The News Review:
- Pop culture icon Yoyoy Villame dies
- Will Hodgkinson asks where the eighth age of rock might spring from |…
- The Best Damned Canadian import
- Turn on tune in – but who’s dropped out?
- The Burning Blues Band coming to BB King’s at Universal Citywalk
- Move over Ascot here comes the real season
Pop culture icon Yoyoy Villame dies
Manila Times – May 19, 2007
Though often appearing in slapdash comedies such as Wooly Booly 2: Ang Titser kong Alien in 1989 Andrew Ford Medina: Huwag kang Gamol in 1991 or Barok Goes to Hong Kong in 1984 he also played roles in critically acclaimed films such as Mario ‘Hara’s Babae sa Breakwater in 2004 his last film and opposite multi-awarded dramatic actress Vilma Santos in Biktima in 1974 his first film. Curiously his deepest and most lasting impact is arguably with the local alternative rock music genre. Eraserheads this generation’s most influential band credited Yoyoy Villame along with the Beatles and punk music as their major influences. ther rock hugely popular rock acts such as Parokya ni Edgar and Kamikaze echo his penchant for humor with their parodies and comical lyrics.
Will Hodgkinson asks where the eighth age of rock might spring from |…
Guardian – May 19, 2007
uk”; Will Hodgkinson asks where the eighth age of rock might spring from | Music | The Guardian. But where might the eighth age of rock spring from asks Will Hodgkinson… “I never take any notice of themedia when it comes to talking upa new movement” claims GeoffTravis. “Where do you categorisesomeone like Devendra Banhart?”Travis has a point. The WhiteStripes have long transcended the2001 garage punk revival of theirpeers (the Hives and the Vines) toestablish themselves as one of thegreat rock bands of the modernage. There is nothing new underthe sun but an original voice withtalent and conviction will alwaysfind an audience in the end. The Seven Ages f Rock1. The Birth of Rock Hendrix Beatles Stones Dylan et al2. White Light White Heat: Art Rock feat the Velvet Underground3.
The Best Damned Canadian import
Times of India – May 19, 2007
justlook at it as a sign that I havematured. It’sheld that this album is less mellow and more potent than your previous albums. Is that true? How would you describe the album ? is it really the ‘bestdamn thing’? My vision for thisalbum was exactly what it is. I wanted it to be a fun album. I had so much funmaking this album and now it’s turned into a partyalbum. Yourdebut album Let Go got eight Grammy nominations yet you won none. Was it a letdown or did it inspire you to do bettermusic? For me being nominatedwas a great thing.
Turn on tune in – but who’s dropped out?
Telegraph.co.uk – May 19, 2007
Serious but entertaining crammed with inspirational clips and insightful comment it treats a populist and almost over-familiar subject with just the right mix of reverence and mischief to make you sit up and pay attention. Subverting expectations rather than challenging received wisdom the programme cleverly uses Hendrix to personalise the complex history of rock’s genesis by demonstrating the huge confluence of influences that shaped him from his period in Little Richard’s backing band to his obsession with the Beatles and Bob Dylan (Hendrix was such a fan that he persuaded a DJ to spin his newly bought copy of Dylan’s Blowin’ in the Wind at a Harlem soul club with the all-too-predictable result of a hasty exit pursued by hostile dancers). Back in 1979 the BBC broadcast the American documentary The Heroes of Rock and Roll as a prime-time two-part series in which a hopelessly out-of-place Jeff Bridges walked the Hollywood hills attempting to sum up the social impact of 25 turbulent years of wild hairstyles hard drugs and extraordinary music with the immortal catchphrase: “Rock and roll! Phew!” It was much mocked at the time not least because punk had already pushed pop culture into a place where such a wide-eyed treatment of the subject seemed hopelessly out of touch. Nearly two decades on in 1996 producer William Naylor and his team at BBC Bristol made a much better fist of it with Dancing in the Street an authoritative 10-part series on the evolution of rock. Naylor’s team have gone on to establish themselves as the country’s foremost musical documentary makers with the songwriter history Walk on By (2001) the country rock series Lost Highway (2003) and the acclaimed Soul Deep (2005) on black pop. Returning to the subject of rock a decade on they have adopted a less linear and chronological perspective. Although hung around an arbitrary notion of the “ages” of rock the series with one show dedicated to the perpetual adolescence of heavy metal seems not so much a history as an attempt at genus classification.
The Burning Blues Band coming to BB King’s at Universal Citywalk
PR Leap – PR Leap (press release) – May 19, 2007
King’s (Universal City) and many more. Known for their high-energy performances the band has performed on the same bill with many Blues artists including Greg Serrato Finis Tasby Robben Ford Teresa Russell & Cocobilli BB Chung King & The Buddha Heads etc. The band has performed in music festivals throughout Southern California everywhere from Solvang to San Diego. You can find The Burning Blues Band recordings on radio stations throughout the United States as well as in Europe and Latin America. The band recently finalized a c. of original music entitled "My Lonely Heart"… Intrigued with the portability of the instrument he began to play it to the radio on his long work commutes from range County to Long Beach. He’s been playing ever since! His explosive energy on stage combined with his laid back demeanor make for a dynamic musical experience. “Cleanhead” Joe McGaha vocals – Joe started out singing in a Reggae band in the late ‘80’s and since then has done everything from Classic Rock to Punk Rock (he had a long stretch in the Inland Empire Punk band Bûkket) and finally the Blues chose him! When he’s not busy performing with Burning Blues Cleanhead writes music reviews for Indy Rock (in Granada Spain):. es Graham Green – drums – Graham has been playing his drum kit since the fifth grade.
Move over Ascot here comes the real season
Telegraph.co.uk – May 19, 2007
But according to Geordie Greig the editor of Tatler fusty events must work to regain their “zing”. With so many beanos turning into annual fixtures – Glastonbury celebrate its 37th year – the charming maiden aunts of the old season have to sex up. Just look at the punk gardeners at Chelsea trying perhaps a little hard to shock with rose beds bursting with inflatable phalluses. r think of Rod “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” Stewart not merely gaining admittance to the royal enclosure but swaggering in. Celebrities are the royalty now. Though trying to modernise little of the old social whirl can compete with Glastonbury which has the Killers Arcade Fire and that other up and coming band er The Who. The only rival is another festival the Isle of White’s: if Burke’s Peerage were to produce a guide to the rockocracy it could copy this guest list starting with those rock royals the Rolling Stones… The smartest gigs – socially if not musically – are small “parties” held at statelies. They are often – ostensibly – for “chariddee” helping young revellers lose their virginity AND save the planet; top hole or as they say now that’s like totally awesome. So the rise of rock festivals is not entirely down to music. Glastonbury threatens to be loud on eco-messages. “People are no longer happy to mingle for no purpose” says Luca Del Bono the founder of Quintessentially a concierge service for swells. Del Bono explains: “We are more aware of time so people want to be excited through sport or educated through art or politics like the Gorbachev dinner at Hampton Court.