliment but also it can be taken out of context and be kind of annoying” guitarist Chad Gilbert 26 says in an interview from a hotel room in Glasgow Scotland where the band was nearing the end of a UK tour. “All our old record reviews were like `h these skate punk kids blah blah blah. And I don’t skate and we’re not skate punks. “We write serious music but we also are a real band where we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We write songs that we hope will affect people. “So I think with the whole `mature’ term I guess it’s kind of good in the sense that yeah.
Here are The Chronicle’s picks of nightclub happenings this…
San Francisco Chronicle – May 17, 2007
The Knitters Saturday @ Great American Music Hall: Electrified folk featuring John Doe Exene Cervenka and DJ Bonebrake from the punk band X and Dave Alvin. With Victor Krummenacher.
Fourteen-part harmony
Rocky Mountain News – May 17, 2007
byline –> Thursday May 17 2007 The origins of a cappella can be traced to church services but whenthe collegiate a cappella group Idiosingcrasies practices you’re morelikely to hear Michael Jackson’s Thriller than a hymn. “We are not practicing to become good at a special type of music”said 20-year-old Andrew Hoag. “We can tackle any sort of music. But Hoag said the University of Denver-based Idiosingcrasies prefersmore contemporary tunes over the traditional four-part harmonies oftenassociated with the art form. “We do not want to be formal traditional and classical. We want tobe fun exciting and colorful” said Hoag a national-studies major atDU… “We have a budget of a couple of thousand dollars that wecan play with. Some of that money helped the university present its first ColoradoA Cappella Showcase. Held on April 14 the event drew 500 to DU to seefour collegiate groups performing everything from punk rock to folksongs. Participants included:• n the Rocks an all-female band from theUniversity of Colorado. • Mile 21 both male and female also based atCU. • The all-male Back Row from Colorado Collegein Colorado Springs. “It was huge” Hoag said.
Albert Hammond of the Strokes is on his own in Southland
Press-Enterprise – May 17, 2007
left works on his side project with band members Steve Schilltz and Marc Eskenazi. "Writing songs is just something I’ve always done because I love it and it makes me happy" he said over the phone. "I always enjoyed my dad and his music but I never really put the two together. " As a member of the Strokes Hammond is known for his rhythm guitar occasional solos and a predilection for ’80s fashion but the majority of the outfit’s songwriting comes from frontman Julian Casablancas. After three albums with the band Hammond decided to step out on his own for a while. His solo debut a beguiling pop set called "Yours to Keep" came out at the end of last year. "I wasn’t actually thinking about making songs for a record" he said… " He is adamant that he has no intention of leaving the Strokes but refuses to consider the solo release a side project. Rather it’s what he’s concentrating on at the moment until the next endeavor. "Yours to Keep" has the hook-heavy appeal of the Strokes but trades in the punk attitude for doses of sugar. Hammond’s voice is expressive enough to lock you in but the melodies are so upbeat you can’t help smiling. n a track called "In Transit" he employs a bouncy falsetto-laden melody backed by sparse instrumentation that is so infectious it could find a home on any Cheap Trick record. The riff-based "Everyone Gets A Star" finds him singing in an almost-talking cadence. "I’ve always written songs based on a melody and seen where I could push myself from there" he said Hammond has already begun thinking about his next effort but is unsure if it will come from himself or his band.
New Strummer Bio Matters
San Francisco Chronicle – May 17, 2007
tmpl –>(05-17) 11:53 PDT (AP) — “Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer” (Faber and Faber. $30) — Chris Salewicz: There was a time when The Clash the brilliant British quartet that blended politics with punk rock was (quite properly) billed as “The nly Band That Matters. A new biography about lead singer Joe Strummer explains why — along with much much more about the band the times and the charismatic front man who died at age 50 leaving an inestimable musical influence and expansive body of work. “Redemption Song” starts slowly with British music journalist Salewicz providing a first-person accounting of his reaction to Strummer’s death. There may be an “I” in biography but it’s unnecessary in the writing. And then Salewicz a longtime Strummer associate and chronicler of the punk scene quickly settles into his groove and stays there his words as vivid as the lyrics to “White Man in Hammersmith Palais” or “London Calling… $30) — Chris Salewicz: There was a time when The Clash the brilliant British quartet that blended politics with punk rock was (quite properly) billed as “The nly Band That Matters. A new biography about lead singer Joe Strummer explains why — along with much much more about the band the times and the charismatic front man who died at age 50 leaving an inestimable musical influence and expansive body of work. “Redemption Song” starts slowly with British music journalist Salewicz providing a first-person accounting of his reaction to Strummer’s death. There may be an “I” in biography but it’s unnecessary in the writing. And then Salewicz a longtime Strummer associate and chronicler of the punk scene quickly settles into his groove and stays there his words as vivid as the lyrics to “White Man in Hammersmith Palais” or “London Calling. ” The author spent more than three years and conducted more than 300 interviews for the project and it shows: Details abound providing fresh glimpses into the Strummer persona along with those that preceded it including a phase where he took the name Woody — as in folkie Guthrie. Strummer the son of a British diplomat was an unlikely candidate for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.