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Maroon 5 Do Blake Lewis A Solid – News Story | Music Celebrity…
MTV.com – May 18, 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 18, 2007
href} {button:true} ); Fans who have followed Chicago instrumental post-metal band Pelican through their curvy and meandering atmospheric explorations will probably be pretty surprised by the sound of their new album City of Echoes out June 5. And they’re not alone. “I had no idea where we were going with the music when we started doing these songs” guitarist Laurent Lebec said. “The changes were pretty subconscious at first then looking back we realized what was happening and we just went with it. That doesn’t mean City of Echoes is so radically different that it sounds like Disturbed but Pelican have definitely strayed from the droning spacey jams of past and focused more intently on concrete — yet still mercurial — metal riffs. “We definitely wanted to write shorter songs that got to the point a little quicker dynamically and pleased us as a live band as opposed to what we were before this record which was a band that toured rarely and indulged itself in the studio” Lebec said. “When we were touring for our last album The Fire in ur Throats Will Beckon the Thaw even if we had a 75-minute-long set we could only play five songs because they were all so long and that can be tiring for an audience… ver time they’ve grown all too aware that the kind of music they used to play — which seemed innovative a couple years ago — has become a little stagnant as more and more post-rock and indie bands search for louder avenues of expression. Fortunately Pelican have the chops to pull off the stylistic shift. “We’ve all grown up in punk and death-metal scenes” Lebec said. “We’ve been in grind bands thrash bands you name it. And our drummer [Larry Herweg] plays in Lair of the Minotaur which is a total Swedish metal band. So doing songs that were more to the point and maybe a little heavier didn’t seem like that huge of a stretch. f course that doesn’t mean that Pelican will necessarily score more points with metal fans.
All the music festivals under the sun.
Free with registration – Seattle Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 18, 2007
(18-MAY-07) Seattle Times (Seattle WA). From classical music to classic rock we’ve got the lowdown on your summer music fun. Classical-music fans will have some great destina.
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New York Times – May 18, 2007
(Sisario)JUCIFER (Tuesday) For a two-member group Amber Valentine on guitar and vocals Edgar Livengood on drums Jucifer makes a mighty noise with its songs about death and desolation. It blasts its way through power-chorded mayhem slow or at punk speeds topped by Ms. Valentine’s airy voice. With bject and Skeleton Breath… (Sisario)ANNIE RSS (Tuesday) When this jazz legend barks out “I Got Rhythm” she turns this great Gershwin standard into a hipster’s credo. If you’ve got as much rhythm in your body and music in your head as Ms. Ross does at 76 who indeed could ask for anything more? At 7 p. Metropolitan Room 34 West 22nd Street Flatiron district (212) 206-0440.
PASSING GRADE N HNRS
New York Post – May 18, 2007
A six-person ensemble acts out the story of a black youth (Daniel Breaker) who discovers his love of music thanks to the funky services at his local church. He joins the choir but soon starts rebelling against the middle-class lifestyle personified by his loving mother (Eisa Davis). He starts a punk rock band and travels to Amsterdam and eventually moves to Berlin. There he becomes swept up in a Bohemian movement in which to bolster his artistic cred he begins "passing for ghetto" as a fellow artist puts it. And while most of the music is first-rate by rock standards – most notably the hard-driving "Welcome to Amsterdam" and the hilarious "We Just Had Sex"-it isn't really theatrical. Annie Dorsen's staging (choreographer Karole Armitage is listed as "movement coordinator") is minimal but energetic… There he becomes swept up in a Bohemian movement in which to bolster his artistic cred he begins "passing for ghetto" as a fellow artist puts it. And while most of the music is first-rate by rock standards – most notably the hard-driving "Welcome to Amsterdam" and the hilarious "We Just Had Sex"-it isn't really theatrical. Annie Dorsen's staging (choreographer Karole Armitage is listed as "movement coordinator") is minimal but energetic. PASSING STRANGEPublic Theater 425 Lafayette St.
Clubs: Time travel easy at Tardis
Belfast Telegraph – May 18, 2007
Patric Baird reports If you thought that clubbing was the sole preserve of the 18-25 age group it’s time for a re-think as a new club night in Belfast has come up with an idea certain to appeal to those of less tender years but still with a bit of life about them. Indeed it actually targets the generation who pioneered Northern Ireland’s alternative club scene back in the 1980s when purpose-built venues were few and far between and a night out in the city centre was usually a bit of a rough and ready affair. The Midland Hotel The Delta The Plaza The Pound Harp Bar Jules and The Playpen will for an entire generation always hold memories of snakebite-fuelled af ter-hours fun spent in the company of punks goths rockers and rude boys. At tonight’s trip back in time the songs remain the same but the venue is a little more welcoming than the spit and sawdust clubs of old as the plush surroundings of McCracken’s in Joy’s Entry Belfast hosts another outing of the aptly- named Tardis club. DJs William Maxwell and Paul Rowan will be spinning the tunes spanning the genres – not to mention several decades – with the best in electro glam new wave new romantic indie and soul music all represented. Despite the retro music policy all age groups are welcome so if you reckon you can still just about struggle into those old flecked Spencers or are maybe just curious about mum and dad’s dark and murky past the Tardis is well worth a whirl. ** Up in Lush Portrush tomorrow night Birmingham-bred big beat and house maestro Micky Slim will fill the guest slot… At tonight’s trip back in time the songs remain the same but the venue is a little more welcoming than the spit and sawdust clubs of old as the plush surroundings of McCracken’s in Joy’s Entry Belfast hosts another outing of the aptly- named Tardis club. DJs William Maxwell and Paul Rowan will be spinning the tunes spanning the genres – not to mention several decades – with the best in electro glam new wave new romantic indie and soul music all represented. Despite the retro music policy all age groups are welcome so if you reckon you can still just about struggle into those old flecked Spencers or are maybe just curious about mum and dad’s dark and murky past the Tardis is well worth a whirl. ** Up in Lush Portrush tomorrow night Birmingham-bred big beat and house maestro Micky Slim will fill the guest slot. As one of the United Kingdom’s finest up-and-coming talents he is finally starting to get the international recognition he deserves – although Micky’s love affair with house dates back over ten years it was only a couple of years ago that things really started to happen for him. After playing various bars and clubs around the Midlands Micky hired the Canal Club in Wolverhampton in April 2005 to host a Tsunami fund-raiser – a huge success which led to repeat bookings and stints alongside the likes of Yousef Jose Nunez and Richard F. Things really started to happen for him when he came to the attention of promoter Mark Gillespie who installed Micky as Godskitchen’s Electric resident at which he has played regularly to a rapturous home crowd alongside some of the biggest names in the business.